In the spirit of Smedley Butler and Ron Kovic, poet, author and Korean War veteran Walter Piestch will present his critique of political corruption, globally- suffocating imperialism and creeping authoritarianism that has come to characterize American domestic and international affairs over the last 40 years.
In addition to his poetry, Walter will read this evening from
They Stole Our Country: We're Taking Her Back!, his 2002 memoir recounting his unprecedented attempted citizen's arrest of a sitting President (read his testimony against Richard Nixon
here under search entry "434 F.2d 861") and his efforts to press lawsuits against Washington's undeclared wars in Vietnam, Nicaragua and Iraq as far as the U.S. Supreme Court.
As an "evolutionary revolutionary" who sees no expression of poetry that is not political, Walter will also discuss a way back from the Homeland Security state, TSA gropings, military commissions, drone surveillance/assassinations and the NDAA, through a three-pointed proposal to "expand democracy", ultimately transitioning society away from a culture of perpetual fear, repression and pathological profiteering, to one of love and care.
In the spirit of Smedley Butler and Ron Kovic, poet, author and Korean War veteran Walter Piestch will present his critique of political corruption, globally- suffocating imperialism and creeping authoritarianism that has come to characterize American domestic and international affairs over the last 40 years.
As an "evolutionary revolutionary" who sees no expression of poetry that is not political, Walter will also discuss a way back from the Homeland Security state, TSA gropings, military commissions, drone surveillance/assassinations and the NDAA, through a three-pointed proposal to "expand democracy", ultimately transitioning society away from a culture of perpetual fear, repression and pathological profiteering, to one of love and care.
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