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“I want my friends to understand that “staying out of politics” or being “sick of politics” is privilege in action. Your privilege allows you to live a non-political existence. Your wealth, your race, your abilities or your gender allows you to live a life in which you likely will not be a target of bigotry, attacks, deportation, or genocide. You don’t want to get political, you don’t want to fight because your life and safety are not at stake.

“It is hard and exhausting to bring up issues of oppression (aka “get political”). The fighting is tiring. I get it. Self-care is essential. But if you find politics annoying and you just want everyone to be nice, please know that people are literally fighting for their lives and safety. You might not see it, but that’s what privilege does.” / Kristen Tea, motherwiselife.org

“To paraphrase Tolstoy, you many not be interested in war, conflict, environmental injustice, and human rights abuses, but they are interested in you. They stalk everyone.” / Jamie Dedes

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Three Poems by Barbara A. Meier

The Rattlesnake and the Hen There is a garden ring of stumps guarded by Sugar pine and Douglas fir, majestic in the shedding of needles, forming a carpet of spongy pine duff. The scent of rich decay coalesces with the perfume of pine bark baked in sun at 5000 feet. The cluck and cackle of […]

Four Poems by Juliette Lee

be sure to double check layout Dhamma Ten determined days lend wind to wings of spring, hastening a warming. Each silent breath bleeds through bone until crowned in caul, I slip from sanctified grip, heed the ancient howl of home, discover heaven in my feet. Dhamma – natural law of liberation […]

Sick Leave

when everything good leaves my body my loves, my likes, my have done/s, my will do/s when my arms are limp, my mind full of a buzzing and humming when my friends are whisked away into the whirlwind of their lives and I am the only inactive thing I am left with your voice […]

Environmental Justice ~ Netted Turtles, Suffocating Whales, The Ocean Needs Help ~

Netted turtles suffocating whales, fettered fish, life in the seas, no more some fishermen’s tales, or of pirate ships with towering sails, is now filled with plastic tin can waste – Smoky dust hangs everywhere, frightened birds restlessly seek air, all clean, one large falcon fell, and brought a 737 down to land, real flier […]

cord in d# minor

three days of rain of pain and painted flesh the moan of empty rooms and what is left but the sheeted furniture the whistle and shuffle of bones a broken telephone my own footsteps how quickly they appear and disappear those passing tones these luminous encounters the changing unseen floating dreams neither living or dead […]

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