Food 2021

What’s wrong with this picture?

Near­ly one in three peo­ple in the world (2.37 bil­lion) did not have access to ade­quate food in 2020 ‑Food and Agri­cul­tur­al Orga­ni­za­tion of the UN

SISTERS!

I keep com­ing back to this theme. Fem­i­nism must be root­ed in anti-impe­ri­al­ist, anti-war con­scious­ness and action. This is par­tic­u­lar­ly impor­tant in an era when pow­er­ful women who are in or aspire to be in high gov­ern­ment posi­tions call on us to sup­port them in the name of fem­i­nism. Do we want heavy hit­ting women in key polit­i­cal places if they encour­age, sup­port, or pre­tend not to see the wars the U.S. in inflict­ing on so much of the world’s pop­u­la­tion? Is war-mon­ger­ing fem­i­nist? I don’t think so. 

This is my inter­na­tion­al­ist wom­en’s sym­bol. The many col­ored cir­cles are unit­ed and root­ed through the ver­ti­cal mul­ti-col­ored line. The cross bar rep­re­sents ter­rains far and near.

@ Syracuse Cultural Workers

I am hap­py to announce these three images are now avail­able at Syra­cuse Cul­tur­al Work­ers in var­i­ous for­mats. Sol­i­dar­i­ty and Night Sky are avail­able as posters, post­cards, but­tons, and mag­nets. Night Sky is also a hol­i­day card. Hands Off Iran is avail­able as a free down­load­able poster. Go to https://www.syracuseculturalworkers.com/products?text=leslie+dwyer&sort_by=search_api_relevance&sort_bef_combine=search_api_relevance+DESC

Protect Our Breath

environment, oxygen, air, forests, ecology, deforestation

We need our forests to breathe. Accord­ing to Amer­i­can Forests, two mature trees pro­vide enough oxy­gen for one per­son to breathe over the course of a year. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Oh, wait. Forests also improve our health by remov­ing dust, ash, pollen, and smoke. Check out oth­er for­est facts and spread the word. As we work to pro­tect our forests, we also need to pay atten­tion to the safe­ty con­di­tions of our for­est work­ers who suf­fer nine times the fatal­i­ties of the gen­er­al US work pop­u­la­tion. For more infor­ma­tion on for­est work­er safe­ty check out http://lohp.org/forestry-workers/

La Bestia

La Bestia

Imag­ine being 7 or 12 or 15 and being afraid to leave your house for school, play, errands, life. Imag­ine your par­ents equal­ly fright­ened, des­per­ate, being forced to leave you or send you away in a scram­ble to help you sur­vive. No par­ent, no child would under­take the very dan­ger­ous jour­ney across bor­ders to an unknown, haz­ard­ly mount­ing a train called la bes­tia — the beast. Eco­nom­ic, polit­i­cal injus­tice push­es chil­dren out. Injus­tice sends them back.

Walking

Walking

Walk­ing. It’s sup­posed to be good for us, if we are able. Sup­pos­ed­ly, doc­tors rec­om­mend 10,000 steps a day. Let’s think about this. If you take 10,000 steps and mul­ti­ple it by the num­ber of peo­ple on the plan­et, even fac­tor­ing dif­fer­ences in the walk­ing capac­i­ties, maybe work­ing in a for­mu­la for rolling, that’s a lot of steps. Now, the impor­tant ques­tion, how many of the sum total of steps tak­en all around the world would be done in safe­ty? For how many peo­ple does walk­ing turn out to be not so good for them because while they were walk­ing they were in the wrong skin, wrong gen­der, believ­ing the wrong things, lov­ing the wrong peo­ple, liv­ing in the wrong place?