Month: August 2014
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Facing Charges–Again
I am facing charges again. I will be arraigned with at least fifteen other anti-drone demonstrators in federal court on September 9 in Sacramento. I consider it a privilege to be part of a sustained movement of nonviolent resistance to the current unjust global system, which is violent to the core. Beale Air Force…
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Words of Sorrow, Words of Hope
Leonard Cohen has a song called The Faith, which asks again and again, “O love aren’t you tired yet?” One verse goes like this: “A cross on every hill, a star, a minaret, so many graves to fill. O love, aren’t you tired yet?” Sometimes I feel tired–discouraged by the struggles and suffering of people…
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Courage
In light of the Israeli slaughter of civilians and destruction of infrastructure in the open-air prison of occupied Gaza, the following poem is just as relevant today as when it was written. Guari wrote “Courage” on October 9, 2001, two days after the United States started bombing Afghanistan in “Operation Enduring Freedom” following the attacks…