Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at it’s best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at it’s best is power correcting everything that stands against love.
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People who know me the longest know that I’ve been writing(and performing) poetry since I am a teenager. I started writing shortly after 9/11, when I was sixteen years old. It has always been my way to self-soothe. Sometimes I go months and months without writing, but I always get back to it. Always. The physical act of putting ink on pages is something I recommend everyone try. It doesn’t have to be poetry or even words. I also recommend a good pen. I’ve been using the same exact kind of pen for eighteen years. Not expensive, but not cheap. I’ve probably filled 20-30 notebooks with verses. I have never referred to them as “poems”. I wrote this verse last night. My handwriting is a bit off because I haven’t written in awhile.
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No blue check next to my name
I’m just a worker wondering who’s next today
No ICU rooms left
Who gives a damn what the influencers say?
A whole generation roped up in school debt
No degree seems worth it
the diploma won’t cover expenses
Who wrote -this- book?
the authors of the Middle Passage
And they still haven’t paid back those slaves
While they hold us to rent
We’re the workers and the owners are relentless
even in a global pandemic they still want that check
No home? Too bad.
No breath? The last gasps of the working class
Survive together or die alone
and that’s that
Build our own bridge or fall into the chasm
We’ve come to it ready to cross
with nothing but a helping hand
It’s all we really have
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#Poetry #PoetryEverywhere #BlackInk #InkOnPaper #Handwriting #2020
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(First photos I’m posting from Ireland)
“THE GREAT APPEAR GREAT
BECAUSE WE ARE ON OUR KNEES
LET US RISE”
~Jim Larkin, Irish Republican, Union Leader.
#Ireland #WorkersKnow #1u #RISEUP #WeDoTheWork #Socialist #RankAndFile #SOLIDARITY
(at Dublin, Ireland)
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I forget how much I like to read books. This one is great. Good tricks like: draw a line from a crescent moon to the horizon. That is South in the Northern hemisphere. .
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HOW TO READ NATURE by Tristan Gooley:
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“John Burroughs, an American writer and naturalist in the late nineteenth century, was ahead of the game when he wrote, "There is nothing people differ in more than in their powers of observation. Some are only half alive.” … A study by the US military found that soldiers of equal military experience did not see the world in the same way. Most critically, some soldiers were markedly better at spotting potential dangers such as improvised explosive devices and other ambushes. The two groups that stood out in this research were those with a hunting background and those who came from tough urban neighborhoods. These groups had clearly been conditioned by their former experiences to see the world as mixture of threats and opportunities; a lack of awareness translated into a bad day of different sorts to each group, and, as a consequence, their senses were finely attuned to any anomalies in their landscape".
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#Reading #Books #Quote #Passage #Awareness #Nature
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May 1, 1935 (84 years ago, today) .
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16,000 POLICE HERE ON GUARD TODAY FOR MAY 1 PARADES.
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Valentine Expects No Trouble — Workers’ Groups Predict Turn-Out of 185,000 .
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“Socialists and Communists were busy yesterday preparing for what both predicted would be the biggest celebration of May Day in the city’s history today…”.
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Replying to the criticisms of the business groups, Mr. Fruchter said yesterday that the parage represented an expenditure of at least $25,000 and that it would stimulate business by bringing out greater crowds than usual. “Our conception of the city, it’s parks and streets, is that they belong to those who work in the shops and produce the wealth of the city,” he said. “It ill behooves the merchants’ association to bemoan the loss of a few business hours when their customers are marching.”.
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via timesmachine.nytimes.com
#TDIH #ThisDayInHistory #MayDay #LaborHistory #NYC #Archives #OldNews #NYtarchives #NYtimes (at New York, New York)
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I hope everyone is finding some moments of peace today. We had a lovely walk here. At the place where the rivers meet. Every drop in every river is connected to one Ocean. #Solidarity
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“By opening their magnificent riverfront lands to the public, the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill affirm their belief that the Earth’s benefits should be shared”.
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“The Dominican Sisters join with all people who seek to heal the violence which deprives both humans and the natural environment of the dignity and freedom intended by our Creator”
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#Church #Nature #Christian #Faith #Universal #Perfect #Peace #WaterIsLife #MniWiconi (at Falling Waters Preserve)
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I hope everyone is finding some moments of peace today. We had a lovely walk here. At the place where the rivers meet. Every drop in every river is connected to one Ocean. #Solidarity
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“By opening their magnificent riverfront lands to the public, the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill affirm their belief that the Earth’s benefits should be shared”.
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“The Dominican Sisters join with all people who seek to heal the violence which deprives both humans and the natural environment of the dignity and freedom intended by our Creator”
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#Church #Nature #Christian #Faith #Universal #Perfect #Peace #WaterIsLife #MniWiconi (at Falling Waters Preserve)
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Ok first off, can we please appreciate the handwriting/font of this old boarding document? Wow. These old records are just beautiful. Doing some more @Ancestry stuff. Just found an immigration record for our great-grandmother Josephine (Giuseppa). This is the second great-grandmother that has a different name than I had always heard, and both of them are Americanized versions of Italian names. She left Palermo, Sicily on the S.S. Sant'Anna on August 25, 1912. She was seventeen years old, and had already been married to our great grandfather for three years by then. I’m not sure yet if he was on this same ship, but I know he also arrived in the USA from Sicily in 1912. They lived in tenements(which were eventually knocked down by Robert Moses and turned into the Projects) of East Harlem (1920 US Census) before moving to and settling in Astoria, Queens (1930, 1940 US Census).
#Family #Immigration #Records #Ancestry #History #Herstory #Sicilian #American #USA #NYC #Ships #SundayNight (at New York, New York)
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Five years ago, today, Sarah Jones, an IATSE Assistant Camera Crew member was killed on the set of a movie in Georgia. She and the other crew members who were seriously injured never should have been on the active train tracks they were filming on. The crew was deceived and lied to by the people “in charge”, and the entire motivation for that deception was to save the production company money on rescheduling filming days.
Five years later, crew members routinely work 12-14+ hour days, which is industry standard, not including a break or commuting, putting their own safety and the safety of the public at large at risk. And again, these long hours are a result of the corporations we work for maximizing their profits by ignoring health and safety of crew members.
Five years later, our sets are not safer. More people have been killed on major motion picture sets in the last five years than in the twenty years previous.
We need to do better. A lot better.
#WeDoTheWork #SafetyForSarah #CapitalismKills #IATSE #SafetyOnSet (at Broadway Stages)
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