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Walt Whitman Awtt Portrait

Ask the Right Question

I intended to write about immigrants. About our government’s demonization of immigrants. About the reasons people flee their homes, abandon their extended families and communities, take enormous risks and

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Standing In Black Gaza Vigil2

Standing in Black

Yesterday afternoon, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., 17 men and women dressed all in black, stood in a line on the street in the little

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UHRWA-100-days-Gaza

To Recognize the Fact

I call it cruel and maybe the root of all crueltyto know what occurs but not recognize the fact. – William Stafford, from A Ritual to

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AWTT portrait of Julia Butterfly Hill

Let’s Be Clear

Friends, Donald Trump has promised that his first official act as president will be as a dictator. My first act – waking up on November

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