Author Archives: Richard Guzman
CALL TO ACTION: Help Educate America
We need your help. We have a chance to convince PBS stations across America to show the award-winning documentary film on the edge: Family Homelessness in America on Mother’s Day this year. Please email or call your local PBS station … Continue reading
Posted in Social Change
Tagged Diane Nilan, Hear Us, Homelessness, Mother's Day, On the Edge, PBS, Social Change
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“Coming Into Lent”
Lent is an airport we land at just when we Had begun to hope for an early spring. That final glide path with engines cut back Brings a swooshing quietness, until close To the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Ash Wednesday, Christian seasons, Divine forgetfulness, Easter, Lent, Richard R. Guzman
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The Accidental Radical
WHY LONG JOHN SILVER’S IS MY FAVORITE RESTAURANT On the evening of May 4, 1970, at the University of California at Berkeley, I became the director of the Peace Information Center. Earlier that day poorly trained, poorly commanded National Guardsmen … Continue reading