b. medusa 3 March 2009 7:37:48 pm
| 6 March 2009 | ||
| 7:30 pm |
Formerly of the Moldy Peaches, recently featured on the soundtrack to Juno, and creator of five gorgeous solo albums, Kimya creates music celebrating “all the magnificent strangeness and unwavering beauty in the world and in people”, and she’s on a mission to embrace the whole world.
Doors open at 7:30, come early for music by local favorites 1602 Destructure Street and Beans! All ages, $10. more info…
b. medusa 10 December 2007 8:07:35 am
today is International Human Rights day. so let’s begin shall we…
EDIT: just found this after completing the post:
Seven Year Old Alexis Goggins Shot Six Times Protecting Her Mother
A 7-year-old-girl is being hailed as an “angel from heaven” and a hero for jumping in front of an enraged gunman, who pumped six bullets into the child as she used her body as a shield to save her mother’s life.
Alexis Goggins, a first-grader at Campbell Elementary School, is in stable condition at Children’s Hospital in Detroit recovering from gunshot wounds to the eye, left temple, chin, cheek, chest and right arm.
“She is an angel from heaven,” said Aisha Ford, a family friend for 15 years who also was caught up in the evening of terror.
The girl’s mother, Selietha Parker, 30, was shot in the left side of her head and her bicep by a former boyfriend, who police said was trying to kill Parker. The gunman was disarmed by police and arrested at the scene of the shooting, a Detroit gas station. Police identified him as Calvin Tillie, 29, a four-time convicted felon whom Parker had dated for six months.
[...]
Ford said she dialed 911 on her cell phone as she walked into the station.“The first operator clicked off and I dialed again and told that operator a guy with a gun was holding me hostage with a mother and baby and threatening to kill us. I told her the name of the gas station and then she said they didn’t have a unit to send.”Ford said she paid for $5 of gas and slowly returned to the vehicle, stalling for time as she handed Tillie the change. She said she kept stopping and starting the pump, hoping the police would show up.“I told him I needed more gas and took money out of my purse and went back into the station,” she said. The attendant, Mohammad Alghazali, 30, said he noticed Ford was crying and she told him what was happening. He called 911 as he heard shots coming from the vehicle.
[…]
Alghazali said a police car on a street nearby arrived in less than a minute after his call.
an update on her condition can be read here. a fund has been set up for Alexis, checks should be made out to the Alexis Goggins Hero Fund & sent to the following address:
Campbell Elementary School
c/o Alexis Goggins Hero Fund
2301 E Alexandrine St
Detroit, MI 48207for information, call (313) 494-2052
ADDITIONAL INFO (courtesy of all about race): Alexis is a special needs child, due to a massive stroke she suffered as an infant. she walks with a limp & has a weak left eye. her right eye was just removed.
Alexis, who walks with a limp, slipped momentarily on the icy sidewalk and as she helped the girl up, she saw the man and recognized him as Tillie. He was holding a gun.
[...]
Before Tillie could fire again, Alexis jumped over the seat between her mother and the gunman and begged him not to shoot her mother.The police report said Tillie “without hesitation” pumped six shots into the child.
G*TD*MN M*THAF*CKIN SORRY *SS PIECE OF SH*T!!!!!
(i don’t usually bleep myself here, but i don’t want to be excessively disrespectful to my readers. all 2 of them.)
also contact the msm & ask them why they’ve ignored this story.
CNN
Phone: 404-827-1500
Fox News Channel
Phone: 212-301-3000
ABC News
Phone: 212-456-7777
CBS News
Phone: 212-975-4321
NBC
Phone: 212-664-4444
MSNBC
Phone: 201-583-5000
Newsweek
Phone: 212-445-4000
Associated Press
Phone: 212-621-1500
Reuters
Phone: 646-223-4000
United Press International
Phone: 202 -898-8000
i don’t have to tell you why this is a human rights (as well as police brutality) issue do i?
i can’t believe i missed this story until now. much respect & gratitude to Sylvia, Nez, Carmen D., Ann & all other bloggers covering this.
b. medusa 25 November 2007 9:52:16 pm
of 16 days of activism against gender violence (see sidebar logo), running from Nov 25 – Dec 10. this year’s 16 day campaign theme is “Demanding Implentation, Challenging Obstacles: End Violence Against Women.” today (Nov 25) is The International Day Against Violence Against Women.
other important days include:
Nov 29 – International Women Human Rights Defenders Day
Dec 1 – World Aids Day
Dec 10 – International Human Rights Day
finally the Carnival Against Violence Against Women is being held @ Black Looks. deadline for submissions is Dec 6. please head over there for more info (additional info & links on the 16 day campaign can be found there also).
b. medusa 20 October 2007 2:19:18 pm
everywhere you can see the pink ribbons signifying that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month (rightfully so). but did you know that October is also Domestic Violence Awareness Month? don’t feel bad, neither did i until i visited the Document the Silence blog (via Anxious Black Woman). wearing red on the 31st is in response to violence (of all kinds) directed towards women of color.
We are responding to:
- The brutal and inhumane rape, torture, and kidnapping of Megan Williams in Logan, West Virginia who was held by six assailants for a month.
- Rape survivors in the Dunbar Housing Projects in West Palm Beach, Florida one of whom was forced to perform sexual acts on her own child.
- A 13 year old native American girl was beaten by two white women and has since been harassed by several men yelling “white power” outside of her home.
- Seven black lesbian girls attempted to stop an attacker and were latter charged with aggravated assault and are facing up to 11 year prison sentences.
sadly, this list isn’t even the tip of the iceberg. violence against women begins early, brownfemipower recently posted an [unfortunately] long list of institutional violence against girls.
did you wear black on 9/20? will you wear black on O22? have you worn a pink ribbon this month? wear red on Oct 31 (visit the Document the Silence blog for more info).
b. medusa 29 September 2007 2:54:38 pm
this link was too important to wait for a collation of other sightings because:
I think it’s so important to put out there, as somebody took a real risk to get it out to the world, you know? – brownfemipower
Violence in Burma (updated since 9/26, w/ additional info in the comments)
additional sightings will be added later.
Later (10/1):
Security Guards’ Confrontation With Students Prompts Protest
Security Guard Acted Violent, Uttered Epithets, Student SaysPOSTED: 11:05 pm PDT September 27, 2007
UPDATED: 11:57 am PDT September 28, 2007PALMDALE, Calif. — Parents and students at Knight High School protested Friday morning because of an incident in which three teenagers and a mother were arrested last Thursday after alercations with security guards, prompting an investigation into the guards’ behavior.
The altercations were videotaped by students at a birthday celebration during the school’s lunch hour. At some point, birthday cake was tossed around and landed on the floor, sparking a series of events.
A female student who is shown on the video being held down by a guard said she had dropped cake and bent down to clean it up. She said when the security guard told her to clean up part of the mess that had been overlooked, a verbal altercation erupted — and quickly turned physical.
The security guard grabbed her by the arm as she headed out, the student said. She said the security guard was overzealous in twisting her arms and, despite her pleas, he broke her wrist, which was later put into a cast.
“He grabbed me by my arm and put my arm behind my back and pulled it up until it hurt,” said student Pleajhai Mervin. “Then, he slammed me on the table.”
The security guard called her a “nappy-head,” Mervin said.
full story @ KNBC site (includes image & video links). Call to Action @ ProfBlackWoman.
b. medusa 20 September 2007 4:45:23 pm
like every other site i have visited online regarding this story, i am disgusted, sickened, horrified. paralyzed into silence even for more than a few days by the horror of it (but sadly not shocked or surprised). since first encountering the initial story via Black Amazon & Vox ex Machina, the Anxious Black Woman has also weighed in on the DV aspect & the release of the victim’s name w/ some extremely thoughtful commentary . Black & Missing provides comprehensive coverage of the case. Elle, phd & Prof Black Woman bring us the news of the latest outrage of this case.
Vox ex Machina has several posts documenting hate crimes:
thanks to Tom @ Automatic Preference, i found the very comprehensive & detailed summary of the Jena 6 case over @ Black & Missing. She details what has been going on, who has documented the case up to this point, what strategies have been employed, who’s doing what, what folx can do to help, & provides links. all this in addition to her usual mission of documenting missing poc & making sure the missing receive the attention they deserve.
if you aren’t in Jena today (20 Sep), hopefully you have signed up & are participating in the Virtual March, wearing black, sporting an armband or @ the very least passing the word on. hat tip to Yobachi @ Blackperspectives.net for the word that Mychal Bell is still sitting in jail & heads up on the virtual march.
for those who’ve been shocked by what happened in Jena, here are a couple of perspectives on why some of us aren’t:
two very informative posts on hate crime in general (XP’s), and from up close & personal (Zuky). both posts are cited in Vox ex Machina’s post on Hate Crimes on the Rise (linked above)
finally, getting away from hate crime for a moment (or am i?), i’m sure you heard about the unnecessary use of force @ u of fl (student tasered @ event where john kerry was present). less known about is the beat down Lennox Yearwood got @ the capitol (the man will be on crutches for weeks), & like Cindy Sheehan i’d like to know why so many “fellow activists” silently stood by & watched while it was happening. i think i know, but i’d like to hear someone try to explain it w/o sounding totally fuckin’ lame. especially those who’ve wondered why the antiwar movement is so “white”.
b. medusa 13 September 2007 9:55:53 am
| 4 October 2007 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
R.A.M. performs in the Creative Convergence Festival @ the Baltimore Theatre Project, Thursday, October 4th.
Creative Convergence is a festival celebration of Arts and Community that will take place over five days: October 3 -7, 2007 (performances begin @ 8pm except Sunday, 7pm). Coming on the heels of the US Social Forum (www.ussf2007.org), Creative Convergence aims to identify and share the strengths of artists in the DC-Baltimore region as an integral piece of a movement towards sustained social change.
Our vision for Creative Convergence includes a workshop series (including youth-led workshops for young people and adults) and performance series (highlighting the dynamic work of artists whose work intersects with social justice). We encourage all artists whose work focuses on or reflects social issues, community building to attend.
The Convergence has three principal goals:
As a regional event, Creative Convergence will provide opportunities for artists, activists, organizers, educators and progressive institutions to connect with other like-minded change agents in the DC/MD/VA/WVA region. Thanks to support from Alternate ROOTS Community Arts Partnership.
Creative Convergence is co-presented by Alternate ROOTS, Baltimore Theatre Project and ClancyWorks Dance Company.
Ticket Prices for Workshops and Performances (Unless Otherwise Noted)
$15 General, $12 Student/Artist, $7 Youth (17 & Under)
Performances
All performances at Baltimore Theatre Project
Wednesday – Oct 3
8:00pm – FREE Performance!
Sponsored by Free Fall Baltimore
Courtney Weber
The Collective
Deletta Gillespie
Thursday – Oct 4
8:00pm
DishiBem Dance Group
Run of the Mill Theater
Black Codes
Radical Artist Movement
Friday – Oct 5
8:00pm
Encounter Risk
The Everlutionary Trust
Air Borne Dance
Marietta Hedges
Stephanie Powell
Saturday – Oct 6
8:00pm
Brave Soul Collective
Quest
ClancyWorks Dance Company
Jennifer Lanier
Reggie Glass
Sunday – Oct 7
7:00pm
Maura M .Garcia
Kuumba Collective
Laura Schandelmeier & Stephen Clapp
Updraft
Special Events
Friday, Oct 5 at 6:00pm
Activist Networking Cocktail Hour
at Baltimore Theatre Project
This networking cocktail hour will provide a space for Activists, Organizers, and Artists to discuss their current projects and potential future partnerships.
Sunday, Oct 7 at 10:00am
Sunday Brunch
at Creative Alliance
This brunch is designed to provide artists and activists in the region with an opportunity to network and discuss community-based art-making in Baltimore. How can cultural workers deal with their own needs as well as forge head in building partnerships that contribute to making long term social change? Through small group discussion and Q and A with Panelists we will be exploring that answer.
Workshops
Thursday, October 4, 2007
1:30pm – FREE – at Goucher College Meyerhoff Arts Center — Dunnock Theatre
Alternate ROOTS:Resources for Social Change – Exploring principles for partnerships between Artists and communities.
Resources for Social Change (RSC) is a training program developed by Alternate ROOTS that teaches ideas and techniques to develop sustained social change through art. This workshop will focus on five principles as a model for artists working with community: Shared Power; Equitable Partnership, Open Dialogue, Individual and Community Transformation, Aesthetic including Beauty and Justice.
4:00pm – FREE – at Goucher College Todd Dance Studio
Kip Lee: Building Inclusive Community through Dance
This workshop is for anyone who teaches dance or wants to develop community dance projects for people of all ages, from young teens through senior adults, people with little or no dance experience, and people with physical disabilities or mild to moderate intellectual disabilities. The workshop is also for anyone who wants to experience inclusive dance and dance-making.
Friday, October 5, 2007
4:00pm – at University of Baltimore
The Collective: Community Building through Improvisation
Our goal is to make the impossible seem possible. This workshop will address the strength of community building to accomplish seemingly impossible goals. Through various trust building exercises and dance demonstrations, the workshop participants will accomplish a community goal of creating a new dance through improvisation. This workshop is geared to the general public, open to all ages and ability levels.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
9:30am – FREE – at Maryland Institute College of Art
Art on Purpose: Speaking of Silence
The “Speaking of Silence” workshop will address the rich and layered meanings of silence. How does silence play a role in our daily lives, in communication, spiritual practices, and our relation to ourselves and our environment. In this workshop, participants will listen to audio recordings taken from an ongoing interview project conducted by Art on Purpose to collect individuals stories. The audio pieces explore observations, descriptions, and experiences of keeping and breaking silence and how it relates to voice and empowerment. Participants of any age will reflect on the audio, view and respond to photographic portraits, engage in discussion around the topic and create their own piece of artwork expressing the significance of silence in their own lives. The workshop itself acts as a space for the participants to listen, observe, and share their own experiences as a tool to create a piece of writing, a drawing, or their own recorded story.
11:30am – FREE – at Maryland Institute College of Art
American Friends Service Committee: Policing US
The workshop is intended to demonstrate the relationship between policing, prisons and political repression in U.S. communities of color. The workshop will provide a historical timeline that draws the connections between slavery and the advent of urban police forces as well as law enforcement initiatives such as the FBI’s infamous Counter-Intelligence Program and its impact on the Black Panther Party.
11:30am – FREE – at University of Baltimore
Ioana Stoica: Mythic Journeys – Engaging the Hero Within
Recognizing that social justice begins with personal transformation, this workshop will draw upon myth as the source and inspiration for that process. Myth reawakens our sensuous experience of the lived world and re-enchants our practical experiences in a way that provides us energy to initiate change in the world around us. The workshop will create a space where individuals can identify, discuss, and embody mythic elements of their own lives and ways in which myth can inspire action and change. The goal is for each participant to identify and embody an inner hero whose power for action – in whatever capacity and on whatever scale – is reinforced by a personal story and a symbol that can serve as a source of strength and meaning in daily life.
2:00pm – FREE – at Maryland Institute College of Art
Maggie Cleland: Empowering Adult Immigrant Communities through Theatre
In this dynamic workshop, participants will investigate the challenges and benefits of theatre-making across socioeconomic, educational, and ethnic boundaries. Maggie Cleland, the Workshop Facilitator, will share lessons learned from The ESL Living Collage Project, an interdisciplinary, collaborative theatre project about the diverse adult immigrant community of the Arlington Education and Employment Program’s Clarendon Education Center (REEP/CEC) in Arlington, Virginia. Through discussion as well as theatre games and activities, participants will explore ways of using theatre for community-building, language learning, and lifeskills development. This workshop is appropriate for older teens and adults of all abilities/needs. No acting experience is necessary.
2:00pm – FREE – at University of Baltimore
Quest: Poetry in Motion
Participants will gain a greater understanding of Physical theatre; the role physical theatre can take in enhancing literacy; and the role physical theatre can play in developing acting and communication skills. This workshop is an example of Quest’s commitment to use visual theatre as a strategy to enhance learning readiness and literacy.
4:30pm – FREE – at Maryland Institute College of Art
Wide Angle Youth Media: Flip It – Exploring & Creating Youth Media
Members of the Mentoring Video Project, who produce the “for youth, by youth” television show BeMore TV, will share their knowledge and teach other young people how to explore and produce media that gives them their own platform to speak out about issues that are important to them. In this workshop, we will open with a participatory exercise, in which we will analyze contemporary media and discuss how youth are represented. Then, we will showcase examples of youth-made videos using material from episodes of BeMore TV. After watching these videos, youth will learn and practice techniques for creating youth-focused media and discuss its importance in advocating for community issues. Though this workshop is intended for the youth, it can be open for people of all ages to join.
4:30pm – FREE – at University of Baltimore
Plunge Cabaret: Power Struggles and the Call for Creativity
We will work with one definition of power as “the ability to make choices,” and, through that lens, explore how the struggle to feel powerful is a central issue in most any social, cultural, or developmental issue facing us today. Using the venue of cabaret-style theater, we will create a learning environment using both performance and interactive workshops to discover how the subjects of power and choice impact our lives and fields of work, study, and art. Not inappropriate for any age/ability, but geared primarily towards artists, activists, and facilitators dealing with a variety of social , cultural, and developmental issues.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
1:30om – FREE – at Red Emma’s
Theatre Action Group: Embracing Discomfort
In this workshop, Theater Action Group (TAG) asks how this festival can serve us as artists and activists to identify, explore and address the contradictions in our work? TAG is open to working with festival participants and leaders to identify and respond to an emerging concern, theme or need that arises during the festival. TAG is also prepared to explore some of the questions that have been relevant to our community-based theater work: What are the tensions experienced as artists and activists? Can one be both? What are the tensions experienced as an insider and/or outsider working in a community as an artist? What is this thing we call “community” anyway? How do we build it? How do we build a community with differences? Why bring art to communities, or build communities through art?
Rather than propose “answers,” TAG will create a framework to explore these questions and potential tensions through physical and collective responsive action. TAG uses a wide range of structures and techniques such as Theater of the Oppressed, ensemble-based practices, improv, poetic movement structures, creative writing, playback, and image theater. This workshop is intended for community organizers, community-based artists, and festival participants. It welcomes people of all ages and needs who wish to explore these questions as well as one’s own creativity, to express one’s hopes and aspirations, and to give voice to one’s passions and stories. Our goal is to create spoken and image-based dialogue around these issues and give folks a direct experience in some of TAG’s evolving community-based performance practice. Theater Action Group (TAG) is a collective of citizen artists in Baltimore empowered with the language of theater to promote dialogue, to encourage social action and to build community via performance, workshop series, and community partnerships.
4:30pm – at Red Emma’s
Brave Soul Collective: Embracing Your Truth
Through the use of group discussion, BSC will conduct their “Brave Soul” gathering with a specific focus on the power (and/or) importance of embracing one’s truth in order to increase self esteem, dispel stereotypes, and reduce the risk factors generally associated with HIV infections. BSC has found that the ability to identify & demonstrate one’s truth openly is extremely beneficial not only to individuals, but to larger groups of people who may not otherwise take the time to understand, acknowledge and accept one another.
Locations:
Baltimore Theatre Project (www.theatreproject.org)
45 West Preston Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
Creative Alliance at The Patterson (www.creativealliance.org)
3134 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224
(410) 276-1651
Goucher College (www.goucher.edu)
1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Baltimore, MD 21204
The University of Baltimore (www.ubalt.edu)
1420 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
Maryland Institute College of Art (www.mica.edu)
1300 Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21217
Red Emma’s 2640 (www.redemmas.org/2640)
2640 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
For more information, please call: (540) 558-8744
Or visit the following websites:
http://www.clancyworks.org/creativeconvergence.html
http://www.communityperformance.org
http://www.dancenow.org/convergence.html
b. medusa 6 September 2007 2:41:04 am
![[concert flyer]](http://mnemosyne-blog.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/concert_flyer.jpg)
i already posted this on my event calendar, but i just saw an article about their 3 year struggle on dissident voice:
The UWA, a human rights group founded by homeless day laborers in Baltimore, represents 800 low-wage workers who make up the pool of the 100-120 people who keep Camden Yards clean. Stadium workers — the people who clean out the bathroom stalls, sweep up the small mountains of cigarette butts and make the Camden Yards experience as pristine as promised — make poverty wages, just $7 an hour.
Work schedules for stadium workers can vary as well. Some workweeks can be well over forty hours; in other weeks, if the Orioles are on the road, the laborers don’t work at all. Take-home pay varies accordingly, depending on the number of home games in a week and how long the games last. The windfall earned from a game that goes into extra innings can make a real difference in the way a family eats in a given week.
Because they are doing “day labor,” members of the UWA who show up to work are sent home if they’re not needed. The wages are so low, and the job so “flexible,” that some workers live in homeless shelters. One worker was kicked out of public housing because her pay that month couldn’t match the monthly rent.
[...]
Also of note is that the UWA is largely composed of African-American and Latino workers. In an era when communities of color are often pitched against one another, their solidarity inspires hope.
excerpted from Cleaning Up After the Orioles by Dave Zirin.
read the full article. more info also @ http://unitedworkers.org/
IMPORTANT UPDATE!!! TOMORROW’S CONCERT NOW A VICTORY CELEBRATION!!!
visit the United Workers link above for more info. see also:
Stadium crews get raise|Maryland agency approves $11.30 ‘living wage’ next year
Hannah Cho, Baltimore Sun
Md. Workers Cancel Hunger Strike
Ben Nuckols, AP/Forbes.com
b. medusa 30 August 2007 12:45:10 am
what an honor it is to share a birthday with this beautiful brother, so young, so wise, & taken from us much too soon.
EDIT: i set this post up to appear today a little over a week ago so that i could get away from the computer on my birthday. since then i was designated a Blogger for Justice, so i’ve edited this post to ask that you pick up a banner similar to the one on the far right sidebar (graphics may differ, but links provided beneath the banner are the same). i also invite you to visit (or revisit) this post. also visit BlackPerspective.net for a list of other Bloggers for Justice.
EDIT: in my haste to update this post, i forgot to include this important piece of information (which was the main point of the day of blogging for justice): please contact news organizations on this media list and ask them to cover the story. its not too late; email, call, or write the organizations on the list so we can get better coverage of this story.
b. medusa 29 August 2007 10:45:51 pm
on this day between blogger birthdays, i want to point out a couple of offerings from the internetz.
first, from this post by babywhisperingloudly:
My immediate and visceral reaction is one of acute awareness that standing together is key to demonstrating just how pervasive and insidious and bound up our collective realities are. Before we can move to the next step we need to grab hold of this reality and do something with it. Not seeing how we are all interrelated is the only thing that keeps us down. Not reaching out to others to learn more deeply about their pain and anguish, keeps us sheltered. We need each other for confidence building and love-giving and voice lending. We can’t do it alone. Because alone, we are just an anomaly or freaks or victims.
And Saul Alinsky reaffirmed this radical concept of the power lying with the people, when he wrote:”Through a process of combining hope and resentment, the organizer tries to create a ‘mass army’ that brings in as many recruits as possible from local organizations, churches, services groups, labor unions, corner gangs, and individuals.” A true revolution really takes a cross section of the prevailing ills in our society before it can become an awesome and powerful force that must be reckoned with because it will never go away. That is, once we are aware of each others existence, the game begins.
and from the freeslave this:
Your self-hate is programmed, synthesized and output as religious piety, political reverie or pseudo-nationalistic fanaticism. Your dividing yourselves into different classes and sub-classes as human beings is a classic symptom of ‘divide and conquer strategy’ and the ruling class’ wet dream: “dreaming negroes vs. real black folks,” “assimilationists versus the pro-black clergy,” “liberal stooges vs. conservative cadavers.”
This is a mind divided against itself. A mind that gives thinking a bad name. An educated fool. You will know them by the contradictory nature of everything they say; ultimately, they will siphon discourse into a well-meaning cesspool of negativity, a cesspool educated and trained into them. Scientifically.
Check.
and this:
But what do we do? Where’s the plan? How many of us still have the illusion that this monstrosity can be tweaked? That the Democrats are an alternative? Or that they can be moved to really take on OUR concerns?!
We ain’t going anywhere until we put the baby bottle down. The baby bottle is our belief that ANYTHING presented to us as the proper channel for our activism is real or designed to give us what we want. The baby bottle is our naivete, our religious faith in the Constitution, the Supreme Court, Reverend Al, Al Gore, Amy Goodman, Jesse Jackson or Cindy Sheehan.
You don’t get free with, or by proxies. You only get free when you absolutely, positively must be free and then snatch it for yourself. You have to become an outlaw, a runaway slave. And no slave gets truly free if they believe the master has created “some good” on his plantation that can be taken advantage.
these are the kind of thoughts that give me a reason to get up & go on each day, a reason to continue the struggle. please follow the links above & read the full posts.
i leave you with a piece of original art/poetry by my significant other, Jahhannibal:
(© 1995-2009 Jahhannibal Abba-Ra. All rights reserved.)
—————-
Now playing: Gil Scott-Heron – Winter In America (solo version)
via FoxyTunes
