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FROM AI:

Amnesty International defines human rights as fundamental freedoms and protections inherent to every person, based on dignity, equality, and respect, regardless of background. These rights, outlined in documents like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), are universal, inalienable, and indivisible, including civil/political rights (life, expression, fair trial) and economic/social/cultural rights (health, education, housing, work).

Key Characteristics:

Universal: Apply to everyone, everywhere.
Inalienable: Cannot be taken away.
Indivisible & Interdependent: All rights are equally important and interconnected; taking one away affects others.

Core Examples (from the UDHR):

Right to Life, Liberty, & Security: Freedom from slavery, torture, and arbitrary arrest.
Equality & Non-Discrimination: Equality before the law, regardless of race, sex, religion, etc..
Fair Trial & Justice: Right to a fair hearing and recourse for rights violations.
Freedom of Expression & Belief: Holding opinions, freedom of thought, religion, and peaceful assembly.
Economic & Social Rights: Right to education, health, adequate housing, food, and work.
Right to Asylum: Freedom to seek refuge from persecution.

In essence, human rights ensure fair treatment and the ability to make choices about one’s life, forming the basis for a just and dignified existence for all people, protected by international law.

Thanks to #JuliaWright for posting this to the #MumiaAbuJamal listserv!

i want back my rocking chairs,

solipsist sunsets,

& coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches.

i’ve donated bibles to thrift stores

(mashed them in plastic trash bags with an acidic himalayan salt lamp—

the post-baptism bibles, the ones plucked from street corners from the meaty hands of zealots, the dumbed-down, easy-to-read, parasitic kind):

remember more the slick rubber smell of high gloss biology textbook pictures; they burned the hairs inside my nostrils,

& salt & ink that rubbed off on my palms.

under clippings of the moon at two forty five AM I study&repeat

           ribosome

           endoplasmic—

           lactic acid

           stamen

at the IHOP on the corner of powers and stetson hills—

i repeated & scribbled until it picked its way & stagnated somewhere i can’t point to anymore, maybe my gut—

maybe there in-between my pancreas & large intestine is the piddly brook of my soul.

it’s the ruler by which i reduce all things now; hard-edged & splintering from knowledge that used to sit, a cloth against fevered forehead.

can i let them both be? this fickle faith and this college science that heckles from the back of the classroom

           now i can’t believe—

           that the bible and qur’an and bhagavad gita are sliding long hairs behind my ear like mom used to & exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”—

all my understanding dribbles down the chin onto the chest & is summarized as:

life is merely

to ovum and sperm

and where those two meet

and how often and how well

and what dies there.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Renee_Good

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DTTMEyLDxvD/

https://lithub.com/renee-nicole-good-murdered-by-ice-was-a-prize-winning-poet-heres-that-poem/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KEETCCMN6S2C99NV1SV0F0VE&_kx=N7ZUy87lZmRlOJp97-NPk11XNcFSDpign4V7F2qCtew.U5D8ER

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