Welcome to 2025 on Eartotheground! I can’t believe that it’s been nearly 6 years since I started this blog to contribute to a culture of awareness, resistance, and celebration of those whose voices are so often marginalized. But as Covid19 swept through the globe, and then the genocide in Gaza started, my preoccupations were often…
Category: anti-war
Complicity and Resistance: U.S. Poets on Palestine
Once again, as we enter the second year of an expanding genocide and are subject to increasing techno-fascism and the normalization of militarism, I seem to be unable to say any more than I and countless others have already said. This week’s blog perhaps subconsciously influenced by the upcoming U.S. election, features 3 U.S. poets….
There Should be No Anniversary for Genocides in Our Calendars
This last year has been very unusual in that a genocide is taking place in full view of our eyes, and that it has not even been stopped 365 days later, but rather, expanded— in a reckless and diabolical manner by an occupying force and the U.S’s billions shoring up the entity of Israel. Some…
Something More Than Force! Poetry and Humanity
Today’s post picks up where we left off, sharing the powerful and beautiful poetry of people’s varying resistances to annihilation. From the USA to Palestine, from Hawaii to Guatemala, these poems show us the common humanity we possess, though desperate efforts are being made to strip our commonalities away. These efforts are evident in trade…
Going Up the Mountain!
Ya Taleen, performed by Dana Salah An old song from the Galilee, it’s believed that Palestinian women used to sing it as they visited their loved ones in prison. Through the seemingly confusing lyrics, the women would convey subversive messages, perhaps informing their loved ones that they would soon be liberated by freedom fighters. This…
To Wake Up Human!
Antonio Gramsci would have aptly described our times, smug and blood-thirsty as the “time of monsters”. Unbelievably, it’s been 173 days of military onslaught that has brought calamity and massacres to the Gaza Strip. The suffering seems endless. Having seen the testimonies of so many children and youth, the murders, the detritus of bombardment, it’s…
Poetry for the Peeps! Humanity or Nothing
Today is a day when poetry and art speak for themselves. I think it is the 160th day of genocide, nearly 6 months since October 7th and we’ve seen things go from bad to worse with regard to the human rights of Palestinian peoples. Israel, U.S and the European powers who have big investments of…
Art and Poetry Speaking to Our Hearts!
We are in the 129th day of genocide and ethnic cleansing carried out by the Israeli state with military, economic and moral backing by the U.S. , Germany, U.K. and Canada to name a few. Nicaragua has joined South Africa in a plea for ceasefire through the ICJ. People around the world continue to walk…
Nothing More Hopeful Than Solidarity! Poetry for the Peeps
Today I continue my journey of sharing the words of artists and writers speaking out against genocide. For no matter how the ICJ stops short in calling for a permanent ceasefire to hostilities on Gaza, we around the world know the truth of the matter. I share today the beautiful words and vision of Canada’s…
Poetry for the Peeps! Witnessing Genocide
Today’s blog continues to look at the atrocities being committed in Gaza and to join the world plea for a ceasefire now. There is no end to this inhumanity of pulverizing a people in real time and with the massive citizen and press presence on social media platforms, allowing us if we choose, to follow the absolute tragedy…
Off with the Old Year! In with the New!
As we say goodbye to 2023, I feel compelled to say that witnessing genocide in real time has overshadowed so much and become one with the grief of the world.Since the management of the covid pandemic when blind obedience and global leadership let us down royally, to the current situation in which 2 countries hold…
Poetry for the Peeps! Sharing Spirit, Sharing Solidarity
Today’s post shares the amazing resilience of the Palestinian people and their supporters around the world. . Although I sometimes find myself turning away from the incessant slaughter by the Israeli and U.S. governments I remember that it is a privilege to do so and I turn back to the brave young journalists who bring…
Poetry for the Peeps! Poems For Humanity
This week, before the celebration of the birth of Christ in Beit Layem in a week’s time, Israeli leaders and their U.S. handlers continue their vicious bombardment and genocide of Gaza and its people. It is with a heavy heart that we witness no mercy. From occupation to apartheid to genocide, settler colonialism seems to follow the…
Poetry for the Peeps! Against Devastation
Once again I find myself still reeling from not only the onslaught of terror that is being perpetrated in the name of Israeli expansionism, but also the apathetic and two-faced world in which we dwell. The disconnect between the kleptocrats who rule us (disguised thinly as bourgeois democrats) and those of us who appear to…
Poetry for the Peeps!
We are seeing the rise of the new era of capitalism in its decadence, that is, decline. The thrashing tail and head are swinging all of us on this globe from side to side, twisting reality, employing doublespeak, and criminalizing compassion. In the midst of this slaughter of civilians and children, with over 12000 dead…
Ear to the Ground 