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JUSTICE: SLOW – BUT SURE… VICTOR JARA’S MURDERERS FOUND GUILTY IN CHILE
Víctor Jara was arrested as part of Pinochet’s purge of government supporters in the United States/CIA backed coup against the Popular Unity Government of Salvador Allende
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FOR A POETRY OF LIBERATION? PINA PICCOLO – 13 POEMS
Pina Piccolo, a poet, teacher and translator, raised in Italy and Berkeley, California, and now living in Italy, is one of the principal coordinators and originators of La macchina sognante and more recently The Dreaming Machine
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FOR A POETRY OF LIBERATION? AN INTERVIEW WITH PINA PICCOLO
Can poetry in this brave new world we live in today, have a force, a revolutionary and transformative force for ‘good’?
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Irish poet Seamas Carraher published a poem for the people of Afrin
Séamas Carraher is a working class poet and writer born on the Southside of Dublin, Ireland
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To the Chinese Comrades, Please Release Poet Liu Xia
Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace prize in October 2010 “for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China”
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‘The Death of Stalin’ Film Review
Rotten Tomatoes gives director Armando Iannucci’s recently released comedy The Death of Stalin a 96 percent viewer rating
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Palestinian Poet Dareen Tatour Convicted of Incitement, Supporting Terror for Poem and Facebook Posts
Palestinian poet and Dareen Tatour was surrounded by supporters on Thursday, May 3 as the Nazareth Magistrate’s Court found her guilty of incitement to violence and supporting a terror organization
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK in April, 1915
On a day this week, April 24, 1915, the arrest of Armenian intellectuals began in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople that was to be the signal for the mass murder of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians
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Will CUBA become a test case for a post-postmodern future?
In April, Cuba’s National Assembly will elect a new president, who, likely for the first time since the 1959 Revolution, will not be a Castro
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Writer Daniel Chavarria dies in Havana
Daniel Chavarria, great writer and communist, has died on Friday in his beloved Havana. He was born in Uruguay in 1933 but his incredibly adventurous and political life brought him to many shores
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