GLENN GOULD / BEETHOVEN PASTORAL ~

THE FIGHT (DON'T TURN AWAY) ~

People with disabilities are among the most discriminated against in Bolivia. Fed up with being ignored, a group of them march across the Andes to the seat of the government in La Paz, asking to speak to President Evo Morales. They are met with riot police, barricades, teargas and water cannon

Headed by determined leaders, including Rose Mery, Marcelo, Feliza and Miguel, the protesters camp on the streets a block away from the main plaza near the government palace. For the first time in Bolivia’s history, police erect 3m-high barricades, station tanks and hundreds of riot officers to stop the protesters in wheelchairs from entering the plaza.

Violent confrontations flare up between police and the protesters, with officers using pepper spray and water cannon. The government refuses to discuss their request for a pension of $70 a month and the protesters suspend themselves from the city's bridges in their wheelchairs.

After following the protesters on the march, film-makers Violeta Ayala, Dan Fallshaw and Fernando Barbosa gain intimate access to their camp, including up-close scenes of regular violent reactions from the police. The film-makers and other journalists are also threatened. For three months the activists with disabilities attempt to speak to the president but face criticism from the state's official news outlets.

As public pressure grows, can Rose Mery and her fellow protesters win their fight?

Read our article about the changes the protests have caused since this film was shot.

Share your experiences of being a disability rights campaigner

Key credits
• Directors, producers and editors:Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw
• Co-producers: Fernando Barbosa and Andrea Monasterios
• Executive producers for the Guardian: Charlie Phillips, Lindsay Poulton and Laurence Topham
• This video is produced in collaboration with the Sundance Institute Short Documentary Fund supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

The Guardian, U.K.

BLITZED ~

N    Y     T I M E S      R E V I E W

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READING ~

A great stack of

New York Review of Books Titles

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JOHN CAGE and MORTON FELDMAN ~

GIFT ~

Gift

every

morning

the same

river

through

the woods

through

my tiny

bedroom

window

Taking A Book Off The Shelf

The mystery or the irony

or whatever you wish to call it

may be this —

the writer you read

whom you consider great

may be a true son of a bitch

in real life, this life we live in,

he or she may have solid wisdom

in the pages, though is impossible

to live with, or to live, period —

but what must not be forgotten:

this great work that has for whatever

reasons made you feel great

is enduring

and you may be, too

Waiting In The Car

That finger tap at the window

any of us can do —

I just heard the rain do

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Bob Arnold

BEAUTIFUL   DAYS

Longhouse

JOAN MITCHELL'S COLOR ALPHABET ~

J O A N      M I T C H E L L

THE FEUD ~

Pantheon 2016

A  REVIEW

THE CHILD POET ~

R E A D      M O R E

SUSAN STEWART ~

Graywolf Press 2017

Wrens

their tumbling joy

decanted descanting

over cobble

stones in and out

of firethorn back

and forth to gingko

who knows

who will

ever know

what net

binds them

loosening

song?

I would not

lose them

could not lose

them know

if there's

another

place another

world another life

there must be wrens.

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Susan Stewart

EDNA GALLMAN COOKE ~

AND THE RICH, GET RICHER ~

Obama Accepts $400,000 Fee for a Speech

( on Wall Street )

( Surprise! Surprise!)

R E A D       M E

JONATHAN DEMME ~

JONATHAN  DEMME

photograph by Suzanne DeChillo

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One of our grandest modern film directors

is elegantly showcased and

remembered by the

New York Times,

with a film lover's thanks.

G O O D B Y E

D E M M E     F I L M S

D E M M E     &     M U S I C

EMILY DICKINSON ~

Amherst College Press

2017

M O R E      E M I L Y      D I C K I N S O N

ANSELM KIEFER ~

A     R E V I E W

Seagull Books
2016

MY BEAUTIFUL KNOW-IT-ALL ~

Library In The Woods 

1000s  & 1000s  & 1000s  & 1000s of books

Neat in rows room to room, floor to floor

Sometimes the mice

Run over the tops

My Beautiful Know-It-All

Before the robins could tell me

My lover told me —

“The robins are back”

Surgery

I just moved a curled up

woolly caterpillar from this

year’s woodpile into next year’s

10 Days Worth Of Amox~Clav

My cat can’t figure out why I’ve been sick so long

I see it in his face, eyes blinking, pinkest nose

my friends don’t know what to say after awhile

they figure it’s better to just go quiet

and so I go quiet

next subject will be politics

my lover is most concerned but sees me coming

to make love and says with a grin, “you’re better”

my mother, who shouldn’t come into this poem after

I make love but there she is, asks, “so what’s the

matter?” like it’s my fault

and maybe it is

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Bob Arnold

BEAUTIFUL   DAYS

Longhouse

BIG FUN ~

HELL NO ~

"I have sought in this essay to rescue the Vietnam
peace movement from oblivion."

— Tom Hayden

R E V I E W

THE SWAMP ~

“If monopoly persists, monopoly will always sit 
at the helm of the government.”

Woodrow Wilson

R E A D      M E

photo ~ NY Times

JAMES KOLLER ON THE ROAD ~

J A M E S      K O L L E R

~

I've had this tape sitting here for over a month now waiting for a spring day
of a sort to bloom so I could set it forth on the Birdhouse just the way Jim Koller often
took off for the west (from Maine) during the Spring. He had much family out
that way. Friends. Totems.

This tape, shared from Jim's youngest son Bert, who made the
recording of Jim, maybe around the time Jim was in his early 70s
is my guess — and you will hear the old midwest of his tone
and language (born outside Chicago) and a little whiskey and whiskers.
These are some of Jim Koller's finest road poems, and after Kerouac
few saw the open road as open and skyline as Koller.

Take a listen.

[ BA ]

J A M E S     K O L L E R      R E A D S

EARTH DAY ~

EarthRise,

the 1968 The Last Whole Earth Catalog

described this image as

"The famous Apollo 8 picture of

EarthRise over the moon."

THE HATRED OF POETRY ~

A N     E X C E R P T