Author: barry.belmont
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What was the UW Encampment Protest?: A brief study of a brief moment
A note on names The names used throughout this essay are fictional. Though many people I spoke with gave me their names or aliases on the condition I could refer to them as such, I have chosen here to further preserve the privacy of individuals associated with the encampment through an additional layer of protection…
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A Few Photographs of the UW Encampment Protest
“If I could do it, I’d do no writing at all here. It would be photographs; the rest would be fragments of cloth, bits of cotton, lumps of earth, records of speech, pieces of wood and iron, phials of odors, plates of food, and of excrement. Booksellers would consider it quite a novelty; critics would…
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A Tale of Two Thieves
To all opposed come and watch me sing ‘Cause I got no more left in me But of course a chorus, a message or two, The few words I’ve got left for you That I’ll hum from the gallows and shout ’til I fall And pick up when I rise again: When told those same…
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You work in a coal mine
And you show up every day you’re scheduled you work hard, mining coal for the company with the means you have at your disposal And you contribute a portion to the company profits And they award you a wage for that …
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Minidoka
President Gerald R. Ford, on the bicentennial of the United States’ founding, terminated Executive Order 9066 originally signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942 establishing ten “relocation centers” for Nikkei living in America, calling upon the American people to promise “we have learned from the tragedy of that long-ago experience forever to…
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Lubec, Maine, U.S.A.
At the easternmost part of the United States mainland sits a lighthouse whose lens transforms its surroundings in a catadioptric spectrum 83 feet above sea level. At the end of this remote rainbow in this remote land–– The “actual” easternmost part of the country changes with tides, erosion, accretion, environmental degradation, the accumulation of effluvia,…