Stories on This Week's Writing Prompt
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Takin’ It To The Streets
Marching with thousands of other people, chanting "This is what democracy looks like!" at the top of our lungs, felt great!
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Listen, Learn, Change
I have watched the coverage over the past several weeks with fury and outrage. I don’t take to the streets for many [...]
Embracing Sarah Bernhardt
As I grew older, I learned to embrace the Sarah Bernhardt in me. I came to see it as having the courage of my convictions and [...]
From Conservative Cal Poly to San Jose State
My protests at San Jose State. After two years at California’s very conservative college, Cal Poly SLO, I went to San Jose [...]
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, Yet Again
This piece originally appeared in 2018 for the Student Activism prompt. Now in 2020, once again young activists are taking a [...]
Getting Woke
My folks, and my uncles and aunts were always politically active and die-hard liberals , and as children my sister and I and [...]
Candlelight and cops
What was most unnerving? The police presence. While they weren't in riot gear, rows of cops stood their ground, clubs at the [...]
A Life Devoted to Protesting for Justice: Marcy Wiersch Johnson
They were marching partly as a tribute to Marcy, a woman whose life embodied so much of what protests and activism had [...]
My Little Bit for the Movement
Not surprisingly, I can check the boxes in terms of attending the Vietnam protest marches during our college years: the rally [...]
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
When our son was young he asked us if we were at Woodstock. We had to say No, but we didn’t have an answer when he [...]
The Conservative
Joe's hat sported not only a Nixon-Agnew campaign button but, beside it, a Goldwater button from four years earlier.
Stories from the Previous Prompt
My Hometown
My Second Hometown
The Hollywood Hills in relief against a wide swath of sky made for an ever-changing Technicolor backdrop to the north. From [...]
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It Was Meant 2 B
This chance encounter in September 1974 didn't change my life, but it certainly changed the lives of the other two people [...]
Prompted By Chance Encounters
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Although there are many authorities in the field of autism, the two individuals who helped me the most were parents, who just [...]
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