Creating Connections

The book, ‘Witnesses of the Unseen – Seven Years in Guantanamo’, by Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir shines a light on the systemic and institutionally sanctioned forms of racism, abuse, torture and injustice perpetuated by the USA. http://witnessesbook.com/ How they maintained their humanity in conditions so warped, so Kafkaesque, so barbaric, so brutal, so … More Review of ‘Witnesses of the Unseen – Seven Years in Guantanamo’

https://wiseupaction.info/2019/10/28/art-and-action-in-defence-of-julian-assange-publisher-of-wikileaks/ Art and Action in Defence of Julian #Assange publisher of #WikiLeaks Posted on October 28, 2019 by greekemmy As Britain awakes at the need to defend Julian Assange an Exhibition was held in the Isle of Wight highlighting this issue. Read below the inspiring introductory speech by artist and activist Anna Fauzy-Ackroyd. Please visit … More Courage is Contagious

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/01/assa-n01.html UK art exhibition for Julian Assange: “If courage was not contagious, I wouldn’t be here today” By Paul Bond 1 November 2019 In the face of a media blackout and state-orchestrated vendetta, support for Julian Assange is growing among artists. An Exhibition of Free Expression by three local artists on the UK’s Isle of … More Art Exhibition in Free Expression dedicated to the defence and freedom of Julian Assange

I had been reflecting on an idea the seed of which was probably planted by Zen Buddhist, Thich Nhat Hanh. It was regarding the concept of being free on behalf of someone who is physically imprisoned. That there is no distance; that walls cannot be barriers to love or the freedom someone holds in their … More Flying with Jonathon Livingstone Seagull

I am writing regarding my serious concerns for the health of Julian Assange, founder and former editor in chief of Wikileaks. On 29th May 2019, it was reported that he had been moved to the Belmarsh Prison medical ward.  Almost seven weeks in isolationThis was after more than seven weeks, in the prison, mostly in isolation, … More The life of multiple award-winning journalist, Julian Assange, could be in jeopardy

It took losing a tree, in my case two in my local area in a short space of time to bring to my awareness how special they were to me. The first was a tree at the bottom of my road which I had befriended over the years or perhaps it had befriended me! I … More Dear Tree

When my friend, Katherine, passed on her Miracle Worker, ‘There is no Death’, to me she could not have known what she had set in motion. Reading it, I looked at the Miracle Café page wistfully thinking how lovely it would be to attend Lia Steinson’s evening, ‘Walking the Path of Grace’, on the 26th … More Walking the Path of Grace

  Finding Myself  Fibromyalgia you hold me in your embrace. If I fight with you, if I don’t like you I am rejecting my very self. I will learn to love and accept you and I will expand it to myself so well that I don’t need your help anymore. That is the way to … More From the Chrysalis