How lucky we are to know GREAT COMPANY!
Above, I'm a happy fella with Madame Marie-Marthe Balin Franck Paul in Little Haiti, Miami, January of 2023. after Maryse and I brought computers and JAMBARS for students in Haiti. Photo by Maryse.
Mme. Franck Paul, Maryse's aunt, now 87, is founder and Principal of College Canapé-Vert in Port-au-Prince. Click to visit our Partners in education at stickingupforchildren.com. Again, many are those who do good ... without an iota of A.I.!
Leftward, lights are strung about a Live Oak in New Orleans City Park by a Park volunteer, Christmas-time of 2022. We make these freely adorned lights Symbol for the TRACK-A-DAY feature that's staring on July 30. 2023. Over 100 songs and poems for music have come to me since 1988. What better can I do than give back from the brilliance that partner musicians have delivered?
First track offered on the Sticking Up For Children (SUFC, don't-cha-know?) Jukebox is "Bobee (What A Spirit Walks That Way)" from Roger Lewis' album ALRIGHT!. We start with three excerpts from Roger, Herlin Riley and Kirk Joseph of the Rivers Answer Moons band and then. come Wednesday July 2, "Bobee ..." with Herlin and me on vocals.
Happy as we may be to enjoy great families and friends, wherever we live, we know by now, July of 2023, that we, the working-class and middle-class people of the world, are under Global
Attack. Those Corporations that lack conscience (the 100 Strategic Partners of the World Economic Forum for prime examples) have embarked from 9/11/01 into " 'COVID-19' " forward
on programs to use Big Lies and 21st-century technologies (technologies that are our classes' inventions) to reduce our freedoms more into mass enslavement or mass 'Sudden Death Syndrome'. Our genius, however, rebels and re-arises with irresistible compassion and creativity. My pieces in the Flipping the Script blog over on the WeAreRevolutions website and pieces on the Stands the Human Being blog and Substack are offerings that combine with many, many--millions unto billions--who REALLY 'Improve' humanity through their insights and resistance.
ALBUMS. Three from I/R Records are among the top 25 Jazz albums charted by Roots Music
ReportS for the year 2022. Listen on Bandcamp and Download in full fidelity there.
The World Economic Forum and its 100 Strategic
Partners among especially exploitative Corporations of the Neo-Colonial world are waging a War Against Humanity that has accelerated over the past four years under covers of " 'COVID' " and " 'Climate Change' ". Call it the WEF WAH for short.
The series of WEF Files profiles, offered here through my Stands the Human Being blog and Substack presents leading Agenda Contributors to the WEF as extremely driven and energetic individuals ... who have become pathological imbeciles in their services to the WEF's global Techno-Fascism, the WEF's 21st-century 'New World Order' of enslavement by Banks of the Northern Hemisphere.
Among the profiled are J. Michael Evans of Ali Baba (and once of Goldman Sachs), Helen Hai of Binance and the United Nations, and more obvious subjects such as Bill Gates, Chrystia Freeland, and Justin Trudeau.
"Prosecute 'Em!", cataloging crimes against masses of
humans during our " 'COVID-19' " era, is part of my
'Stands the Human Being' blog and Substack.
You are one / Light among / Many Lights, / Ever-changing, / Invaluable, / And meant to shine / Ev'ry moment of our lives.
Jack among students.
with Agneta Falk Hirschman in San Francisco's Caffe Trieste, 2013.
'Jack Hirschman'
Always leaning forward,
His "oldest paperboy's"
Satchel slung over one shoulder,
Red muffler emblazoning black overcoat,
Or his elbows out on a central table of Spec’s
Amid that Bar's brassy mementos of Seaman's ports,
As his smiling nods and emphases
Encouraged the Brigades and Workships
Gathered round,
Jack was always there,
Jack was there for every War,
Ev'ry unjust War of Empire--
LIke Aggie, Sarah, Kristen,
Alfonso, Francisco, q.r., Lawrence,
Devorah, Genny, Opal, Boabida, ...
Were there in protest with their poetry.
Jack a Bronx teen-ager
Embraced the caves of Fellaheen.
Jack lost his cush post at U.C.L.A.
For refusing U.S. carnage in Vietnam.
Jack took poverty as part of the Street.
Marx, Spinoza, Hart Crane approve
Chosen pillow, chalice, temple!
Passionate sacrifice!
A poet’s room—yeah, the space is singular--
Books, papers, dithyrambs, Arcanes, ...
A clutter askew and a-strewn
With industry.
Never miss an appointed day or night
Of bringing The People’s Tribune
To Broadway and Columbus, Mission and 24th, ...
Never let the Will's transcendencet into Spirit flag!
Plus, butterflies!
How those colors
Of even insect hearts’ gallant
Endeavor do delve and dance
The glistening of grass
In Washington Square, Mission Dolores, ...
Hold that subject
Close as any rage, mystery, epiphany.
’87 with the homeless
In their Civic Center camp of cardboard,
Cold socks, running noses, ... ’89, ‘Home’ too.
Among the first cassette of Rebel Poets.
’92 firing ‘Insurrection’, ‘Yes Yes Yes’ against the ‘No No No’
Of endless beatings and deprivals exposed by Rodney King.
9/11 and forever after,
This finale of Big Lies stripping freedom into scanners
As Towers’ disintegrated and rebuilt serve as reminders.
Plus (never fail Greeks' and Turks' ... wine!) caresses!
Rewards beyond excess,
The calling opening
Into clefts for transport and root.
Ideas made soul, emergent from great women,
Manifest rolling shades of painting,
A dimple, wrinkle, flair, ...
Each muse again a meeting heart of many parts;
Rest head by coals and watch the fire.
Oh, Jack was there
For all of it,
Never tiring for all of it
And despite all of it.
One of the Roughs, one speaking to the Stars,
On his made-brilliant corners and Ishmael’s cabin voyaging!
The dearest Abrazo where one can hear
Beats from another's sweat-wet breast.
Stepping, stepping—Keep on stepping
Like Clark and Glenn and more of other Jacks’ music—
Jack, you're there, guy!--Rebels’ bower, people’s power!
September 13, 2021
Sarah Menefee's tribute to Jack n The People's Tribune.
The Mission's Dolores Park could be a very pretty place.
1989, graphic artist Seth Tobocman.
One of the numberless tributes that poet, essayist, translator, activist Jack Hirschman helped into being,
this one to his fellow devotee, Bob Kaufman.
Please see these Web presences about Jack. They're source for several of the photos above and below.
SARAH MENEFEE'S tribute in August 2021.
MATT GONZALEZ'S web-page of deeply and broadly documenting history and images, begun
over 15 years ago and continuing into now.
AGNETA FALK HIRSCHMAN'S poetry and images.
Also, there's a review that I wrote for BETSEY CULP'S SF Call in 2003 that's available in print on the WeAreRevolutions&YouAreHeretoShine website and in audio on Bandcamp.
Thanks to Aggie, Matt, Sarah, Bobby Coleman, Dorothy Payne, Eve Pell, Safi of KPFA, Jonathan Richman, and many, many more.
Painting by Jack.
Lawrence and Jack at the time (2006) of Jack's also becoming the Poet Laureate of San Francisco.
Poets and painters, including Jack, Kristen Wetterhahn, Neeli Cherkovski, David Meltzer, Diana DiPrima, in Union Square, 1976.
