Category Archives: womens rights

We Can’t Forget

Posted on August 23, 2021 by soitgoes1984

We are believers we’ve placed full faith in a magic that uses words to transform chaos into the norm human beings into disposable things buildings into rubble life into death (by drone) bodies into ash (and bone) cultures into terror … Continue reading →

Posted in 9/11, Afghanistan, barack obama, collateral damage, democracy, human rights, Khashoggi, NYC, peace, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, refugees, refugees welcome, Saudi Arabia, taxes, trauma, Uncategorized, veterans, veterans for peace, Vietnam, war, war tax resistance, womens rights, Yemen | Tagged 1984, 2001, Afghanistan, America, biden, George Orwell, george w bush, Obama, poem, poetry, Saudi Arabia, Taliban, war | Comments Off

Roll Tide

Posted on May 18, 2019 by soitgoes1984

Alabama has never been sweet home and there’s Ivey poisoning the shreds of humanity that somehow survive down there where their version of Jesus murders prisoners, and condemns women, keeps kids illiterate and burns crosses when the Tide win … Continue reading →

Posted in america, capitalism, Football, god, government, haiku, human rights, humanity, Jesus, poem, Poetry, tanka, Uncategorized, womens rights | Tagged Alabama, church and state, crimson tide, death penalty, football, governor Kay Ivey, haiku, Jesus, murder, oppression, poem, Poetry, reproductive rights, roe v wade, slavery, sweet home Alabama, tanka | Comments Off

March For Women

Posted on January 19, 2018 by soitgoes1984

The President isn’t the disease he is but a symptom. The disease is not new, it is not worse now than it was a couple of years ago or a couple of decades ago or a couple of centuries ago. … Continue reading →

Posted in Afghanistan, america, american dream, bigotry, Black Lives Matter, capitalism, collateral damage, death, democracy, drones, empathy, fear, government, hatred, history, Howard Zinn, human rights, Iran, Iraq, IRS, Israel, Kaepernick, money, murder, palestine, Palestinians, poem, Poetry, police, police brutality, poverty, racism, refugees, sexism, slavery, Syria, taxes, Trump, Uncategorized, war, war tax resistance, white privilege, women's march, womens rights, writing, Yemen | Tagged Afghanistan, America, capitalism, Genocide, greed, howard zinn, human rights, iraq, palestine, poem, poetry, poverty, slavery, sports, taxes, Trump, war, war tax resistance, women, women's march, womens rights | Comments Off

East v. West part 2

Posted on January 21, 2017 by soitgoes1984

our debts keep us shackled to streets paved with gold but two feet in the grave before we ever grow old we’re ice cold to our neighbors forget about looking east we pay for the burden keep feeding the beast … Continue reading →

Posted in Afghanistan, america, collateral damage, death, democracy, drones, empire, history, human rights, humanity, Iraq, palestine, poem, Poetry, propaganda, refugees, taxes, truth, Uncategorized, Vietnam, violence, war, war tax resistance, womens rights, world war one, world war two | Tagged Afghanistan, east, iraq, Native Americans, poem, poetry, religion, truth, Vietnam, war, war tax resistance, west | Comments Off

Ala Moana

Posted on September 23, 2016 by soitgoes1984

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 | Comments Off

The Heart Of Babylon

Posted on July 24, 2016 by soitgoes1984

You say we fight for freedom even though you know its a lie our duffel bags are packed and we’re heading to Iraq and theres a good chance that we’re going to die. We took off from Atlanta touched down in Germany after three days in Kuwait … Continue reading →

Posted in 9/11, america, bigotry, blood, broken heart, Calling All Crows, capitalism, collateral damage, cops, death, democracy, dreams, empathy, empire, family, farming, farms, fear, flying, freedom, guilt, hate, healing, history, hope, human rights, humanity, ignorance, imagine, Iraq, lambs, Liberty, life, lions, love, memories, peace, people, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, propaganda, religion, revolution, singing, soul, suicide, taxes, truth, Uncategorized, veterans, veterans for peace, violence, war, war tax resistance, womens rights, writing | Tagged Afghanistan, America, Arabic Poetry, babylon, Baghdad, birds, blood, bread and circuses, broken heart, Calling All Crows, collateral damage, death, democracy, dreams, empire, farming, fear, freedom, greed, hate, hope, human rights, humanity, iraq, justice, life, loss, love, music, oil, Peace, poem, poetry, poetry for peace, Propaganda, racism, religion, rivers, singing, suicide, taxes, truth, veterans, Veterans for Peace, war, writing | Comments Off

House of Fraud

Posted on July 15, 2016 by soitgoes1984

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 →

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