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       presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.

Sunday, May 31, 2015

SAME SCRIPTURE, DIFFERENT DEITY

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by Tom Russell The Bible gets used like a Swiss Army Knife by sanctimonious cherubs thrashing about with defective right wing...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

DON'T CALL IT A COUP, JUST SING TRALALA

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by Siham Karami Egypt: Rape and sexual violence perpetrated by security forces 'surges' under el-Sisi's regime in campaign...
Friday, May 29, 2015

DEAD END

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by Michelle Marie Photo by Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer | The Daily Herald "Anyone is too good to be a waitress," s...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

YOUR HANDS WILL BE PREGNANT IN THE AFTERLIFE

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by Luisa A. Igloria After claiming that a man would meet his masturbating hand “pregnant in the afterlife” and “asking for its rights,...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

OIL SPILL

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by Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco Last Tuesday, an onshore pipeline belonging to the Texas-based oil company Plains All American burst, spe...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

MEMORIAL DAY HAIKU

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by Jimmy Pappas Image source: Aftertaste Memorial Day. Eating burgers and fries. How quickly we forget. Jimmy Pappas is cur...
Monday, May 25, 2015

UNKNOWN SOLDIERS

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by Paul Smith Photography by David Jay from The Unknown Soldier . The Unknown Soldier is a series of large scale photographs of severe...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

ON MEMORIAL DAY

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by Gil Hoy In the 1960s and 70s, DC Comics added a slug with the legend "Make War No More" to its war-story comic books. Sou...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

MEMORIAL DAY MUSINGS

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by George Salamon This April 1865 photo shows the graves of Union soldiers who died at the Race Course prison camp in Charleston, whic...
Friday, May 22, 2015

AND SO IT GOES

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by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer  Dating back 40,000 years to the Denisovan species of early humans, new pictures show beauty and craftsma...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

BAN ON MILITARY GEAR . . .

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by Marjorie Maddox except here? Last call for chain-gangs- in-training at this chain bar and grill where each chain- clad cult ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

THE ROAD BACK TO YEMEN FROM A BROOKLYN LAUNDROMAT GOES UP IN SMOKE

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by Linda Lerner                                                       separate , he asks, as he puts my laundry on the scale.   Yes...
Monday, May 18, 2015

AS THE HEAVY JAGGED

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by Gil Hoy Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, right, with his attorney William Fick. Credit: AP via Boston Herald As the heavy jagged wheels of ...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

THE PEDICURE CUSTOMER'S DILEMMA

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by Catherine Wald Across the country, countless workers in the nail salon industry, mainly immigrant women, toil in misery and ill heal...
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