Poetry & Philosophy

Everything philosophical and poetic.

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On Saturday, ROAR contributor Leonidas performed with activist hip-hop formation Social Waste at the anti-fascist concert on Syntagma Square, Athens.

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Post image for The Global Square: simply an ode to the world revolution

Are we being overshadowed by the big money of the devouring wolves and the peckish pigs? No we are not. Because we are the global square.

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This poem by William Butler Yeats is dedicated to the fearless revolutionaries of Egypt, the “indignant desert birds” whose resurrection is soon at hand.

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Cloud 99 per cent: we are the 99 per cent!

by I.G. Karfield on October 14, 2011

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FW: RE: Slavoj Žižek @ Occupy Wall Street: “John Lennon has passed and so has the dreamer. There’s a new kind on the rise.”

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The boys journey: reflection on a civilization

by I.G. Karfield on October 2, 2011

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The wandering boy returns to his home, and he finds he is left all alone. Just tables and chairs stare at him blank, and the sound of his family near.

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I.G. Karfield: “Full of piece: peace by peace”

by I.G. Karfield on September 24, 2011

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This country like that country, that country more like this country, none of the countries in this world have managed to create a system that works.

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A poem by Lupe Fiasco for #OCCUPYWALLSTREET

by Jerome Roos on September 17, 2011

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Hey Moneyman the crowd is outside. The past, the future and the now is outside. The teachers and cooks and drop-outs too. Word’s on the street they looking for you.

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I.G. Karfield: “throw away your agendas!”

by I.G. Karfield on September 15, 2011

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Set your agendas. // There is this movement // And it may not be stopped. // It may not be halted // It may not be dropped. // From your agendas.

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Voices are calling from the other side of the sea

by Jerome Roos on August 28, 2011

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The sun shines out of a corner. Its crystalline laughter unfolds a bridge over the sea. People cannot cross over it. But you can hear their whispers.

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The metamorphosis of Kanenas the Indignant

by Jerome Roos on July 18, 2011

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In his joyful struggle for survival, Kanenas, a Greek nobody at Syntagma, finds himself in a metamorphosis from ignorant to indignant.

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