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The Dyin’ Truth
By: John Gillen
Tags: Death, Resistance Poetry, Truth, Bob Dylan, Poetry

Photo by Weston MacKinnon on Unsplash

Bob Dylan’s voice is the unforced sigh that escaped the mouth of Christ when a spear pierced his side and blood and water flowed out to fulfill the words of Isaiah the Prophet

Saying they looked upon him whom they pierced

It’s the Truth

But it’s dyin’
The Uneasiness of Trees
By: Emma Briggs
Tags: Resistance Poetry, Climate Change, Trees, Poetry, Ecoanxiety

Photo by Jesse Dodds on Unsplash

Around me

the leaves drip

with oppressive, intermittent,

unanswered questions.

For a moment

cool air sweeps aside

the heavy, green curtain

of impending summer.

In the distance

inaudible chainsaws

obscure this

aesthetic perfection.

Birds attempt

to defy the gloom.

They do not convince

the dim, white sky.

The curtain drops again.

Silence returns.

Drip.

What is the next step?

Drop.

It’s hot. Will it rain?

Shhhh.

Is the answer blowing

in the wind?

Drip.

Which way to go?

Tweet.

How can we end this?

Tweet tweet.

Why can’t you hear me?

Drop.

When does it ever end?
Cancel Culture
Tags: Free Speech, Resistance Poetry, Cancel Culture, Poetry, Social Media

Cancel Culture

Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash

It seems today

Humanity has awoken,

The collective has risen

And the wagons have been circled.

In the name of truth,

Justice, democracy, equality

and other values that uphold our morality.

Now that we have all come together

To defend our most cherished values,

There has risen a movement of silencing

— “cancel culture,” I believe it is called —

Of muting all disagreements,

All who oppose the will of the collective.

And yes sure, it is fine today

When enemies muted,

Are vile and hateful.

But what precedent does it set

For a society moving forward?

What are tomorrow’s cultural norms?

What will be deemed as acceptable?

Can we look through a lens

And see the ways of future generations?

How about we take a few steps back

And examine our past.

What about the trailblazers

Who fought against the odds

And redefined history?

Shaping a new culture,

A fresh perspective on morality.

What if their voices remained unheard?

Would I be writing these words?

Or would they remain unknown?

Perhaps, I may be on a plantation, tilling farms.

It might be alright

To silence a few bigots,

Ban them from Facebook,

Yes, that serves them right,

And surely all who propose negative views about the other guy,

You know, our candidate

Delete their tweets, would you please,

Watchdogs of the internet,

Guardians of morality,

And of course it is a monopoly

So in the long run, who knows,

They might just control the entire narrative.

What example does it set,

Silencing opposing views?

I understand the dangers they could pose

Of radicalising and such and such,

But we’re essentially giving these private social media companies

The autonomy to decide what is right

And cast away all differing thoughts.

Big brother is quite literally watching

And his propaganda is all we could be hearing.

Granted it is still early days

And though I strongly oppose the views of most that have been censured,

I just just can’t help but to wonder.

What if the tables turned

And the people I disliked made these decisions,

Would the atrocious videos of police brutality, sex abuse, corruption and so on see the light of day?

Would the anger have ever be triggered

That had caused so many to rise?

Or would our humanity be forever cast away,

Lost in the shadows,

Like something out of a dystopian novel,

Future generations of conforming robots?

Today it may work in our favour,

But tomorrow,

We never know.

It is the way of a democracy,

Freedom of speech,

A voice for everyone.

Even the mischievous

Who seek to deceive.

So I guess what I’m saying is

It is essentially undemocratic

To ban participation

Because of differing views

Regardless of how vile they may be.

As a people

We have to believe,

In an innate goodness in humanity.

We have to believe that the masses are not crude and evil

And that the voice of the righteous will always overcome.
Open Skies
By: Samantha Lazar
Tags: International Treaties, Resistance Poetry, News, Poetry, Politics

Open Skies

Photo by Sebastian Molina fotografía on Unsplash

we see you looking at us

looking at you,

toy breaker

we have all been to your

house that (one) time

that one birthday party

we went as a team —

every kid a guard

for the other

no one opened their

presents at the party

anymore

except you

which expectant, hopeful

child gave the best gift

you peeled the tape politely

at first, then greedily

clawed at the gifts

hiding a paper cut

you tossed each toy

into the pile

and sugared-up

refused to play

with any of them

until your guests all

left and your siblings

wanted a tiny glimpse

at your treasure

and what they got

was a display of broken

toys for no one

no one

no one

you never ever learned

to share and so here we

still are

people voted

for the tantrum to

continue

imagine that

people still love

the spoiled kid best
For the Love of Covid!
By: James G Brennan
Tags: Resistance Poetry, Covid 19, James G Brennan, Poetry On Medium, Poetry

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Recount It All
Tags: Resistance Poetry, Election 2020, Trump, Politics, Poetry

Recount the disease you waited to act on

Recount the millions of people you let die

Recount the lessons you refused to learn

Recount the way COVID is still spreading

Recount each day you enabled pollution

Recount each climate effort you denied

Recount each disaster you didn’t relieve

Recount each victim who can’t recover

Recount the immigrants you targeted

Recount the real families you separated

Recount the trauma those kids live with

Recount the wall you made out of fear

Recount each woman you violated

Recount each woman you abused

Recount each woman who spoke out

Recount each woman who still will

Recount the racism that governs you

Recount the violent acts you triggered

Recount the lies you create every hour

Recount the people you never helped

Recount each travel ban you rushed

Recount each conspiracy you started

Recount each soldier you disgraced

Recount each court you sabotaged

Recount the failures you accumulated

Recount the favors you paid to Russia

Recount the allies you chose to avoid

Recount the millions you owe in taxes

Recount each message Twitter flagged

Recount each big red hat you sweat in

Recount each popular vote you’ve lost

Recount each reality you cannot face

Because WE, THE PEOPLE recount it all.
Neoliberalism Crash
By: James G Brennan
Tags: Resistance Poetry, Poetry, James G Brennan, Poetry On Medium, Politics

“Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth,

including human life” — Naomi Klein.

Neoliberalism, a modern-day success,

the rich become richer and the poor poorer,

blame it on where we are today.



In a messed up selfish egomaniac

megalomaniac western society

who have all the answers on how the rest of the world

Should operate, if you don’t, then they will make you.

Bow down and slave to the multi-billionaire conglomerates,

no questions, head down pitiful paycheck given.

Any problems just let them know, and they will gladly fix it.

“NEXT!!”

Milton Friedman and the Chicago Boys Neoliberal policies

found blessings in Thatcherism and Reaganomics,

re-inventing Santiago under the dictatorship

of Pinochet, a real-life puppet monster, murdering

poor Chileans who dared to oppose him.

Thousands of “the detained and the disappeared” were imprisoned in the stadium following the Washington-backed coup by General Pinochet against the democracy of Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973. — John Pilger.

The blueprint for future generations executed To a T,

the blueprint we now live and breathe every single

moment of every single day until we say, STOP!

How many more economic crashes will we allow them to graft before eliminating us undesirables?

It’s apparent the beast is not a person, the beast is an idea.
Faux King, Donald Trump
By: Harper Thorpe
Tags: Satire, Resistance Poetry, Music, Humor, Poetry

Trumpooning Tunes

Faux King, Donald Trump

Is about to be dethroned

Sung to the tune of Oh My Darling, Clementine

Oh my faux king

Oh my faux king

Oh my faux king, Donald Trump

Current tweeting self defeating

“Stop The Count” makes you a chump

Donald, get real

Lose “Stop The Steal”

’Cause we all know who’s the thief

’less your fleecing will be ceasing

You’re a Nixon, Crook in Chief

There’s another

Don, you mother ..

“Stop The Fraud” confused young Don

Taught in swaddle, business model —

All his sibs know — is the con

Oh my faux king

Oh my faux king

Oh my faux king, Donald Trump

Didn’t choose you, s’pose you could sue,

Don’t expect a Supreme bump.

In the White House

With the First Spouse

Acting like you’re royalty

They said “yes, Sir,” whispered “bone spur,”

Learned from you fake loyalty

’Bout that press con

A bad look, Don

Accusations were just lies

You’re a one term, yes the vote’s firm

This orange jump suit’s just your size.

Oh my faux king

Oh my faux king

Oh my faux king, Donald Trump

Jail’s no garden, Pence will pardon

’Course there’s state law, please don’t jump

When you were prez

Everyone says

Bossed and bullied with a tweet

Stick your phone where there is no air

It is time — accept defeat

Greta Thunberg

Get’s the last word

Anger management is due

You should chill out, if you must, pout

Your supporters were too few

Oh my faux king

Oh my faux king

Oh my faux king, Donald Trump

Melanie says, “Sleepy Joe, Prez!”

No more faux king, Donald Trump
What If Tomorrow
By: Samantha Lazar
Tags: Hope, Resistance Poetry, Election 2020, Poetry, Politics

What If Tomorrow

Photo by Rose Erkul on Unsplash

what if tomorrow

there’s no more need

to hang signs or march

our hearts have bled

enough

what if tomorrow

we don’t have to resist

we can live free again

the edges of our souls

ironed

what if tomorrow

creativity spills

out of every crack

every shadow

aflame

what if tomorrow

strife trances break

hope returns and

humanity is safe,

nourished
Resistance Poetry 2020.09
Tags: Collection, Resistance Poetry, Politics, Commentary, Poetry

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Compassion Collapse
By: Eliana Hadjiandreou
Tags: Empathy, Resistance Poetry, Kindness, Compassion Fatigue, Emotions

image source: Pikist

Burning buildings and babies in wells.

The sun is rising.

Doctors without borders, borders without doctors.

Can I breathe?

Syrian refugees drowning in faint hope.

Their boats and hearts full of optimism and despair.

Can they breathe?

“Police brutality and poverty” I read in the morning newspaper while I sip on my latte.

Latte is a strong word for people looking away, I like “later” better.

I breathe.

Caffeinated beverages preferred over water, dirty water preferred over Flint’s health.

My lungs are full.

Homeless man talking on the subway, Yemenis without roof under the noon sun.

It’s my lunch break, and someone else’s problem.

Katrina, Sandy, and Maria said they tested our ties and found them weak.

But women are to be groped and not to be listened to.

I’m getting uncomfortable.

The man on the cross is looking down, the man on the crosswalk is looking up.

Do you have change?

Change seems inappropriate in the afternoons, I have deadlines to meet.

My breathing gets faster.

A deadline to meet is expected, an eye gaze to meet is just optional.

It’s time for dinner.

White rice and black beans, black lives matter on TV — where’s the remote?

The sun is setting.

My Fitbit says 10,000 steps — I’m a hero — my heart says it’s closer to zero.

How do I change?

My morals are weak and so are my limbs.

They said an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind — what about a tear for a tear?

Walk in someone else’s shoes.

My thoughts and prayers are sent through the wind, and I unwind.

My breathing gets slower.

Walk in your own shoes as if they were someone else’s.

It’s close to midnight.

If reach into my wallet but not my heart, what will they think?

I have change.

I reach into my heart but not my wallet, what will they say?

My heart is bleeding.

One step at a time, one tear at a time, one dollar at a time.

It takes effort.

Door closed and lights turned off — it’s time for bed.

Tears to be dried, stomachs to be filled, chains to be shackled — they’re drowning out.

My breathing gets deeper.

I’m drifting in self — created peace.

I’ll try again tomorrow.

~
Resistance Poetry 2020.10
Tags: Collection, Resistance Poetry, Election 2020, Politics, Poetry

Resistance Poetry 2020.10

Trapped in a mist-bound guest house in Nepal waiting for clear weather, I was taught to play Bagh-Chal by a Nepali Wharton graduate. He was a wonderful and patient teacher.

Bagh-Chal is a game of unequal power. One player controls four tigers, the other, twenty goats. The tigers try to eat the goats by leaping over them. Goats cannot kill tigers but, using their greater numbers, can immobilize them and protect their own.

When you begin learning the game, being a goat seems a hopeless proposition. You are destined to be eaten and fervently wish you had been born a tiger instead. But, over many games, the truth is revealed. A savvy herd can beat the tigers. The weak and numerous can blockade the strong and few.

Democracy is Bagh-Chal writ large. You know who the players are. Chances are, you are a goat.

Do not despair. Separated, tigers will pick you off one by one. Work together and avoid becoming lunch.
Rape Culture
By: Lyndsey Frondarina
Tags: Rape Culture, Resistance Poetry, Scribe, Poetry On Medium, Poetry

Rape Culture

Photo by Daria Litvinova on Unsplash

She was a victim

Of a sexist society

They blamed her

And shamed her

When he raped her

And wonder why

We suffer silently.

He took what he wanted

Because he was conditioned with a

“never take no for an answer” mentality.

That “boys will be boys” attitude

We use to excuse their behavior

While teaching little girls

That they all need a savior.
Rose Glow
By: Maryam Ismail
Tags: Hope, Light, Resistance Poetry, Spiritual Tree, Void

Rose Glow

Credit: Mohamed Ismail

4.26 pm

As she bounces off the window across the street,

her shimmering Light eases its way into room spraying

her rose gold, glow on the walls like graffiti.

Of course the envious Darkness with his shadowy void arrives on the scene

4.27pm

He shapeshifts, cutting angles into the light,

mimicking the lines of the window frame,

with its pointy, sharp, angles,

adding contrast,

illuminating the walls.

Like the tin foil Mama wraps sandwiches in.

4.29pm

Afterwards, Light’s shine becomes opaque

her beauty crystalizes, even though its growing older.

She takes a sigh with every second as it passes by.

4.30pm

Ignoring the obnoxious shade,

who stood on the sidelines,

arms folded, toes tapping, the shadows lurked waiting to lurch

and snatch away her light.

4.31pm

Lines sharpening

Framing her sparkle; perfect picture.

This is her prettiest moment, catching her best side.

Until…

Darkness, slithers around, creeping like a wanton hand.

One by one his fingers slowly gliding across the ebbing glow

Light shrugs him off,

Dressing the room the in a ravishing radiance.

Even as evening encroachers Light doesn’t succumb to the void of darkness, it moves on and spreads its rose glow on another horizon.

Credit: Mohamed Ismail

Thanks Simran ❤

This is my attempt to explore our relation to voids and darkness, that tries to steal our shine.

Thanks for reading.

©Maryam Ismail 2020
Explosions
By: Anna Rozwadowska
Tags: Trauma, Resistance Poetry, Emotions, Survival, Poetry

Photo by shahin khalaji on Unsplash

Inside the explosions of the inner fight,

lay meager means of disposition, such as figments of imagination,

love conquers temptation, such that filaments remain threads of illusion,

laying on checkered floors popping pills to stay alive.

Inside the concubine remain fragments of the inwards,

popular contraptions beat grenades, where joined souls sketch their names,

outside fireflies occupy the night sky,

orchestras in the minor, major insights take precedence,

while inside is all that remains of a fragrant evolution.

Bewitched by the sap of amber trees,

your revolution becomes the prophet’s conclusion,

here you are, evolved and trained as night’s soldiers,

saviors and survivors of trauma, afflicted inside.
One Day Hope Says It Will Be
By: Jesse Wilson
Tags: Race Relations, Resistance Poetry, Hopes And Dreams, Equality, Poetry

In my quiet moments, I dream awake of a voyage to lands so far away the ventricles of my heart know in my lifetime we will fail to reach.

But I am not just sad. I am beyond the belly of frustrated! Wishing we could live in a better world. Knowing I share the dream bestowed upon us by our ancestors. A dream planted in their hopes, cultivated in our legacy.

Now entrusted firmly in our clasped hands, so that we may carry the thread of expectations so rich and full of promise through generations; one day, we will reach the land assured by the salve of their imaginations.

A salve that, despite the years of torment and oppression, has stood firm like a mighty scaffold protecting our hearts, keeping them free.

So this is why I dream. I dream because my heart beats for the visions

of when we get there.

I see the beauty and splendour of Kings and Queens in an all-encompassing, enticing new world, built from the riches of our actions, the decisions and consequences of our thoughts.

I dream of a world where we have seen the last first to be taken, where we have long forgotten the reasons why we would need to remark and celebrate the first Black female prime minister/ president.

I dream of a world where the scales of equality, once finally lifted, swing into balance so that a Person of Colour is valued as nothing more or less than their accomplishments and character.

I dream of a world where long-held prescriptions of a person’s life potential

are no longer predetermined by the measure of assumption in the melanin of their skin.

This is the world I long to belong, where tedious stereotypes are worn down and ridiculed for the exhausting fallacy that they could ever legitimately label individual complexity.

When this happens, then this would be the day we would know humanity has survived the adolescent years of our turbulent transition, finally coming of age with the maturity of a world that is safe and welcoming for what is seen as the other.

So while I exhale, still learning to let go of my frustration, I breathe and dream of a future. Hope tells me one day it will be
For Every Drop of Rain
By: John Gillen
Tags: Life Lessons, Resistance Poetry, Poem, Life, Poetry

Photo by Geetanjal Khanna on Unsplash

For every drop of rain

There is a might have been

For every darkened hour

A light will shine again

In each pit of despair

A broken hope will mend

Each futile noble war

Must be fought and lost again

A weeping mother searches

For every missing babe

And angry sons regret

Each beloved grave

With every fallen flower

Tender daughters become brave

In all gardens of Gethsemane

A lost Messiah prays

And everything created

Our Father tries to save
Stolen Election
By: Andrew Wlos
Tags: Resistance Poetry, 2020 Presidential Race, Election 2020, Trump, Politics

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The trees are being cut down tomorrow
By: Rob Cullen
Tags: Resistance Poetry, Healing, Free Verse, Poetry On Medium, Inspirational

foto©robcullen191120

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Under that tree you asked

“What’s love? Am I lovable?”

“Do you love me? Who loves me?”

The leaves of the trees listened

And shook just like a breeze

Had started blowing across the river.

-

I threw the stone across the river

And made it skip

Five, six, seven, eight, times

I heard you say behind me

“What you doing?”

“Watch” I said

-

And threw a stone

Five, six, seven, eight, nine, times

I watched the thin flat stone skip

And heard you ask

“Can I do that?”

I said “Of course”

-

I picked up the next stone

And went to throw

When I heard you ask “How?”

Tomorrow they will cut

All the trees down

All the trees that listened

To your stories

-

The stories you didn’t want to tell

Of the things that were done to you

The trees that listened to you

Trying to find out whether you were loved

Whether you were lovable

Whether you could love.

-

The trees will be cut down tomorrow.

©robcullen191120

A poem dedicated to each of the very young children I worked with in Ynysangharad (Welsh for Island of Angharad) Park, Pontypridd who were recovering from the most serious trauma. It was a wonderful therapeutic setting to begin showing a child it was safe to play, sometimes how to play; that it was OK to make mistakes, and laugh, there were no retributions, and slowly let go of defences to begin the slow process of healing.

It seems to me that the cutting down of majestic beautiful mature trees in public spaces is highly symbolic of the “callous disregard” that has become the signature of our times and our society. I’ve never understood child abuse even though I worked in the abuse field for nearly four decades. By that I mean I’ve seen professionals struggle underfunded, undertrained, under-resourced and work with the most damaged individuals of our society in a belief that these individuals have worth. But I’ve also come into contact with members of my community and politicians who have a complete disregard for others who are less fortunate than themselves and in their eyes have no value. We live in a time dominated by a man who had gained a position of power who has utterly no regard for others — apart from how they will benefit him in some way. Will we move on from this era into a time where everyone will be regarded as having value.

I dread the cutting down of the trees and the desecration of a place that holds such powerful memories for me. Memories of a place where I saw a child heal or at least begin that process. I am sure that trees have that healing power. We should resist the desecration of the wild places at all costs — perhaps as a start of ending this era where callous disregard seems to dominate.

©robcullen2020
Million(?) Man MAGAt March
By: Linda A Robinson
Tags: Resistance Poetry, Protesting, Trump Administration, Maga, Poetry

The news media reported on today’s protest (November 14, 2020) by Trump fans — Proud Boys and other white nationalists. Unlike the million expected, the media reported there were between 2K and 5K participants. The participants were mostly mask-less and Caucasian.

Yet another of the White House’s super-spreader events. In about a week, we can expect even more Covid-19 infections and by early December, more deaths attributable to this particular, needless protest.

Trump graced the participants with his presence in a motorcade about 10:00AM.
Sunday Paper at the Covid Cafe`
By: Will Schmit
Tags: Resistance Poetry, Fact Checking, Pandemic, History, Poetry On Medium

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Child’s Play
Tags: Election 2020, Politics, Resistance Poetry, Poetry

Child’s Play

Photo by Darren Halstead on Unsplash

Breathe, exhale

Sigh of relief,

The whole world seemed to do so

Was more at ease.

Calm after the storm

Or was it before?

As it is now playing out to be.

Election fraud

With no evidence

Deep state forces

Plotting against me

Lurking in the shadows

Mischievously planning.

You know those Satan worshipping

Child kidnapping pedophiles

Just QAnon verifying,

Or is the right phrase here

Conspiracy theory endorsing.

At an official capacity

In my authoritarian presidency.

Seems that didn’t work

Now it is

Fire all who oppose me

Go on a raging tantrum

Like a true toddler would

Didn’t you hear?

“Fox News is pandering to the left”

Among other flared-up tweets

Wonder what’s next.

Possible coup attempt, No?

Impossible

That’s 3rd world happenings,

“Shit-hole country” shenanigans.

Just observing as outside spectators do,

For me it is sit back relax

And watch the shit-show unravel.
When she dreams
By: Antoinette Nevitt
Tags: Resistance Poetry, Election 2020, Trump, Democracy, Poetry

When she dreams

Photo by Damiano Lingauri on Unsplash

I dreamt of you again, Donald.

I saw you floating in the room,

buoyed up like a balloon

at a parade.



Your face became

distorted and stretched,

as it filled with hot air.

You got bigger and bigger

and bigger and bigger,

flattening me into a corner,

until you popped

into an explosion of confetti

that tinkled

down,

and slowly disappeared

into nothing,

but a lingering

scent

of sulfur -

but when I woke up,

you were gone.
The Too Much Morning
By: John Gillen
Tags: Time, Morning, Resistance Poetry, Life, Poetry

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Hang Time
By: Maurice Blocker
Tags: Resistance Poetry, Life, Racism, BlackLivesMatter, Poetry

Photo by Tamara Gore on Unsplash

Feet dangling

Look at his shoes

Dirt dusted

Running for his life

Now they swing high

Kicking to let you know

He still alive

Rope tightened

Feet kick at will

All he wanted was food

So his belly could be filled

Scraps he thought

He won’t care

That’s how hate works

It has nothing to spare

Feet still

Black man limp

Rope around neck

His last breath spent
The Day to Age
By: Mark Juhan
Tags: Resistance Poetry, Paperwork, Jobs, Data, Poetry

It’s the data age

It’s the day to age

In this Whirled of the Forms

to fill out

you feel quite unwill

true kneel before The Cloud unkill

deep status weep laters

steep layers deep fakers

fuck you can’t even fire an arrow and paint the bulls eye around it ANYMORE

___________________________________

© Mark Juhan All Rights Reserved
Working Woman!
By: Ak, Aaska Aejaz
Tags: Life Hacking, Struggle, Resistance Poetry, Woman, Working

Before dawn

When sleep dissolves in the body like honey

And every knot of pain is untied

Heal at this time

All the raw wounds of the body

All thirsty dreams of the body

Getting up for nothing

Getting up as a loser

And make yourself the unseen wind of the season

Meaningless numbers throughout the day

And meaningless names

Just type with an empty mind and a numb hand

From time to time

Listening to the sweet and bitter words of the bald-headed boss

And be silent on every tone like a stone statue

Then in the evening

When the birds also go back home

Office furnace

With a scorched face

Double from centuries of fatigue

She bends down and holds her shoulders

Hungry eyes, burning phrases, leaving a destination

Avoiding speeding cars accidents

with fear, she takes a way back

A working woman returns home!
Resistance and Love
By: Jane Woodman
Tags: Resistance Poetry, Anger, Sonnet, Love, Poetry

Resistance and Love

Photo by Dimitar Belchev on Unsplash

LINDSAY’S SONNET

When those I love begin to fuss and fight

(And truth be told, there are few I don’t love),

The undertow of anger clouds their sight,

Dims clarity of mind shed from above.

Attention focused on polarization,

Opinions, wins and losses in debates

About directions taken in our nation

Turn each mind to defining what it hates.

But I see under all of that the ocean

Of deep, abiding love that binds us all

And wish these angry waves of strong emotion

Were seen aright as superficial squalls.

There’s more to be considered than I know;

Love lights the path better than anger’s glow.
Victory on the Tail of a Blue Whale
By: Christyl Rivers
Tags: Patriotism, Resistance Poetry, Election 2020, Trump, Voting

Thanks to Iswanto Arif on Unsplash

Our snail mail didn’t fail

Late on the trail we rode the whale

Was Big Blue BIG enough for you to see?

I do hope so. Let’s call her Liberty.
Counting
By: Patsy Starke
Tags: Resistance Poetry, LGBTQ, Election 2020, Poetry On Medium, Poetry

Photo by Crissy Jarvis on Unsplash

Counting votes.

A country’s choice.

Blinded by motes.

So hear their voice.

Denial of loss.

Count them some more.

You once were boss.

But see who they’re for.

If you won’t give up.

You must give in.

Drink from your cup.

Then atone for your sin.

Move on now.

Recounting won’t help.

Why cause a row?

We’ve heard your yelp.

Go home you.

To your Sunshine State.

They all turned blue.

Numbers say, it’s too late.
Soft Tower
By: Soft Tower
Tags: Modernism, Isolation, Resistance Poetry, Routine, Poetry

Image by carloyuen from Pixabay

Steel ‘scrapers swing slowly,

Heavy wind shaking their weight.

Citizens watch through windows’ distorting gape,

And lose care seeing the others also blowing.

Full moon’s hangover reminds of repetition,

Routine, regret, a rewinding tape.

While they burn for nights in the cape,

Irrelevance traps them in human condition.

Recurring sway snaps structure.

The soft towers fold first,

They know, gravity quenching thirst,

And watch pressure puncture posture.

Still looming, lost lust.

Still booming, chemical thrust.

Still grooming a fleeting trust.

Isolated in the soft towers

They sit, hope their only power,

In the variable mist, silently sour,

Searching for their reason to cower.
Lost in the Echo
By: Adam Millett
Tags: Resistance Poetry, Technology, Echo Chamber, Poetry, Social Media

As the

Dopamine-controlling,

Obsession-promoting

Scrolling

Chambers

Of

Perpetual value-affirmation and

Automatic worldview confirmation

Grew ubiquitous

Across the screens

Of all nations,

The final

Nails in the coffin

Of

‘The Cyber Utopia’

Had been dealt.

Everything had become true,

With everything also false.

Everyone had become right,

With everyone also wrong.

Mask or no mask,

Vaccine or no vaccine,

Climate or no climate,

Racism or no racism,

President or no President,

Truth or no Truth;

Everyone

Had become deaf,

Everyone

Had become blind,

Everyone

Was at odds

With each other’s

Customised

Deafness and blindness.

Everyone thought

That the echo of

Their own

Computerised mind was

An accurate depiction of

The whole wide world around them.

Everyone confidently contended

Their own

Contorted corner,

Utterly convinced of

Their own

Undetected

Fabrication.

Some argued ‘sheeple’

Some argued ‘conspiracy’

Some yelled ‘hate’

Some yelled ‘love’

With nobody noticing that

They were all,

In essence,

As implicitly misdirected as

Each other.

Everyone had been coerced into

Generating

Their very own

Individually manipulated

Anti-social world,

And so,

Nobody

Had any idea

What the real world actually looked like anymore.

Some saw a hopeful world,

Some saw a world in which nobody cared,

While some saw nothing but hatred and despair.

Either way,

Lost in a dream or lost in a nightmare,

The overruling actuality remained unchanged,

As again, with the help of their newest machines,

Those good old pals Power and Money

Had already won

The latest iteration of

The great, invisible war.

It was

Lost vs Lost,

Reality betossed.

The revolution was no more.

The revolution was no more.
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By: Johannes Mudi
Tags: Resistance Poetry

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A Desperate Respite
By: Will Schmit
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Resistance Poetry, Climate Change, Election 2020, Meditation Retreats

A Desperate Respite

photo by Emerson Peters at Unsplash

A working man, suspended by helicopter cables,

dangles above the falling aspen leaves

gilding the bank of the Trinity River.

A respite from machines is no longer a feature

of a wood land retreat, hired leaf blower

tidies the off season lawn.

Tourists, like election observers,

notice the noise, the violent vibe

in the new American air.

Tomorrow’s haunts make a ghost town

of the National Park, the charred

timbers scratch an orange sky.

Ducks and crows sail straight

as arrows, canyon shadows

fall south on the water.

The local kids rev ATV’s,

silence, once golden, falls on

election eve.
We The People
By: Violet Detorres
Tags: Resistance Poetry, Biden 2020, Election 2020, Trump, Voting

We The People

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Hear ye! Hear ye! Let it be known

On the third day of November, in the year two thousand and twenty

The one who thinks he is a king will be overthrown
8 Haneli BIN Geçişi
By: Mustafa Aktaş
Tags: Payments, Bkm Express, Card Payment, Finance, Psp

Frequently Asked Questions

Truncation is a method of rendering a full PAN unreadable by permanently removing a segment of PAN data, and applies to…
Kislay’s Newsletter #19
By: Kislay Verma
Tags: Payments, Organization Design, Command Line, Newsletter, API

Hello Everyone!

The nineteenth edition of my weekly newsletter is out! Check it out here!

The Stripe engineering team on the first 10 years of their payment API, Packy McCormick on the power of an API strategy, John Cutler on one-person non-teams, and a guide to building great command-line tools.

If you like reading about software engineering, organization design, and the occasional book review, you should subscribe to receive the next editions of this newsletter. Check out the archive and sign up.

If you like what you find, bring your friends and let’s talk software and teams! Drop me a line if you have any feedback about the newsletter or the stuff shared in it.

Cheers!

Kislay
Will Social Commerce become a next big thing?
By: Mai Nguyen Q
Tags: Social Commerce, Payments, Ecommerce, Shopping, Fintech

As the year is coming to an end, not only can I not wait to say goodbye to 2020, I also cannot help looking forward to all the unknowns of 2021. Over the last couples of days, I started to have more frequent thoughts on social commerce — a term used for the recent movement in e-commerce towards a more social and interactive format.

Selling things via social media is not new. Yet, it has not been a really official retail channel until recently when ecommerce marketplace started to embed social feature on to their platform. In China, we see Alibaba’s Taobao allowing shoppers to shop seamlessly throughout the streaming; we see Xiao Hong Shu (Little Red Book) allowing shoppers to follow and interact with influencers or brand ambasadors before they make a purchase. Amazon also caught up with Amazon live. In Vietnam, Shopee has recently kicked off with Shopee KOL Affliate program, allowing influencers to earn money by helping other merchants selling their products.

And it really struck me how fast the trend is catching on and how powerful it is. Recently, even Vietnamese farmers also start to go livestream to sell their products.

In Vietnam, we have a long established suppply chain in agriculture, in which middlemen have been playing a huge “role” or I would rather say, “bottle neck”. Farmers do not have so much control over the retail channel of their products. They needs to rely on such middlemen to deliver their products to end-users and therefore, do not have so much voice on the market price of the products. When the yields are high, price drops, they might not get back a lot, or not to mention even lose.

Last week, I read an article about a Vietnamese farmer in rural area of Vietnam, who livestream to sell his dragon fruit right from his farm. With livestreaming, he can ship his crop directly to supermarkets in big cities and even match with an agency to export dragon fruit to Netherlands, without cutting some money for middlemen.

👉 Check out the video here https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=299168171515412

Please note that this farmer is neither a copywriter nor a photographer to create viral content. Livestreaming allows him sell his products the same way he speaks, the same way he convinces his customers in his local market. Shoppers love him and his products because they know the origin of the product and how he grows it. (What is more important than this, when it comes to buying food?). And above all, although everything can be done online with digital platform nowadays, we have to admit that we still miss human interaction. With COVID lingering here, we miss each other more than ever.
Game Store Accepts Apollo Currency (APL)
By: Apollo Fintech
Tags: Payments, Retail, Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Apollo

by Marvin Dumont

New merchants are accepting Apollo Currency (APL) as payment method.

NinjaGameKeys now accepts APL. The online retailer lets you “buy the latest games using cryptocurrencies.”

Visit them at ninjagamekeys.com.

You can buy APL at the following exchanges:

Join BitMart’s 6 Million APL Giveaway: http://bit.ly/2KA1tOk

Merchants can email media@apollocurrency.com

#Payments #Retail

Apollo Fintech is a leading blockchain company that develops world-shaping fintech solutions for a global economy. Apollo has offices in Africa and North America with plans to expand in Asia, Europe and Latin America. Apollo Fintech is becoming a global leader in Government Blockchain solutions, as well as pioneer of international mass adoption.

Learn more at aplfintech.com.
Auget Accepts APL as Payment Method
By: Apollo Fintech
Tags: Payments, Retail, Cryptocurrency, Ecommerce, Apollo

by Marvin Dumont

New merchants are accepting Apollo Currency (APL) as payment method.

AUGET now accepts APL. The online retailer describes itself as a “new French brand of scented candles.”

You can buy APL at the following exchanges:

Join BitMart’s 6 Million APL Giveaway: http://bit.ly/2KA1tOk

Merchants can email media@apollocurrency.com

#Payments #Retail

Apollo Fintech is a leading blockchain company that develops world-shaping fintech solutions for a global economy. Apollo has offices in Africa and North America with plans to expand in Asia, Europe and Latin America. Apollo Fintech is becoming a global leader in Government Blockchain solutions, as well as pioneer of international mass adoption.

Learn more at aplfintech.com.
Cico Network Presents The Weird Christmas Facts 2020
By: Cico Network
Tags: Payments, Payment Gateway, Online Casino Software, Cryptopayment, Online Casino

“The Weird Christmas Facts" brought to you by CICOPay (Cico Network)

Photos: CICOPay by Cico Network

🥶Winter holidays are always bring magic and festive feeling… however, as everything in our life — it has the other side of the medal.

▶️We were surprised to find out that two-fifths of Europeans feel forced to spend at Christmas.

For some people, Christmas is a financial strain. ING bank group report that, across Europe, one in 10 borrows or runs up credit-card debt to pay for the festivities. Two-fifths feel pressure to spend more money than they want to at Christmas.

▶️Christmas may be a time for giving, but not everyone is grateful for the gifts they receive. A survey for Netherlands-based bank ING found 15% of Europeans were unhappy with what gifts they received last year, while 10% couldn’t even remember their gifts.

❓So, maybe it is better to invest to something else this Christmas?

❓What do you think about these stats? Let us know in the comments below!

For more news, follow our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/cicopay

About Cico Network

Photos: Cico Network logo for CICOPay Medium Blog

Cico Network, a fintech project lead by Horizons Visions Limited in Hong Kong SAR.

Cico Network is a Blockchain As A Service (BaaS) merchant solutions for Gaming, E-Commerce and Forex brokerages. Cico Network operates as a global payment scheme connecting all the stakeholders interested in crypto -to-crypto users, crypto wallets, crypto exchanges, cashier system providers, payment solution providers and merchants.

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A Good Payment Solutions Helps in Reaping Greater Profits
By: Emma Megan
Tags: Payments, Payment Gateway, Payment Processing

Being a small business, you might have thought of payment processing as another alternative means of increasing your operating costs. But did you think about it differently? Is it not true that every platform is in itself an opportunity for young entrepreneurs to grab? It allows one to prefer the processing of payment beyond an effortless way of executing the business.

In the awakening world of digitalization, the services of payment have become economically feasible.

They do account for many services. For many owners of small enterprises whose businesses have dwindled because of alternative solutions, this unfortunate incident has affirmed their faith in choosing smart payment tools over conventional ones. This method has enabled the business owners to choose the right payment solution and has further helped them to incorporate them into their business strategy.

Seamless Facilitation of Payments in the Digital Era

The ever-rising landscape of the digital era has created a new way for e-commerce technology to evolve into many new fields. The current changing business landscape has ushered a new mode of digital payments in the markets.

Seamless, quick, and personalized transactions have rendered a smooth customer experience to the new age traders. More or less, it has necessitated a change in the cycle of customer-centric payment models.

This new trend has enabled businesses with tremendous ways of generating revenues and retaining customers.



A greater push in innovative, non-banking payments has comprehensively transformed the way customers often experience using the payment tools. The relentless dependence upon digital payment systems has aided many tradesmen to execute their business operations even at this time of COVID-19 pandemic.

Minimal interaction and heightened digitization have hampered the surge in physical transactions. It has led many money lending institutions to depend more upon the digital mode of payment.

A Right-Click on Right Platform at Right Time Sets the Money Drive

Retaining customers for a long time is no more an easy field though it tilts revenue on an upward scale with advocacy and customer loyalty. If an entrepreneur is on the hunt to acquire a part out of it, the decision of choosing the right platform is a way for a seamless transaction.

If you wish to run an online business or even want to transfer payments through an online mode, then the perfect channel for you to rely upon is the right payment processing center.

The trending transition in digital payments has led many financial institutions to render end-to-end payment processing services to many people living in distant places.

With the help of cutting-edge technology, many financial institutions have expanded their businesses globally. Most companies have enabled them to solve their business problems by reducing the operating costs, and all of it is counted as the ingredient for upward growth.

This article originally appeared here: https://paycronn.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-good-payment-solutions-helps-in.html
VISA, Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Offline Ödeme Sistemi
By: Mustafa Aktaş
Tags: Payments, Bkm Express, Cbdc, Troy, Visa

Mastercard Launches Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) Testing Platform, Enabling Central…

Innovative virtual and custom testing platform allows central banks to evaluate use cases and test roll-out strategies…
Free PayPal Money in United States ?
Tags: Payments, Money, Free, Freelancing, United States

Free PayPal Money in United States ?

What is PayPal ?

It is a Easy and way to Transfer Money online worldwide with the help of Email Id registered on Paypal Registration.

You can Send and Request money from Anywhere in the world.

You can Request for Various type of Payments and it reaches us Instantly or Next Day as per the Country Guidelines .

There a so many online shops where you can pay from Paypal.

There are two types of payment which you can do with this Platform :

Personal Payments Commercial Payments

For Fees Detail and other Other Information

Please visit website of Paypal

Sharing this for helping you to give simple knowledge regarding online payments.

Thanks

Shikha
Airbnb eyes integrating digital currency payments and blockchain
By: Statecraft Tech
Tags: Payments, News, Crypto, Blockchain, Airbnb

Image source：Statecraft

【 Published by coingeek | Editor: Ed Drake 】

Vacation rental giant Airbnb is planning to integrate blockchain technology and digital currency within their business, in a move that could see millions of customers from around the world interact with digital currencies for the first time on the platform.

According to its IPO prospectus filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Airbnb is exploring several applications of blockchain technology. Previously, the company had said it was not planning to support cryptocurrency payments.

In the filing, Airbnb said its future success will depend on its ability to embrace new technologies such as blockchain, in order to support and develop its platform.

“Future success will…depend on our ability to adapt to emerging technologies such as tokenization, cryptocurrencies, and new authentication technologies. As a result, we intend to continue to spend significant resources maintaining, developing, and enhancing our technologies and platform. However, these efforts may be more costly than expected and may not be successful.”

In particular, the filing addresses the challenges faced by the company as a result of travel restrictions prompted by COVID-19, which saw revenues plunge 39% on last year.

“In early 2020, as COVID-19 disrupted travel across the world, Airbnb’s business declined significantly, but within two months, our business model started to rebound even with limited international travel, demonstrating its resilience.”

Despite its previous rejection of digital currencies, the filing shows Airbnb may be changing its mind, part of a wider trend towards large companies embracing digital currency payments in recent months.

Airbnb is amongst a number of international companies to begin accepting digital currencies in the wake of the pandemic. Most notably, online payments firm PayPal now allows its users to transact in cryptocurrencies, opening up all PayPal-supported merchants to receive payment in digital currency.

Should Airbnb officially onboard digital currency payments, the move would be expected to generate significant interest within the Bitcoin community, as well as raising the profile of digital currencies for payment more widely.