So Far, #ActiveVoice Has Raised $75 in our May Fundraiser!

Posted on Sunday, May 8th, 2011

Working on my dissertation is pushing me over an economic cliff, and I am not too proud to ask for help. Suggested Donation: $1 to $5

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Demand a Billionaire Tax

Posted on Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

By Charles Bivona : I’m so exhausted with these gluttonous, hoarding billionaires waltzing around my society with impunity, with this attitude: Well, I’m certainly not going to apologize for my success.

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“Black Water” | a short story by Sang Lee (1966-2010)

Posted on Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

A small ribbon of water ran down the side of a hill, past a well near my grandmother’s house. I was playing with my cousins. Their callow hands roamed over snow-blown bark, frozen grass and packed snow.

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World at War

Posted on Sunday, March 20th, 2011

They lived in holes, trenched in desperation before the newest WMD—the German Machine Gun. The German bunkers were well-built and well-supplied. German soldiers sat, waited for an English head to pop up, just for a peak, and then…

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Brutal Memoirs: Zen and the Art of

Posted on Monday, February 28th, 2011

By Charles Bivona | I was supposed to be following my breathing. I was supposed to stare at this white wall—“the emptiness of it”—and silently “count my breaths.” Simple Zazen: Breath in and count one. Breath out and count two. When you reach ten, begin at one again. I was supposed to sit on this hard buckwheat pillow, legs in a half-pretzel pose, and learn to ignore what the Zen Master called my monkey mind—“always fidgeting around!”

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