Heroine of the week:

Cecilia Fire Thunder, the President of the Oglala Sioux in South Dakota, speaks truth to the white boys who think they run things in her country.

“I will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on my own land which is within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Reservation where the State of South Dakota has absolutely no jurisdiction.”

Here posted is the snail mail address where you can send checks and letters of support to help fund such a clinic. Like m... read more

“In this world
we walk on the roof of hell
gazing at flowers”
--Issa

As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged.  And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. 
 
Justice William O. Douglas