Short Fiction and Poetry – October 2010
REFLECTION
by Joan Clair
A friend tells me she no longer has much or as much sympathy and compassion
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Lessons Learned from The Greening of America
With hopes for immediate change fading, some have become disenchanted with organizing. Yet, retreating from activism to seek personal liberation leaves us powerless to resist war, economic injustice, and corporate tyranny.
Poetry September 2010
Hope’s nothing but right,/
like the justice of star shine/
on river breezing midnights....
Poetry, August 2010
Resurrection/
by Claire J. Baker/
May you/
arrive at/
resurrection/
not by dying/
but by LIVING./
May the end/
begin a/
beginning.
Oral History from the Seniors of St. Mary's Center
The following oral histories of seniors Joe Batiste, Darlene Thomas, Milas Hackett, David Fobroy, Henry Thompson, and Richard Mingus were compiled by Trena Cleland to document the inspiring life stories of poor and homeless seniors who have been helped by St. Mary's Center in downtown Oakland.
Mad In America: An Indictment of Psychiatric Abuse and Brain Damage
One lone author bears moral witness to the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people abused, tortured and damaged by the psychiatric establishment.