last week we had uci’s first annual amnes-tea and coffee night: an evening of coffee house atmosphere and human rights related poetry, readings, and musical pieces. we came away from the whole experience feeling slightly depressed but generally motivated to help fight human rights abuses around the world. i created a presentation in flash, which […]

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this is a piece that i appended to an previous post on the holocaust and read for a poetry and music performance night for the campus chapter of amnesty international:
world war two seems like so long ago, and the deliberate killing of six million ordinary men and women and children seems like it belongs on […]

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a deafening explosion rocks the building and many of her co-workers fall to the floor, stunned. she is knocked off her feet and the side of her head comes down hard on the side of a desk. as she falls, there is the roaring sound, punctuated by shattering glass and screaming. the glass sounds […]

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my need to write for mind on fire ebbs and flows…for the time being, my life is full.
what fills my life?
selling cookies for my beloved daughter’s girl scout troop…shouting “no blood for oil!” with thousands of other demonstrators while marching through downtown los angeles…contemplating the existence or non-existence of god with dear friends…building little databases […]

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