last week, the burned torso of a young transgendered woman named shelley hilliard, who had been missing for two weeks, showed up under a mattress off a highway in detroit. […]

Read More… from last night i cried for shelley

i love fall. I love that fall is such a necessary part of the life cycle of earth where I live. I love that in the fall we can see […]

Read More… from meditation: fall/it all falls down

i have been wanting new words to fit this moment. i started coming up with words – mashing up words and remixing them…here is what i have come up with […]

Read More… from new words for new times

here are my written notes for the keynote i gave this past weekend to the North American Students of Cooperation Institute. it was an amazing group to speak with, think […]

Read More… from We Are In The Future – Keynote for NASCO 2011

for some time I have thought, without awareness, that revolutionary moments are cathartic – that it helps to release the anger and the pain and the unspent hope into some […]

Read More… from catharsis/revolution

i have often said a word or two about the world but the world has changed is changing i need new words to describe her… * has it always been […]

Read More… from love song for oakland

posting the only thing that gets me through nights like tonight, when my first response is fear, and i have to be reminded that letting go of the shore is […]

Read More… from a hopi elder speaks (hopi eleventh hour prophecy)

tonight I went to see Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975. this is not a review of that film, which was a collection of some amazing footage woven into a questionable narrative.  […]

Read More… from beyond capitalism mixtape, 2011-

(posted this earlier on my facebook page, thought i would post here as well for easy sharing) as detroit began having conversations around what occupy efforts could look like here, […]

Read More… from one step in building the ‘occupy/unify’ movement in detroit