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on public international law’s iteration of the republic of conscience, its Yes to humanity, through stories that echo its meaning https://fromsaltintears.com; plus radical or root international justice for kids cahtreaty4kids.org #hope-walking
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“Kids Who Die”
Langston Hughes, 1938
This is for the kids who die, Black and white, For kids will die certainly. The old and rich will live on awhile, As always, Eating blood and gold, Letting kids die. Kids will die in the swamps of Mississippi Organizing sharecroppers. Kids will die in the streets of Chicago Organizing workers. Kids will die in the orange groves of California Telling others to get together. Whites and Filipinos, Negroes and Mexicans, All kinds of kids will die Who don't believe in lies, and bribes, and contentment And a lousy peace. Of course, the wise and the learned Who pen editorials in the papers, And the gentlemen with Dr. in front of their names. White and black, Who make surveys and write books. Will live on weaving words to smother the kids who die, And the sleazy courts, And the bribe-reaching police, And the blood-loving generals, And the money-loving preachers Will all raise their hands against the kids who die, Beating them with laws and clubs and bayonets and bullets To frighten the people— For the kids who die are like iron in the blood of the people— And the old and rich don't want the people To taste the iron of the kids who die, Don't want the people to get wise to their own power, To believe an Angelo Herndon, or even get together. Listen, kids who die— Maybe, now, there will be no monument for you Except in our hearts Maybe your bodies'll be lost in a swamp. Or a prison grave, or the potter's field, Or the rivers where you're drowned like Leibknecht. But the day will come— You are sure yourselves that it is coming— When the marching feet of the masses Will raise for you a living monument of love, And joy, and laughter, And black hands and white hands clasped as one, And a song that reaches the sky— The song of the life triumphant Through the kids who die.
February 1, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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‘Words do have power. Names have power. Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer’
— Ursula K Le Guin
January 31, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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Israel has long targeted children in the occupied territories. In Gaza since October 7, 2023 it has become barefaced. This crime against humanity has a specific name: child (I.e., young age persecution). #namethecrime www.ejiltalk.org/the-child-is...
The Child Is Not Dead: Ingrid Jonker’s Poem and the Atrocity Crime Without a Name
The child is not dead not at Langa nor at Nyanga not at Orlando nor at Sharpeville nor at the police station at Philippi where he lies with a bullet through his brain … the child is present at all ass...
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January 31, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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the extreme irony and hypocrisy of a govt masking its secret police while building and enforcing a database recognizing every one of our faces and personal data. 🤬
January 30, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Extraordinary. Ukraine, some African countries plus Syria mentioned. All important justice endeavours. But no mention of the Middle East in particular Gaza, Israel except one fleeting mention of Netanyahu by the interviewer.
January 30, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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Some lines and images from Requiem do sear the soul. The woman with blue lips was right.
January 30, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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Thanks for sharing, Nicholas. Sharing to show difference in translation. So interesting. I often wondered if another translation was better.
January 29, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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From Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem tr Lyn Coffin
January 29, 2026 at 6:59 PM