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Book Review: Mowing Leaves of Grass

Mowing Leaves of Grass by Matt Sedillo FlowerSong Books, McAllen, TX, 2019 ISBN 9781733809290 www.flowersongbooks.com https://www.mattsedillo.com/ reviewed by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action L.A.   If you haven't heard or seen Matt in person, you may not be able to hear the staccato machine gun cadence of his spit fire delivery leaping off the pages of this book of his recent poetry. Here's an example on-line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQUAxBr1Kco of Matt presenting his poem "The Devil," which is on pages 18-22 of the book. Definitely check it out before you [...]

By |2020-07-01T04:15:29-05:00July 1st, 2020|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Book Reviews, Books, Donald Trump, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Immigration/Migrant rights, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Mexico, Michael Novick, Movements, Peace and War, Poetry Corner, Poverty, Reviews, Writers|0 Comments
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F*CK CHRISTOPHER STREET WEST

F*CK CSW by Hannah Howard https://medium.com/@techgirlwonder/fuck-csw-12c6a11f88a9 The “All Black Lives Matter LA” march has been a shit show from the beginning. Originally announced as a “Solidarity Protest” by LA Pride, the march was later handed over, after much protest, to a “Black Advisory Board” appointed by LA Pride/Christopher Street West which called themselves All Black Lives Matter LA. At no point was Black Lives Matter Los Angeles directly involved. You can learn more about the history of LA Pride and anti-blackness here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1985563248242309 I had resolved to [...]

By |2020-07-01T04:08:15-05:00July 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, California, Commentary, Disability issues, Events, Hannah Howard, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Justice/Injustice, LGBTQ+, Los Angeles, Movements, Police, Police Brutality, Protests and Rallies, Reports|0 Comments
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To Women with Children of Color on Fathers’ Day

On Father's Day to Women with children of color!   I want to Thank You, for allowing incarcerated men to be able to make a contribution even of the smallest magnitude toward the development of our communities. You have many reasons to be at odds with this infrastructure. The Department of Justice takes from us the comfort of your arms in the interest of the public, makes us pay restitution that is obliged to come from the income of loved ones and places us near bucolic surroundings [...]

By |2020-07-01T04:00:02-05:00July 1st, 2020|Anti-Racism/Racism, Commentary, Health, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Homelessness, Human Rights, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Poverty, Prisons|0 Comments
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Mumai Abu-Jamal: After One Hundred Thousand

After One Hundred Thousand © 2020 by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia/after-one-hundred-thousand-220-mumia-abu-jamal One asks, when the counter strikes 100,000, [what happens]? Nothing. One hundred thousand American dead. That means, for all intents and purposes, nothing much. But does the counter stop counting? Or does it continue rolling on, like the mighty Mississippi River?   Is one hundred thousand an end, or just another number?   And as summer begins to emerge, and people rush out of doors, to get some socializing in, what happens in the next two weeks? [...]

By |2020-06-01T00:48:17-05:00June 1st, 2020|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, COVID-19, Health, Health Care, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Mumia Abu-Jamal|0 Comments
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Canada: Migrant Prisoners Resist COVID-19 Threat

Migrants on Hunger Strike at the Laval Immigration Detention Centre: Act Now in Solidarity Solidarity Across Borders, March 25, 2020 – Stay in touch! Look here for updates and renewed calls for support Migrants detained at the Laval Immigration Detention Centre have launched an indefinite hunger strike to demand their release in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Around 30 men are currently being held on the men’s side of the detention centre. The ten hunger-strikers are refusing all meals, despite pressure from the Canada Border Services Agency [...]

By |2020-03-25T20:20:08-05:00March 25th, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Canada, COVID-19, Health, Health, Health Care, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Jails, Protests and Rallies, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Tricontinental: In Light of Global Pandemic, Focus on the People

In Light of the Global Pandemic, Focus Attention on the People MARCH 21, 2020 International Assembly of the Peoples and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. httpss://www.thetricontinental.org/declaration-covid19/ SARS-CoV-2 or COVID19, now declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation, has begun to wreak havoc in large parts of the world, with other parts waiting in anticipation. We are in a real struggle, which needs total mobilization; a struggle that needs to put life before profit. We will only win this struggle – as China has already done [...]

By |2020-03-23T14:32:56-05:00March 23rd, 2020|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Climate Change, Cuba, Ecology, Economy, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, Movements, National Security, News, Politics, Poverty, Security and Insecurity, Socialism, Solidarity, Sustainability, Unity|0 Comments
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End LAPD Corruption, Racism, And Abuse

End LAPD Corruption, Racism, And Abuse by Black Lives Matter-L.A. We Demand an end to LAPD's continued pattern of corruption, racism, and abuse, and remedies for the harm they have caused. Please share this analysis and these demands widely: On January 6, 2020 a Los Angeles Times article detailed an internal investigation that confirms what community members have been reporting for many years, that officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) have been falsely and knowingly entering innocent people into gang databases. LAPD claims to have [...]

By |2020-02-01T16:01:53-05:00February 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black Lives Matter, Gentrification/Displacement, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, Police, Police Brutality, Politics|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: Still Standin’ on the Land

Still Standin' on the Land by Tashunka Raven   There is a river, call it Pit River with celebrations, at great Mount Shasta's eastern foothills; Home of the legitimate Pit River Nation, who've done justice to Captain Jack's heroic will. They've survived the "Pit River Rangers" and "Buckskin Men", PGE and the massacre at Soldier Mountain, They're still standin' on the land at Big Bend, and drinking from Raymond Lego's model fountain; Join hands like we did at Puget Sound and sacred Blue Lake, and the vic'try [...]

By |2019-12-30T22:46:39-05:00December 30th, 2019|Anti-Racism/Racism, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Poetry Corner, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Bolivia: Defending Against a Racist, Fascist Coup

Defending our Dignity Amidst a Racist and Fascist Coup d’etat Interview with Adriana Guzman by Hector Bernardo httpss://www.resumen-english.org/2019/11/defending-our-dignity-amidst-a-racist-and-fascist-coup-detat/ In the face of the terrible situation underway in Bolivia since the coup d’etat against President Evo Morales, Contexto interviewed Adriana Guzman, member of Bolivia’s Feminist Anti-patriarchal Movement. Guzman analyzed the characteristics of the coup, explained which groups are really behind the self-proclaimed “president” Jeanine Añez, and she ensured us that the native people resistance “is not over with Evo, this struggle aims at defending our dignity amidst a [...]

By |2019-11-28T23:42:50-05:00November 28th, 2019|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Commentary, Elections, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Latin America, Movements, National Security, Peace, Police Brutality, Protests and Rallies, Socialism, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Grand Jury = State Terrorism

Grand Jury System = State Terrorism By Chelsea Manning httpss://www.aaronswartzday.org/chelsea-manning-asd-2019/ (As read on Saturday, November 9 at the Aaron Swartz Day Event, in San Francisco.) I wish I could be there in person, but I appreciate this opportunity to summarize for you my letter to the court that ordered me to be confined, explaining why grand juries are so dangerous. I am not alone in objecting to the grand jury as a dangerous relic that has evolved in ways that increase its power without increasing its protections. [...]

By |2019-11-28T23:41:23-05:00November 28th, 2019|Activism, Chelsea Manning, Constitution, Free Speech, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Jails, Justice/Injustice, LGBTQ+, Movements, National Security, Obama, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Prisons, Psy-Ops, Solidarity|0 Comments
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When Trans Women Die – Mumia Abu-Jamal

When Trans Women Die By Mumia Abu-Jamal In recent weeks, we have seen naked violence unleashed against transwomen directed against them by the state in the form of police beatings and by rightist forces in this emerging fascist movement in America. What does this mean? Why now? I believe it comes now for specific strategic purposes, for transwomen stand on the periphery of the gay rights movement, not its nucleus. This means they are isolated and as such they are targeted by rightist forces to isolate them [...]

By |2019-11-05T03:47:00-05:00November 5th, 2019|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Heroes and Whistleblowers, LGBTQ+, Mumia Abu-Jamal|0 Comments
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Echoes of Fascism: “The Terror of the Unforeseen”

Echoes of Fascism The Terror of the Unforeseen by Henry Giroux, reviewed by Stephen Rohde Reprinted with permission from the Los Angeles Review of Books Nine years before the Civil War, the former enslaved person, and ardent abolitionist, Frederick Douglass condemned a nation for stubbornly clinging to the abomination of slavery in his blistering speech What to the Slave Is Your Fourth of July. “We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must [...]

By |2019-10-02T05:48:54-05:00October 2nd, 2019|Book Reviews, Books, Constitution, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Politics, Psy-Ops, Reviews, Solidarity, Stephen Rohde|0 Comments
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