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“any where or world where there is love there is the sky and its blue free
“I have come to you tonite not just for the stoppage
Read against the terrible incineration of Rafah today, this poem of resistance and refusal, by Pa
Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, a martyr of zionist state genocidal violence, has left us with a tale of resistance and hope.
The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is celebrated on November 29.
Shangri-La—untaxed, socially-distanced champagne-
caviar, Cayman Island, yacht crowds who
Could the pigment of your imagination
cause Black magic mascots, props, sops—
Black faces in high places—
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” —Karl Marx
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At the 1972 event, Walter Rodney proclaimed that “black unity must be international because we live on every continent, through no choice of our own.”
2020’s hindsight—frost in the rearview mirror. Miles Ahead… I’m Sheltered in Solidarity with National Poetry Month and Jazz Appreciation Month— April in Boston—warm cider
The critics want to wipe clear the actual history of racial oppression that is baked into the social and economic structures of the US.
The police as they exist today need to be abolished, there’s no question. “Diversity doesn’t change the fundamental dynamics of policing.”
Much of what is called the “left” still insists that the American “revolution” of 1776 is “unfinished,” when history shows that white supremacy was the intended result.
