Nineteen-year-old Rodrigo Rojas de Negri was beaten and burned to death by Chilean security police for participating in an anti-government demonstration in July 1986. Veronica Rojas de Negri is his mother.
Poetry
Amy Beth Cross 7-01-1986
For Sara
The chain jangles like wind chimes
in the emptiness
as my key springs the padlock open.
Ten more steps
with the tense stillness
that has waited all day in these hallways
following me down the stairs.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Nancy Lukens 5-01-1984
Fortune and calamity, / rushing over us and overpowering ...
Daniel Berrigan 5-01-1983
The trouble with our state
was not civil disobedience
which in any case was hesitant and rare.
Muhammad Isaiah Kenyatta 5-01-1981
Dayshift is terrible if you don't have nobody to pick up your children. You tell them to call you at work when they get home. Or you call home when they suppose to be there. If your boss will let you. An Atlanta mother, interviewed March 1, 1981
James H. Forest 10-01-1978
For Thich Nhat Hanh, Cao Ngoc Phuong, and the refugees on, and in, the South China Sea