Bill Ayers

though its beak is still home. As if that weren’t enough—it keeps fidgeting!

How leaky are the borders of man-made states!

How many clouds float over them scot-free,

how much desert sand sifts from  country to country,

how many mountain pebbles roll onto foreign turf

in provocative leaps!

Need I cite each and every bird as it flies,

or alights, as now, on the lowered gate?

Even if it be a sparrow—its tail is abroad,

thought its beak is still home. As if that weren’t enough—it keeps fidgeting!

Out of countless insects I will single out the ant,

who, between the guard’s left and right boots,

feels unobliged to answer questions of origin and destination.

If only this whole mess could be seen at once in detail

on ever continent!

Isn’t that a privet on the opposite bank

smuggling its hundred-thousandth leaf across the river?

Who else but the squid, brazenly long-armed,

would violate the sacred territorial waters.?

How can we speak of any semblance of order

when we can’t rearrange the stars

to know which one  shines for whom?

Not to mention the reprehensible spreading of fog!

Or the dusting of the steppe over its entire range

as though it weren’t split in two!

Or voices carried over accommodating air waves:

summoning squeals and suggestive gurgles!

Only what’s human can be truly alien.

The rest is mixed forest, undermining moles, and wind.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/get-rid-borders-completely/409501/

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-museums-diversity-segregation-taxpayer-0301-20180226-story.html

https://goo.gl/forms/pZnkSQzXFkm33Npd2

https://www.semcoop.com/event/singing-dark-times-0

https://www.c-span.org/video/?440441-1/you-fire-bad-ones

The students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida are standing up, and youth across the country are linking hands to oppose the madness. #neveragain  Yes, solidarity, and never forget that #BlackLivesMatter has led a sustained campaign against gun violence for years. The NRA is a reactionary and racist outfit to be sure, but target, as well, the greedy capitalist gun manufactures who profit off a militarized state, an occupying police force, and a fearful citizenry cowed into thinking a gun is the only answer. This can be a turning point only if we dig deep, organize, and build an irresistible mass movement.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-parole-juvenile-lifers-prison-illinois-children-criminals-0222-story.html