Tomorrow school children and teens around the world are going to join together and strike.
There are going to be support gatherings everywhere. You can find one near you here:
If you're not near a gathering or if you tend to freak out in crowds (there's lots of us out there), you can join the strike remotely. Take some time tomorrow to focus on the collapse of the entire ecosystem of earth - and figure out how you can fit into helping create change.
It's okay to do it alone, as the folks at AVAAZ say: "After all, this whole idea started with Greta Thunberg protesting
by herself." The point is to join the movement in the way that works for you.
Basically: Help out the kids who are trying to save all our asses.
Greta Thunberg & George Monbiot
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It's from the book, Revolutionary Letters (originally published in 1968, it is being re-issued in
November 2019 by City Lights Books):
Life Chant (Revolutionary Letter #68)
cacophony of
small birds at dawn
may it continue
sticky monkey flowers on bare brown hills
may it continue
bitter taste of early miner's lettuce
may it continue
music on city streets in the summer nights
may it continue
kids laughing on roofs on stoops on the beach in the snow
may it continue
triumphal shout of the newborn
may it continue
deep silence of great rainforests
may it continue
fine austerity of jungle peoples
may it continue
rolling fuck of great whales in turquoise ocean
may it continue
clumsy splash of pelican in smooth bays
may it continue
astonished human eyeball squinting thru aeons at astonished
nebulae who squint backsticky monkey flowers on bare brown hills
may it continue
bitter taste of early miner's lettuce
may it continue
music on city streets in the summer nights
may it continue
kids laughing on roofs on stoops on the beach in the snow
may it continue
triumphal shout of the newborn
may it continue
deep silence of great rainforests
may it continue
fine austerity of jungle peoples
may it continue
rolling fuck of great whales in turquoise ocean
may it continue
clumsy splash of pelican in smooth bays
may it continue
astonished human eyeball squinting thru aeons at astonished
may it continue
clean snow on the mountain
may it continue
fierce eyes, clear light of the aged
may it continue
rite of birth and of naming
may it continue
rite of instruction
may it continue
rite of passage
may it continue
love in the morning, love in the noon sun
love in the evening among crickets
may it continue
long tales by fire, by window, in fog, in dusk on the mesa
may it continue
the night music
may it continue
grunt of mating hippo, giraffe, foreplay for snow leopard
screeching of cats on the backyard fence
may it continue
without police
may it continue
without prisons
may it continue
without hospitals, death medicine: flu and flu vaccine
may it continue
without madhouses, marriage, high schools that are prisons
may it continue
without empire
may it continue
in sisterhood
may it continue
thru the wars to come
may it continue
in brotherhood
may it continue
tho the earth seem lost
may it continue
thru exile and silence
may it continue
with cunning and love
may it continue
as woman continues
may it continue
as breath continues
may it continue
as stars continue
may it continue
may the wind deal kindly w/us
may the fire remember our names
may springs flow, rain fall again
may the land grow green, may it swallow our mistakes
we begin the work
may it continue
the great transmutation
may it continue
a new heaven and a new earth
may it continue
may it continue
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| Diane di Prima |
The Poetry Deal
"Loba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the femimine, hailed by many as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg’s Howl when the first half appeared in 1978. Now published for the first time in its completed form with new material, Loba, “she-wolf” in Spanish explores the wilderness at the heart of experience, through the archetype of the wolf goddess, elemental symbol of complete self-acceptance."
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