... reporting that someone new had been shot by police, even then you could see the place on everyone’s back, where their shirt was torn, where the flesh under their shirt was torn. R He had two kids and a mother. The mother was a woman who went to church and that was where she went that day and the next...

... of black cinder and pillars of smoke — a black body hanging from a fence of an auto part yard, whisky-faced boys shooting through the fire as torn bags of loot trailed the streets. Prostitutes used pool cues to defend themselves. Booze and cartridge smoke ate their skin. One trooper said...

... imagine the human hands involved with every discarded item that had been there. Who were the beings with their unique joys and sorrows who had touched and abandoned the dirty, torn up objects there? How are the histories of that soiled mattress, torn up table, and rusty bicycle entwined with forces...

...Mahmoud Darwish Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2016 On the slope, higher than the sea, higher than the cypresses, they slept. The iron sky erased their memories, and the dove flew away in the direction of their pointing fingers, east of their torn bodies. Weren’t they entitled to throw...

... lovely face a tourist advertisement from God and your soul rent and torn like mine? She answered me: My soul is rent and torn like yours But it is beautiful because of that Like fine lace. To discover the deepest meaning of exile from a moment’s encounter was the work Yehuda Amichai did...

... on Clarence Thomas’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Black Americans were torn between fidelity to principles of fairness and justice, on the one hand, whether Thomas was qualified for the nomination and devotion to race on the other, whether Blacks should support one of their own, despite his opposition...

... Piercy’s vision of city life is often grim, she argues that hope is possible, even when local jobs are “exported to China” and neighborhoods are abandoned to become “blocks of zombie houses.” The poem “City bleeding” ends with this assertion: “Out / of ruins eerie in their torn decay / where people lived...

...-incrimination, as well as the rights to confront one’s accusers in open court, counsel, jury trial, and protection from being burned alive or torn apart on the rack, it was for good reason. The Dark Ages were not so far in the past...

... during an ICE raid in Phoenix Valley. Five of Cruz’s family members have begun facing deportation proceedings. While families are torn apart and workers are deported every day, the human rights movement led by undocumented people from Arizona and across the country continues to gain strength...

... to as “fragmented tyrannies,” we have seen some remarkable successes, such as in war-torn Liberia and Sierra Leone, where primarily women-led nonviolent movements played a major role in bringing peace. In Colombia, the Guatemalan highlands, and the Niger Delta, there have been small-scale victories of nonviolent...

..., which has become torn between liberal accommodationists, whose organizations are funded by the 1 percent and who focus on minor environmental advances, and radical localists, who have given up on fundamental social transformation and are instead trying to build local projects in which people live more...

.... In the Americas, Nicaraguan Jesuit Miguel d’Escoto served as foreign minister during his country’s war-torn Sandinista era and did all he could to bring the warring sides to the peace table without surrendering the basic principles of human rights and liberation. Costa Rica’s Oscar Arias Sanchez won the Nobel...

... After a quick scene registering grief at one I know of who I believe has got it right [FILM] the team leader’s death, the movie intro­ Here is the story. duces his replacement: Staff Sergeant Touring violence-torn...

... be anyone’s executioner. My clothes were splotched with filthy water, my good kidskin gloves punctured and torn from Pepi’s teeth! Nor did my husband, the gentlest and most civilized of men, ever imagine he might find himself provoked to rage, grunting, cursing, ugly veins standing out in his forehead, as he...

... replacement: Staff Sergeant Touring violence-torn Noakhali in William James, a young officer with exten­ Bihar, Gandhi had his grandniece Manu FEEDING THE sive bomb-squad experience. Soon he and sleep alongside him. Both slept without...

... are partners in this struggle, since battle lines are world in the service of human betterment. beingT drawn not simply on the street or in policy debates but also The first view can be called the urge toward naturalism inside each of us. We are torn between two visions of how to re­ whereas...

... wish them to be committed to ours There is no good reason to not seek to have a country that calls itself “the Jewish state” follow the highest ethical and most loving parts of our tradition (though we must acknowledge that our tradition has always been torn between those who heard God’s...

..., Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland. I think of Alan Kurdi, his brother Galip, and mother Rehan fleeing war-torn Syria only to wash up on the shores of Turkey. I think of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram and those in brothels and sex slavery. I think of the victims of ISIS and U.S. drone attacks. Help us...

..., soil, and paint. The work made us whole again. It healed torn souls. “I feel like we’re building a shrine,” I said to Annette, “a shrine for children to play in.” When the tot lot was complete, we planned a celebration. We invited every district child. “It can't be done,” I was told...