by Kemit Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”)
is a highly acclaimed spoken-word artist, and has published two books A . . . Z . . . Infinity and Crucifixion of My Soul. The collective body of his works presented weekly in BAR are in tribute to Listervelt Middleton, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, and “For The People”. Currently, he is a facilitator at AYA Educational Institute (www.ayaed.com) and can be reached at sevenfootpoet(at)gmail.com.
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The Campaign
The Campaign
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The thing about three card molly is
while you’re looking at the cards trying to pick the Ace of Spades,
you fail to see the person picking your pocket.
This concludes my poem
about Barack Obama’s candidacy for U.S. President.
By Kemit Mawakana (aka The Seven-Foot Poet)
Peace (when appropriate) War (when necessary)
Copyright 1998.
Rethinking Cuba's political system as a model of participatory democracy.
Dollar hegemony has allowed the United States wage war without economic consequence for decades. But cracks in this system are now appearing.
Zionists continue their attacks on universities, exerting pressure to silence and terminate professors who express views in support of Palestinian liberation.
The United States has made economic coercive measures, sanctions, its primary foreign policy tool, committing war by other means with a comparable death toll.
Israel's diplomacy with Lebanon is a fiction. The goal is complete capitulation and annihilation of the resistance, at the cost of thousands of lives.
