Category Archives: peace

FIRST ENCOUNTER by Peter Nolan Smith

September 1, 2023 – 1:04 pm

America was in a deep recession during the summer of 1974 and I had returned to Boston after a two-month hitchhiking trip across the USA to discover that banks and corporations weren’t hiring long-haired college graduates. I finally found work at the Shaba, an Israeli restaurant on Beacon Hill, as the cook. I had never […]

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March On DC Plus 50

August 26, 2023 – 7:37 am

Written on Aug 26, 2013 August 28, 1963 hundreds of thousands of Americans assembled in Washington DC for the Jobs and Freedom March. The demonstration had a good number of whites, but the marchers were predominantly black and very brave considering how the police treated any congregation large and small of America?s minority with violence. […]

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Professor Berthell Ollman’s Letter of Resignation

July 11, 2023 – 9:54 am

I just read Professor Ollman his 1986 letter of resignation from the Jewish people, because of the Zionists’ treatment of the Palestinians. A brilliant treatise ending with a Lenny Bruce piece. An hour of reading. The last lines. “As far as I?m concerned, the comedian, Lenny Bruce, provided the only good answer to this question […]

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South From Tibet 1995

May 24, 2023 – 8:22 pm

At the bottom of this road was the route to the holy mountain of Khailash I had stood at the t-bone intersection hitchhiking a ride to Nepal to the South over the Himalayas. I couldn’t have been happier in such desolation whereas I freak out in airports. Safe and sound from the elements. A Tibetan […]

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Mukhannath Alone

May 11, 2023 – 10:30 am

Last week while waiting for the B54 bus at JayStreet-Metro Tech I spotted a figure in a chador crossing the plaza. Not an usual sight in Brooklyn with its sizable Muslim community, however this person’s gait was unusual for a woman and I realized that they were trans-gender. They weren’t wearing a veil and their […]

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