Tag Archives: protest

Fraiku: No Kings

Gather. Assemble. Not so you don’t feel alone. So no one else does. Tomorrow, Saturday October 18th: Find an event near you. You are not the only one who sees the danger, the insanity, the corruption of the Republican regime.

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Fraiku: Summer Solstice

Let’s turn up the heat under the moneyed elites and march in the streets Happy June Solstice! (Sorry about the rhymes.)

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Fraiku: No Kings

sigh After two hundred fifty years, we have to do it all again. (Find an event near you)

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Support the Troops

Will you thank them for their service when they gun down your neighbors for marching in the streets? Will you salute our soldiers, as they kick down your door in search of undesirables? Will you praise their sacrifice as they … Continue reading

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Fraiku: Campus

Listen the protestors, unkempt, thin and idealistic, they are usually right.

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Hell Hath No Fury

Mother Nature marches alongside her angry daughters in pink hats and sensible shoes wind howling protest We chopped down her forests planted crops — erected fences claimed her as property exploited — leaving her empty Allied with her fellow women … Continue reading

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“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

“The arc of the moral universe is long,but it bends toward justice.” Justice does not come from policeexecuting choke holds and no-knocks. Justice comes from citizens of consciencebreaking unjust laws and accepting punishment. Freedom does not come from an armyof … Continue reading

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Fraiku: Tehran and Washington

Women march in the streetprotesting theocracymaybe Gods are the problem

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Earth Day 2022

For today’s prompt (the final Two-for-Tuesday prompt of the month), write a love and/or anti-love poem. Earth Day 2022for Wynn Bruce You sacrificed yourself for us— for all of us outside the Supreme Court While we drove our hybrids wrote … Continue reading

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Angry Summer Sonnet

Angry Summer Sonnet Do not put your fist through drywall or glass. Do not screech frustration behind shuttered windows. Knock on neighbor’s door. Anger leads to action and action to change. Bring everyone you know. Punch the sky. Let the … Continue reading

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