tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-236199902024-03-19T01:46:42.460-07:00La Carpa del FEO: Fandango en East OaklandLa Carpa del FEO: Fandango en East Oakland is a mobile cultural and community space for performance art, music, spoken word, poetry and theater to re-establish a new presence for local culture and talent to retake our local community space and services for residents and neighborhoods in East Oakland.arnoldo garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08746109100480297772noreply@blogger.comBlogger219125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23619990.post-42292194750275151882024-03-15T10:01:00.000-07:002024-03-18T09:41:56.886-07:00Ransom for Six Sky<div style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
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On the day</div>
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8 Ben 16 Kayab</div>
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Six Sky of Río Azul</div>
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was buried.</div>
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Most likely during the year 450</div>
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Then in the late 20th Century</div>
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Looters took</div>
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the vessel</div>
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from her grave</div>
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Now Six Sky sits under a glass display</div>
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(anxiously awaiting liberation)</div>
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at the Detroit Institute of the Arts.</div>
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The looters kept no record,</div>
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but the people will always remember</div>
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In December 1985</div>
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140 small pieces of</div>
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gold</div>
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jade</div>
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obsidian</div>
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and</div>
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turquoise</div>
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were taken from</div>
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the National Museum of Anthropology</div>
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in Mexico City | Tenochtitlán</div>
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the thieves</div>
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sent</div>
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a message:</div>
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these priceless precious stones</div>
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are being held for ransom</div>
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Now, the Maya Zapatistas are paying the ransom</div>
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freeing Indigenous past and present</div>
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from the neo-liberal kidnappers, the grave-baron-land-robbers,</div>
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the military industrial complex of generals, soldiers, paramilitaries,</div>
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police, battalions, secret police, political parties, non-profits, politicians</div>
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and toastmasters of capital.</div>
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Six Sky</div>
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has been</div>
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resurrected,</div>
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scattered</div>
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between Detroit and Tenochtitlán</div>
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Seattle, Oakland, Matamoros,</div>
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Chicago, Toledo, New York</div>
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Organized into a community army</div>
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armed with the colors of the earth</div>
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their weapons are our ancestors</div>
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who have secretly taken over the underworld</div>
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putting ski-masks on the sun and moon</div>
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Gestating flesh and blood onto the skeletons of our dreamers</div>
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In the butterfly of our women</div>
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flutter two banners, two flags, their lips chanting</div>
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we shall dream</div>
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we shall win</div>
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we shall birth</div>
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we shall love</div>
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we shall shatter</div>
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we shall clench our hearts</div>
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we shall cry in community</div>
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we shall sing off the face of the enemy</div>
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we shall batter the helmeted soldier,</div>
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laugh at his bayonet</div>
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we shall stop the bullets, the bombs, the fires</div>
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And the new people</div>
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that Six Sky dreamt</div>
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in her deep sleep</div>
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in the year 450</div>
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emerge, rise, fly, speak with an earthen tongue</div>
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when we will swallow the sky</div>
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to become pregnant with clouds, rain, butterflies, milpas, babies,</div>
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chidlren-ancestors, who slept in our arms</div>
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and made thunder rise</div>
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from the maize, the frijol, the women, the men,</div>
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the elders, the still-born, the invaders, the raptors,</div>
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who remembered then:</div>
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Six Sky was resurrected in the sixth sun….</div>
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<strong>[1984-2012, unfinished words of mariposas | c.s]</strong></div>
Arnoldo Garcia | La carpa del FEOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866611051746994618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23619990.post-56674706267320637402024-03-09T16:25:00.000-08:002024-03-11T09:09:16.398-07:00New 'zine! Raza for Gaza : Poets in solidarity with Palestine<br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJpndJFUKTLZW3AJHVWOWBVpC0j067cenJW0WuA9G7X9EXpIe-YiGVANBNXOWvmYPD83rqaV4u8-sI6x7nS51TJwOsQR7X_HGGNiICMzEVKpUuqNyrNKgN96V2Il_XXLzC9Klf9QtVQkL_spVZOtd8q4l9bgrj5CY3MBImQXTBDh5wxlU9q23F/s2625/Raza%20for%20Gaza%20COVER.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2625" data-original-width="1672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJpndJFUKTLZW3AJHVWOWBVpC0j067cenJW0WuA9G7X9EXpIe-YiGVANBNXOWvmYPD83rqaV4u8-sI6x7nS51TJwOsQR7X_HGGNiICMzEVKpUuqNyrNKgN96V2Il_XXLzC9Klf9QtVQkL_spVZOtd8q4l9bgrj5CY3MBImQXTBDh5wxlU9q23F/s320/Raza%20for%20Gaza%20COVER.jpg" width="204" /></a></div>To mark a two-night gathering of community with poets and musicians to express solidarity with the Palestinian people under siege in Gaza, the <a href="https://www.eastsideartsalliance.org" target="_blank">EastSide Arts Alliance</a> with <a href="https://artofthecommune.wordpress.com/2024/02/20/raza-for-gaza-poetry-zine-in-solidarity-with-palestine/" target="_blank">editorial Xingao</a> published a lightning 'zine <i><b><a href="https://artofthecommune.wordpress.com/2024/02/20/raza-for-gaza-poetry-zine-in-solidarity-with-palestine/" target="_blank">Raza for Gaza Poets in Solidarity with Palestine</a></b>, </i>featuring nine poets from across the world, as part of the "Raza con Gaza | Raza for Gaza" solidarity and justice movement culture celebration at the Eastside Arts Center in Oakland, February 23-24, 2024.</div><div><br /></div><div>Eastside invited people to make a generous as possible donation to either the <a href="https://araborganizing.networkforgood.com" target="_blank">Arab Resource and Organizing Center</a>, the <a href="https://www.mecaforpeace.org" target="_blank">Middle East Children's Alliance for Peace</a> or the <a href="https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/1426683" target="_blank">Electronic Intifada</a> and take a copy of the 'zine home. As City of Oakland Poet Laureate declared at the "Raza con Gaza | Raza for Gaza" gathering, 'This is a unique <b><a href="https://artofthecommune.wordpress.com/2024/02/20/raza-for-gaza-poetry-zine-in-solidarity-with-palestine/" target="_blank">publication</a></b> that you cannot buy tonight or anywhere else. Raza for Gaza is not for sale and you can get a copy when you support the organizations doing the work.'</div><div><br /></div><div>The two-night gathering at the Eastside Arts Center featured three poets and three musical groups each evening. Poets Ayodele Nzinga, Mo Sati, Lubna Morrar and Leticia García and musicians Camellia Boutros, AntiFaSon, Diana Gameros, and the Duo Made y Feña with special guest Daniel Oñate, graced each evening with joyous sounds, passionate verses and heartfelt lyrics acknowledging the grim reality and resilient spirit of resistance of Palestinians under the Israeli genocidal siege of Gaza and occupied Palestine territory.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Raza con Gaza | Raza for Gaza Snapshots at the Eastside Arts Center</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Here are some images of the two nights at Eastside Arts Center in Oakland (see bios of each performer at end of post).</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-5c1fa7de-7fff-b953-893d-dfaeaed94d88"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2xKt9ZaY14GlqcWsy81bNMxb6n_RvSRQqbaJvfbQwu9ikVmOaNUP63czOppb3LaeuDNl0Pgss8uDx8weHrXBp1iTUxyQW7Tvedap5zm8GCCYX9_UK1YEyn3-mlcFYBhk37jg2CO0nrIpoQGnbKkk9PFFZxgXVB7r3eTSr1jooWM8R6UZlX2kU/s4032/IMG_2687.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2xKt9ZaY14GlqcWsy81bNMxb6n_RvSRQqbaJvfbQwu9ikVmOaNUP63czOppb3LaeuDNl0Pgss8uDx8weHrXBp1iTUxyQW7Tvedap5zm8GCCYX9_UK1YEyn3-mlcFYBhk37jg2CO0nrIpoQGnbKkk9PFFZxgXVB7r3eTSr1jooWM8R6UZlX2kU/w342-h257/IMG_2687.jpeg" width="342" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div><b style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">AntiFaSon</b></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-5c1fa7de-7fff-b953-893d-dfaeaed94d88" style="text-align: left;"></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h1></span></div><div><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZMc9zFYNEm-iqmpsMVRr6c8Q55Q8NhI_FWrxbN8phy7OMcDVbWd2oA9zIaOmZ94Gjs-YVnoUpM1s9QCDQDYJerScpHIiQ4smElSX7-RAc9HqmIb4nZPfOh2G00RgSeKZ4KAcd0MjqXU-g31zA_mCmVO_dGmEatopnEtAt-fdYSevM8t0tarZX/s4032/IMG_2669.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZMc9zFYNEm-iqmpsMVRr6c8Q55Q8NhI_FWrxbN8phy7OMcDVbWd2oA9zIaOmZ94Gjs-YVnoUpM1s9QCDQDYJerScpHIiQ4smElSX7-RAc9HqmIb4nZPfOh2G00RgSeKZ4KAcd0MjqXU-g31zA_mCmVO_dGmEatopnEtAt-fdYSevM8t0tarZX/w413-h550/IMG_2669.jpeg" width="413" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ayodele Nzinga performing two poems published in the'zine<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><div><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy3zVS74CxRl3w_-Irj68YvgL26LVemxPa3xuBFW5rtPBMdIBXLX5-Jk3s2XU9azopgGQUsqfFA2ZrBlgrQDrtGUPX8QKQgxxFeLXcvf-uLCu196QzwzMPKY-MizuBw0EhpNtLxTbhm2dde-p7f0Ola-maMUIbsf6Aw6o1MMfgS9INkjRzo-NY/s4032/IMG_2680.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy3zVS74CxRl3w_-Irj68YvgL26LVemxPa3xuBFW5rtPBMdIBXLX5-Jk3s2XU9azopgGQUsqfFA2ZrBlgrQDrtGUPX8QKQgxxFeLXcvf-uLCu196QzwzMPKY-MizuBw0EhpNtLxTbhm2dde-p7f0Ola-maMUIbsf6Aw6o1MMfgS9INkjRzo-NY/s320/IMG_2680.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;">Lubna Morrar, poet.</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy3zVS74CxRl3w_-Irj68YvgL26LVemxPa3xuBFW5rtPBMdIBXLX5-Jk3s2XU9azopgGQUsqfFA2ZrBlgrQDrtGUPX8QKQgxxFeLXcvf-uLCu196QzwzMPKY-MizuBw0EhpNtLxTbhm2dde-p7f0Ola-maMUIbsf6Aw6o1MMfgS9INkjRzo-NY/s4032/IMG_2680.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimzjhfpnUEt9hwNEAibESIxgkEn65CPxge1Aqo3_yTrVijqx2hqRoqom3sCGBN3I7EjOV27ZTkNKHNB11xSUZOre8xIpYZlhEcNZAiJQEX97A_ggapFlipU_l58RH6ziay2Qe4EBgKG6aLNzT2nRyv2x4Q5TqeBp2CAZdBQJap1_mGU2NvsFQz/s4032/IMG_2665.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimzjhfpnUEt9hwNEAibESIxgkEn65CPxge1Aqo3_yTrVijqx2hqRoqom3sCGBN3I7EjOV27ZTkNKHNB11xSUZOre8xIpYZlhEcNZAiJQEX97A_ggapFlipU_l58RH6ziay2Qe4EBgKG6aLNzT2nRyv2x4Q5TqeBp2CAZdBQJap1_mGU2NvsFQz/s320/IMG_2665.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;">Duo Made y Feña with special guest Daniel Oñate </b></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDQCoY0EiHzXK8ohrr-CR-b9YxvrurBxWYXYiK-MWanH9eEjy-vG9L7_Ttaai9WQaXlqdmkslaoEydKsvT_-3AA283xrvYU_NYd-5RZbTxSKzQmUIjiubx73aUjzkDqj5p4W-UZ8-B59GlPe2xC8u0IHAT3QpZWPDqR0ETzJl4k3hX2mJ1jyql/s4032/IMG_2623.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDQCoY0EiHzXK8ohrr-CR-b9YxvrurBxWYXYiK-MWanH9eEjy-vG9L7_Ttaai9WQaXlqdmkslaoEydKsvT_-3AA283xrvYU_NYd-5RZbTxSKzQmUIjiubx73aUjzkDqj5p4W-UZ8-B59GlPe2xC8u0IHAT3QpZWPDqR0ETzJl4k3hX2mJ1jyql/s320/IMG_2623.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;">Diana Gameros.</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQOVf2TylzSMnG9I0T57id-lza5jj4fn2dzX67c9l6vF6KpJrl1FkEBbyJHDXdfHoWLvUZTqc5-JU-KdHhlxWgEyBywJ5EnTKx5pZezp1VEbYHI-Z6Yhbdgzn0J2AAbSvXc4775qBvP_SQoisNeZ20H9ZchY9sBk4JeStR-XjgqQ1-17tI7E8Z/s4032/IMG_2614.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQOVf2TylzSMnG9I0T57id-lza5jj4fn2dzX67c9l6vF6KpJrl1FkEBbyJHDXdfHoWLvUZTqc5-JU-KdHhlxWgEyBywJ5EnTKx5pZezp1VEbYHI-Z6Yhbdgzn0J2AAbSvXc4775qBvP_SQoisNeZ20H9ZchY9sBk4JeStR-XjgqQ1-17tI7E8Z/s320/IMG_2614.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: right;">Camelia Boutros & band.</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><b><br /></b></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCreSRI8t1CRavsUXncJSyiIgpctiPSGmPPgcUGvEG7_UJGWBLTq3x1aOwjdnrkw0-cEqPP7MLjQcfEeGg0539BITwHyB7DAzlau8uqtVRPzR55oz5H3VgCVW0Zx-wxOnBH0Gqkxyu_v-WghZnyBN9nNboi2w3Ita-f0BI1T09NoM3Lnq3emXI/s4032/IMG_2628.jpeg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCreSRI8t1CRavsUXncJSyiIgpctiPSGmPPgcUGvEG7_UJGWBLTq3x1aOwjdnrkw0-cEqPP7MLjQcfEeGg0539BITwHyB7DAzlau8uqtVRPzR55oz5H3VgCVW0Zx-wxOnBH0Gqkxyu_v-WghZnyBN9nNboi2w3Ita-f0BI1T09NoM3Lnq3emXI/w292-h389/IMG_2628.jpeg" width="292" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mo Sati, poet.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfvLh6qXcXhULgXn3MVeHIR1NLaiizwvQaIGbGUclOMxpCDDSs5A6v0ClzkEjVQX5_6pXe6dfXlGAExbRebqIbKHmTqCy-fk6tSd6eztJwQsBydfqNx53_Pf9c2NqCST-FCFK3fnehPcgnCv8FqxuWledQhq0WMRPBmCCRShHi9P43e3JGwwaU/s484/Image%203-9-24%20at%204.17%E2%80%AFPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="364" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfvLh6qXcXhULgXn3MVeHIR1NLaiizwvQaIGbGUclOMxpCDDSs5A6v0ClzkEjVQX5_6pXe6dfXlGAExbRebqIbKHmTqCy-fk6tSd6eztJwQsBydfqNx53_Pf9c2NqCST-FCFK3fnehPcgnCv8FqxuWledQhq0WMRPBmCCRShHi9P43e3JGwwaU/s320/Image%203-9-24%20at%204.17%E2%80%AFPM.jpeg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leticia García, poeta.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpgrV2BPga6_ubZfZof-ssdQ3tetHHO6l3Frc_Y3PqdKvPiLuhjaoHwaM7mVur6h3M4oE5Yo1VgefUhzuDEybrGNgUvQDqbzwVITSURHIsFNFS-EtvxRjA5m_IO0xveWH2lGIbJ-GGJaxLiwq4hGqIwmv1fWkNf2KF9tvsWY6N9z4ELp7gXRcw/s4032/IMG_2619.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpgrV2BPga6_ubZfZof-ssdQ3tetHHO6l3Frc_Y3PqdKvPiLuhjaoHwaM7mVur6h3M4oE5Yo1VgefUhzuDEybrGNgUvQDqbzwVITSURHIsFNFS-EtvxRjA5m_IO0xveWH2lGIbJ-GGJaxLiwq4hGqIwmv1fWkNf2KF9tvsWY6N9z4ELp7gXRcw/s320/IMG_2619.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;">Diana Gameros & Camellia Boutros.</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>BIOS OF THE POETS & MUSICIANS</b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>AntiFaSon</b> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a Son Jarocho project, a musical guest on Ohlone territory (aka Oakland). They amplify anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, anti-fascist and anti-extractivist feminist themes in Son Jarocho songs that form part of the larger history of Afro-Indigenous land, water and campesinx struggles. </span></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more info visit their Instagram page: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/somosantifason/" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">@somosantifason</a></p><p></p></div></div><div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Camellia Boutros</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a Palestinian-Lebanese American composer and multi-instrumentalist based in San Francisco. Having performed as a trumpet player with a diverse array of Bay Area world music projects, such as Mission Delirium, Alaturca Connection, Inspector Gadje, and Banda Sin Nombre, Camellia approaches the music she writes with a custom modified fretless 12-string electric guitar, enabling her to write and perform music using the quarter-tone Maqam system. Her music and lyrics defy genre definition, forming an experimental blend of rock, folk, Arab, jazz, and brass music, all of which can be found on her first solo album </span><a href="https://camelliaboutros.com/recordings/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Refuge</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2f72c5fe-7fff-7762-3f90-1131147a7d07"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more info:</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://camelliaboutros.com/about/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Camellia Boutros Music</span></a><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> https://camelliaboutros.com/about/</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diana Gameros </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a singer, guitarist, pianist, composer, songwriter, music instructor and social justice activist, based in San Francisco, California. She was born and raised in Ciudad Juárez, México and immigrated to the United States as a teenager to study music in Michigan. Over the last decade in the Bay Area she has released two albums of original songs written in Spanish and English, and Mexican classic songs. In 2014 Diana received the Emerging Leader Award by the Chicana/Latina Foundation. In 2015 she was named one of YBCA’s 100: creative minds, makers, and pioneers that are asking the questions and making the provocations that will shape the future of American culture. NPR Music gave Diana an honorable mention to Arrullo in best Latin albums of the year in 2017. Diana was named one of SF Magazine’s 100 Artists: Artists Putting The East Bay On The Map, in 2018.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-54f99deb-7fff-f4ef-b4da-6abd1d5d89bd"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more info: </span><a href="https://www.dianagameros.com/epk" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.dianagameros.com/epk</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-c76ea4bc-7fff-0310-7a76-86c082175469"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leticia García </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a poet and an immigrant woman from Oaxaca, Mexico, a single mother and a powerful leader in the community, with deep compassion for the suffering of other immigrant women.</span></p></span><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-52b7f7f7-7fff-879b-cc60-8b6dfc9bcb09"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">To learn more about Leticia, visit Mujeres Unidas y Activas: </span><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://mujeresunidas.net/" style="text-decoration: none;">https://mujeresunidas.net</a></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lubna Morrar </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #313131; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Palestinian, born and raised in The Town aka Oakland,CA. Long time Community organizer, business owner, artist... and sometimes a poet.</span></span></div></div><div><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #313131; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #313131; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9c45cd1d-7fff-175d-6f53-6574852c4739" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ayodele Nzinga</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the first Poet Laureate of Oakland, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a multi-hyphenated artist; a brilliant actress, a producing director, playwright, poet, dramaturg, performance consultant, educator, and community advocate. She is the director of the Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc., Oakland’s oldest North American African Theater Company and founder of Lower Bottom Playaz Summer Theater Day Camp. Ayodele is co-founder of Janga’s House a Black Women Arts collective and a founding member of BlacSpace Collective. She is the Executive Director of the Black Arts Movement Business District Community Development Corporation (BAMBD CDC); and founder and producer of BAMBDFEST International Biennial, a month-long arts and cultural festival animating the Black Arts Movement Business District in Oakland CA. Nzinga holds an MFA in Writing and Consciousness; a Ph.D. in Transformative Education & Change; is a Cal-Shakes Artist Investigator Alumni; a San Francisco Foundation Arts Leadership Fellow; a member of the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame; recognized by Theater Bay Area as one of the 40 faces in the Bay that changed the face of theater in the Bay Area; is recognized by the August Wilson House as the only director in the world to direct the complete August Wilson American Century Cycle in chronological order; a YBCA 10 Fellow, a BIPOC Circle Fellow and a VOICES Community Journalism Fellow. Nzinga is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Oakland CA. Nzinga’s work for the stage has been reviewed internationally. Her blog is read in 81 countries. She is the author of Performing Literacy a Narrative Inquiry into Performance Pedagogy, The Horse Eaters, SorrowLand Oracle, and Incandescent and her work can be found in numerous journals and anthologies. Nzinga, a cultural anchor, is part theoretician and part partitioner. She describes herself as a cultural architect invested in creating structures for culture making.</span></p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more info:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.ayodelenzinga.com/about/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ayodele Nznga</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.ayodelenzinga.com/about/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.ayodelenzinga.com/about/</span></a></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mo Sati </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">was born in Palestine, grew up in a refugee camp in Jordan, and now lives in Oakland. Mo is a poet, a writer, a playwright, and an artist. He participates in activist and cultural events nationally and internationally sharing insights about life as a refugee uprooted from his homeland. His poetry, writings, and artworks tell stories of the people of Palestine living under occupation. His work personifies emotions drawn from the day-to-day struggles of resistance to oppression as Palestinians fight to unshackle themselves from decades of military occupation. <b>Listen to Mo Sati perform: </b></span>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpHLn0aL9Ks</div><div></div></div><div><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #313131; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Duo Made y Feña with special guest Daniel Oñate:</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Multi-instrumentalist composer and writer Fernando Torres and multi-faceted Puertorrican singer /interpreter and political activist Madeleine Zayas. Their eclectic repertoire is rooted in the Nueva Canción/Nueva Trova tradition of entertaining and educating about culture and pressing social issues.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc0cc1d8-7fff-a7b1-a5b8-84dbe8967038"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Madeleine Zayas </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Madeleine Zayas is a Latin American singer/interpreter, dancer and choreographer and architect based in Oakland. She was co-founder of Buena Trova Social Club in 2012 and lead singer and co-artistic director of Madelina y Los Carpinteros since 2014. Madeleine has performed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, many U.S. Cities, and Santiago, Chile, and has shared stage with Wilkins, Cheo Feliciano, Inti Illimani, John Santos and Holly Near. She believes in art and cultural activism as a positive force of communication and a tool for social change.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fernando Feña Torres </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a Chilean exile, musician, composer and poet, journalist and founding ex member of Grupo Raiz. Fena is an expert in folkloric multi-instrumentalist. He began his musical career as a young boy inspired by the socialist government of Salvador Allende A former political prisoner and exiled into the US, he has collaborated with Teatro Campesino and has performed in Bay Area and internationally along with artists such as David Byrne, Pete Seeger and Holly Near.</span></p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daniel Oñate,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a highly qualified performer of piano, pianist, transverse flute and quena. He is also a composer, arranger and orchestra director from Southern Chile. He is a winner of the acclaimed Luis Advis contest, in the Chile Canta a Victor Jara version. He is currently completing a Masters in music at UC Berkeley.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-097b109b-7fff-cb24-a855-0eb227e4387c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141827; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Listen to Made y Feña's new song for Gaza in </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlY1L-oUP40" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Would You</span></a></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #141827; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">AND </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Madeleine Zayas in </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j5JOiLPVfM" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">a live performance</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">: </span><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j5JOiLPVfM" style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j5JOiLPVfM</a></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><div><span><br /></span></div>Arnoldo Garcia | La carpa del FEOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866611051746994618noreply@blogger.com0Oakland, CA, USA37.8043514 -122.27116399.4941175638211561 -157.4274139 66.11458523617884 -87.1149139tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23619990.post-87883515914208609822024-01-30T08:48:00.000-08:002024-01-30T08:48:43.482-08:00Altars for our living Oakland: Mass shootings<div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; font-size: 15px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifXTTqk4gAbmvHEHtCQM4E__uEAWRHD_PkRKLOK_xgX-vJsHkrQklV9Wddi6kUJrFbUxnPqW5u6YXQfhzSqeDJ9065m2hfjZnABPxZsHHFz2biGZVXduzTqboSp2xKCQK-UBuLD40leip_C0xmztuquaD3psGLXzCHqmaIBBtn2DqIpEhfY_NL/s1440/Photo%20poem%20for%20Oakland%20La%20carpa%20del%20feo%20post%201-30-24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1303" data-original-width="1440" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifXTTqk4gAbmvHEHtCQM4E__uEAWRHD_PkRKLOK_xgX-vJsHkrQklV9Wddi6kUJrFbUxnPqW5u6YXQfhzSqeDJ9065m2hfjZnABPxZsHHFz2biGZVXduzTqboSp2xKCQK-UBuLD40leip_C0xmztuquaD3psGLXzCHqmaIBBtn2DqIpEhfY_NL/w385-h349/Photo%20poem%20for%20Oakland%20La%20carpa%20del%20feo%20post%201-30-24.jpg" width="385" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><b style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Mass shootings</span></b></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">No one hardly</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">praises</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">our children</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">till <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>they’re shot down on the streets</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Desi’s mural</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">did not ward off</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">the bullets </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">or the liquor stores</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">that blew holes</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">in the soft bodies of teenagers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and in the livers of hopelessness</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Hip hop has one more one less</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">octosyllabic story</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">to rhyme</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Now not even a street corner altar</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">No candles</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">No balloons</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">No empty bottles of</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Hennessy</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">No photographs</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">No vigils</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Just the ghosts</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and their unarmed drive-by cries</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The new mayor sends</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">prayers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">more police</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">to push our dead off the sidewalks</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">into the Santa Rita jail</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">the school of the future</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">the resting place of our martyrs-to-be . . .</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>arnoldo garcía | January 2023</b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Image: </b><span style="color: black; text-align: center; white-space: normal;">A wall in Oakland. (A feo photograph; 2021)</span></div></div>Arnoldo Garcia | La carpa del FEOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866611051746994618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23619990.post-71659294817002852002020-10-06T17:05:00.002-07:002020-10-06T17:05:34.015-07:00Café solidario: Brew Zapatista coffee, drink solidarity without borders<div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTSzm8DwE32l-F4OQdgUCK-Ji0OjoG7Xll2fDtVvfCVC33V4EhXFaiyXyicjxwvbVIQzuHCMERlW1feW5U0Tmz8APLsXwASmGBtozhuiOonluiqWjktXpcpMxUaRRrcJMMi_ui/s4032/IMG_1951.HEIC" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTSzm8DwE32l-F4OQdgUCK-Ji0OjoG7Xll2fDtVvfCVC33V4EhXFaiyXyicjxwvbVIQzuHCMERlW1feW5U0Tmz8APLsXwASmGBtozhuiOonluiqWjktXpcpMxUaRRrcJMMi_ui/w400-h300/IMG_1951.HEIC" width="400" /></span></a></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">Everyday acts of living and surviving, as simple as sipping a cup of coffee, can unfold as acts of solidarity with other people who are in struggle and movement for justice and the land.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>How can a cup of coffee chip away at the capitalist social-economic and political structures that have our communities </span><span>— </span><span>the natural world, communities of color, Indigenous women and Indigenous people, migrant workers, undocumented children, women, men and elders, queer people and African Americas </span><span>—</span><span> struggling under siege?</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I am not talking about just any old coffee. I am talking about </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Zapatista-grown and harvested coffee. Zapatista coffee is produced by an autonomous community, a people standing with self-determination, on their own lands and relying on their own shoulders.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Café Sin Fronteras</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I am inviting you to a cup of solidarity coffee to break down the economic barriers imposed by neoliberal capitalism. My invitation means</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> purchasing a bag or two of Zapatista coffee that has been roasted and packaged by Oakland's own Sin Fronteras Coffee.</span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>"It has been a wonderful challenge to stay open and still provide coffee to folks. The special thing about our coffee </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>work, however, is that we empower folks to make their local purchase have a global impact," the owners Rocío and José wrote in an email.</span></span></span></span></div></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8h4b9ggY2JYs8F2xS5ekdL3mIvcbZGB7tyxZN2sFwt1QavE701J_ZmsVPQs5YbcHvwgVQ3hstD4okb02oSQws5eYfiB96fUcvvITnzYmCvKbkvWA7Gqn204nDVk-2uHDabjJa/s2048/SinFronterasCoffeeBags.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1640" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8h4b9ggY2JYs8F2xS5ekdL3mIvcbZGB7tyxZN2sFwt1QavE701J_ZmsVPQs5YbcHvwgVQ3hstD4okb02oSQws5eYfiB96fUcvvITnzYmCvKbkvWA7Gqn204nDVk-2uHDabjJa/s320/SinFronterasCoffeeBags.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span></b></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times; white-space: pre-wrap;">Order your Zapatista coffee on-line</span></b></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wecoffeeup.com/coffee/oakland/coffee-near-me/coffee-shops/sin-fronteras-coffee&source=gmail&ust=1600984651158000&usg=AFQjCNEc5gGorbX1yAQO4iEVfeCHTJUdPQ" href="https://wecoffeeup.com/coffee/oakland/coffee-near-me/coffee-shops/sin-fronteras-coffee" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e69138;">Order Coffee</span></a></i><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bit.ly/get-yourcoffee-today&source=gmail&ust=1600984651158000&usg=AFQjCNE9nV80H1itZYwCI1UyYJnesOS4rA" href="https://bit.ly/get-yourcoffee-today" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/get-<wbr></wbr>yourcoffee-today</a></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Pick-up your Zapatista coffee freshly roasted by Sin Fronteras Coffee </span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">at:</span></span></b></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Akat Café Kalli</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><p class="mb-0 txt-header-grid" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">1601 2nd Avenue</span></p><p class="mb-0 txt-header-grid" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Oakland, CA</span></p></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Take it from someone who has been drinking coffee since I was five years old: This coffee is bold, delicious and good any time of the day.</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">Sin Fronteras Coffee describes the taste:</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><blockquote><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">"A medium roast coffee with notes of apple and cinnamon. This coffee is sourced from Zapatista Communities in Chiapas, Mexico."</span></span></blockquote></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Sign up for the Sin Fronteras Coffee newslette</b><span style="color: #222222;">r<b> here:</b></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bit.ly/la-nota-caf%25C3%25A9&source=gmail&ust=1600984651158000&usg=AFQjCNGoeU7KlpnvnmUcxYe6mEW7X2bOQg" href="https://bit.ly/la-nota-caf%C3%A9" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><i><b><span style="color: #e69138;">La Nota Café</span></b></i></a></span> </span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bit.ly/la-nota-caf%25C3%25A9&source=gmail&ust=1600984651159000&usg=AFQjCNF4T1oe64r_73NSyP1B_kL8FGDtmg" href="https://bit.ly/la-nota-caf%C3%A9" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/la-nota-café</a></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Tip the Chiapas Coffee Producers; <a href="https://wecoffeeup.com/coffee/oakland/coffee-near-me/coffee-shops/yachil-xojobal">https://wecoffeeup.com/coffee/oakland/coffee-near-me/coffee-shops/yachil-xojobal</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41);"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41);"><b>Waffles & Zapatismo</b></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41);"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #212529; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41);">If you want to join me for a cup of Zapatista coffee sometime, join the <a href="http://www.chiapas-support.org">Chiapas Support Committee</a> in a Saturday session of "Waffles & Zapatismo" where we share consciousness-raising Zapatista-inspired liberation ideas and practices AND </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-size: large;">good tasting Zapatista coffee.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">Check out the CSC website for information and opportunities to take action for solidarity and justice:</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41);"><a href="http://www.chiapas-support.org">http://www.chiapas-support.org</a></span></span></span></div>Arnoldo Garcia | La carpa del FEOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866611051746994618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23619990.post-11090392265712854532020-09-21T12:56:00.002-07:002020-09-21T12:56:44.398-07:00Earth Justice<span style="font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuoENrELY_PgrbZVH1ULTYIRxjPp1fmQkCkwPBf-9D1p8gdLxc7lOl8TqpzD4Bb6K-ljMbsipdcgXJZ723mzM3oA7l6m4JFcr0JKmn5Mp0j_VbeAufvCagNu2UldGpd6_cz3pv/s1500/E93A4956-5094-422D-AAB7-8E97C0F1FAC8.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuoENrELY_PgrbZVH1ULTYIRxjPp1fmQkCkwPBf-9D1p8gdLxc7lOl8TqpzD4Bb6K-ljMbsipdcgXJZ723mzM3oA7l6m4JFcr0JKmn5Mp0j_VbeAufvCagNu2UldGpd6_cz3pv/s1500/E93A4956-5094-422D-AAB7-8E97C0F1FAC8.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></a><span style="font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuoENrELY_PgrbZVH1ULTYIRxjPp1fmQkCkwPBf-9D1p8gdLxc7lOl8TqpzD4Bb6K-ljMbsipdcgXJZ723mzM3oA7l6m4JFcr0JKmn5Mp0j_VbeAufvCagNu2UldGpd6_cz3pv/s1500/E93A4956-5094-422D-AAB7-8E97C0F1FAC8.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuoENrELY_PgrbZVH1ULTYIRxjPp1fmQkCkwPBf-9D1p8gdLxc7lOl8TqpzD4Bb6K-ljMbsipdcgXJZ723mzM3oA7l6m4JFcr0JKmn5Mp0j_VbeAufvCagNu2UldGpd6_cz3pv/s1500/E93A4956-5094-422D-AAB7-8E97C0F1FAC8.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuoENrELY_PgrbZVH1ULTYIRxjPp1fmQkCkwPBf-9D1p8gdLxc7lOl8TqpzD4Bb6K-ljMbsipdcgXJZ723mzM3oA7l6m4JFcr0JKmn5Mp0j_VbeAufvCagNu2UldGpd6_cz3pv/w320-h400/E93A4956-5094-422D-AAB7-8E97C0F1FAC8.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;"><br /></span></div>SPARE the air</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Spare the water</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Spare the soil, the land, the sun</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Everyday </span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Spare the born to be</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Spare the new born</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Spare the children</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Spare the young, the youth, the youthful</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Spare the young and old, the abuelas & abuelos</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Spare the elders, the ancestors and the dust</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Spare the sacred sites and their people</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Spare you, me, us, them</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Spare the colors and the seasons</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Spare the roots, the seeds, the flowering suns</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Spare the rivers, creeks, oceans, clouds and the mud</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Spare the wind that whirls on your tongue</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Spare the waves across your skin</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Spare yourself from the contamination</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;">Spare the souls of everyone</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;">Spare the two-legged creatures, the worms,</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;">the serpent-</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times;">clouds, the four-legged,</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times;">the two-winged, the insects and their nuptial bed</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;">Spare the bees, the butterflies, the ants, the gnats, the mothers-to-be</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;">Spare the future from the past</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;">Spare the past from the present</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;">Spare time from space and space from time</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;">Spare everything except our hearts,</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;">an offering to spare the cosmos from the human sacrifice</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Struggle dismantle the extinction</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Don't spare the human predators</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Don’t spare the capitalists and their weapons</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Don’t spare war and racism</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Don’t spare the smokestacks and their e-industrialists...</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><b>[September 20, 2019]</b></span></span></div></div></span>Arnoldo Garcia | La carpa del FEOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866611051746994618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23619990.post-56216767442781961472020-09-03T14:55:00.007-07:002020-09-03T15:01:24.862-07:00Five Questions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbVzOu3fpJe06bkKSWOIJulQkWSK3mEi7uVKvhpMFHiij5_sG973DhbKE3aKLZ36a9R8g7L-MZc28HGM_Ep5d12JEGSmwWVEzlcN3_wb-UhpX4sckEJB1YEA1r93c2CRDnemVR/s1632/Manuela%2526Jose.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbVzOu3fpJe06bkKSWOIJulQkWSK3mEi7uVKvhpMFHiij5_sG973DhbKE3aKLZ36a9R8g7L-MZc28HGM_Ep5d12JEGSmwWVEzlcN3_wb-UhpX4sckEJB1YEA1r93c2CRDnemVR/s1632/Manuela%2526Jose.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1632" data-original-width="976" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbVzOu3fpJe06bkKSWOIJulQkWSK3mEi7uVKvhpMFHiij5_sG973DhbKE3aKLZ36a9R8g7L-MZc28HGM_Ep5d12JEGSmwWVEzlcN3_wb-UhpX4sckEJB1YEA1r93c2CRDnemVR/s320/Manuela%2526Jose.jpg" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">What were the best five lives,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">the best five big bangs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">the best five galaxies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">the best five universes</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">the best five suns</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">the best five worlds</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">the best five centuries</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">the best five decades,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">the best five years,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">the best five months,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">the best five days,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">the best five hours,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">the best five minutes,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">the best five seconds</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">of a moment</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">of your family?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">If you hear creaking mattresses</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">in the night of your home</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">is it ghosts or the orgasms</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">of unrequited lovers?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">How many mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, grandma’s, grandpa’s, aunts, uncles</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">have given their lives</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">so that you may have a shot at happiness?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">What happens to you</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">when you see old photographs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">of your ancestors,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">do you fall in love with them</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">or do you wish they could tell you their stories?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Do you know</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">your grandmother’s favorite colors,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">her birthdate,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">the name of her first boyfriend,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">if she loved someone other than your grandfather</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">and never left?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Will you be like her,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">give birth to twelve children</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">with a man she may not love?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Will your love be that strong to survive anguish and wars?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">My grandmother taught me</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">that my success was the offspring</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">of 1000 relatives and ancestors</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">who failed,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">who struggled,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">who suffered</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">and only knew happiness</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">as a legacy she, he, they gave to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">I carry the anguish of thousands in my bones,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">I get to smile, laugh, be nourished, be hopeful,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; 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margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">My grandmother said she did not have children so that they would be slaves.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">She had children so that they would have lives, not hers, their own.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">And she would live in us, in me,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">in whatever life we chose</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">and she would be free, lazy, drinking coffee,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">have more free time to debate Protestants</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">and make her body the theology of the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">My grandmother made love, made children, made a new god of her body…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: cambria, serif;">[September 2013 | Oakland, Califaztlán, </span>Ohlone<span style="font-family: cambria, serif;"> Territory]</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: cambria, serif;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: cambria, serif;"><br /></span></b></span></p>Arnoldo Garcia | La carpa del FEOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866611051746994618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23619990.post-36590196989103032802019-10-20T17:37:00.000-07:002019-10-25T11:00:39.221-07:00I was born in the wrong world<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was born in the wrong world</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I was born at the wrong time</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In my world you could peer into the waters</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">So clear</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">That you could see</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">all the way</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the other side</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the universe</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the constellations curving around you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">in a deep hug</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I was born in the wrong world</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In my world you could scoop up the dirt</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Taste it</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Eat it</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Drink the soil</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">On occasion</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">To commune with the souls of the ancestors</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">To remember the electricity of the big bang</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was born in the wrong world</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">A slave to humans who thought</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">they could enslave everyone and everything</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">And I was the soil, I was the stars,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">I was unbreakable,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">i was another world</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">that would implode this wrong world</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">You will return</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">even if it is on my back</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">my skin branded</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">my land demolished</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">my past scuttled (but not for long)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the world</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">where our roots will be the electric grid</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">where our language will be the banner of the wind</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">where we will dream by gazing at the stars</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">where we will weave our lives</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">with maize squash beans muddy embraces...</span></span>Arnoldo Garcia | La carpa del FEOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866611051746994618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23619990.post-57299034731916296722018-12-10T20:19:00.000-08:002018-12-10T20:19:42.558-08:00International human rights day | Día internacional de los derechos human<div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; word-spacing: 1px;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">to international human rights day:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">when you</span><br style="color: #1d2129;" /><span style="color: #1d2129;">can be fully human,</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-6997938290643019655gmail-text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">are the norm</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-6997938290643019655gmail-text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">for humanity</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To be fully human</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">is to be a nomad, a migrant</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to walk without weariness</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to the define the horizon of liberation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">I am </span><span class="m_-6997938290643019655gmail-text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><br />therefore</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-6997938290643019655gmail-text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">we are</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-6997938290643019655gmail-text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">human,</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-6997938290643019655gmail-text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">humane,</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-6997938290643019655gmail-text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">humanity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">A little ration</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-6997938290643019655gmail-text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(of humanness)</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-6997938290643019655gmail-text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">never hurt anyone...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">Bienvenidos</span><br style="color: #1d2129;" /><span style="color: #1d2129;">al día internacional de derechos humanos:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">El día de los derechos humanos es</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">el día</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">cuando</span><br style="color: #1d2129;" /><span style="color: #1d2129;">puedes ser plenamente humano</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">importante, </span><br style="color: #1d2129;" /><span style="color: #1d2129;">impotente</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">frente al desastre estadounidense,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">al pasado,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">con las posibilidades</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">de la liberación,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">la liberación humana,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">en el día nuevo.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">Cuando los indígenas</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="gmail-m_8940984651013102809m_-8744914519672301658gmail-text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;">los h</span><span style="color: #1d2129;">umanos originales</span></span></div>
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<span class="gmail-m_8940984651013102809m_-8744914519672301658gmail-text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">La bandera humana de la humanidad</span></span></div>
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<span class="gmail-m_8940984651013102809m_-8744914519672301658gmail-text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cuando las migrantes</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">son la norma</span></div>
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<span class="gmail-m_8940984651013102809m_-8744914519672301658gmail-text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">de ser humano</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Y ser humano integral</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">es ser nómada, es ser migrante</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">es caminar sin cansancio</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">para definir el horizonte de la liberación</span></div>
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<span class="gmail-m_8940984651013102809m_-8744914519672301658gmail-text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">humanamente,</span></span></div>
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<span class="gmail-m_8940984651013102809m_-8744914519672301658gmail-text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">humanidad.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">Una pequeña ración</span></span></div>
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Unlike unme unyou unothyers unyoke<br />
uncola unthink unenemy unstranger unpasserby uncitizen unimmigrant<br />
unart unpoetic unlove unhate unindifference<br />
unstruggle unliberate<br />
unwalk ungestate unborn<br />
unsmile unlink unsmirk<br />
untweet unspam unhand unhug unfuck<br />
unsing unerase unwrite unread<br />
unfight uncheat unchew unthrow-up<br />
unrainbow unblush unlaugh unemail<br />
unfinger unhand unspit unsnitch<br />
unstrum unstrung unlynch unrace ungender unclass unconsciousness<br />
undeath unlife unalone unloan unloner<br />
unteach uneducate unliterary uncommunicate<br />
unspeak untongue unswallow unstupid unsmart<br />
unwash unclean undirt undirty unshit<br />
unfool unface unspy unwear unstare<br />
unpage unfan unlist unserve unlick unfart unsmell unsquelch unbelch<br />
unpregnant unquote uninseminate<br />
unvote unbomb uninvade unoccupy unassassinate unnuke unstate unpower unexploit unoppress<br />
unsex uncolor unlanguage unclass unpigment unskin unborder unmilitarize<br />
unmigrate unmigrant undisplacement<br />
unneoliberalism unimperialism<br />
unpioneer unpilgrim uncowboy unbuffalo ungenocide unfemnicide<br />
unwarm unclimate unglobalization uninjustice uniequality unfreedom unrights<br />
unguns unkill unwound unheal undrive-by-shooting<br />
untag ungraffiti unheart unburn unleave unabandon<br />
unproletarianize unbourgeosie unroot unforget unmemory<br />
unfist unviolence unpeace unwar<br />
unfront unliberation<br />
unearthquake untsunami untide<br />
unsuck untuck unplastic<br />
untrash unflash unarm<br />
unhorizons uncosmos unnations<br />
unweapons unmanifestos<br />
unzoo unpollution uncontaminate unhear unfear unbit<br />
ungallop unfast unslow undie unold unage unyoung ungreen<br />
undentures unfang unraid unhuman unwoman unman unboy ungirl<br />
untongue unargue undebate undefine unjoke unwhere unhere unthere uneverywhere<br />
unmarichi unson unzapatista unqueer uncorrido unhuasteca undance unhip-hop unrap<br />
unmexicanize unmexican unearth unmoon unsun unplanets<br />
unwinter untragedy unbreak-up unhook-up unone-night untype<br />
unwipe unsurrender<br />
untenderness unharshness unpoet ungods unchurch unpriest unnun unaltarboys unbelievers<br />
unsaints uncommunion unlevitate unjesus uncross<br />
unterrorist unwar-on-terror unabu-ghraib<br />
unjail undeport unnaturalize uncitizen unresident unwelfare<br />
uncapital uninvestments<br />
unvirgin unwhore unmother unlady unscrew<br />
unadmit uncomment unpost unthanksgiving unX-mas<br />
unrock-n-roll unjazz unmix unears unclick unsew<br />
unsing uninvent unclap unnote unscream unerror unferal unbreak<br />
unsteak unvegan unsquash unsunset unwake unsleep unthroat<br />
unaztec unaztlan untwirl unfurl unyou unme unus unasshole<br />
uncondemn unbury unship unletter unbreath unsmoke<br />
unhigh unlow unaddict unscreech undrunk unhangover<br />
uncry undump unhump unbruise<br />
ungoodbye unforever unvow unmarry undivorce unpregate<br />
unerection unerectile unfunctional unviagra unsmooch<br />
unsting unscammed unscar unbar unculture unignorance unclassconscious unimagine<br />
untime unclock undeposit<br />
unwork unemployed unstrike<br />
unslap uninsult unlusion undeception undeceive<br />
unmoan ungroan undespair unweary<br />
unalone untogether uncollective unfamily unhome unhouse unhomeless<br />
unmop unsweep unclean unutopia unleft unright unmiddle-class unday-laborer unservant<br />
unwarmth uncold unwow unmow unkick unhistory<br />
unrain unsnow unscarce undrought unshortage unflu unpoor unpoverty unillness uncommunity<br />
unpurity unpeople unbatter unpolice unresist unfist unfightback unmarch unprotest unslogan<br />
undogmatic undogma unchrist unkneel unprison unclouds unaccident<br />
uncall untext unpicture unbed undream unnightmare unsnore unanxiety unanxious<br />
undownload unupload unradio untv uncommercial unactor unsit-com uncapitalize<br />
unpride unbrown unsleep unmurder unbrand unwhite unblack unputdown unfalse-consciousness<br />
uncortez uncolumbus undisappear uncolonize unempire unracism unclassism unsexism unheterosexism<br />
unagonize unhurt unhibernate uninsured uncorporations unfreetrade unponzyscheme unscheme<br />
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ungrey unagism unhomophobia unxenophobia unborders unlimited<br />
undependent unco-dependent undocument unillegal unminority<br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">I harvest their suns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">and their pleasures erupt on my tongue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">My dead are troubled, always asking for more time on earth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Rebirth without redeath<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Love without betrayal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Fire without water to burn alive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">They are not ghosts who inhabit the stairwells of my brain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">They do not possess anything<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">They didn't possess nothing to begin with but their lives<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">No land, No capital, No real estate,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">No gold, No banks, No trust funds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">No human and nonhuman slaves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">They were born with only their bones and their laughter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">And in death they do not even want to possess you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">My dead crawl around in my skin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">My dead do not let me be still or dream without dreaming with them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">My dead surround me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">I am in a constant state of siege<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Ancestors, relatives, neighbors whose deaths demand life and memory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Damn ancestors can't get their own lives together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">So they persist and insist on remembrance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">When I hum on maize, beans, squash<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">and the communal table of our graves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">They stand and sit at my side<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">They dance and grieve when I am sad or complain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">They know being alive is sometimes worse than being dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">but being alive is always better than being dead, they sing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Especially the dead who have no one to remember them at their side and insides,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">they holler and roar in the shadows and in your future grave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Look at yourself in the mirror of dust,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">pass some of it through your fingers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Put a pinch of dust in your coca cola like a Mexican migrant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Take a swig of the sweetness of the earth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Burn some copal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Or a cigarette <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">if your grandfather or grandmother dug that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">I know my abuelita liked her coffee black<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">sometimes with sugar, sometimes without,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">depending on her mood and yearnings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">She would dip cookies, pan dulce or white bread in her cup to balance the bitterness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">I know my grandfather liked his camel cigarettes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">and his ration of one beer a day after work,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">but nothing else pleased them more than their family and their daily roar of songs and story<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">I take care of my dead like piles of books,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">files full of stories and poems and important dramas in our lives<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">I have their unemployment records,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">their wedding photographs,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">their unfulfilled dreams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">and their way of living that never dies...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">[2017]</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">2</span></b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">I don't celebrate my dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">My dead celebrate me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">My dead have a hard time being dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">(Just like sometimes I have a hard time being alive)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">My dead love being alive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">My living abhor death<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Life banishes death<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Death accepts life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">My dead and living love each other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">A clacking embrace of skeletal desires<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">We each practice sleeping without breathing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">We each practice breathing without sleeping<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">We each practice holding each other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">We lie and live in a bed of blues<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">The skin of dreams is black<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Our words are our memory of the first kiss<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Our lips glazed with blue rouge offering an eternal kiss<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">I honor my dead by staying alive beyond my means<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">I carry my dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">in my love,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">in my hair,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">in my eyes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">in the palms of my blood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">I am my dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">I am alive through them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">My dead sway in the maize stalks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">My dead roll around in the dust and the rain and the mud<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">My dead flirt, fool around, make fun of the living, they say:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">You haven't lived until you've died!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: Georgia;">[November 2, 2013 — Oakland-Mictlán]</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">3.</span></b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Ceremonia</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Our dead will never die<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Our life will never end<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">We carry each other into<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">the blue and brown realms,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">the red and black songs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">the yellow and the milky ways<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">We embrace and trade places<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">to reach the edge of space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">I accompany the migrant ghosts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">on their viaje/trips<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">to drink together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">from the wells of light and heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">We are the belly-button people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">howling at the earth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Our words are<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">the oceanic umbilical waves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">nourishing us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">as we gestate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">the passing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">from one side to the other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Life is death’s contractions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Death is life’s compact<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">to keep the others alive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">The constellations pock-mark my skin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">The rain pierces my body,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">flesh offerings,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">liquid suns,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">oozing from my lunar wounds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">My dead will never die<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">My living and my relations bind us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">In a whirlwind of tenderness...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Ceremony</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Nuestros muertos nunca morirán<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Nuestra vida nunca terminará<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Nos cargamos unos a los otros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">a los reinos celestes y terrestres<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">a los cantos rojos y negros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">a las vías amarillas y lacteas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Nos abrazamos y cambiamos de lugar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">para alcanzar la orilla del espacio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Acompaño los espíritos migrantes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">en su jornada<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">para beber juntos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">de los cenotes de la luz y los corazones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Somos los pueblos del ombligo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">aullando a la tierra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Nuestras palabras<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">son las olas umbilicales del oceáno<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">dándonos el pan de la tierra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">gestando<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">la transición<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">de un lado al otro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">La vida es la contracción de la muerte<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">La muerte es el compacto de la vida<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">para que en todas sigan vivas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Las estrellas agujerean mi piel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">La lluvia perfora mi cuerpo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">ofrendas de carne,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">soles de agua,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">escurriendo de mi herida lunar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Mis muertos nunca morirán<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">Mis muertos y mis relaciones nos tejen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;">en un remolino de ternura ... </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia;"> </span></div>
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Arnoldo Garcia | La carpa del FEOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866611051746994618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23619990.post-81633928735793276022017-10-23T21:06:00.000-07:002017-10-23T21:06:29.031-07:00New poetry chapbook! Poets against War & Racism | Poetas contra la guerra y el racismo <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<i>Para los 43 normalistas desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa | For the 43 student-teachers disappeared from Ayotzinapa</i><br />
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tortuguita<br />
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americatzin<br />
continente dulce<br />
contaminado por<br />
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lugares<br />
alrededor<br />
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<b>Ayotzinapa [Place of the small turtles]</b><br />
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precious turtle<br />
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beloved américa<br />
rotting empire<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">I am from the other side</span><br style="color: #666666; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">from the side of the Bravo</span></span></span><br style="color: #666666; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">from your side</span><br style="color: #666666; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">from the left side</span><br style="color: #666666; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">where I have a nest</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">for your arms</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">I am from the other side</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">where the walls</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">are shadows</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">that chase down</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">the police</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">that defend</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">the tyrants of the markers</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">And the sun is</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">on our side</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">on the side of the earth</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">on the side of tears with smiles</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">on the side of the of the full and empty moon</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">on the side that is fuel for the stars</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">on the side where we are whole</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">on the side that divides the beasts</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">taming them with our light</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">on the side that holds us</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">against the rage of money</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">I am from that side=</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">with its six directions and seven spaces</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">where our embrace open up skies and doors</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">where our cries threaten borders</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">and the women give us their backs</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">to carry us and to survive</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">From the side where our disappeared</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">reappear</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">I am from the other side</span></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">from your side ...</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I miss</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Tacuache,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Homer,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Johnson,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Crow</span><br style="color: #666666;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">the four directions</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">of my blues</span><br style="color: #666666;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">the four musics</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">of my valley</span><br style="color: #666666;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">the guitarist</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">the drummer</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">the friend</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #666666; display: inline;"><br />geniuses all<br />beheaded by whites<br />loved by Mexicans<br />Elvira and her sister, too<br />The tula fog</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #666666; display: inline;">the cries</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #666666; display: inline;">for the mother<br />The music was our music<br />we knew we would never see each other again<br />never gave up the blues<br />never surrendered to the night of our long separation</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #666666; display: inline;">Tacuache bellowing,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #666666; display: inline;">hair down to his hips,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #666666; display: inline;">I want pussah, pussah<br />Homer roaring in laughter<br />I am in the back seat remembering us all<br />Where's Cinthia?<br />She was my outcast, my future woman<br />I would love and love always<br />eternity had her names, ours<br />Johnson was a madman</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #666666; display: inline;">with a Gibson strapped across his shoulder<br />Crow the music organism<br />Tacuache spirit armed with spirit to pound away our fears<br />Homer the friend we would never give up<br />Then we left each other</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #666666; display: inline;">alone<br />We left each other<br />and ever since</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">after we make love,<br />after we march for justice,<br />after we make little revolutions against big injustices,<br />after we paint and color the canvasses of our skin,<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />when we make peace with the rage of the system,<br />when we kiss<br />... the hands of our elders,<br />.. the mouth of our lovers,<br />.. the nose of the new born</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Poetry is what remains</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">after we hold hands or smile or talk and listen to one another,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">when our hands glance each other's shadows,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">when the moon is full and we are empty.</span></div>
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Poetry is what remains<br />
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Come make poetry with us<br />
Poetry that swallows the wind to make us rain<br />
Poetry that touches our faces with the hands of the dust<br />
Poetry that makes craters in the soul of your heart<br />
Poetry that defies bullets and the shadows of mourning<br />
Poetry made by the hands and the eyes of rainbow warriors who struggle to make springtime the only season of our dreams</div>
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Poetry that buries the war dead with the words and cries of our elders who never gave up<br />
Poetry that makes love to overthrow capitalism and its war machinery of wage labor, mining, fossil fuel and paved over acquifers<br />
Poetry that is the flower and bread of organizing our utopias and seeds<br />
Poetry that is on the lips of the loved ones,<br />
.. the first kiss of humanity,<br />
.. the first kiss of revolutions,<br />
.. the kiss of our ancestors and newborn.</div>
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Poetry that says never again to war and hate, extraction and exploitation of our deepest life gestating in the earth herself.</div>
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Our dreams do not fit in<br />
voting urns<br />
banks</div>
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Our dreams fit<br />
in our hearts and word of peace, sisterhood and justice...</div>
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--arnoldo garcía</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">the lightning</span><br style="color: #1d2129;" /><span style="color: #1d2129;">shattered</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">the campesino electrocutions</span><br style="color: #1d2129;" /><span style="color: #1d2129;">in the fields</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">of verdant fears</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><br />in the footsteps</span></span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">cut up my liver<br />scrape the sockets</span></span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">slicing open the irises,<br />bleeding electricity.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">dance upon the rain<br />inside my skin </span></span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">cries,<br />lashes at the hat</span></span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to carry the sun<br />The lightning </span></span></div>
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Arnoldo Garcia | La carpa del FEOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866611051746994618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23619990.post-63360216314425996602016-07-24T12:12:00.002-07:002016-07-24T12:12:48.605-07:00Madre-abuelita (for manuela & josé)<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">her bold hands that seized fevers and captured ghosts<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">than see us suffer<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">she promised to see us after death<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">She loved<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">praying<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">after she found out some terrible news<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">she tried to strangle my grandfather<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Gustavo and I were in a side room playing guitars<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">She was choking my abuelito<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">holding him down with her legs over his chest and knees on his arms<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Invoking herself against herself<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Her body still a prayer<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">The winter day became springtime<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Will we rest alongside her bones<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Manuela, arise<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Our mother<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Our grandmother<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">does not leave anyone behind…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Todas y todos somos picassos.<br />My DNA is digital<br />my besos are analogue<br />I spin through space<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />two eyes here<br />two mouths there<br />the mother displaced, distorted, missing in Michigan<br />the father invisible, drowned,<br />dismembered on the canvas of fertile grandmothers<br />I arrived piece by piece across the migrant spectrum of soul<br />I will be buried and the earth will be whole again and again<br />My fate is twisted, a twister, a storm of tenderness<br />My days are here with you<br />My nights become DNA,<br />I spin and float reassemble<br />myself in your bodies<br />I ghost other worlds<br />parallel soul parking<br />fitting carefully between two bodies</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My love is DNA<br />my hate is analogue<br />Borderless not wireless<br />My head leans against the head of Coalicue<br />My ears are pounded by the drumming<br />of wars plummeting through my skin<br />We are all artists<br />our tongues the brush<br />our veins the palette of colors<br />the rio bravo pleading to jump tracks<br />and wash herself of the maquiladora blood<br />Picasso made flesh offerings for our eyes to see<br />Guadalupe buried our placenta in her cries<br />Today is the day I will eat prickly pears with lemon and chile<br />smile against the sun<br />know that everything and everyone I love<br />will burst from my pores and my senses will make clouds<br />free the rain from the prison of pipes, asphalt and dams<br />Two or three more world wars<br />Ten, twenty, thirty revolutions<br />Where we disarm the men with guns and pigmentation<br />we'll get it right<br />we'll figure out how to be together<br />dance and not damn ourselves together<br />Wind<br />Water<br />Land<br />Our bodies return whole to the spiderweb,<br />gently feed the cosmos...</span></div>
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Arnoldo Garcia | La carpa del FEOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866611051746994618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23619990.post-88216869136294593342016-04-22T08:16:00.000-07:002016-04-22T08:18:33.621-07:00human status for all<div>
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Arnoldo Garcia | La carpa del FEOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866611051746994618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23619990.post-3734248093560066792016-04-01T23:01:00.001-07:002016-04-01T23:01:47.082-07:00Si fuera human@<div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">hoy celebraban<br />a césar e. chávez<br />y los campesinos seguían trabajando<br />bajo un sol de machetes<br />nadie los celebró a ellos</span></div>
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Arnoldo Garcia | La carpa del FEOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866611051746994618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23619990.post-4574913146762923842016-03-27T14:00:00.000-07:002016-03-27T14:00:53.662-07:00Soy del otro lado | i am from the other side<div style="background-color: white; color: #3d596d; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 24px;">
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Soy del otro lado<br />del lado bravo<br />del lado tuyo<br />del lado izquierdo<br />donde tengo el nido<br />para tus abrazos<br />Soy del otro lado<br />donde los muros<br />son las sombras<br />que persiguen<br />a los policías<br />que defienden<br />a los tiranos del mercado<br />Y el sol está<br />a nuestro lado<br />el lado de la tierra<br />el lado de las lágrimas con sus sonrisas<br />el lado de la luna llena y vacía<br />el lado que es combustible para las estrellas<br />el lado donde somos íntegros<br />el lado que divide a las bestias<br />adomándolas con nuestra luz<br />el lado que nos abriga<br />contra la rabia del dinero<br />Soy de ese lado<br />con sus seis direcciones y sus siete espacios<br />donde los abrazos abren cielos y puertas<br />donde los llantos espantan a las fronteras<br />y las mujeres nos dan su espalda<br />para cargarnos y sobrevivir<br />Del lado donde nuestros desaparecidos<br />reaparecen<br />Soy del otro lado<br />del lado tuyo...</div>
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I am from the other side<br />from the side of the Bravo<br />from your side<br />from the left side<br />where there is a nest<br />for your embraces & love<br />I am from the other side<br />where the walls<br />are shadows<br />that persecute<br />the police<br />who defend<br />the tyrants of the market<br />And the sun is<br />at our side<br />on the side of the earth<br />on the side of the tears with her smiles<br />on the side of the full and the empty moon<br />the side that is fuel for the stars<br />the side where we are whole<br />the side that divides the beasts<br />taming them with our light<br />the side that protects us<br />against the rage of money<br />I am from that side<br />with her six directions and seven spaces<br />where our embraces open skies and doors<br />where our crying intimidates borders<br />and the women give us their backs<br />to carry us and survive<br />From the side where our disappeared<br />reappear<br />I am from the other side<br />from your side...</div>
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<span style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">In "Late Picasso," covering the last two decades of his life and art production, Picasso re-examines, remarks, re-evaluates and takes off from his own work and those of his peers and ancestors. He does not re-paint, he does not repeat himself as much as builds on his oeuvre, visiting, no retaking and occupying, the highest vantage points of his work. Late Picasso is a deeper, newly found Picasso. Older yet now slower. He is quoted as saying that in while one one day he draws and sketches and paints hundreds other painters spend 100 days on one painting.</span></div>
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<br />A painter I admire much once told me that Picasso was over-rated. I did not ask after her why. Poring over each page of "Late Picasso," squinting at the paintings reproduced, he has completely reached another level, twisting-inside-out of the skin of Cubism, distortions that create a new lens of focus. While some of his late work may appear to verge on the sloppy, closer and closer inspection says otherwise. yes, his precision changed but his output didn't. In the 20-volume catalog of his complete work, more than half was produced during the period covered by "Late Picasso."<br /><br />In art, in poetry, in painting, there are no accidents. In Picassos, there were no accidents.<br /><br />Picasso painted his daily life, made meaning from his studio, from his relationships to women and other painters, friends and political unfoldings. Picasso made a chronology of art and the artist of a new type out of the life of his imagination. Picasso feared death, dying. This spurred him on to paint and paint, knowing that one day -- whether alive and incapacitated by age or dead, which to him we're the same -- he would not be able to. Picasso made many drafts and versions of his work, from sketches, to paintings to sculpture and collages. He then would paint his paintings, create sculptures from his paintings, an auto-locura [a self-crazyness], creating in the process a new process and fusion of what he had produced and accomplished and then some.<br /><br />One of my favorite poets wrote that it was a crime for a poet to not write, to not produce poetry, every day. Picasso acted in the same way, literally to the day he died. For us, Picasso not painting was a crime to humanity.<br /><br />Picasso evolved and emerged out of himself a few times over, a butterfly emerging out of the one cocoon where he created several lifetimes. Not reinventing himself but becoming a creator anew, not stuck on his accomplishments, pushing himself -- and in the process art, artists and us viewers-- to new limits.<br /><br />Maybe many of us would have stopped, and maybe even the majority of work forgotten, after painting "Guernica." Picasso did no such thing. Ceramics, sculpture, collages, mural-sized paintings, poetry, theater, love making in all, Picasso's work will take many more eyes and generations to settle accounts. His last painting was an open work, yet to be finished or even started. The last painting? He left a blank canvass, signed: Picasso.<br /><br />Over-rated? Maybe.</div>
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Individual, yes.<br /><br />No one will confuse Picasso with anyone else other than Picasso.</div>
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Arnoldo Garcia | La carpa del FEOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866611051746994618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23619990.post-64306367217047550942016-01-02T16:47:00.001-08:002016-01-02T19:40:04.871-08:00Found poem | Piercings<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; color: black; font-family: 'Poets Electra Web', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">just in sudden silence</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; color: black; font-family: 'Poets Electra Web', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">the sound of bones and flesh tearing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; color: black; font-family: 'Poets Electra Web', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">the sound of a mouth being beaten</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; color: black; font-family: 'Poets Electra Web', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">blood</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; color: black; font-family: 'Poets Electra Web', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">in our eyes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; color: black; font-family: 'Poets Electra Web', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; color: black; font-family: 'Poets Electra Web', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">you (with emphasis)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; color: black; font-family: 'Poets Electra Web', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">in the heart,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; color: black; font-family: 'Poets Electra Web', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">where the mind and the emotions</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; color: black; font-family: 'Poets Electra Web', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">I disappear</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; color: black; font-family: 'Poets Electra Web', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">heading towards Kamiah, Idaho.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; color: black; font-family: 'Poets Electra Web', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">your mamá (not your mother)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; color: black; font-family: 'Poets Electra Web', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">without tongue, with cut tongue, with tongue removed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; color: black; font-family: 'Poets Electra Web', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">he, she, or us</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; color: black; font-family: 'Poets Electra Web', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">lit all through the night</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; color: black; font-family: 'Poets Electra Web', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">I reappear in</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; color: black; font-family: 'Poets Electra Web', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">the Milky Way...</span></div>
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