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August 25, 2013

Why I Am Changing My Vacation Plans

August 26, 2013 Dear Columbia City Council Members, I am writing to tell you why I am changing my vacation plans this week. I brought my son Mason, not quite five, to the EdVenture Museum in Columbia last year on an afternoon road trip to the coast. He’s young (and was even younger then), and […]

Filed Under: Observations, Peace Work, politics, Uncategorized Tagged With: boycott, Columbia, homeless, homelessness, SC, South Carolina

April 1, 2013

The Klan went home, the community stayed

In the end, the best defense against bigotry is forging communities that are strong enough to withstand it. Really knowing each other is the starting place for healing all of our wounds. Learning each other’s stories and struggles leads to a broader sense of who ‘us’ is, and there is no victory over ‘them’ so complete, or so healing, or so effective, as welcoming them into ‘us.’ That is the radical subversion of fear by love.

Filed Under: Peace Work, politics

March 27, 2013

Klansmen, Crips, Clowns, Memphis and Me

This Saturday the Ku Klux Klan is promising to have one of its largest rallies ever in Memphis, Tennessee. I’m headed there too. The Memphis park formerly known as Forrest Park, after Civil War general, slave trader and first Grand Wizard of the KKK Nathan Bedford Forrest, now bears the innocuous moniker “Health Sciences Park” […]

Filed Under: Peace Work, politics Tagged With: CCC, community, Conference on Race and Equality, Coup Clutz Clowns, Forrest Park, KKK, Klan, Ku Klux Klan, Memphis, Memphis Unite, nonviolence, protest, rally, Tennessee, White Flour

January 3, 2013

Interview on peacemaking and activism

David Dault recently interviewed me for his podcast ‘Things Not Seen.’  It was a delightful conversation, and the edited version is here. I hope you will enjoy it. To listen, simply click here.

Filed Under: In the News, Observations, Peace Work, politics Tagged With: activism, charity, David LaMotte, jail, pacifism, social justice, Things Not Seen

December 5, 2012

What I Want For Christmas…

…really comes down to five or ten minutes of your time. And a stamp. And an envelope and a piece of paper. And a decision to spend those minutes in a way that could take a step toward righting a wrong. Ed Chapman is a friend of mine.  I’ve written about him before on my […]

Filed Under: General Update, Observations, Peace Work, politics

September 21, 2012

White Flour is now a video!

Here’s a way to hear and see this story, that doesn’t require buying the book. Please feel free to share it in any context you like, virtual or actual.  

Filed Under: In the News, Peace Work, poetry, politics Tagged With: activism, Clowns, Coup Clutz Clowns, David LaMotte, KKK, non-violence, nonviolence, street theater

June 5, 2012

Chances to spend some time in conversation this summer

Along with the whirlwind of activity around the release of my new book, White Flour, and some concert appearances, I’m preparing for a collection of conferences this summer, and I hope you can join me at some of them. One is for youth, and the rest for adults, with youth welcome.  I’ll be teaching creative […]

Filed Under: Music News, Peace Work, poetry, politics

April 10, 2012

Bloggers on “White Flour”

It is amazing to see all the excitement White Flour is generating, still six weeks out from its publication. Here are a few of the exciting things generated by other folks in response to the book. • Flip Lower, from Birmingham, AL, came up with the idea of ‘White Flour Weekend’ for May 26-27, where […]

Filed Under: Peace Work, poetry, politics

March 1, 2012

White Flour book on the way…

Order the book or support the project here! My new illustrated book will be coming out in late May.  It tells a funny, instructive and true story of a creative anti-racism protest by a group calling itself the Coup Clutz Clowns, in Knoxville, Tennessee.  If all goes well, the book will be released on May […]

Filed Under: General Update, Peace Work, poetry, politics Tagged With: Clowns, humor, humour, KKK, Knoxville, march, non-violence, protest, Racism, White Flour

September 14, 2011

“I’ve Never Liked Politics”

I found this poem searching through a file in my computer called “Works In Progress.” I had forgotten about it entirely, but thought it might be worth sharing…

Filed Under: poetry, politics, Slideshow Tagged With: orthodondure, poetry, politics

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Publishing with Chalice Press

May 2, 2022

Big news to share! I have signed a publishing deal with Chalice Press to publish a new edition of my book Worldchanging 101: Challenging the Myth of Powerlessness.  The new book, with significant … Read More

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