Bill Ayers

Cuba es en mi corazon!
I’m astonished and relieved and moved.
It’s terrific when imperial arrogance is pushed back.
A victory in the name of patience, irony, hope and struggle.
And a long time coming.

(see my Facebook re: Assata Shakur

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/02/25/the-water-cure

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/27740-bad-suffering-from-youthful-tendency-disorder-lost-children-in-a-lost-society

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930915000040

Sunday morning December 7th at 67th and Racine with the vibrant Faith Community at St. Sabina.
BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!

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by Lucille Clifton

FROM A LETTER WRITTEN TO DR. W.E.B. DU BOIS BY ALVIN BORGQUEST OF CLARK UNIVERSITY IN MASSACHUSETTS AND DATED APRIL 3, 1905.

“We are pursuing an investigation here on the subject of crying as an expression of the emotions, and should like very much to learn about its peculiarities among the colored people. We have been referred to you as a person competent to give us information on the subject. We desire especially to know about the following salient aspects: 1. Whether the Negro sheds tears…”

reply

he do
she do
they live
they love
they try
they tire
they flee
they fight
they bleed
they break
they moan
they mourn
they weep
they die
they do
they do
they do

Here is an interview with the dazzling Susie Day about her wonderful new book, Snidelines:

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2014/peart291114.html

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’

“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”

Martin Luther King, Jr, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

World War 3 Illustrated 1979-2014

Edited by Peter Kuper and Seth Tobocman, introduction by Bill Ayers $29.95 pmpress.org

Founded in 1979 by Peter Kuper and Seth Tobocman, World War 3 Illustrated is a collective of artist-activists working in the political comics mode, and this book amounts to what you trust will be a midcareer survey of its work thus far. More than a dozen fantastic artists, including Sue Coe, Eric Drooker and Sandy Jimenez, take us, in graphic sequences composed of shadow and light, from the 1980s culture wars to the war in Iraq, from the Reagan White House to Zuccotti Park and Tahrir Square. This is history recorded with a scathing precision. Morality meets hilarity. You find yourself shocked that you’re laughing. – Holland Cotter