Month: June 2020

PETITION: Remove name of General who ordered Marias Massacre from Chicago's Sheridan Road

PETITION: Remove name of General who ordered Marias Massacre from Chicago’s Sheridan Road

Please sign and consider reposting in social media this link:https://www.change.org/NoMoreSheridanRoad Sheridan Road in Chicago is named after General Philip Sheridan, whose career included time here during the Chicago Fire and fighting for the Union during the Civil War but was rooted in the so-called “Indian Wars” of the Great Plains. 150 years ago, on Jan 23 1870, he directed Major […]

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Except the Names: Poetry from a White BlackLivesMatter Protester

Except the Names: Poetry from a White BlackLivesMatter Protester

Except the Names It’s a dangerous thing, cannibalizing another’s life for one’s own purposes. It’s done all the time. I hold the sign naming the dead black man as protest, in protest. Yet I am enthused, energized, and (must I say this?) enjoying myself. Something isn’t in sync. And then, looking around at the other signs, the other namesI imagine […]

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