WHEN I WAS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE

by Gil HoyHallway, University of Virginia Law School. Image source: "A New Materialism"Studying the law.Where the vestigesof racismHad been hiddenunder a rug,Its stain absorbedby the wise, aging woodor swept away bya black, hopeful janitor.He diligently...

HOW TO REMOVE CONFEDERATE STATUES

by Patty Mosco Holloway Locate them in Baltimore.Give no advance notice, little fanfare.Do it quickly; do it quietlyunder cover of darknessin the wee hours of the morning.Allow flashing red lights and backup beepson heavy equipment.Hire crews in T-shirts...

THE LAWN

by Katherine SmithHarry W. Porter Pumpkin Ash, The Lawn,Pavilion IX, University of VirginiaOn this grass in 1984I met my true lovein front of the bookstorewhere men in camouflagebrandish torches and a few women tooin fluttering skirts, marchnot far...

THE COLOR WE�VE NEVER SEEN

by David Spicer I shouldn�t be but I�m scared to near-deathat 4:32 in the morning after reading HuffPuff on my computer�expecting this country�sdemons to jump from it and give me a heartattack but I�m not that lucky, and for all it�sworth, Stephen Stills...

"HAHA, NAZI, SCHMAZI," SAYS PRESIDENT T***P

by George Salamon "The president of the United States is now a neo-Nazi sympathiser.� �Richard Wolffe, The Guardian, August 15, 2017"Haha, neo Nazi, neo Schmazi,"Says President T***p."All I care about is cleaning upWashington's putrid swamp."T***p...

#HEATHERHEYER

by S.O.FasrusDetail from the Cable Street Mural, a large mural painting in the East End of London apinted by Dave Binnington Savage, Paul Butler, Ray Walker and Desmond Rochfort between 1979 and 1983 to commemorate the street battle in October 1936...

I HAVE HAD FRIENDS IN GREAT NUMBERS

by Judy Katz-Levine There are barbed wire fences in my dreamless nights.And hands caught in nets, children growing who cannot whirl.There are torches tonight, and chants to drown saints.And simple good people who want a steak at lunch, or hummus with...

RENOVATIONS, THIRTY YEARS LATER

by Harold Oberman �The poet Emma Lazarus, moved by this unique symbol of the love of liberty, wrote a very special dedication 100 years ago.� �Ronald Reagan, in his Remarks on the Lighting of the Torch of the Statue of Liberty in New York, New...

A STATUE OF A GUY ON A HORSE MAKES GOOD RIP RAP

by Lyndi Bell O�LaughlinThe Robert E. Lee statue for which the "Unite the Right" rally was organized to protest its removal in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 13, 2017.  (Tasos Katopodis / EPA via The Chicago Tribune)It makes me want to hurl myselfoff...

CANDLELIGHT VIGIL

by Tricia KnollThe call came out to come with candles.To stand up. Be counted. A vigil, a wordI learned came from awoke, Latin.Bring your candles. Hold your fingersaround the flame if the wind blows.We cannot let hate extinguish us.Calling us to this...

AMERICAN NIGHTMARE

by Thomas R. Smith I'm in bed with America.America is writhing and moaning in her sleep,twisting the bed sheets around heras if coiled in the grip of a giant boa constrictor.America whimpers in her sleepand turns her head to the left and to the right.America...

UNDER THE GOD, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, 12 AUGUST 2017

by Kenneth E. Harrison, Jr.            Watchin' their heads in the toilet bowl           Don't see supremacist hate?           Right wing dicks in their boiler...