by Joy Gordon | Oct 21, 2011 | Human Rights
When the Cuban government released a number of dissidents earlier this year, human rights groups applauded the decision. But critics also took the occasion to paint Cuba once again as a society where a single word of criticism gets you shipped off to a dungeon, from...
by Sarah Browning | Oct 12, 2011 | Human Rights
In Paris, poets staged a flash mob outside the Louvre Museum. In North Carolina, they sent poems to their state legislators, calling on them to restore arts education funding to the decimated state budget. In Vancouver, BC, poets cleaned up a beach before their...
by Kyi May Kaung, Melissa Tuckey | Oct 12, 2011 | Human Rights
Declared. First a roach killer in a spray to set down boundaries in this un-roach-proof house with a gaping lower right corner. Set up the four cuts cut support cut food cut water cut communications still see stray guerilla roaches, though all food including edible...
by Peter Certo | Oct 6, 2011 | Environment
Not long ago I received in the mail a slender envelope with international postage on the front. Inside was a small card-paper placard bearing my name, handwritten, confirming my citizenship in what is apparently the world’s newest nation – neither South...
by Tim Seibles, Melissa Tuckey | Sep 28, 2011 | War & Peace
My thoughts are murder to the Stateand involuntarily go plotting against her. Henry David Thoreau As if leavingit behind wouldhave me lostin this place, as if keeping itcould somehowsave me from theparade of knives, I have heldmy rage on a shortleash like a good,mad...
