From Baltimore:
Category: Art as Resistance
Don’t Read It
From Louise Erdrich in Original Fire: Selected and New Poems
Recycle the mail, don’t read it, don’t read anything
except what destroys
the insulation between yourself and your experience
or what pulls down or what strikes at or what shatters
this ruse you call necessity.
Make Deadbeat Corporations Pay
From Melanie Cervantes, a native Californian creating visual art that is inspired by the people around her and her communities’ desire for radical change and social transformation.
An Easy Essay
By Peter Maurin
The world would be better off
if people tried
to become better,
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Power
From artist Seth Tobocman:
Siouxper Man & Siouxper Woman
From Steven Paul Judd, Kiowa and Choctaw artist: “I just want to make cool stuff for Indians to have, and that gets white people to think. I want to make the stuff I never got to see as a kid.”
Listen
By Talitha Fraser. Talitha is an urban contemplative theopoetics dabbler Kiwi living in the wilds of Footscrazy, Australia
I lost my voice again today.
Not from shouting too much.
No… more mute than that, more fut- (I’ll) Continue reading “Listen”
when giving a tour
By Sarah Amalia Holst
when giving a tour
of the farm
it is important
to let the basil speak
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The Palm Sunday Peace Parade: Pasadena, CA
Triumphant and victorious is he,
humble and riding on a donkey.
Zechariah 9:9
By Bert Newton
Below is a history of what is now the 13th Annual Palm Sunday Peace Parade, sponsored by a coalition of communities: Church for Others, Crescenta Valley Methodist Church, Knox Presbyterian Church, Montrose Peace Vigil, Orange Grove Friends Meeting, Pasadena Mennonite Church, Peace & Justice Academy, Progressive Christians Uniting, Jill Shook & Anthony Manousos, Urban Village of Pasadena.
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We now call it the Palm Sunday Peace Parade; this name not only has the advantage of alliteration, it also reflects the context in which the march actually began. We began the Palm Sunday Peace Parade in Pasadena in 2003 at the outbreak of the war with Iraq, so it was a peace march. Even though the context was war and the death that war brings, we made our event joyful and celebratory, much like the original Palm Sunday; the gospels tells that Jesus marched toward his death and yet entered Jerusalem in celebration of his victory over the forces of death. So we designed our event likewise to be festive and celebratory, a peace parade.
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For Botero, Who Looked at What I Could Not
A poem by Rose Marie Berger, a peace activist, poet and the Senior Associate Editor of Sojourners Magazine. This piece was first published in Beltway Poetry Quarterly (Volume 7, Number 2, Spring 2006).
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The bodies are fat
corpulent, like the seven-hundred-
pound man in Maryland
who hasn’t stood since 1998
and must lie on his stomach
or his weight will crush
his windpipe. They hang
upside down by a toe or ankle
these bodies,
faces wrapped in a red silk scarf—
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Radical Discipleship 