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• Thoughts about culture, strategy, and revolutionary organizations…

  August 11, 2013 in Big Ideas, Ideas, My Life, Politics

  I have come to understand myself as having roughly two “specializations” or focuses when it comes to the radical thinking that I most enjoy: popular education/political development and structures for political organization. The reasons …

• When people stop being polite…and start getting real!

  August 10, 2013 in Guatemala, My Life, Politics

  Sometimes simplistic identity politics are just easier than actually thinking about the realities of power and relationships. Over the years, I have been served well by facing potential conflict by just bowing, acknowledging the …

• Writing Update and More Than We Imagined…

  August 6, 2013 in Ideas, My Life

  For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been writing every day but, with the exception of a few spontaneous poems, little of it has been showing up on this blog. That’s because I’m finally …

• Poems for When You’re Older #3

  August 5, 2013 in Guatemala, My Life, Politics

  August 2013, 14 Months Old Here in the Caserio, they keep thinking you’re a boy. After the correction, always the short pause, then the question, “Why no earrings?” My love, forgive me, but how could I welcome you here, with a …

• Robert Frost, Meet Karl Marx…

  July 24, 2013 in Big Ideas, Guatemala, My Life, Politics

  All well-worn trails radiate calmness, where so many boots, and shoes, and sandals, paws, galoshes, and fleshy summer toes, have worked the earth down into rounded edges, like the dulling of a knife. The line is almost fuzzy, out of …