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by Brad Wolf
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
January 22, 2023
War is a language of lies. Cold and callous, it emanates from dull, technocratic minds, draining life of color. It is an institutional offense to the human spirit.
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Thom Hartmann Program on Sep 11, 2017
Thom reads a powerful poem from Emmanuel Ortiz that touches on colonialism, the war on terror, racism and the legacy of slavery.
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Feb 10, 2022
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses veganism and mass incarceration with educator and poet, Gretchen Primack.
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Nov 27, 2021
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses prison with the poet, writer and attorney, Reginald Dwayne Betts.
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by David Schaff
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 26, 2021
Before it’s time for me to retire for the night, I’d like to remind people of their strength. That is:
The capitalist elites don’t have poets with the wonder of their expressions.
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Dandelion Salad
Originally posted Sept. 24, 2009
Planetize the Movement
Drew Dellinger on Sept. 18, 2009
it’s 3:23 in the morning
and I’m awake
Continue reading
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by Phil Rockstroh and Kenn Orphan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
August 23, 2019
PR: What has been of greater service to humanity, the dark vision of humanity, limned in satire, by Jonathan Swift or the positivity-rancid homilies of corporate church of self-actualization? What is more propitious to the psyche, a descent into the underworld by Orphic imagination or the Icarusian dazzle on Instagram or the narcissistic intoxication induced by gazing upon one’s image reproduced by a thousand retweets on Twitter?
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by Bruce Gagnon
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Organizing Notes, June 20, 2019
June 28, 2019
Don’t buy our cola
our chips
and our not so good chocolate
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with Chris Hedges
Originally on RT America on Dec 3, 2017
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel on Jul 6, 2022
Gerald Stern, Poet and Author, discusses how poets and their poetry have lost the voice to “speak truth to power” in this digital society.
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by William Bowles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Investigating Imperialism
London, England
July 23, 2017
But then I think, no! This can’t be so, how can life be so cruel?
But then I think, we have so little power but so much comprehension, so maybe that’s it;
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by Gaither Stewart
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rome, Italy
April 13, 2017
The recent death of the Russian poet with whom I was acquainted, Yevgheny Yevtushenko, prompted these considerations of the role of poets in social-cultural-political progress in general and in a particularly spectacular fashion in Russia. In few other countries have poets played a more significant than in Russia. Nonetheless, for centuries Russian poets have been harassed, persecuted, and punished for their songs. Dostoevsky imprisoned, Pushkin exiled, Yesenin, Mayakovsky and Tsvetaeva suicides, Mandelshtam and others perished in the cultural events of 1937. Poets seldom lead easy lives anywhere. The poet sees the ideals but he must flee from the world in order to rejoice in them and he cannot remain unaffected by the caricatures of these ideals around him.
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by Shepherd Bliss
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Sebastopol, California
December 26, 2015
Poet Robert Bly, now 89 years old, is a radical, by which I mean he returns to the roots. Haydn Reiss has captured him in his new, moving film “Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy.”
by Soraya Boyd
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Facilitate Global
November 5, 2014
Drifting in the fevered winter of a desolate mind
The captive pursuit of status and power a daily grind
In such a space the stilled bells of conscience no longer toll
For travailing arduously against sense and dignity many lose their soul
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by Ed Ciaccio
Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 16, 2014
(to the music of “The Times They Are A-Changin’ ” by Bob Dylan)
Come gather ’round people who count earth as home,
And admit that the sea levels around us have grown,
And accept it that soon we’ll be drenched to the bone.
If our future to us is worth savin’,
Then we’d better start pressuring those with hearts of stone,
For the climes they are a-changin’. Continue reading
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by Cindy Sheehan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
April 13, 2014
This week Cindy chats with journalist/filmmaker John Pilger about world events and his new film, Utopia.
Then young Angeleno revolutionary poet Matt Sedillo will perform one of his poems for us.
Listen: Continue reading
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