by Susan | Apr 23, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 23, 1910 Former President Theodore Roosevelt made his “The Man in the Arena” speech at the Sorbonne, in Paris: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them...
by Susan | Apr 22, 2016 | National Poetry Month
My black face fades, hiding inside the black granite. I said I wouldn’t, dammit: No tears. I’m stone. I’m flesh. My clouded reflection eyes me like a bird of prey, the profile of night slanted against morning. I turn this way – the stone lets me go. I turn that...
by Susan | Apr 22, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 22, 2010 The People’s Agreement of Cochabamba was signed at the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, in Bolivia. “It is imperative that we forge a new system that restores harmony with nature and among human beings. And in...
by Susan | Apr 21, 2016 | National Poetry Month
Is this where they dump those rebels, These haggard cells stinking of bucket Shit and vomit and the acrid urine of Yesteryears? Who would have thought I Would be gazing at these dusty, cobweb Ceilings of Mikuyu Prison, scrubbing Briny walls and riddling out impetuous...
by Susan | Apr 21, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 21, 1954 A U. S. Senate committee held hearings in New York City on the alleged dangers of comic books, part of a nationwide panic over comics contributing to juvenile delinquency. The Comics Code Authority, an exercise in self-censorship by the major...
