Why we did nothing

For David Hicks, five years in Guantanamo Bay without charge They tor­ture him, Because he is Muslim Because he fought on the wrong side Because he is dif­fer­ent from them Yet we do nothing. They create laws with an eerily famil­iar ring, Because...

First poem in a long time

Saw Chil­dren of Men last night. Quite intense. This (draft only) was the result. Why we did nothing Men are being tor­tured right now in Guantanamo Bay Here on our island a whole class of people Can now be detained without charge Indefinitely They will be the...

Is it April Fools’ Day and I missed it?

Kaza­khs mis­spell ‘bank’ on money Maybe this is a Borat pro­mo­tion? It’s inter­est­ing though that the art­icle goes on to talk about the polit­ical implic­a­tions of lan­guage and the impos­i­tion of imper­ial lan­guage on dom­in­ated...

Affinity groups/G20 actions

You (hope­fully) know by now that the G20 is coming to town… the fin­ance min­is­ters and cent­ral bankers of 19 of the world’s richest coun­tries rep­res­ent­ing 90% of their wealth, yadda yadda. If you don’t know this yet and want more info about why that’s...