I sometimes fall from exhaustion, or injury. - Andre Vltchek I cried when I wrote this song Sue me if I play too long This brother is free I'll be what I want to be - Steely Dan from “Deacon Blues” coffee after coffee for years reading Andre Vltchek’s articles . . . as an armchair activist i traveled the world with his amazing reports often long and rambling coherently gushing with emotion and empathy stories of the peoples and places abandoned and being eaten up by the hungry-ghost trans-national theofascists Andre wrote for the salt of the Earth and for the minerals extracted, plants destroyed at the expense of peoples impoverished, foreign faux cultures shoved down their chimneys and throats, he was a voice of the voiceless in places no major media-- with their flashy graphics-- dare go he traveled the Earth humbly like Jesus riding a donkey, Buddha riding his horse Kanthaka, Lao-Tzu riding the water-buffalo escaping the empire intrepid journalist and filmmaker Andre interviewed the common people, trekked the Earth with the big picture in his camera and heart and pen-- huge shoes to fill, lost stories of deserted islands, blank screens— how many Spartacus investigative journalists can keep spreading the truths? Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet at Axis of Logic, as well as a correspondent-poet for the WUSB 90.1FM radio segment “Radical Words”. In addition to his work as a writer and small press publisher, he travels a holistic mystic pathway staying in touch with Turtle Island. His website. © Copyright 2020 by AxisofLogic.com This material is available for republication as long as reprints include verbatim copy of the article in its entirety, respecting its integrity. Reprints must cite the author and Axis of Logic as the original source including a "live link" to the article. Thank you! |