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THE LEAVES ARE CHANGING

TO SHADES OF FIRE

RUST N INDIGO

IN WAVES

AND ALL AT ONCE

AND ONE BY ONE

DIFFERENT IN THEIR DEATHS

LIKE ALL TIMES

AN LOVE ONES

AN MEMORIES OF PLACES

FADED FROM LACK OF PRESENCE

AND FALLEN FROM THE ATTENTION OF TODAY

TO LIE LIKE A QUILT ON THE EARTH

AND WINTER

AND CHANGE TO THE RICH PUNGENT GROUND

THAT FEEDS REALITIES TO COME

WITH NO QUESTIONS

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Lois Mailou Jones. MOON MASQUE. 1971. Acrylic on canvas. 42M x 3l'/« in.

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War In America #2

Charlie Harry and Idrove Charlie's chopped-down Mercury westalong the two-lane highwaythat divided our town from Blacktown

forty-five miles an hourwindows rolled down

jasmine breeze blowing our hairheadlights surveilling unpainted porches

frontyard gardensfaces of Black children drinking sodasin the front-door light of small grocery storesacross the border

I reached over Harry's shoulderturned the radio dial till I heard James Brown

Charlie slowed to twenty-fivedual glass-packed mufflers growled

the red and blue Royal Crown labels on the soda bottlesthe moths and blue-tail flies diving at the screen doorthe children standing silentmoving only their eyesas they watched us pull close

Harry stuck his head far out his passenger-side windowshouted: "Choc'lit babies!"—slid back inside

I said: "Harry3 that was fucked up."Harry said: "You're fucked up."a soda bottle smacked against our rear windowCharlie floored the gas pedal

we tore out of there

Bill

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Saturday the 9th: I Have No Peace

Saturday the 9th: I have no peace.I live this Saturday sad for sadness* sake.I had in my heart a dream made of starswater for bread and loveand a sure way of speaking like a bell.

Today let my throat open upand search me for c bud of hope.Let them open my voiceand let them open ail of my body they can openperhaps tenderness will be spared.This Saturday as my heart is uncalmas if love was not as I thinkor as if all 1 said were fugitive.

I have something broken insideas if someone had exploded theirsuspicion on my forehead.But although my 6oul is redwith fear and shameand it is hard that they would have putmy last name to my outburstthe madness of my love cannot be stilland it keeps cutting capers and turningand because Fm human and loving aflock of birds stirs in my breastI want you to know that even this sadnessI have filled with bannersand that my love is a pure and crystaline forcewithout knots or dams,I expect from the sun when it dawnsa bundle of wonders and delightsand an eternal way of kissing

the stars.

Prison of La Aviacion, 1971

Sabado 9: no tengo paz

Slbado 9: No tengo paz.Vivo este sabado triste para la tristeza.Tenia en mi corazon un sueno hecho de estrellasagua para el pan y el amory una manera aegura de hablar como campana.

Hoy que se me abra la gargantay ae me busque un brote de esperanza.Que abran todo lo que de mi cuerpo pueda abrirsetal vez pueda salvarse la ternura.Este aabado como que mi corazon no tiene calmacomo si el amor no fuera como piensoo como si fuera fugaz todo lo que dije.

Algo tengo roto por dentrocomo si alguien me hubiera estallado sudesconfianza en plena frente.Pero aunque enrojecida de miedo y deverguenza tengo el almay es duro que hayan puesto aobrenombrea mis arranquesla locura de mi amor no puede estarsequietay sigue haciendo cabriolas y dando vueltasy porque humano y amante unabandada de pajaros me agita el pechoquiero que sepas que aun esta tristezala he llenado de banderasy que mi amor es una fuerza cristalina y purasin ataduras y sin diques,que espero del sol cuando amanezcaun cumulo de asombras y regocijosy una manera eterna de besar

las estrellas.

Carcel de La Aviacion, 1971

Ricardo Morales Aviles

Nicaragua

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Visit To Adjuntas, Puerto Rico

Flamboyan trees sear orangewestern sky a dance in red tightsinstant nightfall wakes the coqui's squeakour van shudders over hidden bumpsregains its composurecontinues its climb to Adjuntashere the people of the mountains stopped the copper minesseventeen great pitseach the size of eighty bomb craterswere never dughugs from our friends at Casa Pueblothey walk us in the moonlight to the edge of townso we can see for ourselves

the greenness

Bill

flamboyan=typical tree of Puerto Rico with beautiful flowerscoqui=tiny frog found all over Puerto Rico; symbol of resistance

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DIALECTICS

Dialectics my friend,is notWalking in the rainUnder an umbrella

Because Merina is a spoiled bratAnd you can not shut out the noise.

Dialectics is

Cherishing the workThat has yet to be donePrizing each and everyComrade's life

Dialectics is

Surmounting every difficultyBe the difficultyDesire or need.

The point isTo transform the world

Not to escape it.Let dialectics gush outNot only from your brainBut your arms,your legs,your face

Your whole being.

Dialectics is

Helping change MerinaNot just shutting out the noise.

MILA D. AGUILAR

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AQUITTALThulani Davis

the state has no case

against freedomthere is no guiltypunishable by anythingfor the liberation struggleof a person/ of a peopleour lives are determined

bv' our selves

our souls/ our love

ihere is no case

against what is righttnere is no stoppingthe forces of what will be

we are a wave, a storm

at one with the course of the cosmoswe have the strengthto leave it to the winds

to make the last step on faithbecause we believe and have believed

have bled making nothing of itbecause we have seen the mountain

we have seen and know

we are part of the mountain's lifethose who seek to destroy usfear death, fear livingfear belief, fear the natural

course of things, fear usfear their indictment

make ready/ shoot to killframe us in little steel boxes

pass verdicts

they fear and do not understandthey do not seethe state can have no case

there is no case

against freedom.

"Apart=Hate" BLAISE TOBIA

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Tel al Za'atar built on the wasteland of BeirutHome of a people driven from their own land- RefugeesPeople from Haifa, Deir Yassin and JaffaPeople from all of PalestinePalestine's people robbed of their life's bloodForced to pay for Zionist crimes.Tel al Za'atar, camp of martyrs,camp of deathTel al Za'atar, camp of blood and human fleshDying of hunger, dying of thirst,Yet still to resist,they stand and fightPeople of resistance armed and strong,Their courage lit the long dark night.

All through the night the fascists attack and make their killHolves of death,they qqench their thirst for blood and will.Down in the camp a people determinedRaised their flag of freedom highDeath to oppressors ,people's resistanceWe will win or we will die.

Tel al Za'atar, symbol of our people's fightTel" al Za'atar, statement of our people's mightFlames from that wasteland forged the way fowardFlames that will burn for ever moreTake up the guns of fallen martyrsVictory to the People's War.

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A CHANT FOR NY SISTERS

it's all right to be womandishwasher, big belly, sore backswollen ankles

it's all right to be womanthe listener the waiter/sailor's v/ifepatientby the seashore/looking out

it's all right to be womancoquette

seductress

conniving bitchit's all right to be womana chant for my sistersstrong before meharriet sojourner emma and rosaharriet sojourner ernma and rosa

a chant for my sistersrifke sorel rochel & maryyema ya yemaya yemaya yemaya

yemaya yemaya yemaya yemaya

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a chant for my sistersstrong in battlela bandita killing generals with zapatamaria in mexico and mississippi

haydee with the rest at moncadaa chant for my sistersdead before i could meet them

victorious

in havana

and dien bien phu

Marilyn Lowen Fletcher

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The* ground was bank-it broke- o*\\yurxier violent blows.Sweat aondl b\oodpoured iwfcothe-earth* 5 o\ark fur rowsar\d tV\e-ir cVi Id^ren were pUrfce^>A "the Se^on of the Vr\aurreot\o«v0*V arvd ^adne€>s intertwinedas caWouseA h&ncUcovered-those precious seeds.

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Gordon Parks. Malcolm X, Black Muslim. 1963. Silverprint, II x 14in.

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GIVE ME THE RED ON THE BLACK OF THE BULLET

(For Claude Reece Jr.) By Jayne Cortez

Bring back the lifeof Claude Reece Jr.

I want the bullet from his head

to make a Benin bronze

to make an explosion of thunderto make a cyclone

I want the 14 years of Claude Reece Jr.shot on the 15th day of Septembershot in the back of his head

shot by a police officershot for being black

Give me the black on the red of the bullet

i want to make a tornado

to make an earthquaketo make a fleet of stilts

for the blackness of Claude Reece Jr.

the blackness called dangerous weaponcalled resisting an arrestcalled nigger threat

I want the life of the blackness of Claude Reece Jr.i want the bullet from his head

to make a protective staff for startled childrento make hooks and studs

for warrior masks

Give me the bullet with he odor

and the smoke and the skin and

the hair of Claude Reece Jr.

i want to make powerto make powerfor the blackness of Claude Reece Jr.

the blackness called pent-up frustrationcalled unidentified negrocalled nigger revolutionary

I want the life of the blackness of Claude Reece Jr.

I want the bullet from his headto make a protective staff for startled childrento make a Benin bronze

to make an explosion of thunderto make a cyclonei want the bullet to bring back the bloodof Claude Reece Jr.

i want to make justice

I want to make justice forthe blackness of Claude Reece Jr.

bring back the bullet with the blood of the blacknessof Claude Reece Jr.

i want to make justicei want to make justice for the blackness of Claude Reece Jr.

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Poema que te Ayudara a LucharWhat is terribleIs not when they suddenly arrest youand torture you,that one nightthey might execute you.Those wallswhich perhaps await youare not what is terrible.It is not terrible

to have to leave foreverthose whom you loveand be sent far away.What is terrible,what is truly terribleis to let fear win.Not to understandthat the price of freedomis not free

compared to the oppression.What is terrible is not to fightfor your dignityto be a wormwhich lets itself be crushed.

What is terrible is indifferenceto live only for oneselfto have hope.What is terrible is not to dream.

Oscar Fuentes T.Killed April 9, 1985

No es terribleque de pronto te detengany te torturen.No es terribleque una noche cualquierate ejecuten;no son terriblesaquella paredesque quizis te esperen;no es terrible •

tener que dejarpara siemprea los que se quierenypartir lejos de aqui,lo terriblelo terrible de verdades que te venza el miedo;lo terrible es que no entiendasque elprecio de la libertadno es nadaal lado de la opresidn;lo terrible es no lucharpor tu dignidadlo terrible es ser como un gusanoque se deja aplastarlo terrible es la indiferencialo terrible es vivir sdlo para uno,lo terrible es no teneresperanzalo terrible es no sonar.

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El Salvador Poem

In civilian clothes

they splinter the doorof Maria Melendez' homewith one swing of a rifle buttdrag her daughter and soninto the street

shove them into trucks

Maria and the othermothers of the disappeareddo not keep quietthey demonstrate todayin the village squarewalk up and down the dusty streetholding photosof their missing childrenNational Guardsmen in uniformsurround the squaredraw their rifles

a French journalist asks Maria:aren't you afraid for your ownlives?

she answers: yes we are afraidour fear is a wall

we've broken through andwe're on the other side

she shows him two photos

Bill

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LAS ONEIRAS-April 28,1985,Oxford, Wi., 50"x 97/2", acrylic

LOS INSOMNES DORMITANTES(inspirado erVCampesinas Durmiendos'de Picasso)Nov. 13,1983, Centralia, IL., 50"x 35", acrylic and gesso

PAINTINGS

1983 -1985

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ENTREVISTA A Ml MISMO (en invierno]Feb. 24,1984, Lincoln, IL., 50"x 35", acrylic

LA MAGA Y EL VEJIGANTE (El sueno y laVigilia)April 5,1985,Oxford,Wi., 50"x97/2", acrylic

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De Vuelta a la realidad (Return toReality)Brush &Ink, 14.75~x20', 4May 1985.

Camiiw a Casci (Road Home)Brush &Ink. 14.75" x 20", : May 1985

Lajineta Muerta (Death's Rider)Brush &Ink, 14.75"x20' ,9May 1985.

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Mga Kuwento

stories from the Philippines

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South Africa InTheWest(Auralpoem)

SEKOU SUNDIATA

this song comes from a goldthat does not tarnish or corrodea human conductor of electricity and heata gold deeper than a gold minea mind holier than church

a starvation greater than flesh

this song sings South Africa in the west

this song comes from the moonwalkyardwhere the latest dances break and popslide and spin, a secret codebetween heart and earth

opposites mean the oppositeMonday is the day afterFridaynothing spooky, just a root needfor face and music

a logical flow of anythingnatural

thissong comes from the democracy of timepunchingout its stupid numbers

this song comes down the line•from a scene in the midAtlanticexpressed by the steady, fateful rhythmof the good ship cutting the oceanpressingan unspeakable, hypnotic madnessintoa dangerous skin destined for a blazing sunsetwhere America would be

this song comes from the colorsred for the Left, white for the Rightblue for the ups and downsthis song comes from knowing too much

this song sings South Africa in the west

this song comes from the street corner routineidentification papers, murdershort of that, hard geography and murder style

this song comes from the womenwho are telling everything they knowand the men who know

everything they're telling

this song comes from the absenceof a bleary eyed South Africa music videonot even a crossed over tune to sway the nationno rocking, popping stars pretending integration(some have sung a strange song in a stranger land)

this song comes from the nervous, verticalworldapart, tight, other than the bantustandon the far right of the radio dial

this song comes from a round earthin a flat world, to be sungwherever flatness happens in the harmony

this song sings South Africa in the west

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Jacob Uwrence. TWO REBELS. 1963.Lithograph. 38K x 27% in.

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Painting by an imprisoned Palestinian militant, smuggled out o] Ashkehn prisonin the 1948 occupied territories

TENT #50 ( SONG OF A REFUGEE) by Rashed Hussein

Tent #50,on the left,is my new world,Shared with me by my memories:Memories as verdant as the eyes of spring,Memories like the eyes of a woman weeping,And memories the color of milk and love!Two doors has my tent, two doors like woundsOne leads to the other tents,wrinkle-browedLike clouds no longer able to weep;And the second- a rent in the ceiling,leadingTo the skies,Revealing the starsLike refugees scattered,And like them,naked.Also the moon is trudging thereDowncast and weary as the UNRWA,Under a load of yellow cheese for the refugees.Tent #50,on the left,that is my present,But it is too cramped to contain a future!And- "Forget!"they say,but how can I?

Teach the night to forget to bringDreams showing me my villageAnd teach the wind to forget to carry to meThe aroma ofapricots in my fields!And teach the sky,too,to forget to rain.

Only then,I may forget my country.

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Emilio Cruz, WHOSE BURDEN ARE YOU?. 1970. Colored ink on paper. 34% x 29'/i in.

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FOR NELIA

Why are you so hard? they ask.Why do you not bend a little?

They call it graceSwaying like the bamboo

With the mind.

Listen to it weave

The music of compromiseWhile it kisses the ground

At your feet.

Even the bamboos however

Could only bend so much.When the storm comes

Listen to their cracking!They break one by one.

You could only bend so much.I would prefer to be a rock

Smoothed by the yearsBut unswaying.

Why are you so hard? they askWhy do you not bend a little?

MILA D. AGUILAR

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namibianfolktale.

thejackaland

thehen.

hen.shework,layhernest,andliveupinatree,jackal,hescavenge,alwayswantintoeatforfree,sowhenhesawhen,inhernest,justcoolinoutjackalstoodunderhertreeandstartedtoshout"girlthrowmedownoneofthosesweetnesteggsforeiflyupthereandbiteoffyourlegs"buthenknewwhatthedealwasshesaid"manyoualieain'tnosuchthingasajackalthatcanfly"atwhichjackalmadealeapatthattreesohenhadtoflyhighertokeepherselffree"tomorrowillbebackhenandyoubertaheedmywordelsetomorrow,jackal,gonnaflylikeabird."

wellthenextdayhewasbackandtalkinloudpuffinguphischestandactinproud"...hen,canyouhear,throwmesomeofthoseeggsforeiflyupthereandbiteyourlegs"buthenheldhergroundturnedherheadaround

said"maniknowthatyoualieeverybodyknowjackalcan'tfly."hesaid"howyouknow"andshereplied"flamingotoldmeso"

welljackalranofftothepondandhestalkthereedsandpoorflamingodidn'thaveachancetocryorbalkhisdeedsforehe'dbitoffherfootandpanofherlegandwasrunningbacktothetreetoclaimthategg"yourfriendflamingo"heshoutedtohen"wasflyingthruthesky"butsheain'tnobetterflyerthanitowitheheldupflamingo'sbleedinglegandrepeated"nowgirlbettadropthategg"atwhich,trembling,shedroppedoneandthenanotheruntilshejustcouldnotkeepgoinganyfurthershehaddroppedthreeeggsandjackalwasstillshoutingformoreandtruthbetoldshewasinthesamebindasbefore"jackal"shesaid"ican'ttakenomoreyougonnahavetokillmelikeyousaidyouwouldbefore"andsheheldherbreathandwaitedtodiebutofcoursenothinghappenedcausejackalcan'tfly.

henpaidthreeeggstolearnthesethingsandnoneofthemisaboutnowingsthefirstisaboutgettingpastfearhowyougottafightforwhatyouholddearnextboutbeingquietonyoursourceofedificationandthelastoneabouttrustingrobbersfortruthfulinformation.

GALEJACKSON

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KuwAsi BaIaC|Oon1946-1986

your honorsince i've been convicted of murder

and have taken the time to digestjust what it meansafter noting what it means to my familyand how it affects people who read the newspapersand all

i see now, that i've made an awful mistake!and didn't approach this matter of a trialin a respectful, deliberate or thoughtful mannerdidn't take advantage of the best legal adviceand based my actions on irrelevant matterswhich i can see now in a much more sober mind

had nothing to do with this casei must have been legally insane thinking about:the twenty five murders of children in Atlantasince WayneWilliamscapturethe recent murder of a man in boston by policethe two recent murders of two in Chicago by policethe shooting of the five year old little boy in suburban califthe lynchings in Alabama -the mob murder of a transit worker in Brooklynthe murders of fourteen women in Boston

feeling that this is evidence of somethingand that there must be a lesson in all this—i thought murder was legal.

—Kuwasi Balagoon

Kuwasi Balagoon, New Afrikan revolutionary and Prisoner of War, died in a New York stateprison hospital ofPneumocystis carinii pneumonia on December 13,1986.

Kuwasi was a freedom fighter. From countering racist attacks in the military when he was 17, toblocking evictions as a tenant organizer, to working with the Black Panther Party and later as asoldier in the Black Liberation Army (BLA)—Kuwasi fought for the rights, dignity andindependence ofNew Afrikan people. For over 20 years he dedicated himself to building a strongBlack liberation movement He influenced many through his commitment, and unyieldingopposition to the U.S. state.

Kuwasi eluded police and went underground in 1968 after his indictment in the New YorkPanther 21 frame-up trial. He spent 10 years in prison because ofhis revolutionary activities, andmanaged to escape twice. His final stay in prison began when he was arrested in December, 1981and charged with participating in the BLA's October 21 Brinks expropriation attempt in Nyack, NewYork.

Whether on the streets or in prison, Kuwasi was loved by those who knew him—for his strongcharacter, care and concern for others, especially the children, and his ever-present sense of humor.Kuwasi's determination and courage, his love of life and freedom, remain an example to all whowould dare to struggle for justice and a better world.

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Bill Wahpehpah, a leader in theAmerican Indian Movement, died January 2, 1987 of heart failure in Oakland,California. Many of us knew Bill and wefeel a great loss on learning of his death.

Bill was active in the Indian movement

for 20 years. As Director of Informationfor the International Indian Treaty Council, he brought the struggle of indigenouspeople of the western hemisphere to theworld. He was a builder, creating bridgesof unity between national liberationmovements. Bill also devoted tremen

dous effort to education. He founded the

AIM for Freedom Survival School in

Oakland, California, in order to give Indian youth an education in an environment that would build their pride andstrength as Native Americans.

Bill approached political struggle withjoy and humor. He taught respect—foreach other, for other nations, and for theplanet on which we live. He never let usforget that we are standing on stolenIndian land.

Bill taught us about Indian culturebecause he thought it important that we,who live in a white American culture so

alienated from nature, understand andrespect the earth that sustains us. To Bill,being an anti-imperialist extended fromending the exploitation of people to putting a stop to the rape of the planet

Prairie Fire Organizing Committee extends our condolences to Bill's familyand to the entire Indian Movement

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:l drogonwflflyout-Whentheprison doors ore openedthereddrag™ will fly out-Wr»nthef>risonclo™ oreor^^

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areopenedthereddragonwill fry out•Whenthefrisondoorsoreoaened rhereddragpn will By out-Whenthe prisondoors are openedthe reddragon"" fljWhM) theprisondoors ore opened the reddrooon will fly

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words by Ho Chi Minh and Roque Dalton