Streets Of Towns Research Articles

Política e Protestantismo Ocupam as Ruas. Reflexões sobre as Mobilizações Populares de Junho de 2013

Em junho de 2013, o povo brasileiro tomou as ruas de grandes e pequenas cidades e uma pergunta não calou: como estão se posicionando os protestantes? Conscientes da abrangência da pergunta e dos limites de espaço e tempo, resolvemos analisar a questão a partir de entrevistas com três pastores batistas conhecidos por fazerem reflexões teológicas sobre as questões políticas e sociais brasileiras.

Study of Stabilization of Unstable Area and Development of Mitigation Measures for Landslide at Peradeniya, due to Widening of Town Roads

This paper investigates the current and future road traffic requirements around Peradeniya town, provides a summary of the detailed stud y of stability analysis of the adjoining slope area at Peradeniya town and finally a slope area re-shaping design solution is worked-out based on slope stability analysis for the unstable area in the town. The classified traffic movement data and road geometrical data were used to illustrate the present traffic conditions and future traffic requirements for a design period of 20 years. The required carriageway width for each road and the lateral distance toward s the slope that requires to be excavated from the centre of the existing road (i.e. land requirement for Colombo-Kandy road widening) was decided based on the outcome of the study. The slope area was analysed with the ground water levels, field and laboratory test data for its Stability using Morgenstern- Price finite slope stability method under three different scenarios: firstly considering actual observations, secondly for an adverse condition and thirdly for a situation after rearranging the shape of the slope to an angle of 35° with controlled ground water table. The results of the study indicate that the road towards Colombo has to be widened up to 25m from the center of the existing road towards slope area at Peradeniya. The stability of most parts of the area is in critical state and there is a higher percentage of probability for occurrence of landslide hazards during rainy seasons and the results of reshaping the slope area gives a remarkable level of stability.

Editorial to the Special Issue “urban use of rocks” in Environmental Earth Science

Urban rocks are so diverse that it is common for geology students to be forced on field trips along the streets of university towns and cities. They joke that this is simply to save money, but in reality the stone of the urban fabric has often been carefully gathered, is finely polished and presented at a convenient elevation. It reflects a balance between the availability of suitable local stone and the important decorative and durable character of materials brought from greater distances. This book includes the description (Perez-Monserrat et al. 2012) of the Geomonumental Route project undertaken by the Instituto de Geologia Economica of CSIC (Spain) and Istituto per i Beni Archeologici e Monumentali of CNR (Italy), which explores the Madrid bridges’ route over the Guadarrama river built with granitic material from the Guadarrama mountains and a route via the 16th century coastal towers of the Apulia region in southern Italy. The volume collects chapters about urban geology that arose out of presentations within Monuments under threat, a session that was part of the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna, April 2012. These chapters present the outcomes of recent research that has examined the choice, testing, exposure and sensitivity of building stones to the urban environment. As such it should be valuable for those undertaking research and studying the geology of our urban fabric. Traditional aggressive air pollutants have been decreasing in cities, but they have left thick black crusts from the late 20th century (Gulotta et al. 2012). However, even low sulphur dioxide concentrations can lead to observable deterioration (Graue et al. 2013) and the rate of attack can seem proportionately faster as deposition when concentrations are low (Wiese et al. 2012). While sulphur dioxide and smoke from coal has been decreasing, the effects of traffic-related pollutants, nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter, are particular apparent along busy streets (Auras et al. 2013). These environments, less polluted by sulphur but rich in nitrates can encourage biological growth and freshly cleaned surfaces can be rapidly recolonized (Hallmann et al. 2012). Improved air quality has led to interests in other mechanisms of damage such as the changing levels of moisture (Stuck et al. 2013), perhaps associated with secondary porosity (Doncel-Lopez et al. 2012) or expansion processes in volcanic tuff rocks (Wedekind et al. 2012). It is likely that climate change may cause water to penetrate more deeply into porous stone (McCabe et al. 2013). There has been a heightened interest in salt weathering through S. Siegesmund (&) Geoscience Center, University of Gottingen, Goldschmidtstr. 3, 37077 Gottingen, Germany e-mail: ssieges@gwdg.de

Chinese Workers Foxconned

The suicide nets are still there. Foxconn, the giant electronics manufacturing subcontractor, installed them in 2010, a year when fourteen workers died after jumping from the ledges and windows of crowded dormitories. In addition to the wide mesh nets, stretched low over the streets of Foxconn's company towns, the corporation has twenty-four-hour "care centers," "no suicide agreements," and a psychological test to screen out potentially suicidal workers, charged to the job applicant. It has raised wages signifi cantly, but only in the face of runaway inflation, steep hikes in the minimum wage, and mounting worker unrest. Media attention and pressure from Apple, one of its main customers, backed up by a program of regular factory audits, seem to be driving incremental improvements in working conditions.

Comparative Analysis of Airborne Microbial Concentrations in the Indoor Environment of Two Selected Clinical Laboratories

The airborne microbial concentrations of two clinical Laboratories located in the main campus of Ahmadu Bello University (LBU) and Sarkin-pawa Street (LBS) in Samaru-Zaria town were investigated within a period in the dry season (January-march) and a period in wet season (July-September) 2007. Bacterial counts in the dry season ranged from 1.8 × 10cfu/ml to 0.03 × 10cfu/ml with the highest count in LBS in the third week of sampling while those of wet season ranged from 8.0 to 0.01 × 10 cfu/ml with the highest in LBS. The fungal count ranged from 3.6 to 0.08 × 10 cfu/ml in the dry season and 0.54 to 0.04 × 10 cfu/ml in the wet season. The highest fungal count occurred in LBS and LBU in dry and wet seasons respectively. There was no statistical difference between the bacterial concentrations of the laboratories using paired sample t-test. In fungal counts, there was also no significant difference between the laboratories. The correlation between the sum total of bacterial and fungal concentrations at 0.05 level of significance (2-tailed) using Kendall’s tau_b, and Spearman’s rho was significant. The predominant bacteria and fungi isolated from investigated air samples included Staphylococcus spp, Proteus spp, Streptococcus spp, Micrococcus spp, Aspergillus spp, Rhizopus spp, E. coli, Bacillus spp. This comparative information could be useful for the medical and public health practitioners on common airborne bacteria and fungi, and their roles in the indoor air quality of clinical laboratories.

Manos Teatrales: Cyber-Paleography and Early Modern Spanish Theater

Both before and after Gutenberg, the history of artistic, social, and political events has often been recorded in handwritten documents: historical chronicles, literary texts, musical scores, religious and philosophical treatises, ambassadorial and military reports, and the correspondence of authors, scientists, and political figures with the world around them. Literary scholars, historians, archaeologists, and others spend endless hours locating, deciphering, and evaluating these manuscripts. While access to these manuscripts was once difficult, digital technology is making increasing numbers of such documents available; but it has yet to make them easy to read and to evaluate for all but a tiny minority of specialists.The Manos Teatrales project, directed by the authors of this note, employs cyber-paleography techniques to open up and analyze the surviving wealth of manuscripts from Spanish Golden Age theater and related archival records that link that theater to the surrounding society. The procedures we use and describe below could be extended to other manuscript collections. The results of our research are constructed as a live, layered virtual world on the Web, centered on a searchable database, and this information is accessible to librarians, scholars, students, and interested individuals anywhere at www.manosteatrales.org. Our processes have been developed with support from a Duke University Provost's Common Fund grant, from National Endowment for the Humanities and American Council of Learned Societies digital initiative grants (2009-2010), and from further work on automatic writer identification with researchers at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (2011-2013).Theater in Golden Age Spain, as in Elizabethan England and classical Greece, flourished as a central cultural institution. From the late sixteenth through early eighteenth centuries, drama was the most popular form of entertainment throughout the Spanish empire. Fast-moving three-act dramas were performed in public theaters, on palace stages, and even aboard ships to America; and autos sacramentales-allegorical religious drama-was performed on carts in town and city streets. Great playwrights-Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Calderon de la Barca-and dozens of other writers penned thousands of dramas to meet the insatiable demand. In contrast to the case of England, however, a treasure trove that awaits students of Golden Age Spanish plays is the existence of hundreds of autographed, partially autograph and unsigned manuscripts of the plays. Many of the manuscripts left by the great dramatists have served as copy-texts for good modern editions, but relatively little has been done with the hundreds of unsigned manuscripts that survived in collections in Spain, other European countries, and America. In the Biblioteca Nacional Espanola (BNE) and the Theater Institute of Barcelona alone, they number well over fifteen hundred. Identifying their copyists yields information valuable not only for the evaluation of the manuscripts in question but also for understanding the organization and operation of the theatrical working community. These manuscripts show that some copyists worked closely with dramatists, making clean copies of their drafts, while other manuscripts reflect the work of a theater company owner who modified the text to suit his company's capabilities and his sense of audience preferences. Others made copies for specific actors, or for sale, and a few, anticipating today's movie pirates who use hand-held cameras, made their copies from memory after seeing a performance.Significant progress in the field of handwriting recognition has enabled practical applications in constrained modern domains, such as the recognition of postal codes. Although the challenges posed by writer identification in old manuscripts are greater than those that pertain to modern forensic uses, the goal is the same. Manos Teatrales originated in Margaret Greer's evaluation of a manuscript of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's court spectacle drama La estatua de Prometeo that she found in the Biblioteca Historica Municipal of Madrid in 1980 and edited. …

A Very Public Ritual

AbstractIn Wilhelminian Germany the congregation of tens of thousands of Catholics in processions through the streets of Prussian towns was a bold expression of religious commitment within a nation fraught with political and social tensions.

Perencanaan dan Analisis Biaya Investasi antara Perkerasan Kaku dengan Perkerasan Lentur pada Jalur Trans Jakarta Busway: Studi Kasus pada Trans Jakarta Busway Koridor 8 antara Halte Pondok Indah 2 hingga Halte Permata Hijau

Types of rigid pavement for road has been widely used in Indonesia, ranging from toll roads to the outer town road. Rigid pavement is considered more powerful than the flexible pavement. In other words, rigid pavement is expected to have a longer service life and minimal maintenance. The construction cost for rigid pavement is more expensive compared to flexible pavement. While the need for rigid pavement maintenance is cheaper than for flexible pavement. Seen from investment point of view, rigid pavement is more profitable than flexible pavement, because the annual fee required for rigid pavement is less. Due to the comparations, an analysis is performed in this study to select which type of pavement is best used in the future.

The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885–1918 by Elizabeth Edwards (review)

Reviewed by: The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885–1918 by Elizabeth Edwards Owen Clayton (bio) The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885–1918 by Elizabeth Edwards; pp. 1–326. Durham; London: Duke UP, 2012. $26.00 paper. The survey Movement inspired dozens, perhaps hundreds, of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographers to tour the streets of British towns, cities, and villages, recording sites of historical interest and documenting local and national histories. Yet the movement, despite having provided a permanent photographic record of the British past, has been largely forgotten. Elizabeth Edwards’s new book changes that. The Camera as Historian contains a staggering amount of research. Having visited many archives and local libraries, its author has uncovered a wealth of material, much of which has never been analyzed as part of the Survey Movement. The result is a truly impressive piece of historical excavation, an ethnographic study into what Edwards calls the “historical imagination” of the years 1885 to 1918. The Survey Movement, which was at its peak during this period, has been sidelined by much subsequent scholarship. When it has been analyzed, it has usually been seen as primarily the work of one man: Sir Benjamin Stone, Conservative MP and founder of the National Photographic Record Association (npra). Since Stone’s own photographs tend toward the nostalgic and picturesque, historians have often seen the Survey Movement itself as embodying these qualities. The Camera as Historian complicates this view by examining the social and cultural conditions that led to the movement and by paying attention to the small army of amateurs who took most of its images. By doing so, Edwards recovers the Survey Movement as both a practice and an experience—as, for example, when she discusses photographic walks, [End Page 139] which were organized by camera clubs and local surveys. During these walks, amateurs would tour their local area looking for sites of historical worthiness. One of the book’s strengths is the way in which it illuminates the role of these previously overlooked photographers. The amateur photographers were managed according to the rules of local and national surveys. Rules typically included a ban on photographic manipulation, stipulations about how pictures were to be taken and the materials to be used in photographing and displaying the images. Edwards highlights these latter elements in chapter 3, in which she constructs a particularly compelling argument. This chapter examines “the technical and material aspects of photography” that were “integral to articulating, enhancing, and maintaining” an ideology of photographic objectivity (80). Profound concerns about photographic loss and entropy led to the formation of “regulatory ideals” concerning the correct use of “plates, lenses, labels, and boxes” (97). Such material features of photographic creation, printing, storage and display are, as Edwards notes, “too often absent from the consideration of the ways in which photography makes its meanings” (97). By analysing these aspects, the author convincingly argues that the Survey Movement, far from being directed by an all-powerful npra, was in fact “dispersed, various, and too diverse to be effectively controlled” (110). This concern with materiality changes the way in which scholars think about the Survey Movement and also has wider implications for photographic study generally. In a later chapter on surveys and local identity, Edwards goes on to argue that the movement was decentralized rather than being controlled by luminaries such as Stone. Edwards’s concern is not with photographs as representation, and so she does not often attempt to “read” survey photographs. Given that she examined approximately 55,000 images, one can see the wisdom of this approach! Instead, she looks for patterns that emerge from the archives, including tropes like the parish church or village green. More than simple necessity, this methodology enables her to draw larger conclusions than would have been possible otherwise. Rather than echo scholarship that sees the Survey Movement as purely nostalgic, Edwards once again nuances critical understanding by showing that a significant minority of images were concerned with the industrial present, as well as with a possible future in which record photographs would be used as a guide to the past. One important implication of this argument...

Sacred pleasure, pain and transformation in African Indian Sidi Sufi ritual and performance

This research explores the importance of linguistic materials in Sidi Sufi ritual and globalized performance, in which the objective is to transform pain and affliction into pleasure and well-being. It examines the notion that by performing such texts within new linguistic contexts during local and global mendicancy as peripatetic faqirs outside the sacred spaces of Sufi shrines, the texts are deverbalized from the perspective of the audience. Sidi performers, however, experience no such distinction between their expressions of devotional texts within their own linguistic environments and in international settings. This article describes, transcribes, translates and interprets Sidi devotional texts as they are performed in Sufi shrines, in homes, palaces and public venues by invitation, and in the streets of villages and towns where they wander uninvited as mendicant faqirs. All such events are considered acts of devotion by the performers, and their linguistic content is preserved faithfully even in international settings. Their vocal genres include the azan, the Muslim call to prayer sanctioned by Islamic orthodoxy, as well as heterodox Sufi devotional verses such as qasidas, qawwalis and zikrs, some addressed to Sidi saints. Performances of these devotional texts often develop into ecstatic dancing called goma or damal, and help to create affective solidarities among Sidis and their followers and audiences. Thus, an invented vernacular communitas, generated locally among Sidis in Gujarat, now links Muslims and non-Muslims globally, affirming the values of sacred pleasure, transformative joy and Sufi Muslim devotion.

Study on Semi-Rigid Road Base Asphalt Pavement Typical Structure of Town Roads

In this paper, authors analyzed the semi-rigid road base asphalt pavement of towns and studied the optimum design methods of it, combining characteristics of town roads, considering natural conditions, vehicle axle,materialsupply,construction techniques, maintenance, transportation and so on, referring to design experiences of asphalt pavement in Tian Jin area, through indoor and outdoor experiments, applying math methods. In addition,optimum pavement structure function and calculating methods is given out, asphalt pavement structure adapt to Tian Jin area is recommended and CAD program is developed.

Reconstruction of flood characteristics in urbanized arid regions: case study of the flood of 25 November 2009 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

A technique that utilizes the SCS curve number and dimensionless unit hydrograph and GIS technology has been adopted in this study in order to reconstruct urbanized arid region flash flood magnitude with minimum available data. Estimated values of hydrograph ordinates were routed by utilizing HEC RAS software to reconstruct the flood hydrograph and flood characteristics of the devastating flood event of 25 November 2009 on East Jeddah districts to investigate the effect of levee breach and narrow town streets on water level in the town. The calculated maximum stage of this flood was estimated at 1.34 m in the main wadi channel in the natural condition, but it exceeded 2 m in the narrow streets, reaching about 2.1 m at street entrances in the worst-case scenario of the wet condition; this was found to be due to levee breach and the effect of narrow streets. The latter situation agrees well with actual stage observations in Gueeza streets contradicting the assumption that the flood event was entirely due to natural causes. Editor Z.W. Kundzewicz Citation El-Hames, A.S. and Al-Wagdany, A.S., 2012. Reconstruction of flood characteristics in urbanized arid regions: case study of the flood of 25 November 2009 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 57 (3), 507–516.

Modeling of Traffic Accident Reporting System through UML Using GIS

Nowadays vehicles are increasing day by day in town and cities roads. It is a well known problem to manage traffics on the roads in towns and cities. A lot of accident occurs on the road due to careless driving and Technical faults in vehicles. The main problem of traffic authorities is to manage the traffic on the road for the smooth functioning of vehicles that can reduce the accident and violation on the road. There is a tremendous demand from traffic authorities to develop a system that can helps to avoid the accident and keep the accident report data and also maintain the accident report data. The main objective of this paper is to model a Traffic Accident Reporting System (TARS) through UML using GIS to solve the above problem. Authors are also proposed the sequence and activity diagram for the above proposed model.

Urban Public Spaces and Vitality: A Socio-Spatial Analysis in the Streets of Cypriot Towns

This paper focuses on the issue of vitality in urban public spaces, streets in particular, as a major indicator of their success. The study first provides a theoretical framework for understanding the social value and role of urban public spaces on quality of urban life; second, it discusses the essential components of vitality in streets. Finally, investigating vitality and its determinants in two major streets in Famagusta and Kyrenia, North Cyprus, the paper highlights the issues of proper connections and proximity to important magnets, and physical and social attributes in the street area.

Yemen: Descending into Despair

Yemen: Descending into Despair

The 1906 Uncle Tom’s Cabin Law and the Politics of Race and Memory in Early-Twentieth-Century Kentucky

The 1906 Uncle Tom’s Cabin Law and the Politics of Race and Memory in Early-Twentieth-Century Kentucky Anne E. Marshall (bio) In January 1902, Charles Scott, manager of the Lexington, Kentucky, Opera House, received some unwelcome correspondence from the city’s chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). The members wrote to inform him that they had drafted a petition demanding that he no longer book the traveling stage production of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This was disagreeable news to Scott. The show was one of the most popular acts in Lexington and played to packed audiences of black and white theater-goers there twice a year. The UDC women based their opposition on the play’s portrayal of slavery as a cruel institution. Both the stage production and the novel on which it was based, they asserted, “present[ed] a picture of slavery in the South that is essentially false—false because it present[ed] what was rare and exceptional as normal and typical.” Though they granted that there may have been some instances of cruelty under slavery, they believed that relations between master and slave had been usually “kindly and mutually beneficial.” UDC officers buttressed this assumption by arguing that when southern men left for war, leaving slaves as “protectors and breadwinners” for southern women, bondsmen were nothing but faithful and devoted to their “helpless charges.”1 The UDC women also claimed that the play was “injurious to the community,” particularly its children. Perhaps more objectionable was the street parade designed to promote the show that had recently wound its way through the Lexington streets in the middle of the day. When it passed by a school during recess, this spectacle left a group of children to gaze upon two large bloodhounds and a “life size” statue of a slave in chains. “We cannot but feel that the influence left on their plastic minds by such a spectacle as that passing unrebuked through our streets was injurious to them and unjust to the memories of their fathers,” the petitioners wrote.2 In addition to keeping memories of their fathers and husbands morally pure, however, the women pled a case that appealed to many contemporary [End Page 368] white Kentuckians—not only those who could claim former Confederates or slaveowners as ancestors. The UDC members suggested that in a community like Lexington, “so largely composed of Negroes,” it would be dangerous to give African Americans “false conceptions of the lives of their fathers and grandfathers when they were slaves.” The portrayal of slavery in Uncle Tom’s Cabin as well as the visceral image of a slave in chains parading through the town streets, would, they asserted, “inflame race prejudice among the large class of our Negro citizens.” They no doubt anticipated that this argument would hold particular appeal in Lexington, a city in which both the white and black communities boasted of “good” race relations and were wary of anything that might change the precarious status.3 The UDC’s opposition to the negative portrayal of their slave-owning ancestors was little different from similar efforts of southerners to recast the peculiar institution as a benign historical phenomenon. Rather, it was their second, blatantly presentist aim of censoring what it considered inflammatory material that might provoke racial strife, which spawned an extensive local and national conversation between whites and African Americans over the meaning of the slavery and the war it had caused. Indeed, the UDC’s allegations touched off a protracted four-year campaign to halt performances of the play in Kentucky and prompted a debate over cultural representation of history among hundreds of African Americans and whites in Lexington, in Kentucky, and throughout the nation. In their response to the UDC, local African Americans went beyond simply critiquing the organization’s version of history. They used the opportunity to air grievances about racial inequality and launched a vociferous counter-protest that eventually led black Lexingtonians to create their own censorship campaign aimed at stopping the planned staging of both Thomas Dixon’s The Clansman at the Opera House in 1905, and, ten years later, the film version, Birth...

A medical problem of cobblestones and pavements

Anyone walking through the streets of cities, towns and villages, both in the UK and abroad will be aware of how painful on the feet these experiences often are. This is due to the unevenness of the surfaces. This analysis is designed to point out to local public health advisors and local Council members the precise nature of the problem. I am afraid a certain amount of elementary mathematics is necessary, but those members who cannot understand it will no doubt be able to find someone who can explain it to them. Let D be a measure of distress, i.e. pain in the feet, …

‘Managing’ Cape Town's street children/youth: the impact of the 2010 World Cup bid on street life in the city of Cape Town

Soccer has often been hailed as a key motivator in rehabilitation and restoration work with young people in difficult circumstances and for overcoming street life. Across much of Africa, the literature identifies many urban public places as play spaces for poor children who have limited alternative access to parks and playgrounds. ‘The street’ has regularly been transformed into a soccer pitch, as a space where children have easy access. Against this backdrop, South Africa's success at securing the 2010 World Cup bid, may be viewed as an opportunity to demonstrate the uplifting achievements of team sports for impoverished youth, yet at the same time, is juxtaposed against the removal of young people from the city streets, with little consideration of the impact on their lives. This paper draws on qualitative research with over 50 street children and 30 street youth aged between 10 and 28 from Cape Town's city centre. Using key narratives, it demonstrates how vagrant young people are being excluded from the city in an effort to clean up the streets. The paper ends with a consideration of these measures for young people's lives.

Failure Characteristics of Engineering Structure in Flood of Danfeng

According to the field survey of the damaged engineering structure suffered the flood on July 23rd in Danfeng County, it is analyzed that the failure modes and characteristics of elementary and secondary schools, village and small town residence, roads, bridges and others under the effect of extreme loads, such as debris flow , mountain torrent, landslide and so on. Natural environment must be practically protected in the mountainous area easy to suffer natural calamities. What’s more, good flood carrying capacity of the channels must be assured. Site selection of all different kinds of projects must be serious and careful, and they cannot be located in the ditch mouth of mountain torrents, occupy the flood carrying channels, or be too close to channel bank. Protection works must be set up for the key projects, and the revetment, retaining wall, longitudinal dike, spur dike and others should be fully utilized to resist, eliminate, or weaken extreme loads. It is necessary to strengthen the quality supervision of all diverse kinds of projects in the villages and small towns, perfect the design and construction process, and enhance the anti-scouring capability of the foundation of the projects.

Driving with the top down sun out & wind blowing all over the place xoxo, mm

Vanessa Huang Driving with the top down sun out & wind blowing all over theplace xoxo, mm Trust, child. When I was 29 & radio broadcasted "a matter of principle" we didn't forecast this cloudbreak to morning onion rain: back on before Where the boys are, someone waits to throw back angled portrait of Miss Major stunned like the lights forme\ A smilin' face— & taking off my kitten heels at the Christopher cops, New Daughters of Bilitis storming lipstick curls & toothbrushes at billy clubs sea a screams pinking overcome/ hand in hand Feminist Studies37, no. 2 (Summer 2011). © 2011 by Vanessa Huang 437 438 Vanessa Huang with the girls at Gene's, Hair Fairies spilling on to Taylor & Turk smoke clouds like/ a warm embracetwo-spirit ghost shirts knee deep in the earth/ Cover me with pretty liesI two arms to hold me tenderly from Cambodia fireworks raining always my girls & the sons I don't mind callin' me Dad Oh, deep in my heart/ & Brother Soledad I do believe/ some street in town and I know he's lookin' therefor me/ In the crowd of a million peopleI'll find I myfallen body Icarus, When Mancusis ask "Why are they destroying their homes?" & commissions write "critical" & "risk ofloss" they did not risk loss walking protractors out a Kent & dogwood blossoms from Cleveland truck routes/ where the boys true love will be He's walkin' down Vanessa Huang ■m back from the mess hall/ valentine pulled out a line/ And then I'll climb to the highest steeple in this castle a towers/ and tell the world he's mine/ Brother Herb say the world is hearing the world is seeing the world is coming & the brothers talk to the People of America exploding guards against the walls on firespreading wild, blowing holes /'Til he holds me I wait impatiently/ Where the boys are, where the boys are morningspark storm a demons I where the boys are Trust, child. When queens say "a superb job" & "tremendous" they did not see Attica is all of us & I know someone waits forme/'Til heholdsmeI wait impatiently I Where the boys are black flowers stemming without light or water black that whispers I can't tell you what the yard was like I cried it was so close everyone together castle a flowers thick & bitter/ where the boys arej We shall overcome these birds a prey fireskydeaths & stripped naked / Where the boys are\ We are not afraid We are not alone some day/ column a flowers shake shadowmemory out a hostage echoes knuckled under 'til spirit crawl & beat down on trouble & trouble plea guilty 440 Vanessa Huang I some day accordion dreams promise someone waits for me I am paper 66 & my silvergray wig j hold me tenderly top down where the boys are sun out & wind blowing all over the place/ The whole wide world aroundj shall overcome their throatslash some day The poem refers to these resistances: the 1971 rebellion of prisoners at the Attica "Cor rectional Facility" in New York state, one of whose leaders was Herbert X. Blyden, and where Vincent R. Mancusi was the warden; the three-day 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York City, led by two-spirit, transsexual, transgender, lesbian, bisexual, and gay persons of color, at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street; Daughters of Bilitis, a lesbian social and political group begun in the 1950s in San Francisco; the Compton's Cafeteria Riot of 1966 in San Francisco's Tenderloin District; the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam covertly bombed by the U.S. at its bases in Cambodia; U.S. anti-Viet Nam war organizing in the 1970s, including in Ohio at Kent State where students were shot and killed by the National Guard, and in Cleveland, where pictures of the MyLai massacre were first published in the Plain Dealer, and the Soledad Brothers George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Clutchette—three Black prisoners at Soledad California state prison, defended by Angela Davis. "knee deep in the earth" and "Cover me with pretty lies" are borrowed from Buffy Sainte Marie's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." The rest of the italicized text is borrowed from "Where the Boys Are" and "We Shall...