What I Tell the Young When They Ask - by Margaret Randall

The art of resist. 

 

Oñate’s Right Foot - by Margaret Randall

History - reality and symbol - in New Mexico. 

Drowning in Bones and Flames - by Theodore A. Harris

Partisan collage

“Fuses” - by Mark Vallen

Revolutionary silkscreen

“Apostles of Ugliness”: 100 Years Later - by Mark Vallen

Much of Liberation Lit’s first issue cover art is in the style overviewed below, including work by John Sloan.

Iraq on My Mind: Thousands of Stories to Tell - And No One to Listen - by Dahr Jamail

Views of Iraq and the USA from an independent reporter and others.

Love’s Indomitable Spirit Still Alive in Kenya - by Rasna Warah

Focus: Kenya view. 

2 Poems - by Betty Muragori

Focus: Kenya poems.

Recipes for Disaster in Iraq - by Tom Engelhardt and Frida Berrigan

Cooking up geopolitical crime in Washington D. C. 

Lake of Heaven excerpt - by Ishimure Michiko

 Community destroyed by dam building in Japan.

Prison Poetry

Multiple poems and a story, by state of Illinois prisoners.

Prestamped - by Cari Carpenter

What may not be mailed to prison.

6 Poems - by Stephen Derwent Partington

Focus: Kenya poems.

A Moment - by Yvonne A. Owuor

Focus: Kenya view. 

When the Nakumatts Close - by Wambui Mwangi

Focus: Kenya view.

Cartoons - by Stephanie McMillan

Against corporate state conquest in Iraq and elsewhere.

Unsettled - by Kalundi Serumaga

Focus: Kenya view.

Let Kenyans Take the Lead - by Shalini Gidoomal

Focus: Kenya view.

No Laughing Matter - by Judy Kibinge

Focus: Kenya view. 

Unsung Heroes of Kenya - by Mike Eldon

Focus: Kenya view.

We the Kikuyu - by Potash

Focus: Kenya view.

Translated from Kibakizungu - by Wambui Mwangi

Focus: Kenya view.

The Brinkipice of Genocide - by Tony Mochama

Focus: Kenya fiction, and view (nonfiction). 

The Obituary of Simiyu Barasa, Written by Himself - by Simiyu Barasa

Focus: Kenya view. 

Echoes - by Yvonne A. Owuor

Focus: Kenya view. 

I Blame Kibaki - by Potash

Focus: Kenya view. 

The Fire This Time - by Martin Kimani

Focus: Kenya view.

“I was near to die…I was dead” - by Wambui Mwangi

Focus: Kenya view.

Kengemi’s Fly On The Wall - by Stanley Gazemba

Focus: Kenya view.

An Open Letter - by Shailja Patel

Focus: Kenya view.

Lessons Learnt - by Doreen Baingana

Focus: Kenya view.

Marbles and Ballot Boxes - by Dayo Forster

Focus: Kenya view. 

A Tribute to the Man in Black - by Vivek Mehta

 Focus: Kenya poem. 

Praise Poem - by Stephen Derwent Partington

Focus: Kenya poem. 

Girl in the Rain - by Shabnam Nadiya

“Life went on for all of us. We felt so good and holy about ourselves; there was something so sacred in our magnanimity.”

Cartoons - by Carol Simpson

Life in Corporate Utopia.

Interrogation - by Mahmud Rahman

Revolutionary struggle and counterrevolutionary oppression in Bangladesh.

A Message From The American Corporate Plutocracy - by Paul Street

Sing and dance that plutocratic tune - American Corporate Idol for President.

 

Ode to Man and War’s End - by Kim Jensen

Facing the need to liberate.

 

Nigerian Freedom Fighters and Zapatista - by Kim Alphandary

Revolution drawn in charcoal.