Le 31 DÉCEMBRE de Patricia LARANCO.

Dards, flèches de soleil partout,

pointus sur les portes et les murs;

mouettes criaillant et hurlant

juste au-dessus

des cheminées

dans le grand bleu façon printemps

qui vaporise sa fraîcheur;

douce trille d'un passereau

qui résonne - on ne sait trop

où -

mais où sont les neiges d'antan ?

Le dernier jour de l'an

rutile !

Patricia Laranco, 
le 31/12/2015

U.S : COLOR OF CHANGE speaks to the WHITE PEOPLE....

White people, if you ever wondered what you would have done during the Civil Rights Movement, now is the time to decide.

Support an independent Black political voice by contributing to ColorOfChange.

Dear friend,

My name is Johnny Mathias. I've worked at ColorOfChange since 2012. And I'm white.

I came to ColorOfChange after years working to elect Democrats because I knew that party politics alone would not bring about the transformational racial justice changes that we all need. And I bet many of the white members* of ColorOfChange feel the same way. You share an article, you sign ColorOfChange petitions, make a call to an elected official when asked, donate to support campaigns and even engage fellow white people about the persistent anti-Black racism in our world. But deep down you know it's not enough, that the scale of your contribution to the cause does not meet the urgency of the moment.

The movement cannot be sustained solely on the efforts and energy of Black organizers, for whom this fight is a matter of life and death. All too often we think of racial justice as the sole responsibility of Black people. As white people, we have an obligation to dismantle racism and to do so by supporting Black leadership.

As the movement for Black lives stands on the precipice of tremendous cultural power, Black organizers across the country have issued a call to white people to take action. As white people, it's time for us to put our money where our values lie. We need to commit to sustained financial support of independent Black organizations and help ColorOfChange raise $200,000 by the end of the year. 

YES! I'll support dynamic Black-led campaigns at ColorOfChange and contribute $3!

While this email centers whiteness, the movement cannot, should not and will not. As white people committed to racial justice, we have a responsibility to consult with Black leaders and support their strategic needs in this fight. That means we need to leverage our privilege and resources to meet gaps where white-controlled corporate and governmental structures have refused to value Black lives. We must fund a private investigator when Sandra Bland is murdered in Waller County with no substantial inquiry. We must support the legal work behind Freedom of Information Act requests when it becomes clear that the FBI is surveilling Black activists. And we must marshal every resource we can to demand accountability from prosecutors — like Timothy McGinty in Cleveland who refused to secure justice for 12-year-old Tamir Rice — that allow police to murder Black people without facing justice or consequences.

I work with some of the most strategically brilliant Black organizers in the movement: Rashad Robinson, Arisha Michelle Hatch, Brandi Collins, Scott Roberts and the ColorOfChange campaigns team. As a white person at a Black organization, it is my role to use my skills and resources to help our team make an impact for Black people. As a white ColorOfChange member, you can do the same by contributing to make the creative and strategic interventions of Black leaders at ColorOfChange a reality.

I'm putting my money where my values are and supporting ColorOfChange.

None of the campaigns above would've been possible without the financial support of ColorOfChange members because we don’t take money from big corporations that don’t share our values. You've already taken the first step by being an active member of the ColorOfChange community. Making a contribution to ColorOfChange is one of the many ways, as a white member, you can deepen your support of the movement for Black lives.

Thanks and Peace,

Johnny Mathias and the ColorOfChange team

*As an organization, we are committed to centering Blackness in this movement. Most of our members are Black, but we felt it important to take this opportunity to speak directly to the thousands of white members of ColorOfChange. Please consider sharing this with the white people in your life. 

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ColorOfChange is building a movement to elevate the voices of Black folks and our allies, and win real social and political change. Help keep our movement strong.

Gillian GENEVIÈVE (Île Maurice).

Je marche à reculons
Des rêves d'un ciel en crue
Et je parle
À la souche des vents
De la rime irrégulière
Du silence
Charnu et mûr
Quand sur le flanc
Vaste et brisé
De ce mois de décembre
Je retrouve la parole du soir
Jetée sur la pierre
De tes mots fondateurs

Quand l'âme se tend
Contre l'âcre jour
En pleine lumière
L'alphabet des sens se simplifie
Et chaque grain de sable
Dans le désert nu
Ou à l'accueil
De l'écume des vagues
Le long des rives
Dans le leurre
Des ombres
Et du feu
Consent
À mourir
Au seuil
D'un croissant
De lune
Vêtu de noir
Et de songes

Rien ne chante
Ni paraît
Sur le visage
Émacié
De l'homme épris
Quand le temps
Frémit
Au faîte
De la tristesse
Dans le geste qui se déplie
Sur les confins
Troublés
De ce poème
À matière brute

Ainsi vieillit
L'aube claire
Dès que le soleil
Agonise
Et se perd
Dans le vide
Comme tous les dieux
Et perché
Au dessus
Du flot boueux
De l'éther
Du soir
Et de la mort
J'écoute crier
Au revers
De la douleur
Une rose apprivoisée

Elle invente
Dans l'éclat
Du silex
Mon dernier
Sourire

Le visage désancré
Je me réincarne alors
Dans la lueur
De ce regard qui me nomme.

Gillian GENEVIÈVE

Haut du formulaire

La poésie magique de François TEYSSANDIER (France).

Tu gravis
L'échelle instable
De la lumière

Et le ciel tournoie
Dans ton regard
Comme un horizon de pierres

Emportées par le vent
Et la houle obscure de ces voix
Qui se lèvent au sortir de ta bouche d'ombre

Tu deviens roc de matière
Friable comme un rêve de silex
Tranchant l'âpre sommeil de la terre

François TEYSSANDIER.

COLOR OF CHANGE (U.S) : Grand Jury Failed to Indict Tamir Rice's Killer .

BREAKING: 

The officer who killed Tamir Rice will face no charges.

Donate $10 

to help us get bad prosecutors out of office.

Dear friend,

A Cuyahoga County Grand Jury just failed to indict Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann for shooting and killing 12-year old Tamir Rice. As we send our deepest sympathy to Tamir’s family, we also hold the weight of our own frustration and sorrow from this unjust verdict. Once again, a police officer killed a Black child and is not being held accountable due to a prosecutor - Timothy J. McGinty- who doesn’t honor Black life or seek to hold officers accountable.

Throughout the grand jury process, McGinty released questionable expert reports justifying Tamir’s killing and attacked his grieving family in the press. Over 150,000 ColorOfChange members joined Tamir’s mother in calling for a special prosecutor to take over. Although McGinty had continued to resist calls for accountability, the overwhelming pressure is beginning to chip away at political support for his reelection next year. Just earlier this week the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party decided not to endorse him.

We must continue to increase the pressure to get bad prosecutors out of office. Will you donate $10 to our 2016 execution of electoral strategies that will unseat bad prosecutors?

Prosecutors are elected to uphold integrity and justice within our criminal justice system.

Yet, it is incredibly hard to hold police accountable when they kill Black people. A prosecutor pressing charges against an officer is a rarity that often only occurs with a mass swell of protests and mainstream media attention.Meanwhile, far too many prosecutors go out of their way to over-prosecute and incarcerate Black folks for far less damaging crimes.

We are working to hold prosecutors accountable across the country. Whether it be in Chicago, Cleveland, Minneapolis, or Columbia, SC, we are putting pressure on prosecutors to hold police accountable and end the criminalization of Black communities. In places like Baltimore, where Marilyn Mosby is fighting to convict the officers who killed Freddie Gray, we have collected thousands of petition signatures thanking her for charging the officers and encouraging her to retry the latest mistrial. We’re also fighting for systemic change to take the role of police prosecution out of the hands of local prosecutors who work too closely with cops. Earlier this year, we helped to win a special prosecutor law for the State of New York.

In 2016, we are doubling down on these effort by getting involved in prosecutorial elections so that prosecutors like McGinty or Anita Alvarez don’t serve another term. It is time for us to be proactive as we enter into the new year. In order to obtain prosecutors who, like Baltimore’s Marilyn Mosby, are invested in ensuring justice for Black families when their loved ones are unjustly targeted and killed by the police, we must unseat those who are crippling our criminal justice system.

Donate $10 to unseat bad prosecutors, put these killer cops in jail and provide justice for those whose lives are ending at the hands of police brutality and corruption.

Thanks and peace,

Rashad, Arisha Scott, Enchanta, Josh and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team

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ColorOfChange is building a movement to elevate the voices of Black folks and our allies, and win real social and political change. Help keep our movement strong.

COLOR OF CHANGE (U.S) : BLOWN AWAY BY THE RESPONSE !

Dear friend, 

I’m Rashad Robinson – the Executive Director here at ColorOfChange – and I just want to say that you all have blown me away. At the start of this month I challenged you all to help us reach our most ambitious fundraising target ever, $200,000 - and we’ve just officially reached the halfway point.

But we’re still $94,681 short of our goal. With only 4 days left in 2015 - will you chip in $3 for 2016 and help close this fundraising gap?

Yes, I’ll chip in $3 to help raise $96,681 in the next 4 days.

Yes, I’ll chip in another amount.

With more than 4,694 ColorOfChange members donating more than $105,319 dollars, this is already our best fundraising effort in our 10 year history. But it is not yet enough to ensure that we are capable of meeting all of the challenges and opportunities of 2016. We are in a pivotal moment in the movement for Black lives – and if we can't reach the goal of $200,000 by the end of December 31, then one way or another, we'll have to cut back on these crucial 2016 plans:

1. Invest in holding prosecutors accountable, by creating a national database of prosecutors and directly engaging in prosecutor elections. By diving into prosecutor elections, we’ll be holding prosecutors accountable in a way no other organization ever has.
2. Expose the FBI and DHS’s illegal surveillance of our movement, and pressure decision makers to end it.
3. Train a whole new generation of Black community leaders and organizers, who will be able to fight for justice in every corner of the country.
4. Open a new office in Hollywood to directly combat toxic media representations of Black folks, which lead to us being seen as less than human by society at large.
5. Hold the right-wing accountable for the race-baiting rhetoric that is encouraging violence against Black people and swelling the ranks of white supremacist groups.

At ColorOfChange, we value every donation that’s made – whatever the size – because the way we create change is through an engaged community of people pitching in and taking action together. By chipping in $3 right now, you’ll ensure that we can push forward and seize this moment to make all of these crucial plans for justice a reality. Will you chip in right now ?

Yes, I’ll make a year-end donation to ColorOfChange.

Thanks and peace,

Rashad, Arisha, Johnny, Evan, Brittaney, and the rest of the ColorOfChange team

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ColorOfChange is building a movement to elevate the voices of Black folks and our allies, and win real social and political change. Help keep our movement strong.

Un poème d'Alain MINOD (France) : L'ÊTRE A L’ÉPREUVE DE LA « TOTONOMIE ».

Je rentre dans le ciel bleu

D'où chutent les circulations lentes

Du soleil

Que n'apprivoisent pas celles

Plombées mais galopantes

Des véhicules en proie

A de vertigineuses

Courses

Vers des horizons serrés

Par des ailleurs

Improbables

Pour un temps apparemment libéré

Du travail – mais

Qui convoie

A l'oubli de l'hier

Mais se retrouver hors des ombres

Conduit combien d'hommes

A ne rien voir

Des variations de la lumière

Qui pourraient rythmer

Pour eux

Une passe lente du temps

Serait-elle vraiment ailleurs

Et pour combien d'hommes fiers

De leur autonomie ?

Lignes de fuite pour échapper

Ne serait-ce qu'un jour de plus -

A la fixation par la vitesse aveugle

De l'intime et secrète vie

De leurs désirs

Non ! Prendre au calme soleil

Prendre à ce jeu d'ombres et de lumière

Glaner tranquillement sa durée

Ses formes en douces stries

Variables et musicales

Sur les murs

Secrets

Sur les fenêtres sorcières

Sur le macadam

Fiévreux

Sur les herses d'arbres dénudés

En saisir ainsi de l'inamovible

Règne courant immobile

Du travail :

L'univers des songes et laisser

Fluctuer le sauvage

Cours du monde

Ne pas tomber dans ce semblant imperturbable

Et obscur – d'une réalité dévolue

Au trafic

Mais l'oubli qui ne crie pas

Qui ne chante pas ? :

L'oubli de l'oubli

Fondu

Dans un soleil comateux de l'être

Il court vers les nids

Repus

Du laisser paraître

Ô Temps des vitesses qui ne s'accordent

Qu'avec la rotation à sens perdu

Fermé à tout horizon

De la ville !

Ô Temps de tous les paraîtres

Infirmes de leurs pensées oubliées

Vite – très vite !

Le trafic est là

Mais la totonomie se blesse

Dans les fractures

Insondables

Des cœurs

Ah ! Lancer son char comme en triomphe

Total de l'autonomie

Chaque course en vedette de soi-même

Chaque voyage charriant les nerfs

A bout de corps fendus

Dans l'enfer

Du mobile tendu

Par la soif

De la fuite

Sans rémission autre

Que l'infect paradis

Du tout consommable

Et cela consume - paralyse

Pensée- Amour - Désir

Et cela tue le possible

Partir à jet continu

Éjaculer l'instant

Comme si c'était

A chaque fois

Le dernier soupir des dieux

Ne jamais entrevoir

Un ciel autre

Que dans la tempête intériorisée

De l'oubli de l'oubli

Pourtant … Ah ! Couper court à tout ce fictif

Devenu réalité et … :

Traverser l'instant

Jusque dans la fidélité

A l'éveil

Où demeure tout guetteur

De tout hasard

Constructif

Chercher cependant la chair des âmes

Comme si jamais elle ne devait

Scissionner

Et … Là – dans la présence au monde

Pourrait alors souffler

Aux lèvres

Le doux bruit

Du temps d'un baiser

Livré aux passades concrètes

Du désir demeuré

Désir

Mais trop attendre et juste vouloir

Sauter dans la jouissance

Dès que l'on vous

L'ouvre :

Cette porte - c'est se livrer

Aux promesses du trafic

Et courir tout droit

Vers la désespérance ! Ô Combien

Obsédante avec sa nostalgie

Des songes jamais

Réalisés que

Dans l'aboiement feutré

Du plaisir arraché

Au long désir

Pour décharner ce qui pèse :

Cette indépendance

Solaire

D'un corps demeuré corps

Dans la pensée

Alain MINOD.

Poésie française : la PUBLICATION du dernier RECUEIL de François TEYSSANDIER.

FULLMOON OF DECEMBER (2015), photos by Patricia LARANCO.

ASPECTS OF THE DECEMBER FULLMOON LAST NIGHT (27/12/2015)

Photographies : Patricia Laranco.

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