Category: race
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Prayers to the Saints of Prison (excerpt) (duplicate)
The vowels are in solitary confinement The consonants are being beaten by sadistic dictionaries . . .
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arnoldo garcía: No longer Oakland
Three poems by Arnoldo García No longer Oakland The smell of Oakland, Trash-strewn wind The rotting smell of hamburgers mixing into the tail-pipes of carbon-monoxide a street-curb sewage sludge of leaves, discarded clothes and legs of chairs tilting the natural world over us I walk to work Alongside the streetwalkers The only ones who smile…
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Prayers to the Saints of Prison (excerpt)
The vowels are in solitary confinement The consonants are being beaten by sadistic dictionaries . . .
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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…
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Day Four 2019 | The cellphone baby
The cellphone baby criesbewildered by human voicesUnsteady in our armsThe cellphone screen filled with rhythmic red ocean wavesand a toenail moon calms her for a breath or twoHer skinher hearingher sighther touchher hairher bodyis wirelessher ancestors are blockedher father is in jailher mother needs a breakher grandfather disappeared years agoand her grandmother holds her tightcomforts…
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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,…
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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…
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Becoming Buddha | Vallecitos Mountain Refuge retreat (July 1993)
Miracles are hard work: because breathing, because calmness, because conscientiousness is required. That is how Vallecitos appeared in Oakland, where I lived. Seemingly out of nowhere, a letter arrived at our offices in Oakland offering a scholarship to one of us at the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights to participate in the first-ever…
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Ceremonia | Ceremony
Ceremonia Our dead will never die Our life will never end We carry each other into the blue and brown realms, the red and black songs the yellow and the milky ways We embrace and trade places to reach the edge of space I accompany the migrant ghosts on their viaje/trips to drink together from…
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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,…
Welcome to La comuna: ART OF THE COMMUNE 