Done.
For what it's worth, alas…. But some of these seem to have an effect;let's hope …
Doug
On 2013-01-19, at 3:01 PM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I agree. Vacuum knows what they'd do with me.
>
> I find it quite unacceptable he can't say what he has said; but no
> one listens to me. Perhaps this may help.
>
> I get lots of these petition proposals. Perhaps we all do. You
> certainly get them when you sign one. One has to pick. It's worth the
> time it takes, I think
>
> Glad of your welcome. I hope others agree
>
> L
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
> To:
> Cc:
> Sent:Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:29:31 +1100
> Subject:Re: POETS MUST HELP POETS! In ten days Mohammed Al Ajami will
> appeal the verdict
>
> Done, Lawrence. Seems absolutely unacceptable behaviour.
>
> Bill
>
> On 20/01/2013, at 5:15 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>
>> Dear Friends,
>> POETS MUST HELP POETS!
>>
>> Please join Alice Walker, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure,
> Sam
>> Hamill, Philip Levine, Naomi Shihab Nye, Carolyn Forch?, Jerome
>> Rothenberg, Pina Piccolo, Jack Hirschman, Sarah Browning, Ron
>> Silliman, PEN America Center, Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion
>> co-founders of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Rootsaction.org,
> Split
>> This Rock, Code Pink, and many more of our dear friends in this
>> important campaign to free the Qatari poet Mohamed Ibn Al Ajami who
>> has been sentenced to life in prison for reciting a poem extolling
>> the
>> courage and values of the popular uprisings in Tunisia.
>>
>> So far over 12,000 people have signed this petition, generating
> over
>> 60,000 letters to the Qatar embassy requesting the release of
> Qatari
>> poet Mohamed Ibn Al Ajami In ten days Mohamed Al Ajami will appeal
>> the verdict. Please sign this petition and send a letter to Qatar
> and
>> let the government there know that Mohamed Al Ajami should be
>> released.
>>
>> POETS MUST HELP POETS!
>>
>> We can do this!
>>
>>
> http://act.rootsaction.org/o/6503/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=136398
>>
>> Thanks for your support.
>>
>> Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion
>> 100 Thousand Poets for Change
>>
>>
>>
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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