SECOND New Date: … Not Without Love and Care: A “Peaceful Revolutionary” Returns

Walter Pietsch, Korea-based Army veteran, noted, in particular, for his attempted citizen’s arrest of Richard Nixon and his record-breaking entanglements with the Supreme Court, comes to Curley’s Diner for a second visit with PoemAlley this Tuesday, December 11, to present his hot-off-the-presses autobiography, Walter Pietsch: Evolution of a Peaceful Revolutionary.

Walter and his wife, Anita

Credited by acclaimed actor/activist Edward Asner as “a fighter for the right things that occupy our lives and are usually ignored,” Walter will discuss the humorous and, at times, heart-breaking development of his tenacious passion for domestic and universal justice, how it interwove with the meeting of his wife, Anita, his lifetime enthusiasm for golf and the formation of the non-profit ARISE, from which springs his three-point proposal for “expanding democracy.”

"Highway of Death", Iraq, 1991

South Vietnam, 1969

A self-published effort, following Walter’s 2009 release, They Stole Our Country: We’re Taking Her Back!, Peaceful Revolutionary was produced with significant support from two of our Curley’s regulars, Rolf Maurer and Richard Duffee. The evening will also be an occasion to acknowledge and appreciate their efforts in helping bring out a book with great potential for changing our political landscape, hence our lives.

contemporary tent city, Sacramento

homeless veterans' families
celebrate July 4th, 2009

Adds Ralph Nazareth, founder of Yuganta Press and PA moderator, who served as consultant on his friend’s new project, "Walter’s life and work are testament to his beliefs that there is no poetry that’s not political and that no positive change is possible without love and care.”

... tomorrow?

drone victim, Pakistan, 2011

Inspiration for what is possible along these lines can be found in this contemporary rendering of Charlie Chaplin's stirring closing words from 1940's The Great Dictator, extolling the grace of our shared humanity over the exploitive misery of always being afraid of one another: