by Shirin Shirin | Feb 23, 2010 | Human Rights
In this interview, I spoke with Dennis Brutus about his experiences as a poet and lifelong activist six months before his death in December 2009. A graduate from the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, Brutus taught in nonwhite schools, joined the underground...
by Martin Espada, Melissa Tuckey | Jan 1, 2010 | Human Rights
For poet Dennis Brutus, at 80. Martín Espada will be a featured poet at the 2010 Split This Rock poetry festival. The office workers did not know, plodding through 1963 and Marshall Square station in Johannesburg, that you would dart down the street between...
by Ravi Shankar, Melissa Tuckey | Dec 23, 2009 | Human Rights
South of Hebron Across the onion fields, a hulk of rusted metal groans, as out of place, it seems to the boy whose father tills the land, as an orange blossom unfurling in a smokestack, but there it is regardless, its turret swiveling like a broken carousel, leaving a...
by John Feffer | Dec 23, 2009 | Environment, Labor, Trade, & Finance
The teacher assembles a collection of chocolate-chip cookies and toothpicks. This is how the elementary school children are supposed to learn about the costs associated with coal mining. Each cookie is a mining property. The students each receive $19 in play money,...
by Sarah Browning, Split This Rock | Dec 14, 2009 | Human Rights, War & Peace
Split This Rock, the national organization of socially engaged poets and presenters of the biannual Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness (March 10-13, 2010, Washington, DC), offers the following poems for your vigils, demonstrations, and...
