Kelly Orians is a staff attorney at The First 72 Plus, a New Orleans nonprofit founded by six formerly incarcerated people to help other formerly incarcerated men and women navigate the first 72 hours of their release. She is also the co-founder of Rising Foundations, a partner nonprofit that provides pathways to self-sufficiency for formerly incarcerated people, with an aim to stop the cycle of incarceration in low-income communities through small business development […]
Alan Walowitz | The lovely poem
For Edgar Diaz Your secret self stays caged in a world you claim you never made. No windows watch you; no doors turn for you. Here there’s neither help nor need. The only sound you hear is your own breathing, and the rattle of another lonely cup against distant bars. When the warden finally comes, he tosses you a crumb you proudly disdain in that way you’ve become the master […]
Ruth Sabath Rosenthal | Oh, for the green of bygone days!
“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles.” — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself Walt, it’s been over a century since you bequeathed us the trees of your youth standing sky-high in air fresh with optimism — trees, that now stand stalwart in airs rank with intolerance, limbs reaching upward entreating […]
Gwendolyn Hallsmith | OMMMM–A mantra for a caring economy
In thinking about an easy way to remember all the things that need to change in order to transform our current economic systems and structures, which cause and perpetuate violence, inequality, and environmental catastrophe, I came up with this mnemonic tool for transformation. OMMMM stands for Ownership, Money, Markets, Management, and Metrics. These systems are embedded in the laws, customs, regulations, and practices that warp and twist the economy to […]
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