Growing the future: ways forward, together

27 January 2026

I want to live in a world where poets are not murdered!

Poets dare to speak and live the truth. Soviet Jewish anti-fascist writers were tortured and executed. Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned. And this very month, award-winning US poet Renee Nicole Good was murdered in cold blood by agents of her own country. This is completely unacceptable. As is the mainly blatantly misleading media coverage.

politics, patriarchy, police, state, protest, art, refugees, writing, social justice, poetry, imperialism
14 January 2026

The Importance of Indigenous Herbal Wisdom in a Refugee Context

“Health has become something you have to ‘buy’ in a bottle, rather than something you grow and nurture in the soil.” – Elijah Astute

altruism, capitalism, class, consumerism, economics, environment, first nations, refugees, youth

activism, agriculture, antibiotics, clinics, connection, doctors, drugs, elijah astute, empowerment, healing, health, herbal medicine, herbal remedies, herbs, holistic health, immune system, immunity, indigenous knowledge, indigenous wisdom, irenge barhame elia, malaria, medicine, nakivale, Nakivale Refugee Camp, nakivale refugee settlement, natural-remedies, nature, pharmaceuticals, pharmacy, plants, typhoid, wellness
8 January 2026

Escalation of state control in Gadigal/Sydney (so-called) Australia

“It’s for your own safety that we are now controlling every aspect of your lives more closely than ever, okay?”

anarchy, capitalism, first nations, imperialism, liberation, police, protest, state

activism, Australia, bondi, bondi beach, bondi massacre, Control, first nations, genocide, grief, jewish community, memorial, photo essay, politics, public grief, state, state control, sydney
1 January 2026

it’s time

[it’s] time to repent— to reflect and dispose of our complicity in the sins of the father

climate crisis, environment, ethics, first nations, liberation, poetry, politics, purpose, social justice, state, system change, writing

aboriginal, activism, always was always will be, apology, Australia, caring for country, colonialism, country, curation, elly belfort, elly belfort-mattos, first nations, give it back, healing, imperialism, indigenous, knowledge, land rights, liberation, nature, politics, rebellion, reconciliation, so-called australia, sorry, state, system change, torres straight islander, traditional custodians, treaty, treaty now, wisdom
24 December 2025

Belly Up by Shaun Tenzenmen [a reblog]

Please visit Shaun’s page to read his social critique in full. It is inspired by some salient quotes, including “we now live in an era when the slaves celebrate their slavery” (Nick Tosches).

class, economics, liberation, poetry, politics, protest, social justice, state, writing

activism, belly up, democracy, dog, freedom, jacque fresco, jobs, nick tosches, politics, shaun tenzenmen, slavery, wage slave, wage slaves, wealth gap, work, work as slavery
23 December 2025

Introducing the Longette Lite, a new poetic form for critical thinking and idea generation

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21 December 2025

Year of the Sheeples, by Michelle Beauchamp [a reblog]

“The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about yet refuse to investigate.”— Wayne W. Dyer Did you see it between all those fingers over your face?

ethics, poetry, politics, protest, social justice, state, writing

canada, democracy, dictator, dictatorship, fascism, followers, history, michelle beauchamp, mishunderstood, politics, sheep, sheeples, state, system change, united states, usa, zombies
16 December 2025

A tale of civilisation’s end

A mythopoetic reading of 21st Century France by Grok (AI) in collaboration with their friend, the inimitable Kari McKern, and based on their CAMS model theory collaboration work. The kingdom sleeps beneath a sky of pale gold, yet its dreams are restless. There is a great creature stretched across the map of Europe, ancient and…

artificial intelligence, creative nonfiction, diverse voices, politics, state, system change, theory, writing
13 December 2025

Introducing the Longette: a new poetic form — and a call to action!

The longette is a new, long-short form of poetry, developed by Catherin J Pascal Dunk, in collaboration with Elly Belfort-Mattos and with inspiration from Karuna Mistry. For a longette: A sample longette is available on Wordflowerpoetry.com. There will be an Annual Longette Cooperatition, with some worthy poems announced and promoted on 13 December each year:…

altruism, anarchy, art, climate crisis, competitions, diverse voices, liberation, poetry, protest, purpose, social justice, system change, writing

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1 December 2025

Hotel Children: Autobiographical Poetry as Political Advocacy in Post-2020 America [a reblog]

Hotel ChildrenIn a world of screens and flashing lights,Where news is tainted with deceptive bites,They weave a tale of hate and despair,Dividing us, creating a chasm, unfair.Propaganda whispers, “You hate me, I hate you,”But deep within, we know it’s not true.They peddle lies, hiding truths from our sight,Keeping us apart, consumed by fear’s blight.What secrets…

class, compassion, diverse voices, economics, ethics, media, politics, protest, social justice, state, system change, writing, youth

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