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Palestinian hip-hop rocks Ramallah

From the beautiful art of Ismail Shammout to the literary theory of Edward Said, Palestine has a vibrant culture; a very rich literary, artistic, musical, culinary, youth, popular and high … Continue reading

12 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

Authentic hope

Some very thoughtful words from Rebecca Solnit on our current condition in her excellent book, Hope in the Dark, p. 24: “Bush invited his constituency to be blind to the … Continue reading

12 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

Seek joy in the saddest places

Tom Feeley over at ICH does such a great job collating pertinent political articles from around the world. His email alerts also often feature pithy and relevant quotes. Here’s one … Continue reading

9 January, 2007 · 4 Comments

Israeli Laureate: Indeed there is Apartheid in Israel

Shulamit Aloni is an attorney, teacher, journalist, human rights activist and Israeli Prize laureate. Aloni also served as a Member of the Knesset continuously from 1974-1996, serving on the following … Continue reading

6 January, 2007 · 1 Comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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