this week was so full it overflowed, every minute was targeted, focused, occupied. it was warm and sunny each day except the two I had to be outside on actions. […]
Year: 2009
new growth
im cross eyed as i write this, but compelled to write something before i go to sleep. over the past week i have been pulled into a community, in every […]
i hella love oakland
i just came from the kind of meeting i have been avoiding since i moved to the bay: a local organizing action meeting in oakland. that sounds so awful…but i […]
in like a lion
so 2009 is here, in like a lion…it’s been an intense year, and mercury’s not even retrograde yet. i have been writing in response to gaza and the murder of […]
Update on the Fruitvale BART protests
As I write this there are no less than 6 helicopters circling overhead in downtown Oakland. On the first day of the 10th year since Amadou Diallo was brutally gunned […]
Real Justice
Just posted a piece on racewire.org prepping for tomorrow’s protest/rally for Oscar Grant, 4-7pm, Fruitvale BART. The piece explores restorative and transformative justice options in the situation. Love to all. […]
i wish this country was better
this may be an obvious thing to say, but i wish this country was better. that’s in the context of wishing the whole human experiment was going much better. i […]
last day
Driving through Dearborn Michigan listening to Nina Simone sing ‘Thandewye’. Just had my required mindblowing Lebanese meal on my last night in greater Detroit. The restaurant was playing Arab news […]
knee jerk review: gran torino
Lets see how this goes, am blogging from my phone. Just finished watching Gran Torino, and here’s my knee jerk review. 1. A lot of people in the theater I […]
Detroit Winter
My blog was down for a second while servers got moved around, and while I was gone landed in beloved Detroit for the romantic half of my vacation trip, I […]