SOAW 2018 Border Encuentro: ¡Cantemos América!

Collaborative Poem-Violence in America-Music by Ana Tijoux

Combo Poem on Violence

This is a collaborative poem written and read by writers and poets at Writers On the Air Open Mic, March 24th, 2018. Each writer wrote 1-5 lines with the only connection being the theme-Violence in America. Readers are todd, frederick, susan, pete, katya, and gena.

Music by Ana Tijoux

Violence in America- Two poems

Final Exam by Frederick Foote Take a gun to school the new fucking golden rule rule the fucking school And it's alright and it's okay The Constitution pledges allegiance to this rule of blood and bullets A ballet of death anyone can dance to and fro from classroom to graveyard your final, final exam Killer I,ii,iii by Katya Mills "killer i: a killer dies by taking life. when you must take a life to have it, you have little life to begin with, to need it so bad. and then to steal that which is not yours, you confirm you have no guts." killer ii: a killer is lost like a river wandered off became a stream then an eddy then a trickle until it dropped off the face of the earth and dried up into nothing, so far from the source was it killer iii: they will not ever be who they were before they killed. the part of them that had a chance to be anything other than cold-blooded is gone with the light in their eyes

Snowball in Hell

When did the lying start...

And the Bullets start Flyin

A General Strike?

http://portside.org/2017-02-06/whose-strike

THIS IS A GOOD PIECE,  A General Strike?  'GET SOBER FOLKS' .

I'm interested in movement organizing strategy... lots of people discussing this topic right now.  If the 9th Circuit does right, will Trump ignore the decision.....sort of Andy Jackson reborn from the Bank Fight and the Indian cases of the mid 1830s?  

I watched the NPR show tonight on the Oklahoma bombing of 1995. Amazing how much force the cops used and the resources they had, which turned them all into boneheads on steroids who drove McVeigh nuts. 168 Dead!

The way things are going, that Reichstag moment could come sooner than we may have anticipated.  Labor is too weak in numbers and political strength to lead the United Front, and the broader post Woman's March movement is too inchoate at this point to fully predict how it will emerge?  Yet, I'm optimistic.  I have visited or done a little work with a few different organizations recently, and there are large numbers of people getting involved, perhaps more than were coming forth in the 1968-72 period?  It sort of feels that way.  However, we also must be consider that there may be great danger ahead.   A serious terrorist event may lead to a state of emergency and "his illegitimacy" will rule by fear.

K

A Translation of Inaugural Address- by Frederick Foote

Dear Readers, you may have missed Donald Trumps’ inaugural address out of antipathy and disgust. However, the address was very revealing if you understand Trump Speak. Trump Speak is a dialect that has its foundation in misinformation, exaggeration, lies, bellicose bombast, and self-promotion.

This vernacular assumes that the one correct view of the world is Trumps. And every other perspective is not just wrong but is a treasonous affront to Trump and, therefore, a seditious insult to the nation.

I’m far from an expert in Trump Speak, but I have provided my translation of the inaugural hectoring on Across the Margin at: 

http://acrossthemargin.com/trumps-inaugural-address/