...DAVID WOJAHN Ozone Journal , Balakian Peter , University of Chicago Press , 2015 Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture , Balakian Peter , University of Chicago Press , 2015 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2016 A lthough he has...

..., and the hole in the ozone layer is shrinking, all because of the future-oriented work of the people in the live studio who came before us. This is our heritage as a progressive movement. We are the future they were looking into the camera and addressing back then. We are the future that they were building...

... their instruments had been telling them since 1976: that there was major thinning of the ozone layer in the stratosphere. In much the same way that we ignored the ozone layer, we have ignored, overlooked, and undervalued the Core Economy as if we could always count on family, neighborhood, community, and civil...

... apartheid in South Africa, as well as to clean up polluted rivers, do away with ozone layer destroying aerosols, open their doors wider to minorities, and remove trans fats and antibiotics from our foods...

... when we try, but now we must take this up a notch. Instead of just cleaning up rivers A Communist newspaper kiosk is burned by pro- and protecting the ozone layer, we have to demand that they no longer orient their prof­ Shah demonstrators in its to benefit...

... and of power, gods of greed and addiction If you Do and you Make, and Produce without pausing; If you Do without Being— Then the rain will not fall— or will turn to sharp acid— The rivers won’t run— or flood homes and cities; The heavens themselves will take arms against you: the ozone will fail you, the oil...