Writing is an act of resistance
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When You Plant Your Riot-Geared Feet
By Brooke Petersen when you plant your riot-geared feet and say, we will brook no resistance, we say, listen to your own words. listen to this. listen: the Anglo-Saxon root brūcen means not to endure or tolerate, not to put up with, but to partake in. means, to need or require. to make use of…
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Meeting Place
Russo-Georgian War, Kate Harding poet, Poetry, Penny Perry, The Republic of Georgia, Russian invasion of GeorgiaBy Penny Perry Author’s note: In August, 2008, Russian tanks and soldiers moved into the Republic of Georgia and killed 228 civilians. In March, 2014 under Putin, Russia seized Crimea. President Obama ordered sanctions against the Russians. Now, President Trump wants to remove the sanctions, and Putin wants to recapture the former territories of the Soviet…
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Aprons
By Joyce Teed Appalling that we have to don our aprons once again clean this mess up once and for all and start beating like a country with one heart beat feed the lost address the loss of one country indivisible and clean the talking sheets out of this country once and for all making…
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An Open Letter to the People Beyond the Fence
From David H. Reinarz, I am writing to you from the Political Re-Education Farm, which I believe is somewhere in Southern Idaho. They won’t tell us exactly where we are. It’s part of the New Regime’s disorientation/reorientation technique. They’re trying to change our minds. There is a big fence around the farm—President 45 likes…
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deity’s daughter
By Nikia Chaney memories are like the ringing of bells sharp bells she hangs on the trees on the hair of her little girl the little girl who shakes her braids to feel cool beads bang on the ear the shoulder blade we walk to catch sweat and dew in the morning sweat and salt…
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familial observation
by Amanda N. Butler The family that rallied against my first molester is the same that voted for the man who said he could grab me by the pussy. Amanda N. Butler is the author of two chapbooks, Tableau Vivant (dancing girl press, 2015) and effercrescent, to be published this fall by the same press. Her poetry…
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Reflections on Trump, Torture and Camus’ The Rebel
By Karen Malpede It will get worse. Much worse with the Trump Administration fully in place. The Cabinet from hell, a collection of incompetents, racists, sexists, fossil fuel and other business moguls, Islamophobes, and ignoramuses, is in a slow, agonizing process of confirmation, one by one, against widespread civil protest and principled opposition from…
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Border Children on the News
By Laura Grace Weldon Frantic families send their children past drug runners and thieves, through deserts, on tops of freight trains, over 1,700 miles seeking refuge at our border. Tonight, we tweeze sushi into our mouths under a blast of chilled Happy Hour air. Screens broadcast dark-eyed children behind chain link fences while protestors chant…
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Attitude
By Brigitte Goetze The alternative ways are in stark opposition, but if she works patiently through her difficulties, trusting herself to life, living each day as fully and as truly as possible, seeking through sincerity of living to solve the problem of their opposition, she may perhaps find a way to a reconciliation. …