Martial Law has begun in the USA. In one way or another it has always been a shadow force and presence in the USA. Now, it is here marching through the streets: ICE and Homeland Security agents in our neighborhoods, the National Guard on the streets of major cities, and the complete impunity the Supreme Court has granted the president. We are now in the most dangerous time in US history. Today as I write, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, one of the most outspoken critics of the Trump administration, her house in Washington was raided by the Department of Justice.History is littered with the legacies of Martial law. The rise of the Nazi Party did not begin in 1932 or 1933. It began with the Versailles Treaty and the Weimar government: the failure of economic policy, the growing poverty, the Great Depression, and the massive war debts. In Spain, Franco would never have succeeded without the collusion of Italy and Germany, and succeeded Europe looked away. As Santayana said, “Those who cannot re… Continue Reading on Substack →
Welcome We Are a Nation of Immigrants
This is a song I had written for the performance.Thank you for reading this Substack post; it also appears on my blog. Thank you to those who have subscribed and are supporting the writing. I had been trying to write a post a week, but we are moving from St. Pete, Florida, to Girona, Spain, and my Substack posts have been a little slow. I have also been making Substack posts of short stories, poetry, and some political commentary.Playwriting has been one of the main pillars of my writing and performance work over these past few decades. In the 2000’s, Beatnik Cafe: A musical revue of the Jazz Beat Generation was performed in Boston, NYC, and Vermont. The solo shows, like “War is a Racquet: Major General Butler,” were presented throughout the USA. “House of War: House of Glass,” which was performed by the Zambian Youth Theatre in 2025. “Memoria.Hablar.Dignidad” in 2013 to commemorate the overthrow of the dictatorship in Chile, presented at Villa Grimaldi Peace Park. Now, in the early st… Continue Reading on Substack →
