Restraint
Never went to war Don’t know what it’s like When team members go down, Bleed out, get shipped home Like
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Len Shindel began working at Bethlehem Steel’s Sparrows Point Plant in 1973, where he was a union activist and elected representative in local unions of the United Steelworkers, frequently publishing newsletters about issues confronting his co-workers. His nonfiction and poetry have been published in the “Other Voices” section of the Baltimore Evening Sun, The Pearl, The Mill Hunk Herald, Pig Iron, Labor Notes and other publications. After leaving Sparrows Point in 2002, Shindel, a father of three and grandfather of seven, began working as a communication specialist for an international union based in Washington, D.C. The International Labor Communications Association frequently rewarded his writing. He retired in 2016. Today he enjoys writing, cross-country skiing, kayaking, hiking, fly-fishing, and fighting for a more peaceful, sustainable and safe world for his grandchildren and their generation. Shindel is currently working on a book about the Garrett County Roads Workers Strike of 1970 www.garrettroadstrike.com.
I was about 12 when my parents took my younger brother and me on a family vacation from our home in West Hartford, Conn. to Washington, D.C. I remember our meals in the now-defunct Hot Shoppes and spending our nights in a motel on busy New York Avenue.
Read moreWe Are the World. The Concert for Bangladesh. Farm Aid, “Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City,” the creative community supporting victims of Hurricane Katrina etc. etc….. So many artists have come together in the far and recent past to alleviate suffering and speak out at times of crisis and pain.
Read moreMy kitchen is blessed with fruity scents of Ethiopian Oromia, the welcoming traces of Chinatown Coffee Company, that quick but
Read moreSo you think our small town’s
so damn pretty
while you get on your soapbox
‘bout crime in the city.
Read moreMaybe it was Refaat Alareer’s memory of being on a Gaza playground in elementary school. Alareer, now a professor of
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