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Tag Archives: Prison Industrial Complex
THRIVE: OUR VOICES RISING! FORUM
THRIVE: Our Voices Rising! by METRAC Forum for the 16 Days of Action Against Gender Violence For Women and Trans Peoples Saturday Nov. 29, 2014 in Toronto, Canada 10:00am-3:00pm (registration starts at 9:30am) Metro Hall, 55 John St. -Room 308/309 … Continue reading
BLACK COFFEE POET READS @ SPINLAW 2014
Last Saturday I had the honour of reading at the York University Osgoode Hall Law School conference SPINLAW (Student Public Interest Network Legal Action Workshop) for the second year in a row! For SPINLAW 2013 I read a poem commissioned … Continue reading
BCP READS @ POVERTY TO POWER 2013
Poverty to Power Reading By Jorge Antonio Vallejos Photo by Gerardo Correa This past Monday I presented 3 poems about racism in the workplace, violence against Aboriginal women, and the prison industrial complex at the Colour of Poverty 2013 conference: … Continue reading
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Tagged Amani, Colour of Poverty, decolonization literature, Feminist poetry, George Elliott Clarke, Jane Creba, Mayor David Miller, Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, poetry, post colonial literature, Poverty and addiction, poverty and violence, Poverty poems, Prison Industrial Complex, Racism in the workplace, Rebellion poems, Rebellion Prose, Resistance Poems, Resistance Prose, Violence Against Women, Violence in the workplace
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LETTER FROM A BIRMINGHAM CITY JAIL BY MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Here on blackcoffeepoet.com I publish letters. Letters are personal, moving, and beautiful. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote this letter 50 years ago (yesterday) and it is still relevant today. Read, learn, act, write! Letter From A Birmingham Jail By Martin … Continue reading
SOMETIMES COMMUNITY IS ABOUT KNOWING WHEN TO SAY “NO”
Sometimes Community Is About Knowing When To Say “No” By Jorge Antonio Vallejos In 2005 author Rick Moody said something that stuck with me. He shared his disappointment with some of his fellow New York writers who were trying to … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Community Building, December 6th Vigil, Feminists of Colour Organize, First Nations Activism, First Nations Communities, First Nations People, First Nations rights, Idle No More, mixed race, Mixed Race writer, Prison Industrial Complex, Rick Moody, September 11th, Two-Spirit Literature, White Supremacy, Women Won't Forget
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THE HOMECOMING: A POEM ABOUT PRISON
It has been an interesting week. On Monday I wrote about my criminal past while thinking of the future of an acquaintance who has been charged with first degree murder; and I explored the prison industrial complex. A few people … Continue reading
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Tagged "The Homecoming: A Poem About Prison" by Jorge Antonio Vallejos, Arab poetry, Black Coffee Poet, boxer in prison, Colonialism, Coming Home, https://blackcoffeepoet.com/, Jorge Antonio Vallejos, Latino Poetry, Mixed Race poetry, Prison Industrial Complex, prison shanks, racism, True Crime, White Supremacy
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THE STORY BEHIND “THE HOMECOMING”, MY POEM ABOUT PRISON
The Story Behind The Homecoming, My Poem About Prison By Jorge Antonio Vallejos I saw Butch about a month ago on Bloor Street. He rode by on a bike as I was talking on a pay-phone. (Yes, pay-phones still exist and … Continue reading
THE HOMECOMING: THOUGHTS AND A POEM ABOUT PRISON
The Homecoming: Thoughts and a Poem About Prison By Jorge Antonio Vallejos I found out on Saturday that an acquaintance has just been charged with first-degree murder: “Did you hear about [so and so]?” said my friend. “Was he killed?” I said. … Continue reading
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Tagged "Beyond Scared Straight", "COPS", "Shook Ones part 2" by Mobb Deep, "The Homecoming" by Jorge Antonio Vallejos, Being Insitutionalized, Black Coffee Poet, Colonialism, https://blackcoffeepoet.com/, Jorge Antonio Vallejos, Mobb Deep, poetry, Prison Industrial Complex, Racism and prison, Sexual Violence, The First 48, White Supremacy
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