This is a pivotal election. We are going to the polls to choose a president amidst global outcry over genocide in Palestine. Wide layers of activists and radicals, Arabs and Muslims, and many more are utterly disgusted by this horrifying status quo. I get it. Its hard to […]
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A river of waterChurning and turbulentWe make our wayFinding a pathNavigating bouldersAnd dismembered trees Colors intertwine in these currentsSlate grey, turquoise, and aquamarineBrilliant cobalt reflecting this aquatic lightThese supernatural fractalsWhere sun strikes water Water is life and this river is teemingAlgae and aquatic plants taking rootMooring themselves with tendrils and […]
so its official—we are now the epicenter of this global pandemicand we aren’t yet managing to even test everyone with symptomsthis is all likely to get exponentially worse before it gets any betterleaders of color have plowed the ground building networks for mutual aid and resistanceprefiguring the faintly visible outlines […]
apologies… for this is a frantically written poem–struggling to come to grips with a cataclysmic situation eager to fuel the white nationalist vitriol of his base, our would-be-dictator is deploying the national guard to persecute migrants fleeing poverty and desperation and seeking some faint hope of a better life the […]
its indictment monday and heads are rolling its a perp walk of the privileged and our resistance is growing we are fighting for regime change here at home we are fighting for a future that justice and karma will condone manafort is going down—flynn was booted out in disgrace but […]
so the rogue in power has pardoned joe arpaio simultaneously predictable and horrifying, this moment reminds us of the lives at stake as our polity moves through this maelstrom a license to run rough-shod over civil liberties and basic human decency has just been issued it is literally a license […]
we live and we love–we laugh and we cry-we seek angels from above-we evolve til we die we dream of a future free from oppression–liberated at last from toxic lies and obsessions each generation meets new tasks–cyber wired nowadays it seems impossible in this moment to anticipate our children’s fate […]
shock doctrine on overdrive producing billions and endangering lives corporate greed with no oversight lacerating care and magnifying blight we resist day by day in pursuit of a dream we persist in this fight however futile it seems we demand something more than this neoliberal wasteland we demand equality for […]
from genocide to echocide as protest mounts big oil lies pipelines through sacred ground threaten rivers–threaten lives hordes of thugs in riot gear unleash their dogs–react with fear water cannons in freezing air threaten death to tribal seers from little rock to standing rock the arc of justice never stops […]
so now the bigot-in-chief claims a mandate after seizing the presidency based on an archaic constitution designed to defend human bondage and some of our leading liberal lights now counsel patience besieged but highly paid labor leaders pledge to work with the billionaire maverick on trade but it is too […]
protofascist thugs draped in rebel flags yearn to ban all muslims and kill the dykes and fags neoliberal crisis and chronic psychic pain fuel a right-wing orgy sick logic gone insane millions voted for bernie millions craving change the hope for our fragile nation is that that power doesn’t fade […]
queremos la justicia no la poli-migra gritamos si se puede dicen no se pudo nuestras historias son nuestras victorias el poder de l’amor es mas que lo de odio queremos la justicia nos dan arizona queremos la reforma justa y humana su idea de reforma se abusa la idioma raices […]
This is an open call to artists and performers across the country to use the time before the coming presidential election to campaign vigorously for a nation where all immigrants are welcome, where Islam is respected, where LGBTQ rights advance, where black lives matter, where women’s power grows, and where […]
AGIT PROP street art HITS THE MIND hits the heart write it down MAKE IT POP make it rhyme MAKE IT ART I PAINT because i am LOVE AND HATE fast friends rockstar DO IT RIGHT went too far LOST THE NIGHT NEOLITHIC pancreatic SO PRODUCTIVE and emphatic hieroglyphics DEEPLY […]
queremos la justicia no la poli-migra gritamos si se puede dicen no se pudo nuestras historias son nuestras victorias el poder de l’amor es mas que lo de odio queremos la justicia nos dan arizona queremos la reforma justa y humana su idea de reforma se abusa la idioma raices […]
huh-huh-HEY-HEY gaga do it right its a war zone fight don’t side with hate da-dit DO IT RIGHT INCITE tonight luh-luh-LOVE and RAGE should claim your stage kill the cylon phage don’t play with hate ma-ma MONSTA teeth need MONSTA claws ma-ma-MONSTA army going strong pound your feet in stilleto […]