Once again, joining millions of women world wide, on Saturday, January 19, 2019, Women’s March San Francisco will host a rally and march, kicking off at San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza at 11:30 a.m. with a lineup of speakers who advocate and organize on and around topics central to the Women’s March mission to work… Continue reading Women’s March San Francisco ~ January 19, 2019
Tag: human rights
All Things are Linked
As I wrote this post, my heart reached out to the families in Newtown, Conn., steeped in grief and looking for their next steps. May they soon find that—even in suffering— peace is every step…
Ancient Calls
Free write by Anita Gail Jones (written Oct. 23, 2009) Wrap the children in revival language Swaddle them in the sound from our past, the liquid coos and grunts of ancestors, left to us like ancient calls from birds now extinct but remembered through the the Mockingbird’s song on my garden fence. The sound of… Continue reading Ancient Calls
True Olympians 44 Years Later
It instantly became an iconic image: the two young black American athletes, John Carlos and Tommie Smith, standing shoeless on the victory platform for the medal ceremony at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, gloved fists raised in a black power salute as the Star Spangled Banner played, protesting apartheid and the racist practices of the… Continue reading True Olympians 44 Years Later