Category Archives: exhaustion

Ongoing racism and oppression – El racismo y la opresión constantes

This is yet another bilingual post… Este es otro artículo bilingüe. SO!!! Don’t come telling me to kiss and make up, to pretend I am not angry, to ‘come together’ with my oppressors. I have been trying to write an … Continue reading

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End the corruption and the rigging! ¡Paremos la corrupción y la manipulación de las elecciones!

This article is posted bilingually.  Este artículo está presentado en formato bilingüe. Last night, after days of sleeping no more than three or four hours, I conked out at 6 p.m. and slept almost 12 hours, without having dinner, wearing all … Continue reading

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Empathy and compassion

Yesterday I went to bring papers to the widow I have been helping.  After twenty-nine years of marriage to an abusive husband, a marriage in which she stayed in obedience to her marriage vows, as she is a fervent Catholic, … Continue reading

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Good days and bad days: an activist’s plaint

Yesterday I posted in my Spanish blog that I had been listening to Leon Gieco’s song, “Cinco siglos igual” (which translates roughly to “the same thing for five centuries”) and that I couldn’t help but think that despite all the … Continue reading

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