Tag Archives: capitalism

Medicine Not Bombs

Posted on March 25, 2020 by

They say we are at war but if this were a war we have left our soldiers without bullets and combat boots if this were a war we have left our airmen without bombs and jet fuel if this were … Continue reading →

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Bulletproof Backpacks

Posted on August 1, 2019 by

Bulletproof backpacks  on sale now at Office Max because your taxes  do absolutely nothing  to keep your kids safe. Buy one  and if someone brings  a gun to your kids high school  at least they’ll look cool as they’re laying … Continue reading →

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Crying For The Mountain

Posted on July 17, 2019 by

History repeats itself again and again we do nothing but obey we do nothing but mumble “well, this is what the law has to say” we do nothing but look the other way we do nothing but pay for the … Continue reading →

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The Ignorant American: Professional Courtesy to the GEO Group

Posted on July 14, 2019 by

(Music by Toby Keith) American girls and American guys will always look the other way when black and brown folks die or when they see a baby crying in the hands of the feds left to sleep on the cold … Continue reading →

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Squealing For More

Posted on June 14, 2019 by

If you curse the name Donald Trump but have never heard the names William Kristol or Robert Kagan I suggest you begin to read what was written by these men and signed by the who’s who of DC’s neoconservative crew, … Continue reading →

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Same Parade

Posted on May 26, 2019 by

The best way you can  honor our departed sons, daughters, brothers, and  sisters is to become a  war-tax resister, don’t pay to send any more  of our loved ones off to war don’t buy the bullets, the bombs, and the … Continue reading →

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Comfort

Posted on May 17, 2019 by

Sending Comfort to  Venezuelan refugees  not the millions we’ve  long been creating every- where we please. Why do we send  hospital ships there but bombs to Doctors Without  Borders everywhere as if the sun’s glare makes the  Red Crescents look … Continue reading →

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The Gods That We Trust

Posted on May 17, 2019 by

We sigh as we watch  synagogues, mosques, and  black churches burning. We’re yearning for a better  world but we’re too comfortable  in this one. We watch the news it’s just reruns, cops killing unarmed black people and Muslim cities turned … Continue reading →

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In My Dream: An Ode to Dr. King

Posted on April 4, 2019 by

(Maybe April 4th isn’t Martin Luther King, Jr. Day but it’s the day that in 1967 he most vocally spoke out against the war in Vietnam and the day that in 1968 he was assassinated. My poem includes the majority of his … Continue reading →

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HAZMAT

Posted on March 23, 2019 by

Photo credit: DRYLANDProductions We call ourselves civilized buying what we’re told we need throwing it ‘away’ with ease look what we’ve become, the sum of our life’s work is garbage we surf man-made waves and our bellies are filled with … Continue reading →

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