Friday, September 23, 2011

Will you speak for the trees?

We’re linked. Like it or not, everything is linked. The future of life on Earth depends infinitely more on things like forest conservation than, say, profit margins. The sooner we realize this and act accordingly and decisively, the better chance we have of creating a softer place to land. Quite simply, the choice is ours…but time, my fellow earthlings, is not on our side.

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Some Expendable-related photos:

Signing my haiku at the vegan art show

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On the annual NYC Century Ride, the Astoria Park rest stop is named in honor of our fallen Expendable comrade

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Poem: “haiku scales"


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Monday, September 19, 2011

The need for revolutionary art



The folks at the Fair Share of the Common Heritage website envision every sentient being—human and non-human—fairly and peacefully sharing the planet’s resources. Besides the physical environment, this also “includes the inventions, knowledge and cultural contributions created by previous generations.”

In other words, all forms of art fit securely within the realm of this vision…especially those forms of expression that open minds, shatter illusions, provoke independent thoughts, and challenge prevailing trends. I like to think of such art as revolutionary climate change and indeed, we need an atmosphere of resistance.

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Another of my recent photos:

September roses

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Poem: “sweatshop haiku"


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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

What zoos (and wars) say about us

Please allow me to introduce the following presuppositions:

1.  Whether you call it a cage, a cell, a jail, a pen, a ward, a prison, a wildlife center, or an enclosure…incarceration is incarceration
2.  A culture that captures, confines, and exploits animals for profit is highly likely to regularly promote and engage in other forms of violence and exploitation

I contemplated these truisms upon hearing that Libya’s Tripoli Zoo had been abandoned during fighting in late August.

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Another of my recent photos:

Related haiku below

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Poem: “haiku-ku-ka-choo"


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