Africans’ Message to Imperialism: “We Are Not Your Flunkies!” So, good friend, Madu, who I met decades ago, at UT-El Paso. He was coming through buildings where part-time English faculty had offices. That big smile, that large voice, and an open hand. He was working the used/discount book gig: going to colleges to get books …
National Victims Rights Awareness week end of April The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) currently administers 19 grant programs authorized by the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 1994 and subsequent legislation. Prosecutors’ Domestic Violence Handbook Terminal Velocity: Man Lost of Tribe is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming …
Part Two = Bats . . . Conversations in a time of Plague . . . What’s Love Got to do with it? [first appeared in Cirque Journal, 2023, #25] Therein lays the problem of this conversation in a time of plague. Calling a spade a spade is one thing, but this naming of the “new” …
Bats . . . Conversations in a time of Plague . . . What’s Love Got to do with it? Part One Cirque #25 [first appeared in current Cirque Journal] The lie lulls or dreams, like the illusion. The truth is the only power, cheerful, inexhaustible. If we were able to live only of, and for …
surfing the Israel-First- dominated Netflix for flicks will paint you into a echo chamber of Hell on Earth! Yep, that is not an antisemitic thing, the subtitle, or the rest of I write herin. You know, some of us have looked critically at the media: I’m a journalist who actually took real journalism classes, did …
Book review of Gary Brumback, Life’s Triangles and America’s Power Elites (2019) Paul Haeder: Americans are in their own tight spot now: keeping on the lights, fridge half full, Super Bowl projected on plasma TV, the latest model of Jeep in the driveway, work that eats at the soul and the body. To see a …
This Land is Their Land, and We Are the Illegal Aliensby Paul K. Haeder RE: April 7, 2006 Man oh man, that’s 17 year ago, and boy isn’t that a huge passage of time. Today, the 31st of March? “The fight for equality must be fought on many fronts — in urban slums, in the sweatshops …
“If Capitalism is a disease, then it’s one that eats your flesh — and then profits from selling your bones for fertilizer, and then invests that profit to reap the cane harvest, and then sells that harvest to tourists who pay to visit your headstone.”― Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A …
Every war is a war against children. –Egalntyne Jebb, founder Save the Children a century ago. We can celebrate and ruminate on any day of any month, and April is one of those months that have milestones and remembrances vital to me, and important to tens of millions. I’ve written about National Poetry …
I’m back at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport Oregon, part of the Oregon State University campus harboring marine mammal-fisheries-benthic-ocean researchers and students. The topic: How humans decimated whale populations through hundreds of years of industrial whaling, leaving some species and populations on the brink of extinction. But despite these impacts, many whale populations …
