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Category Archives: solidarity
Nonviolent Resistance
They taught us that the only way to nonviolently resist is to compliantly persist , to exist in silence and burn candles while they burn villages, to wave banners while they waive human rights. DO NOT BOYCOTT DO NOT DIVEST … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Disobedience, Howard Zinn, MLK, Nonviolence, Nonviolent resistance, poem, Poetry, solidarity, taxes, Uncategorized, Vietnam, violence, war, war tax resistance
Tagged Civil Disobedience, Jesus, mlj, Nonviolence, Nonviolent resistance, poem, Poetry, taxes, war, war tax resistance
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Jump Ship/I Sailed With Columbus
“I Sailed With Columbus” When I was eight years old, in 1992 I first learned about Christopher Columbus and I sang along with my class “In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue” and we drew pictures of him … Continue reading
Posted in america, haiku, Iraq, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, solidarity, tanka, taxes, terrorism, travel, Uncategorized, veterans, war, war tax resistance
Tagged America, Columbus, haiku, iraq, poem, Poetry, tanka, taxes, war, war tax resistance
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Only The Bible Is Allowed To Be Sacred
Not even with a thirty meter telescope will we be able to see all the damage done to the ‘āina already we won’t see polluted aquifers and an ailing reef we won’t see the monk seals and turtles laying on … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Aloha ʻĀina, america, collateral damage, earth, environment, farming, fishing, government, hawaii, Japan, Kaho'olawe, Korea, Mauna Kea, poem, Poetry, solidarity, Standing Rock, stars, taxes, Uncategorized, violence, war, war tax resistance, world, writing, Yemen
Tagged Aloha Aina, annexation, capitalism, colonialism, deforestation, Dole, errosion, exploitation, hawaii, hawaiians, Kaho'olawe, Kanaka Maoli, Mauna Kea, missionaries, occupation, Pearl Harbor, pineapples, poem, poetry, pollution, prisons, private prisons, progress, protect mauna kea, science, sustainability, sustainable coastlines hawaii, thirty meter telescope
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When Pigs Cry
The pigs have begun to cry now at the sight of the lambs being devoured by the predators but what about the sheep what about the cows what about all those goats and the horses the cats and the dogs … Continue reading
Posted in america, american dream, farm, farming, Gaza, greed, history, horses, human rights, Iraq, poem, Poetry, poverty, racism, refugees, refugees welcome, Sheep, solidarity, Syria, Uncategorized, Vietnam, violence, war, white privilege
Tagged alpacas, America, american dream, Border Patrol, cages, chickens, ducks, farm, farming, geese, goats, hiorses, ICE, lambs, llamas, Mexico, pigs, poem, poetry, refugees, Sheep, taxes, Texas, violence, war, white privilege
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Pali
Longing to set sail once more casualties of a war waged with germs and guns and drugs and spam and pineapples and sugarcane and chemicals and steel and my heart is numb and I cannot feel your pain the goddess … Continue reading
Posted in collateral damage, fire, hawaii, hope, human rights, humanity, life, poem, Poetry, rain, religion, solidarity, Uncategorized, violence, writing
Tagged drugs, hawaii, poem, poetry, religion, solidarity, war
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Ala Moana
Looking down at the street below from this 14th floor hotel window I see the sidewalk where my family sleeps if God is real I hope it weeps for what society has become we don’t see our sister just another … Continue reading
Posted in abuse, addiction, Ala Moana, american dream, anxiety, broken heart, capitalism, conversation, depression, domestic violence, dreams, empathy, family, hawaii, healing, homeless, humanity, imagine, jazz, life, love, people, poem, Poetry, solidarity, soul, Uncategorized, universe, womens rights, writing
Tagged addiction, Ala Moana, alcohol, anxiety, capitalism, collateral damage, depression, drugs, family, hawaii, homelessness, humanity, ohana, paradise, poem, poetry, poverty, solidarity, Waikiki
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Decade & a Half Much Like The Rest
The military industry has won year after year after year after years it’s just reruns war is certainly here to stay and we just blew up a Syrian army base without a trace of remorse and of course no one … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, Afghanistan, america, Black Lives Matter, capitalism, civil rights, collateral damage, death, democracy, dreams, driving, drunk, earth, Edward Bernays, empathy, empire, environment, farm, farming, fear, fire, Football, free speech, freedom, god, government, grandfather, hatred, history, Howard Zinn, human rights, humanity, hunger, ignorance, Iraq, Jesus, justice, Kaepernick, Liberty, life, memories, peace, poem, Poetry, police, police brutality, propaganda, racism, slavery, solidarity, taxes, Uncategorized, veterans, Vietnam, violence, war, war tax resistance, writing
Tagged Afghanistan, America, american dream, collateral damage, death, democracy, dreams, empire, humanity, iraq, poem, poetry, slavery, truth, veterans, war, writing
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Refuge
Seeking refuge from the storm the air’s on fire chaos the norm black and blue and shades of grey my soul is tired but I’m okay thank you for this milk and bread bless you now my child is fed … Continue reading
Posted in empathy, Europe, fire, history, human rights, humanity, hunger, poem, Poetry, rain, refugees, refugees welcome, solidarity, terrorism, Uncategorized, war, writing
Tagged collateral damage, empathy, Europe, family, fire, human rights, humanity, love, poem, poetry, rain, refugees, refugees welcome, solidarity, storms, violence, war, writing
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House of Fraud
airplane rides and child brides and women dressed in black, the early morning call to prayer reminds me of Iraq Oil money buying bombs from dear friend uncle Sam own your wives, and beat your kids but dont eat any … Continue reading
Posted in 9/11, Afghanistan, american dream, bible, capitalism, church, collateral damage, death, democracy, dreams, empire, god, government, history, human rights, humanity, Iraq, life, peace, poem, Poetry, propaganda, religion, Saudi Arabia, sexism, solidarity, taxes, terrorism, travel, Uncategorized, war, wine, womens rights, writing
Tagged America, american dream, bread and circuses, collateral damage, democracy, dreams, empire, human rights, humanity, ignorance, poem, poetry, religion, Saudi Arabia, terrorism, truth, war, womens rights, writing
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We Buy The Bullets
Who said it was written that some folks should die, who told us that only their families can cry. We’re all connected on this little blue dot. Whats that? A teenage boy was just shot. They might not … Continue reading
Posted in america, american dream, bigotry, Black Lives Matter, cops, government, I Can't Breathe, justice, letter, poem, Poetry, racism, solidarity, taxes, Uncategorized, white privilege, writing
Tagged americs, Black Lives Matter, poem, poetry, taxes, writing
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