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    Writing for a Change
    Writing for a Change
    Writing for a Change
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    Writing for a Change

    By Barbara J. Waldern

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    This is a collection of 15 of my poems on a theme of art for social change, all of of them but one very recently composed. They are inspired by problems of the world, peoples resistance and efforts to make socially positive change happen. although the pen or keyboard, like any tool, may be used for exploitation, domination and destruction, it is there at our disposal for doing good things, helping and creating a new and better world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarbara J. Waldern
    Release dateMar 19, 2016
    ISBN9781310436987
    Writing for a Change
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    Barbara J. Waldern

    Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and a graduate of Burnaby Central Senior High School and Simon Fraser University, having studied English lit, French, Spanish, applied linguistics, social policy and anthropology.Has been an ESL instructor, a public service employee, and finally an education researcher before going to teach English in South Korea in 2007. There I taught English to children, university students and working adults. I am also an editor and have recently established a small business called Edwise Editor & Educ. Consultant, Edwise Editor and Education Consultant (#708-1155 West Pender Street, Vancouver, BC, V6E2P4, Tel: 604-638-329, Fax: 604-605-700, edwise2008@gmail.com, www.edwise2008.com). Just prior to this event, I took editing courses. Always been involved in community and anti-imperialist activism, I have been an advocate and network coordinator for teachers working abroad and locally and I sing in a political action choir. Likes: languages, films, music, art, nature, walking and general physical recreation. Dedicated to writing fiction and other categories of nonfiction since 2008 after many years of writing and presenting academic papers. Find copies of some stuff published since 2013 can be found in the special collections of the Simon Fraser University Library.

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      Writing for a Change - Barbara J. Waldern

      Writing for a Change

      By Barbara Waldern

      Copyright © March, 2016 Barbara Waldern

      Published at Smashwords

      Table of Contents

      Writing for a Change

      The Sound of Violence

      Beware the Rains

      On Education and Liberation

      Peace

      To Bloom Again

      Art of Struggle

      Day Is Gray

      Knives and Drugs

      Dog in the Dirt

      Straight Pine in Crooked Forest

      Change

      The Pen

      The Illusion of Boredom

      Men in Motion

      Hail the Volunteer

      WRITING FOR CHANGE

      Writing for a Change

      To you, history might have a different meaning

      Not the perspective to which I’m leaning

      You might want to point out great men

      Or talk about facts that fate may open

      I look at who has the powers

      Who lives up in the gilded towers

      And who is languishing under the whip

      While some of others’ sweat and blood sip

      And out of oppression indulge in delight

      Unfeeling champions of archaic birth right

      Allied in defense of the right of might

      I write for a change

      I know what you do

      --It’s the same ol’ same old

      A story much too often told

      Then framed in words of progress and glory

      Creativity, to you, is telling lies

      Colouring evil with tints and dyes

      Dressing up crimes with pretty bow ties

      Masking hatred with sweet apple pies

      I write for a change

      It is an alternative to find an alternative

      A brand new modern way for the people to live

      What’s happening to whom?

      Push aside your media to make room

      For the voices of the majority

      To communicate their priority

      To build a conscientious

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