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THE GATES OF HELL
Steven Gray is the editor of San Francisco- based literary publication, Outofour.
Blacks Chicken feet’s vs. Whites Roasted Lambs!
Staying in apartheid Bantu rotten slums like pigs;Squeezed into deadly minibuses to work like chickens;Sniffing dustbins for a decent meal like scavengers;Cheaply exploited in factories like slaves;
Foreclosure
Reprinted with permission from Pemmican Press.
Presente! Lorenzo Torrez, copper miner, Communist leader
Lorenzo Torrez, leader of the Communist Party, a staunch yet quiet spoken fighter for union rights and Mexican American equality, died New Years Day in Tucson.
Praise Poem for the Day
Poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher, Elizabeth Alexander was born in 1962 in Harlem, New York, and was raised in Washington, D.C. As a child she studied ballet at St. Mark's Dance School at St. Mark's Episcopal Church and attended Sidwell Friends School.
After They Passed the nNew Nuremburg Laws
after they passed the new nuremburg lawsafter the longyears of accomodationcomes the occupyto say no to everythingto say yes to everythingto tell a majoritywe don't have to live in the old wayand then likethe rat in the corner comesthe occupationto say no to usto say yes to constantlyresurrectingpharaoh andpriest-guardiansof the wealthcreated by all butenjoyed by fewto confirm thatfranklin of fed reservebenjamins famewas right whenway back whenhe warned thata country tradingliberty for securitywould have neitherand some of uslook at these newchildren of thealien and seditionfugitive slavedred scottjim crowcriminal anarchyanticommunistlaws and we knowfrom past timesthese laws are justitching to be broken and the standards andflags once againstrewn at thefeet of a newlytriumphant red army havingcaptured that city havingthe effronteryto be thenew berlin ofa fourth reichabout whicheven now peoplethe world overare placing theirwagers on howlong this monsterwill last.
David Montgomery, A Life Well-Lived
David Montgomery, the prominent left-wing historian, just passed away.
