by Susan | Apr 29, 2016 | National Poetry Month, Uncategorized
Paul Robeson stood on the northern border of the USA and sang into Canada where a vast audience sat on folding chairs waiting to hear him. He sang into Canada. His voice left the USA when his body was not allowed to cross that line. Remind us again, brave friend! What...
by Susan | Apr 29, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 29, 1945 Operation Manna began. At the end of World War II, Lancaster bombers of the Royal Air Force dropped 6,680 tons of food into parts of the occupied Netherlands to feed starving people during the Dutch famine, called the “Hunger Winter.” With...
by Susan | Apr 28, 2016 | National Poetry Month
A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his...
by Susan | Apr 28, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 28, 2011 Police officers in Burkina Faso joined protesters over the high cost of living by shooting their guns in the air. Protesters had been gathering in the capital, Ouagadougou, throughout the previous few weeks, angered over high food prices and unpaid...
by Susan | Apr 27, 2016 | National Poetry Month
I had a dream three walls stood up wherein a raven bird Against the walls did beat himself and was not this absurd? For sun and rain beat in that cell that had its fourth wall free And daily blew the summer shower and the rain came presently And all the pretty summer...
