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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">Is power a function of speech?
That, in essence, was the core of the Supreme Court decision we know under the
deeply cynical &#8211; but curiously not inaccurate &#8211; name of </span><i>Citizens United. </i><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">Limiting the right of the wealthy to spend
limitless sums of capital on political campaigns was curtailing their right to
speak about issues that matter both to them and the polis.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">But capital is not speech &#8211; it&#8217;s power.</b> Consider the example of
Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>The
company employs 613,300 people, roughly twice the number who worked at IBM when
I was employed there in the late 1990s. Amazon actually earned $171 billion in
revenue in 2017, with an overall net income of $3 billion, assets worth $131
billion and a stock valuation of just under $28 billion. Thus the equity per
employee of Amazon was a smidgen over $45,000. One could argue that the company
was and is a good buy at its current price of around $1500 per share. There is
a lot of value in its activity that is not captured in a stock price that low. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">That value is divided, of course,
not among its employees, but rather its shareholders, the largest being Amazon
founder Jeff Bezos. Not that Bezos depends entirely upon undervalued Amazon
stock for his wealth. His early investment in Google (a mere $250,000) for
example, is now worth more than $3 billion and Bezos owns a lot of other stuff,
including a space exploration company and, through a limited liability
corporation called Nash Holdings, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Washington Post, </i>an asset that makes him a target of angry tweets by
President Trump. Overall, Bezos is said to be worth over $150 billion, slightly
ahead of Bill Gates, but considerably ahead of you and me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">Whether Bezos is the richest man in
the world, as Wikipedia and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Forbes, </i>assert,
or not depends on part on how one values the wealth of some off-the-books
types, such as Vladimir Putin ($200B, give or take<a href="file:///C:/Users/rsillima/Documents/Crit/Blog/2019/Is%20power%20a%20function%20of%20speech.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>)
or the 2,000-members of the Saud family said to be worth a total of roughly
$1.4 trillion, a significant amount of which is controlled by a handful of elders.
Saudi Arabia is, after all, the one country named for its ruling family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">A few years ago, when Bill Gates
first became the &#8220;richest man in the world,&#8221; it was a title that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>could be had for $30 billion. The subsequent
growth in these numbers reflects a fundamental tendency of capitalism to
accumulate and concentrate. If all the money in the world (currently somewhere
around 255 trillion US$) were divided equally among the eight billion people on
this planet, everyone would have a net worth a little under $32,000, which is
about one year&#8217;s tuition at an Ivy League school. So the likes of Bezos, Gates,
Putin and Mohammad bin Salman represents quite a bit more than their &#8220;share&#8221; of
the world&#8217;s wealth if we look at the planet as something akin to an asset that
belongs to us all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">Which means that these
disproportionate concentrations of wealth represent serious distortions of
power, including the power to concentrate food, shelter and physical wellbeing.
That is what politics is all about. In terms of wealth, Jeff Bezos has 4
million seven hundred thousand times that of the average human being. Dividing
Amazon&#8217;s HQ2 50,000 future employees among the residents of northern Virginia
and the Bronx is just one way to ensure that Bezos&#8217; absolute economic influence
in the metro DC and New York City regions will be magnified by significant
voting blocs of people for whom what is in Amazon&#8217;s interest translates into
their own welfare. It&#8217;s the old &#8220;What&#8217;s good for General Motors&#8221; formula
updated for the internet age. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">So the protection of wealth as
speech &#8211; again, the essence of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Citizens
United </i>&#8211; is intended to ensure that the concentration of capital will be
protected by the US Constitution. It&#8217;s a neat trick that Lewis Powell first
foresaw when he suggested the weaponization of the US legal system in his memo
to the US Chamber of Congress in August of 1971. Since then, the US right has
organized systematically to take over the courts, a process that has required
diligence, organization and a reasonably singled-minded focus for 48 effing
years to accomplish its goal with beer-boy Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s ascension to the
Supreme Court and the Senate&#8217;s wave of confirmations of Kavanaugh knock-offs to
fill a wide range of lower court vacancies that built up during the Obama
years, complements of Mitch McConnell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">By way of contrast, future Arkansas
governor Bill Clinton was so appalled at the defeat of George McGovern by
Richard Nixon in 1972 that he founded the Democrat Leadership Conference to
ensure that Democratic politics in the next generation would not be weighed
down by any socialist-leaning ideas from the American Left. Clinton&#8217;s vision of
a Democratic Party working in unison with liberal aspects of corporate America
has governed the party pretty much until this last election. Even now, the
Democrats find themselves with Chuck Schumer, a US Senator who represents
exactly one city block of lower Manhattan, and Nancy Pelosi, a committed
centrist, running the party in Congress, plus a passel of disparate candidates
hoping to run for the presidency in 2020, exactly two of whom (Bernie Sanders
and Elizabeth Warren) might be characterized as &#8220;on the left.&#8221; Most, although
not all, of the rest seems to be following the Obama formula of looking
progressive while operating as centrists &#8211; no &#8220;out&#8221; centrist has won the Electoral
College since 1996. Beto O&#8217;Rourke, a former Democratic Congressman who often
voted with the GOP and who can be characterized as a progressive only when
contrasted with the likes of Ted Cruz, is more typical of the field. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">In short, we have a relatively
organized American right, currently being held captive by a politician who
demonstrates that party&#8217;s contempt for professionalism in politics, against a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>broad array of candidates most of whom
actively do not want to challenge the Democratic party&#8217;s symbiotic relationship
with Wall Street, Hollywood and tech billionaires. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What an appealing choice!</i></b>
Further, the longer the Republicans can control the Senate and the executive
branch, the more damage they can do and the longer it will take any bottom-up
mass movement of Americans to overturn the right&#8217;s stranglehold on at least the
judiciary. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">And did I mention that climate
change makes the problem more urgent every day?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">It&#8217;s enough to make a Chomskyian
out of a sane person, if only because Chomsky&#8217;s complaints about the rapacious
nature of capitalism tend to be reasonable. The real problem is how to undo
what has been done and overturn capital&#8217;s stranglehold on the polis. If you
don&#8217;t break that stranglehold, any short-term fixes will prove as fragile as
Barack Obama&#8217;s progressive heritage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">I think that the answer to the
first question has to lie in a series of Constitutional Amendments, the first
of which declares that money is not speech. But I wouldn&#8217;t want to call a
Constitutional Convention in the present political climate, would you? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Handmaid&#8217;s Tale, </i>here we come. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">Long term, it will take <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">at least </i>the single-minded focus that
the GOP has demonstrated since 1971 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and </i>a
degree of organization that is the equal of the Republican right. One aspect of
that organization has to be a consistent never-ending critique of capital&#8217;s
role in society, precisely its capacity to concentrate power. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">It is that disequalibration that
underpins all the ways that capital empowers every form of privilege that
exists: white privilege, male privilege, straight privilege, age privilege, you
name it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">If I look at how Jeff Bezos employs
his wealth, he seems innocuous enough. Amazon&#8217;s corporate contributions have
skewed slightly Republican, but not significantly so, and Bezos himself has
mostly supported establishment Democrats. His ownership of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Post </i>has been hands-off<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>in pointed contrast with the Murdoch clan,
allowing professional journalists to do their jobs, even if a lot of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Post </i>contributors clearly suffer from
inside-the-Beltway conventional thinking. Bezos&#8217; more important political
contribution has been a $10 million gift to With Honor, a non-profit cofounded
by GOP strategist (and never-Trumper) David Gergen to elect more veterans to
Congress. Not all veterans are conservatives &#8211; Ron Dellums was a member of the
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) as well as a former Marine. But the
overall impact of such giving, like hiring some 50,000 employees in two key
districts on the East Coast, seems poised to ensure the well-being of Amazon
itself as it remakes the commercial sale and distribution of products in a
web-driven world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">And progressive-sounding
politicians who do nothing to ensure the election of progressives at the state
and local level, as was the case with Obama, or who do nothing to disengage US
foreign policy from the interests of international corporations &#8211; as was also
the case with #44 &#8211; do little more than ensure that the worst immediate
consequences of capital may be inhibited while the deeper stranglehold of
wealth on history and privilege continue unabated. I think it&#8217;s arguable
whether or not Obama made the ascendancy of a racist and fascist to the
presidency inevitable, but he certainly helped to magnify the damage that man
can do while in office. Voter suppression campaigns in Wisconsin, Georgia and
elsewhere, are a direct result of Obama&#8217;s abandonment of state and local
politics while in office. The disarray of US foreign policy reflects the
reality that Obama&#8217;s international vision amounted to little more than
continuing the use of US military might (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this
time with drones!</i>) to bolster a global order tailor-made by and for US
corporations<a href="file:///C:/Users/rsillima/Documents/Crit/Blog/2019/Is%20power%20a%20function%20of%20speech.docx#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>. When
Trump came to pull that house down, it was already in considerable shambles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">The same year that Lewis Powell
penned his infamous memo to the Chamber of Commerce, he was nominated by
Richard Nixon to the US Supreme Court where he would serve for 16 years. He
died finally in 1998, some twenty years before the Kavanagh nomination ensured
that a nation that leans to the left will have its laws interpreted for a
generation by a court that leans markedly to the right. That&#8217;s a vision of a
long arc, a vision the left has lacked for a generation. With the growing
threat of global warming sure to push ever larger numbers of people to
increasingly desperate acts, it&#8217;s really now or never. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Russian investment oligarch son of former US Communist Earl Browder, and
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career was Nelson Rockefeller. His Democratic counterpart, Zbigniew
Brzezinski, was in turn sponsored by David Rockefeller. The company the
Rockefellers inherited was Standard Oil, the global predecessor to Exxon. Kissinger
and Brzezinski ran foreign policy during the Nixon and Carter years, and were
replaced<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>during the Reagan era by Casper
Weinberger and George Schultz, both of whom ran divisions at Bechtel. Reagan&#8217;s
vice-president was the only CIA official to ever own his own oil firm,
George<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>HW Bush. Oil&#8217;s tight control of
foreign policy fit right into the rise of the automobile in post-WW2 America,
as well as the automobile&#8217;s greatest achievement, the American suburb and the
physical remaking of every metropolitan region in the nation. Why are the
Saudis our friends? What&#8217;s good for General Motors? </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1355929041755_4600">Qatari poet Mohamed Ibn Al Ajami&#8217;s crime consisted of reciting a poem extolling the courage and values of the popular uprisings in Tunisia.</b>&nbsp;For that he's been sentenced to life in prison.<br /><br /><a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7041" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b6868; outline: 0px;" target="_blank"><b>We have the opportunity to join with a remarkable list of prominent poets from around the world in urging the court in Qatar to reconsider.</b></a><br /><br />Rather than making itself an instrument for cracking down on dissent, we believe that the Court should uphold Mohamed Ibn Al Ajami&#8217;s right to free speech. The poem he recited called for an end to intolerable conditions, a demand that for the past two years has been aired by millions throughout North Africa and the Arab world.<br /><a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7041" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b6868; outline: 0px;" target="_blank"><b><br />In this spirit, we poets and non-poets who perceive the need for worldwide change at the social, political and ecological level, call on the Court to review the appeal, stop siding with repression and lend its ear to the movements that have sprung up all over the world for dignity, social justice and freedom, virtues that poets all over the world are endeavoring to voice and deliver using the beauty and power of poetry.</b></a><br /><br /><b>Please sign the petition and forward this email widely to like-minded friends.</b><br /><br />-- The&nbsp;<a href="http://rootsaction.org/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2862c5; outline: 0px;" target="_blank">RootsAction.org</a>&nbsp;team<b><br /><br />First signatories:</b><br />Michael Rothenberg, Terri Carrion cofounders 100 Thousand Poets for Change<br />Michael McClure, Poet/ Playwright, USA<br />Sam Hamill, Poets Against War, USA<br />Sarah Browning, Split This Rock, USA<br />PEN American Center<br />Code Pink<br />Abraham Entin-Move To Amend Sonoma County, founder<br />Susan Lamont-Peace &amp; Justice Center of Sonoma County, coordinator<br />Philip Levine, United States Poet Laureate (2011-2012)<br />Ron Silliman, Poet/Silliman's Blog<br />Alice Walker, USA<br />Pina Piccolo, 100 Thousand Poets for Change-Bologna<br />Roberto Malini, Genoa, Italy<br />Naomi Shihab Nye, USA<br />Sergio Rotino, Italy<br />Adam Vaccaro, Milanocosa, Italy<br />Steed Gamero, Peru/Italy<br />Rebeca Covaciu, Italy<br />Alessandro Brusa, Italy<br />Shailja Patel, USA/Kenya<br />El Habib Louai, Morocco<br />Natalia Molebatsi, Azania<br />raphael d&#8217;abdon, Azania/Italy<br />Jack Hirschman, San Francisco, USA<br />Agneta Falk-Hirschman, San Francisco, USA<br />Gabor Gyukics, Budapest, Hungary<br />Karam Youssef, Cairo, Egypt<br />Kristaq Shabani, President of the I.A.P.W.A "Pegasi" Albania<br />Robert Priest, Toronto, Canada<br />Eliot Katz, Hoboken, New York, USA<br />Lance Henson, Cheyenne/USA<br />Ipat Ciuraro, Italy<br />Fabio Petronelli, Italy<br />Alexéi Tellerías Díaz, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic<br />Betty Esperanza, Montreal, Canada<br />Alfredo Gonzalez-Baranquilla, Colombia<br />Nana Nestoros,Volos, Greece<br />Mariposa de la Rocio, Montevideo, Uruguay<br />Chapal Saha-Bogra, Bangladesh<br />Bart Plantenga, The Netherlands<br />Elliis Ebakor, Nigeria<br />Pilar Rodríguez Aranda, Mexico City, Mexico<br />Dean Johnson, Birkenhead, United Kingdom Songwriter/Playwright<br />Karim Metref, Italy<br />Antar Mohamed Marincola, 100 Thousand Poets for Change-Bologna, Italy<br />Mohamed Malih, Italy<br />Gassid Babilonia, 100 Thousand Poets for Change-Bologna, Italy<br />Paul Polansky, Serbia<br />Ed Warner-Poesia, Italy<br />Marina Mazzolani, 100 Thousand Poets for Change-Bologna, Italy<br />Patricia Quezada, 100 Thousand Poets for Change- Bologna, Italy<br />Andrea Garbin, poesiadalsottosuolo, Italy<br />Chris Abani, USA<br />Martín Espada, USA<br />Teresa Mei Chuc, USA<br />Marcia Lynx Qualey, Cairo, Egypt<br />Khaled Mattawa, poet USA/Libya<br />Fady Joudah, USA<br />Glenys Robinson, UK/Italy<br />Mitko Gogov, Strumica, Macedonia<br />RootsAction<br />Dennis Formento, New Orleans, LA, USA<br />Carolyn Forché, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA<br />Patricia Smith, USA</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What does Peter Coyote have
in common with Marvin Bell? The same thing that Clayton Eshleman has in common
with Anselm Berrigan, Bill Berkson with Maxine <span class="SpellE">Kumin</span>,
<span class="SpellE">Ursala</span> <span class="SpellE">LeGuin</span> with Julia <span class="SpellE">Vinograd</span>, and Stanley <span class="SpellE">Kunitz</span> with
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As hokey as the official
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website&#8217;s database of more than 5,000 poets is a remarkable collection of the
diversity of American writing, an amazing statement in opposition to a war in
which the shooting has not yet begun. While <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://poetsagainstthewar.org/displaypoem.asp?AuthorID=5671">Zamora,&nbsp;Daisy</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Not all of these links lead
to poems &#8211; several are statements of conscience. And I&#8217;m sure that as my eyes
literally glazed over the table of contents, I missed a lot of other obvious
&#8220;name brand&#8221; poets. The list above represents less than four percent of what
can be found at the website and I heartily recommend scrolling through &amp;
reading widely. One way to start is to read everything from your neck of the
woods. Collectively, it has that mind-numbing, awe-inspiring overwhelming
quality I will always associate with the AIDS Quilt. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Given the balkanization of
American letters &amp; Sam <span class="SpellE">Hamill&#8217;s</span> own
less-than-innocent role in same &#8211; the site&#8217;s chapbook itself underscores the
problem perfectly &#8211; I think it takes an enormous amount of goodwill &amp; sense
of urgency to send a poem or statement to this project. That so many American
(&amp; a few Canadian) poets have done so is a testament to the lateness of the
hour &amp; the importance of the idea. If/when this war <span class="GramE">begins,</span>
these writers are on record that George W&#8217;s assault on the people of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Iraq</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;"> is not being conducted in our name. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One of the great lessons of
the Vietnam War is that a nation of people opposed to a foreign war can
actually constrain &amp; eventually halt that conflict. Unfortunately, one of
the other lessons of that war is that this process takes time. Between the
so-called </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-family: Arial;">Gulf</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-family: Arial;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tonkin</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;"> incident on </span><st1:date day="4" month="8" year="1964"><span style="font-family: Arial;">4 August 1964</span></st1:date><span style="font-family: Arial;"> and the day when the last Huey pulled the final
refugees off of the roof of the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;"> embassy in </span><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Saigon</span></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;"> in April,
1975, eleven years, over 50,000 American &amp; millions of Vietnamese lives
were wasted. The current regime in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Washington</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;"> doesn&#8217;t know much about history books, but it does
know that a &#8220;surgical strike&#8221; campaign, a war that can be measured in months or
even weeks, is politically feasible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Today was the day that </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Laura</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Bush originally set aside to invite a few poets to the White House to
discuss Whitman, Hughes &amp; Dickinson under the banner of &#8221;Poetry and The
American Voice.&#8221; This event won&#8217;t happen because one of the invited poets, Sam
Hamill, turned out to be a conservative only in his aesthetics. Hamill, as
concerned as any American about the impending disaster, sent out an email to
some friends:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">I am asking every poet
to speak up for the conscience of our country and lend his or her name to our
petition against this war, and to make February 12 a day of Poetry <span class="GramE">Against</span> the War. We will compile an anthology of protest to
be presented to the White House on that afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">That email spread like a
computer virus, replicating over &amp; over again until virtually every poet in
the country must have received it at least once. I know that I stopped counting
the copies I received when it got into double digits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Somewhere along the way,
somebody &#8211; it would interesting to know just who &#8211; thought to let Ms. Bush know
of this impending anthology &amp; the event was cancelled, generating several
articles in the media. As it turned out, the poet laureates of both </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Canada</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and </i>the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">United States</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;"> weighed in against the war. </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Todd Swift</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">&#8217;s ad-hoc antiwar anthologies got some media
attention that they almost certainly would not otherwise have received.
Editorial writers generally took the line that &#8220;poets will be poets,&#8221; which,
condescending as it certainly is, at least acknowledges the historic opposition
to war &amp; brutality that many &#8211; but by no means all &#8211; poets have shown over
the years. Even less surprisingly, writers who function professionally as right
wing commentators, such as Roger Kimball &amp; J. <span class="SpellE">Bottum</span>,
both invited to the cancelled soiree, weighed in to scold their peers for a
lack of manners, a curious way to balance the impolite bombing of the citizens
of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Iraq</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;"> whose only crime is to have failed to oust a brutal
&amp; murderous dictator. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Since then, there have been
plenty of opportunities for second-guessing. <span class="SpellE">Hamill&#8217;s</span>
website has reminded everyone of what they knew all along &#8211; he&#8217;s really a
conservative as a poet, even if he does oppose the war. His &#8220;chapbook&#8221; in fact
reflects an establishmentarian poetics that wants more than anything to retain
its role as just that. Others have suggested that attending the event &amp;
making a scene there might have generated even more media attention to the
rapid arrival of a wide-spread &amp; popular opposition to Bush&#8217;s war. I&#8217;m a
skeptic on that one myself. I think that <span class="SpellE">Hamill&#8217;s</span> email
took on a life of its own precisely because there is such widespread
opposition. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But what <span class="GramE">concerns</span>
me is not the usual &#8211; &amp; ultimately petty &#8211; divisions between traditions of
poetry. I am experiencing emotions that I suspect many Germans must have felt
in the late 1930s: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">my </i>government is
about to rain death onto the world in great quantity. The legitimate safety of
the nation in which I live, one ostensible reason for this, can only be damaged
by any invasion of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Iraq</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;">. The other reasons for an invasion &#8211; ranging from
the importance of upholding UN resolutions to Iraqi connections to al Qaeda &#8211;
all fall into the categories of dubious to laughable. The history of the </span><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Soviet Union</span></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;"> has demonstrated that containment works against far
stronger foes than Saddam Hussein. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Which
leaves only one plausible rationale for sending troops into </span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Iraq</span></span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Arial;">: the liberation of the Iraqi
people.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> I&#8217;m certainly sympathetic
to that argument &amp; can understand why left intellectuals from Ellen Willis
to <span class="SpellE">Salman</span> Rushdie could be persuaded of the need for
force to oust a genuinely barbaric dictator. But I have two problems with this
argument itself &#8211; first is a rather long list of other nations that would, by
logic, then force us to engage. Hussein may be the worst of a bad lot, but he is
hardly alone. The second is that, from an Iraqi perspective, the last nation on
earth I would to become an involuntary protectorate of would be the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">United States</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Far from &#8220;helping to spread
democracy&#8221; to other Middle-Eastern states, the Bush strategy is a recipe for
long-term destabilization of an entire region, stretching from sub-Saharan </span><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Africa</span></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;"> and extending to the western provinces of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">China</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;"> &amp; the <span class="GramE">Philippine<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>archipelago</span>. And, as should be
apparent to anyone in the post-September 11<sup>th</sup> world, destabilization
abroad can have profound consequences at home as well. Any attempt to stretch
our military dominance over such a vast terrain &#8211; one that includes or touches
at least four nuclear states &#8211; would require a transformation of the American
economy toward a fortress </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;"> prepared for permanent conflict. It is no accident
that no nation in history has been able to sustain an empire &#8211; the costs far
outweigh any riches reaped. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What can be done to halt
this disaster before it occurs? <span class="GramE">Short of a massive general
strike in the </span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Arial;">United States</span></span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Arial;">, virtually nothing.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The present regime has already demonstrated that it
will not listen to the majority &#8211; that isn&#8217;t how it got into office, nor an
impulse it has had even for one day since taking power. </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Furth</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">er, it has subsequently consolidated power in all
three branches of federal government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Poets need to continue to
speak out, to demonstrate to the world the absolute lack of consensus the
actions of this regime have, to point to the hypocrisies &amp; to call
attention to all of the various new threats on democracy and justice that emanate
from the axis of evil situated between </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">Crawford</span></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">, </span><st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">Texas</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">, and the White House. But nobody, poets most of all,
should be </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">del</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">uded into thinking that this by itself constitutes
effective action. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The problem that poets have
is one that we share with all progressives &#8211; the forces who promote this
conflict have dramatically reorganized &amp; transformed themselves since the
1960s. Progressives continue to use the same tools that took so very long to work
four decades ago that millions died needlessly. Unless &amp; until we can
transform that imbalance, more to the American Voice than just poetry will
continue to go unheard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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