When You Speak To Me
When you speak to me I am faced with You very real and proper Anger mixed with concern And yes bio-logic Which forces me to In The Same Breath Defend Myself And take your rage tru To not let myself Off the hooks of your pain But also I cannot go to the sea-floor With you again Seeing as I had been there For so very long
Quote of the Day – March 21
“White supremacy is an aberration. Anytime you have a people that believe themselves to be superior to any other people on the planet, they crazy. And we not treating it like that.” – Jalil Muntaqim, Dec 9 2021
The Uses of the Erotic – Audre Lorde
“The erotic is a resource within each one of us that lies in a very deeply female and spiritual plane. It is firmly rooted in the power of all our unexpressed and unrecognized feelings. In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change. For women, this has meant a suppression of the erotic as a considered source of power and information within our lives. We have been taught to suspect this resource, it has been vilified, abused, and devalued within western society. On the one hand, the superficially erotic has been encouraged as a sign of our inferiority; on the other hand, women have been made to suffer and to feel both contemptible and suspect by virtue of its existence. It is a short step from there to the false belief that only by the suppression of the erotic within our lives and consciousness can women be truly strong. But that strength is illusory, for it is fashioned within the context of male models of power.”
dispatch from the hill
the people are beautiful, interesting, hardworking, tired. the city is alive
shimmering tightly wound ‘round itself
like a heart bump, the walls
closing in and we all remark
what a lovely day it is. what a lovely
lovely day it really is
Done Wrong Blues
i want to cry in your arms
i want to feel your simple charms
i don’t care what you do
just want to be with you
i need to feel some warmth at night
cuz babe i get such fright
you hear the daily news
can only send you into blues
i feel the way i always did
let my loneliness cocoon me
and let me find the way
to the seat of the ocean lid
going without you is like
going without oxygen
theoretically possible
for a minute or two
A Chumash tribe and conservationists fight offshore wind turbines – LA Times
Expose the Lies – La Lucha
“March 20 marks 19 years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, based on a lie about “weapons of mass destruction.” The U.S. always lies about its wars. Here’s how Washington and NATO provoked the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.”
The Pending Task of Securing Transgender Rights: A Conversation with Rummie Quintero Verdú
A dancer, coach, and transgender rights activist, Rummie Quintero Verdú is the founder of Venezuelan Divas [Divas de Venezuela]. That longstanding organization struggles for the rights of the country’s dissident sex-gender community. In this interview, we talk about her experience growing up as a trans person in the working class 23 de Enero barrio in Caracas, and about the situation of trans people in Venezuela in general.
No War, No Imperialism: Russia, NATO, and Ukraine
“This is the full video of the teach-in organized by the Albuquerque Anti-War Coalition, the Black Alliance for Peace, and the Red Nation on Friday March 18th, 2022. English language recording.”
Aida Rends 