Attacking Iran & Some Thoughts on Murdering Children

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All my pretty ones?Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?What, all my pretty chickens and their damAt one fell swoop?   – Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3 One of the hardest truths to understand about Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is the deliberate targeting of children. Children and babies have been bombed, burned,  mutilated—killed […]

Tell Me It Ain’t So, Noam: Chomsky, Epstein, AWTT & Me

Noam Chomsky Awtt Portrait

When I was a college student in the late 1960s in Boston, I went to a teach-in at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge to hear Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky talk about the context of the Vietnam War—the history of the United States backing French colonialism in Vietnam, and, after the defeat of the French […]

Portrait Unveiling: Lucy Meyer

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On March 25, 2026, Robert Shetterly will unveil his portrait of Lucy Meyer, an international advocate and spokesperson for young people with disabilities. The unveiling is a featured event of the Addison County Youth Citizen Summit, an all-day gathering in Middlebury, Vermont. Sponsored by the Addison Central School District and Middlebury College, the Summit will […]

Just to Watch him Die

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When I was just a baby, my mama told me, “SonAlways be a good boy, don′t ever play with guns”But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.When I hear that whistle blowin’, I hang my head and cry (oh yeah!)                                        – Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues One of the curious aspects […]

Sports, Trump and Unruling the Game

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Ever since discovering playground kickball in the second grade, I have loved sports. In high school I ran track (a mediocre 400 meters), played football (a decent linebacker), basketball (a good corner jump shot),  and baseball (always a little afraid of line drives). I loved the competition, the practice—loved  improving my competence, loved team camaraderie. I enjoyed […]

Claudette Colvin 1939-2026

Claudette Colvin Awtt Portrait

“… as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don’t the adults around here just say something? Say it so that they know we don’t accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can’t sugarcoat it. You have to take […]

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