chris at
1:20 PM
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Saturday, February 04, 2006
Regarding Active-Duty Soldiers' Resistance to the Military ...
I've had good reason the last few weeks to continually check-out these fine sites of grassroots resistance and struggle against not simply resistance to the war in Iraq, but the current state of individual resistance to militarism in the US. The following sites are especially helpful in that they cut the crap and have mostly clear links to other helpful resources for the everyday person caught up in a complex of mostly indecipherable authoritarianism, including gross physical and psychological abuse within the military, which is more the rule, yet the more specialized situation of verifiable conscientious objection (reversal since Vietnam!) with its now well- established avenues/paths of (official) resistance:
War Resisters Support Campaign
Traveling Soldier
Mother Speak for Soldiers
Citizen Soldier
the above found variously, in and around, via the excellent Stan Goff.
Stan Goff's site was originally brought to my attention several months ago by my good friend, the fierce activist, compassionate poet and excellent translator, chris daniels, of nft series... many thanks, chris, these are especially helpful to me.
Continuing to research tonight and tomorrow, will try to find some legal assistance on Monday, though links and contacts in that seem especially scarce.
Please, if anyone has any suggestions in relation to this complex of sites/subject matter/issues, do let me know, especially if it concerns immediate (as of Monday) legal counseling. Backchannel me at chris.murray AT gmail DOT com
many thanks and much love to Y'all reading Tex,
xo,
chris
chris at
10:26 PM
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Friday, February 03, 2006
Oh, so very happy
to have opened my mail today and found:
a big package full of vibrant, violet magazines:
mem 3 !!
the cover design of mem 3 consists of
a floating music of leaves
(oaken-types) with, then:
one perfect, lone aspen imprint--
which exquistite design can only come from--as Bachelard
would put it-- the space of imaginative mind called
'infinite immenity'--
mem 3 features 5 pages each from poets Reb Livingston, Hoa Nguyen, Danielle Pafunda, Laurel Snyder, Katherine Varnes, and eep! li'l ol' me, Chris Murray ...
mem magazine is edited and published by the charmed, gracious, visionary experimentalist poet, Jill Stengel.
Jill: thanks so much for all you do.
mem 3 is energizing, inspirational, engaging, provocative.
i'm so grateful to be in it, grateful and tickled beyond belief!
Y'all:
Jill Stengel rocks poetry.
Yeah.
: )
order mem from a+bend press,
c/o Jill Stengel
P.O. Box 72298
Davis, CA 95617
or contact Jill via
Duration Press/a+bend press
or at
jilith AT aol DOT com
chris at
11:34 PM
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twilight, overpass, rainslick
Highway 81, southern tier, NYS, Jan. 2, 2006
--disposable cam
o~o/
chris at
6:36 PM
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Pic of a Pic: My Mother
chris at
4:27 PM
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also from (and with such maravilloso eccentricity!)
Ezra Pound's ABC of Reading * :
EXHIBITS
The ideal way to present the next section of this booklet would be to give the quotations WITHOUT any comment whatever. I am afraid that would be too revolutionary. By long and wearing experience I have learned that in the present imperfect state of the world, one MUST tell the reader. I made a very bad mistake in my INSTIGATIONS, the book had a plan, I thought the reader would see it.
In the present case I shall not tell the student everything. The most intelligent students, those who most want to LEARN, will however encompass that end, and endear themselves to the struggling author if they will read the EXHIBITS, and not look at my footnotes until they have at least tried to find out WHAT THE EXHIBIT IS, and to guess why I have printed it. For any reader of sufficient intelligence this should be as good a game as Torquemada's cross-word abominations. I don't expect it to become ever as popular, but in an ideal REPUBLIC it would. ... Let us look at the evidence. (95, 99)
* EP, ABC of Reading (New Directions, 1960).
chris at
3:42 PM
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Dept. of Footnotes:
a footnote found on page 92 of Ezra Pound's ABC of Reading * :
1. A Japanese student in America, on being asked the difference between prose and poetry, said: Poetry consists of gists and piths.
* Footnoted to the phrase DICHTEN = CONDENSARE.
Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (New Directions, 1960).
chris at
2:53 PM
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Practice Pad *
