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Good News from Boulder, Colorado
The national campaign to Abolish Corporate Personhood and Defend Democracy.Sign the Petition: http://MoveToAmend.org/motion-to-amend * * * Last night Boulder became the second city in the nation to pass a ballot measure calling for an amendment to the US Constitution that would state that corporations are not people and the legal status of money as free speech! At midnight, with 93% of the ballots counted, the measure was handily winning with 74% of voters in support. Boulder’s campaign is the latest grassroots effort by Move to Amend, a national coalition working to abolish corporate personhood.Read More
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A Melancholy Accident
From John Latta’s blog post yesterday—an eloquent (as usual) meditation on several related themes, which ends with this quotation from Thoreau‘s Walden: Men have an indistinct notion that if they keep up this activity of joint stocks and spades long enough all will at length ride somewhere, in next to no time, and for nothing; but though a crowd rushes to the depot, and the conductor shouts “All aboard!” when the smoke is blown away and the vapor condensed, it will be perceived that a few are riding, but the rest are run over—and it will be called, and will…Read More
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D. A. Powell Responds to Occupy Wall Street
THE GREAT UNRESTby D. A. Powell When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?’ The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn. (Job 7:4) You’d think, bedraggled as I am by the illness of my age,I’d be able to lounge a little. That I’d shut out the noise, as others do,and I would sigh and sleep. Let me eat Tootsie Pops, I’d think. Let me lay in the moonlightand grow the opposite of babyfat. Lie, I mean. Let me lie. I have had to wrestle with grammarall my life.Read More
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Hypocralert 2
http://longhousepoetryandpublishers.blogspot.com/ Thanks to Bob Arnold for pointing me to this one.Read More
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Fenced Out—Or Fenced In?
The Corporatist State—Curbing the BullRead More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
