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Two of the most important teachings of our time. Thank you, my brother, PLO Lumumba .~aw

How good to be talked to as if we can understand. Even something so evil and ultimately useless as war.  May all teachers be protected.  They are our hope.~aw

How good to be talked to as if we can understand. Even something so evil and ultimately useless as war.  May all teachers be protected.  They are our hope.~aw

REPRINT FROM SOURCE: UNZ.COM Craig’s Substack Original Article Craig Murrayx Mar 31, 2026 “The Weight on Delcy Rodriguez As I was leaving the University of the Communes in Tayacito, after a joyful and uplifting visit, an earnest young Professor came up to me and pulled me aside. Very quietly, he asked me what was going to happen. A number of the students were terrified there would be regime change and they, picked as young socialist leaders in the commune movement, would be imprisoned, tortured ...

We must go only where we can be loved. War has never been that place. And this war, especially, is not that place.  Meanwhile, though it might not look that way, so many of you are loved and truly seen, here at home.  No matter how hard this is to believe, because you are suffering deep insecurity and aimlessness here, there are those, like this commentator, whose passionate advocacy speaks of caring so intense it is as if the very Mother of Humanity is awakening, and aiming to protect your prec...

Just as we knew he could not have looked like the plantation owner. Or the lynch mob or the “big boss” in any form.  Just as we knew he’d know how to dance. I am so grateful to the Ethiopian monks and their mamas – so easy, these teachers, to overlook – for knowing what is essential to preserve. ~aw

ALICE WALKER / CARTA Happy Birthyear, Fidel! Dear Fidel, This year we celebrate your 100th birthday!   As your sister from a suffering America/United States, I can tell you: You are missed.  There was something about your relentless resistance to meanness and stupidity, and yes, the mendacity of politicians, that sat us all up straighter, happier, more determined ourselves to carry on the fight.  The fight for food, justice, equality, freedom of whom to love, and whom to join in battle against t...

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  Where the Dog Is ©2026 by Alice Walker In this insanity Who has kept their dignity More than dogs? You are evolved Beings If you never Find the cure for cancer Or of any malady at all. If you don’t discover An America Or know where Russia Actually is. You are the standard Of what some think of as human Behavior. Never bombing anyone. Never starving anyone. Never withholding love Or food. And can we even mention Forgiveness? You are the champion Of that.  Say a kind human word Or offer a pat An...

    In This Insanity ©2026 by Alice Walker   In this insanity Who has kept their dignity More than dogs? You are evolved Beings If you never Find the cure for cancer Or of any malady at all. If you don’t discover An America Or know where Russia Actually is. You are the standard Of what some think of as human Behavior. Never bombing anyone. Never starving anyone. Never withholding love Or food. And can we even mention Forgiveness? You are the champion Of that.  Say a kind human word Or offer a pa...