Breaking News of New Regime Change
(Poetry is Taking Over)

by Dasan Ahanu


Women will no longer be degraded and devalued
No more worry about disrespect
Playboy will no longer have pictures
Just essays from women with beautiful minds
The sports illustrated swimsuit edition


Blue Birds....Don't Mix with Blackbirds
by Various Authors

The Well Dries in Wellington
by
Lase Noumea

Granted I’ve seen a few Black men in Wellington--all with white women draped on their arms and holding beautiful mulatto children. But unlike my African-American brothers in the US, I can’t fault them. I am at the bottom of the Earth in a country where dark-skinned descendants of Africa are not flocking to.


Trent Lott: Stupid, Ignorant, Lazy or Puerile?
by Philip Traum

Worse than that, goes the argument, our ancient human nature immediately goes to work setting up perceptual biases along these dimensions such that we seek out confirming evidence for our beliefs about whatever age, sex or race category we are encountering.


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War Commentaries
by Various Authors

By going to war with over 62% of the country opposing military action at the time, George Bush and all of our elected officials--Democrats, Republicans and Libertarians--have failed to take the national consensus and conscience into consideration. In other words: WE HAVE NO VOICE!!!!


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War Commentaries

Editor’s Note:
As the overwhelming majority of Americans were for the War in Iraq, we thought it would be civil to offer a diversity of the perspectives that citizens had with respect to the past and current states of affairs.

Joe Villa

YOU PROUD AMERICANS SHOULD BE ASHAMED
WAS IT REALLY WORTH THE PATRIOTISM IN ORDER TO GET ONE GUY OUT THE COUNTRY?
THE SO CALLED LEADER DECIDES TO DESTROY INNOCENT LIVES
WHAT WILL IT PROVE AT THE END?
DESTRUCTION FROM A NATION OF DIVERSE CULTURES
AND FOR ONE MAN THAT ONLY MAKES DECISIONS PUTTING OUT SOLDIERS IN HIS LITTLE GAME OF CHESS
WHEN ALL HE DOES IS SIT BACK AND BABBLE
WITHOUT EVEN FIGHTING, BEING THERE TO LEAD HIS WAR
9/11 HAPPENED CAUSE OF RETALIATION
HOLLYWOOD WAS BRAVE TO RELEASE "WAG THE DOG" TO THE WORLD
BUT ALOT FORGOT THE REASON AND REALITY BEHIND THAT MOVIE.
THE ECONOMY IS LOW
TAXES GO TO WAR FUNDS
PROTESTERS BEING IGNORED
DO YOU THINK WE WILL GET ANYTHING AFTER THIS?
IS WAR REALLY THE ANSWER?
YOU MAKE HISTORY NOW
TO ADD MORE CORRUPTION TO SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS
BE A PROUD AMERICAN RAISE THAT FLAG FULL OF BLOOD AND HATE

ART WILL OVERCOME YOUR BLIND STATE

THE MASS MEDIA PRINTS MISTAKES WHILE THEY TRY TO DISTRACT YOU FROM BUSH'S MISTAKE
WHERE WILL HE RUN AFTER THIS?
YOU PROUD AMERICANS WILL BE SO PROUD TO HONOR SOMEONE THAT PLANS DESTRUCTION
HE IS JUST AS BAD AS SADDAM HUSSEIN
EVEN WORSE
WHEN WILL THE MADNESS CEASE?
AS WE SURVIVE IN THIS TIME OF ALMOST DEPRESSION
WE HAVE TO KEEP GOING
GO BEYOND THIS REALITY
SPREAD LOVE IN ALL FORMS OF ACTION
COMMUNICATE AS ONE...
REMEMBER THIS IS NOT OUR WAR
IT IS HIS
MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO REVOLUTIONIZE FREEDOM FROM THIS UNECCESSARY WAR

IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT THIS TIME!!

I PRAY FOR ALL THOSE IN IRAQ RIGHT NOW
THE INNOCENT ONES THAT HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE NEGLIGENCE, INTOLERANCE, AND STUPIDITY
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO PEACE?
THINK ABOUT IT...

AND TO ALL THOSE THAT GLAMOURIZE VIOLENCE IN HIP-HOP AND RADIO
WHY ARENT YOU OUT THERE FIGHTING FOR THIS COUNTRY?
YOUR IGNORANCE IS EQUIVELENT TO THIS WAR
LET’S SEE HOW BAD YOU ARE OUTSIDE THE STUDIO
TIMES UP LIKE O.C.
WE NEED TO EDUCATE MORE THAN JUST PROCRASTINATE
PUTTING LITTLE DONATIONS TO SOME ORGANIZATION ISN’T ENOUGH
KIDS LOOK UP TO YOUR PETTINESS AND WHAT DO U GET OUT OF ALL THIS IN THE AFTER?
THE FASTER YOU COME THE FASTER YOU GO…

SO JOIN THE WAR AND MURDAAAAAAAAH ALL U WANT
INSTEAD OF MURDERING THE ART WITH STUDIO GANGSTER BABBLE.

THIS WAR IS YOURS NOT MINE

I PERSUE ANOTHER MISSION
WITH NO INTENT TO FIGHT IGNORANCE BUT WITH EXPRESSION
WORDS HIT HARDER THAN NUCLEAR BOMBS
MUSIC FREQUENCIES THAT TRAVEL BEYOND
AND ALL OVER
THAT CAN AFFECT EVERYONE
TO BECOME ONE
THE REAL ENEMIES GET THIER EXPOSURE NOW
UNTIL DENIAL STRIKES WILL BE THIER DOWNFALL
LOVE WILL FINALLY MAKE ITS UPRISE
WAKE UP WORLD
ITS TIME TO BUILD TOGETHER
REFLECT THOSE THAT SACRAFICED FOR PEACE…

BREATHE JOE VILLA




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