Stanford Says No to War presents:
Monday October 27
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Jordanian police arrested a local writer Tuesday for incorporating verses of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, into his love poetry,
a judicial official said.
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If there were no war,
We could construct a bridge between Earth and Mars
Melting weapons in an open-hearth furnace.
If there were no war,

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Open up, genitalia
like a consenting flower
Undo the latches of your retreat


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Now, the Republican Party has not only alienated the highly educated regions of the country, it has blown off entire professions.

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by:
747Captain | October 9, 2008
How Racism Works

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There are five thousand of us here
in this small part of the city.
We are five thousand.
I wonder how many we are in all
in the cities and in the whole country?
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Goteborg, Sweden 11-12 October 2008
In Memory of great Iranian poet
Manouchehr Atashi

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Victoriously we decided to win
When we trashed all the paradox and
Looked at the brightness around us
Where we can test freedom and love
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Marin Poetry Center contributors to the latest anthology will be reading from their works.
Contributors include:
Mahnaz Badihian, Ellen Bass, Karen Benke, Claire Blotter........
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Free from the boiling blood on this Earth.
Let my tears pour down from the sky
And drench the fire of revenge in Man’s heart.
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I am difficult, like your tresses;
Like your tresses, I am rebellious.

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Sarah Palin is the classic example of a woman being used by those in power to remove power from women.
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Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God,
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‘I am an Afghan woman
It only makes sense to moan’
(Final stanza from a poem by Nadia Anjuman)
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"Ummi" ("My Mother")

I long for my mother's bread,
And my mother's coffee,
And her touch.

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