Category: immigration

• October 16, 2020

  Paradise under construction | A note on “Building Socialism” RPB poetry anthology

  All poets, good or bad, with or without anti-capitalist politics, weak or strong anti-racist and anti-war practices, believe in and want paradise on earth. Paradise has different names according to the language your heart speaks. Paradise is where the beloved and I pour our souls into each other. Paradise is where I harmonize with the […]
• July 31, 2020

  Poetic justice: A world of human rights

  We want human rights because… No human being is illegal,  No human being is a minority, No human being is undocumented Everyone has a story to tell, a history to be made, a dream to fulfill, a life to live to the fullest, to the deepest end of time Everyone has the right to grow […]
• July 31, 2020

  Justicia poética: Un mundo de derechos humanos

  Queremos derechos humanos porque… Ningún ser humano es ilegal Ningún ser humano es una minoría Ningún ser humano es indocumentado. Todos tenemos algo que decir, una historia para hacer, un sueño para realizar, una vida para vivir plenamente, hasta la profundidad del tiempo Todos/todas tenemos el derecho a envejecer, vivir en ternura, amara abiertamente, trabajar […]
• January 3, 2020

  Day 3 2019 | My houses have been left in smoke

  The air is dyingThe wind has become a banner bloodied with carbon monoxideEveryone is in awe of their beautiful sunset/sunrise photographsHumans are flat and believe the earth is tooThe sun sends messages and warningsAnd we take photographs.The electricity company did not start the firesWe did.everyone is a little predator-consumer:we flick the switch, we press the […]
• March 28, 2019

  Call to poets to sign the “Open Letter to Worldwide Leaders”

  Dear poet: Would you sign out letter. Please include your name and country in the email. Email your signature to: worldpoetrymovement@gmail.com All the best, Fernando Rendón (*) OPEN LETTER TO WORLDWIDE LEADERS In the name of the poets, writers, intellectuals and artists, and of all men and women that are in the cause of global peace, […]
• December 30, 2018

  Unrest: the revolution is a migrant girl

   Jakelin Caal Maquin I. Unrest Every day I die a little bit in east Oakland Every day A little bit in a prison cell Every day A little more on the border Every day I go farther and father away Dying here and there In the valley in the fields In the warehouse packing vegetables, […]
• December 11, 2018

  International human rights day |Día internacional de los derechos humanos

  Welcome to international human rights day: Human rights day is the day when you can be fully human, imperfect, immigrant, imbecilic, important, impotent to stop the U.S. disaster, immune to the past, immured with the possibilities of liberation, human liberation, in the new day. When indigenous indios are The People of the Earth The original human […]
• September 4, 2018

  Azlant: Migrants in the kingdom of the real estate

  Knowledge, transformation, affiliation… Migrants don’t travel. Migrants are at home on the road. There is no point of departure and return — return is the dream of all migrants. The seasons –winter, spring, summer, autumn, winter– are our places, our suns, our times and spaces for momentary rest, momentary placement. Displacement, movement, roots as sails, […]
• October 28, 2017

  The human story | We are all migrants, really …

  The human story that turns against herself: forced migrations. Humanity became humanity when she rose up and started walking, following the rhythms and flows of the natural world. The first migrations were forced by the changes that occurred in the relationship between humans and the natural world. These changes in turn affected and transformed the […]