PROTEST ART

Essays
on-going investigations of power and memory, who is telling the story, cultural conversations, ways of perceiving and reckoning with history.
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We must be prepared to match actions with words by seeking out every creative method of protest possible. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions. But we must all protest. 
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Riverside Church,
April 4, 1967

War Dance
Hipfish Monthly, March, 2024 pp 8-9

Theatre of War
Hipfish Monthly, February 2024 pp 8-9

The Abolition of War
Introduction to No Strangers Here Today,
2012, download essay booklet

One Drop To Victory
mixed media (detail) & music score
by David Ornette Cherry
dedicated to Bob Marley

Eleanor Roosevelt, co--author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948

It is the responsibility of society to let the poet be a poet.

It is the responsibility of the poet to be women, to keep an eye on this world and cry out like Cassandra, only be listened to this time.
—Grace Paley, from Responsibility