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Tag: oakland

on Charlottesville and the ACLU and stuff

August 14, 2017

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 […]

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don’t patronize us/them (from oakland to standing rock)

December 5, 2016

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)

April 29, 2015

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 […]

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octavia + oakland

February 11, 2013

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 […]

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vulnerability and malcolm x

May 19, 2009

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 […]

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i hella love oakland

January 12, 2009

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 […]

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i wish this country was better

January 6, 2009

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 […]

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