Saturday: just seeing the news from VA, tears in my eyes. we know history repeats itself. right now, multiple phases of our very worst history as a species are repeating […]
Tag: oakland
don’t patronize us/them (from oakland to standing rock)
on saturday i learned of a warehouse fire in oakland that, as of this writing, has claimed 33 lives. on sunday i learned that there was a victory in the […]
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from earth to obsidian (28/30)
prompt: write a poem about bridges. A bridge is a powerful metaphor, and when you start looking for bridges in poems, you find them everywhere. Your poem could be about […]
octavia + oakland
last week i got to geek out on octavia butler and emergent strategy at solespace in oakland. about the space – if you are in oakland, ever, this is a […]
vulnerability and malcolm x
today is malcolm x’s 84th birthday. happy birthday el-hajj malik el-shabazz. here’s a wonderful post from grace lee boggs on knowing malcolm. today i’ve been thinking about the violence of […]
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 […]
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 […]