Showing posts with label killings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label killings. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 14, 2026

NOT NICE EUPHEMISMS AND DYSPHEMISMS

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by Anne Gruner Anne Gruner  is a two-time Pushcart nominee whose poetry has appeared in numerous print and on-line publications including  A...
Sunday, June 07, 2026

MASS SHOOTING #15

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 W Hillsdale St and Chestnut St, Lansing, MI, April 23, 2026   “A gunman walked up to an intersection near downtown Lansing on the night of ...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

DISTRACTIONS

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by Mary Saracino     They want us to look away, forget about the pedophiles the wars, the ICE raids, the killing of nonviolent protesters,...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

THE HANDOVER

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by Lonnie Buerge After a Border Patrol agent killed Alex Pretti, Attorney General Pam Bondi tells Minnesota to hand over its voter roll to “...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

STREETS OF BOUGAINVILLEA

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by Elizabeth Rose Since we started collecting data in 2012, 1,335 defenders across Latin America have lost their lives…. Yet very few famili...
Saturday, November 18, 2023

THE BANALITY OF MASS SHOOTINGS

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by Julie A. Dickson Photo from “Terror on Repeat:  A rare look at the devastation caused by AR-15 shootings” in The Washington Post , Novemb...
Thursday, December 01, 2022

FOR EVERY LOST SOUL, A CANDLE

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by Mary K O'Melveny Glowing Christmas candle in frosted home window, photograph by Thomas Baker — Fine Art America For every lost soul, ...
Sunday, January 02, 2022

A POEM IN FAVOR OF REMAINING PURPOSEFUL IN DARK TIMES

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by Alan Walowitz It’s late here, afternoon, and for all I know the solstice might have come and gone. Another of these sodden days keeps me ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

NOBODY SHOULD WANT INEQUALITY TO EXIST

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by Shirley JonesLuke Detail from “Answers to Your Protest Questions” by Chelsea Saunders at The Nib, June 12, 2020 Inequality is sto...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

MEMORY'S GARDEN

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by Sister Lou Ella Hickman Sister Lou Ella Hickman is a member of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament. She was...
Saturday, July 09, 2016

NOT READY TO BE SILENT

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for James Baldwin by Carolyn Gregory “The week started with scenes from a cellphone video of an African-American man lying on the gro...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

THE THIRTEENTH STATION — CHARLESTON 2015

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by Janice Lynch Schuster Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America If only the women had carried Guns in their Bibles and pray...
Friday, January 02, 2015

AT THE LOCAL LOCKSMITH SHACK,
I ORDER AN EXTRA HOUSE KEY

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by Alejandro Escudé The locksmith grinds it, sparks flying, but he stops to point to the TV screen, the news on, cop killings i...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

SCENES FROM THE HOEDOWN

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by Joseph Reich More than 25,000 people marched through Manhattan on Saturday, police officials said. --NY Times , December 13, ...
Monday, September 22, 2014

HIMALAYA RHAPSODY

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by Stefanie Bennett Tsering Tsomo, speaking on behalf of the Society for Threatened Peoples, highlighted the recent shooting in Kardze,...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

ANUBIS SPEAKS

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by Anne Harding Woodworth I will embalm the gun, dip it in antimony salts and mercury to preserve the image of a life that is no more. I ...