Vox Populi

A curated webspace for Poetry, Politics, and Nature with over 6,000,000 visitors since 2014 and over 9,000 archived posts.

Paige Curtis: What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

What if we had systems that loved us and, by extension, the planet?”

October 5, 2024 · 5 Comments

Bill McKibben: To Avoid Utter Ruin, We Must Turn Off the Fossil Fuel Volcano

We need to stand in awe for a moment before the scope of Earth’s long history. And then we need to get the hell to work.

September 23, 2024 · 11 Comments

Michael Simms: Banned!

Vox Populi is not alone in experiencing censorship from Facebook which has often been accused of blocking messages critical of Israel and supportive of Palestine. 

September 22, 2024 · 63 Comments

Brett Wilkins: ‘We Are All Culpable’: Matt Nelson Self-Immolates to Protest Israel’s Gaza Onslaught

In a video, Nelson said he would set himself ablaze “to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza.”

September 17, 2024 · 4 Comments

Helen Hunt Jackson: Poppies on the Wheat

Along Ancona’s hills the shimmering heat,
A tropic tide of air with ebb and flow
Bathes all the fields of wheat until they glow
Like flashing seas of green

September 6, 2024 · 11 Comments

Dane Cervine: This Burning

I drove silently in the night
into the heaving hills of Los Angeles afire, so close now,
not knowing if there would be a way through

August 27, 2024 · 11 Comments

Jeff Cohen: Fired by MSNBC for Giving Voice to Iraq War Opposition, Phil Donahue (1935-2024) Was Courage Personified

The TV show host, who died Sunday at the age of 88, made his mark on our society. He fought for the underdog with style and grace and a sense of humor.

August 21, 2024 · 7 Comments

Michael Simms: How to Canvass Door-to-Door

Speaking with voters face-to-face is one of the best ways to educate, persuade, and mobilize them to vote for a candidate or cause, making door-to-door canvassing an essential part of any political campaign.

August 10, 2024 · 11 Comments

David Hartsough: Finding joy in resistance and prison

As she begins a 229-day prison sentence in Germany, Catholic Worker Susan Crane, age 80, talks about why she has devoted her life to resisting nuclear weapons.

July 1, 2024 · 7 Comments

Michael Simms: Politics as a Spiritual Practice

Those of us who wish to follow a spiritual path cannot ignore the malevolent policies of our government.

June 30, 2024 · 18 Comments

Frida Berrigan: The Art of the Submarine

Each of those future billion-dollar behemoths could menace the world with the equivalent of 5,824 Hiroshimas.

June 27, 2024 · 6 Comments

KAMAU FRANKLIN: PROTEST AND SERVE

Organizers working to end police violence refuse to be intimidated by growing efforts to criminalize free speech.

June 19, 2024 · 3 Comments

Michael Simms: Blowtorch Bob And Other Particulars Of My Politics

In 1970 I went to my first anti-war demonstration. I was sixteen and my cousin Michael Ashie (People introduced us as “This is my friend Michael and this is his … Continue reading

June 15, 2024 · 20 Comments

Brett Wilkins: News of Chomsky’s Ill Health Prompts Outpouring of Gratitude for ‘Lion of the Left’

“So many thousands of people have stories about how he has changed their lives,” said one admirer. “He certainly changed mine.”

June 14, 2024 · 4 Comments

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