Growing the future: ways forward, together

Poets dare to speak and live the truth. Apparently that scares the pants off the powers that be — upholders of the status quo, of patriarchy, of capitalism and of fascism.

In 1952 thirteen Soviet Jewish anti-fascists (including 4 poets, a distinguished novelist and 2 journalists) were executed — following years of imprisonment and torture. The event is known as Night of the Murdered Poets, or The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee Affair.

In 1973 Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (winner of 2 Peace Prizes and a Nobel Prize in Literature) was covertly poisoned in hospital during a political coup.

And this very month, award-winning US poet Renee Nicole Good was murdered in cold blood by agents of her own country. Most of the media coverage is being blatantly controlled and distorted, but click on the article below to read more.