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Poetry Corner: Champagne Song, Prairieland Defendant Sentence to 100 Years

https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/never-forget-other-poems/ This is Champagne Song, one of the Prairie Land defendants currently in solitary confinement. These are some poems that I wrote after being sentenced to 100 years. This first one is called “Never Forget”   Never Forget the Threat of communism/ that was Hitler’s excuse for everything that he did. We must go to war because of communism, he said. We must get rid of the Jews because of communism. No [...]

By |2026-08-01T18:30:46-05:00August 1st, 2026|Activism, Champagne Song, Heroes and Whistleblowers, ICE, Immigration, Movements, News, Poetry Corner, Political Prisoners, Repression|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner – SPAM Musubi: An Internment Camp Food

© by Christian Hanz Lozada   Some people say grass lawns mimic owning enough estate to flaunt not needing to grow your own food.   Some people name human meat long pig, and I wonder where the similarity lives: in the body or in the tongue.   Some people reserve white rice for the wealthy and the colonized, but I say I can lose   some things like teeth filed sharp to [...]

By |2026-04-02T21:57:47-05:00April 2nd, 2026|Asian-American, Hawai'i, Poetry Corner|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: ENVY

ENVY (2025) By Kevin "Rashid" Johnson   I've seen them Angry misleaders People cheaters The bottom feeders Those who Resent the honest Hate and envy the true Feeling you're taking Acclaim they're due Is this you?   What some call Haters Fakers Infiltrators Insecure attention seekers Needy instigators But what the people need Are genuine leaders And teachers Those who truly care Not about their own Selfish urges But the people's welfare [...]

By |2026-02-01T02:58:25-05:00February 1st, 2026|Anti-capitalism, Black liberation, Kevin Rashid Johnson, Movements, Poetry Corner, Political Prisoners, Politics, Prisons|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: Present and Continuously Tense – A Self-Portrait

Present and Continuously Tense - A Self-Portrait by Snigdhaa Rai [Excerpt] https://thewire.in/livewire/present-and-continuously-tense-a-self-portrait   Once I turn myself into the machine, Against what will I rage? I whirl about in a conviction of confusion This ride of life has a weird constitution, It has dawned on me how dark it gets And into this passivity I watch the sun set   A weird reminder of school days as I, Hear constant cries of [...]

By |2025-12-01T02:39:00-05:00December 1st, 2025|A-I Artificial Intelligence, Activism, Anti-capitalism, Artificial Intelligence, Asia, Big Business, Economy, Economy, India, Poetry Corner, Tech|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: El Martillo

El Martillo by Matt Sedillo   Yo soy el martillo The hammer The builder of bridges Destroyer of walls And you shall greet me as a brother Or you shall come to know me By the hammer’s fall You have the right to remain silent Miranda vs Arizona 1966 You have the right to an attorney Escobedo vs Illinois 1964 The Thin Blue Line Came from a tv show Launched by William [...]

By |2025-09-30T23:36:09-05:00September 30th, 2025|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, California, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Decolonization, Historical, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Matt Sedillo, Poetry Corner, Socialism, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: From Behind Prison Walls

Fairly Warned: CDCR Rehabilitation By A. Ramírez, California State Prison   When the choice to die of hunger – Strike! is better than to live – because there is no Rehabilitation!   Where the Valley blows of Virus – Disease! in a prison that men can’t leave – thwart the hope of Rehabilitation!   If their livelihood is based upon a prisoner’s return – Complex! on the outside or the inside with [...]

By |2025-08-27T23:44:59-05:00August 27th, 2025|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Crime, Human Rights, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Low income, Poetry Corner, Prisons|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: The Sheer Power of Words

The Sheer Power of Words Speaks Much Truth by Jingles   The Chief Executive MAGA Ruler of the White Supremacist House: Deranged Dangerous Oligarch Oppressor Neanderthal Nazi Arrogant Ape Lecherous Lawless Dastardly Devil   Tyrant Traitor Robber Baron Ugly Unfeeling Menacing Monster Psychotic Predator   The filthy-rich fascist figurehead of the corrupt DOGE - Department of Greed & Evil: Egotistical Loudmouth Overlord Neo-Nazi   Megalomaniac User of people Sinister Sociopath Ketamine KKKing [...]

By |2025-05-31T15:30:49-05:00May 31st, 2025|Arts, Commentary, Donald Trump, Fascism, Jingles, Poetry Corner|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: Fall Back

Fall Back © 2025 by Steven Alan Gerber   Two days in and evil has been instituted. This is just from viewing highlights, not full news reports. I even issued a plea to friends on “social media”…Don’t post it to me! Can not and will not witness! Today’s escape is Prokofiev for background, while reading John Fante. Can no longer escape by ways of drink, smoke, sniff or whatever, (Been almost 40 [...]

By |2025-03-01T02:35:47-05:00March 1st, 2025|Arts, Donald Trump, Fascism, News, Poetry Corner, Politics|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: Reflection

Reflection by Mickey Ellinger   Naked, I’m a topo map of getting old: one breast shrunk from carving out an uninvited lump; above the other beneath the collarbone new disc size of a dollar metronome for lazy heart. Scar marks the pins that hold one upper arm to the shoulder, skinny arms draped in folds of skin knuckles swollen creeks of veins. No smoother going down: Drooping gut shadows belly button, balding [...]

By |2025-03-01T02:35:13-05:00March 1st, 2025|Aging, Anti-capitalism, Disability issues, Feminism, Health, Poetry Corner, Women|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: Resist, My People, Resist Them

Resist, My People, Resist Them by Dareen Tatour   Introduction by Vijay Prashad: Pain shudders through the arteries of global society. Day after day passes by as the genocide against the Palestinian people continues and the conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Africa and Sudan escalate. More and more people slip into absolute poverty as arms companies’ profits soar. These realities have hardened society, allowing people to bury their heads and [...]

By |2025-01-02T01:38:27-05:00January 2nd, 2025|Activism, Dareen tatour, Education, Fascism, Free Speech, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Israel and Palestine, Jails, Palestine, Palestinian, People, Poetry Corner, Political Prisoners, Prisons, Protests and Rallies, Repression, Vijay Prashad, War, Women|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: Solidarity Forever

by Ralph Chapin   When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one For the Union makes us strong!   Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might? Is there anything left [...]

By |2024-09-02T00:42:12-05:00September 2nd, 2024|Activism, Anarchism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Economy, Historical, Labor, Movements, Poetry Corner, Socialism, Solidarity, Unions|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: BLACK AUGUST (2024)

By Kevin ''Rashid'' Johnson [Excerpt]   Over 400 years Of Black bondage Overwork underpay For 30 days we pay homage To those who resisted The worst inhumanities Conditions that cost Many the loss of sanity   A people less astute And fortified Might have succumbed And died   But not us! These outrages Made our resistance thrive A history we must Commemorate and revive To keep the Names, places and events alive [...]

By |2024-08-07T11:48:48-05:00August 7th, 2024|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Fascism, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Kevin Rashid Johnson, Movements, Poetry Corner|0 Comments
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