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Performance poet, community activist
Bao Phi has been a performance poet since 1991. A two-time Minnesota Grand Slam champion and a National Poetry Slam finalist, Bao Phi has appeared on HBO Presents Russell Simmons Def Poetry, and a poem of his appeared in the 2006 Best American Poetry anthology. Read more about Bao Phi.
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We work, too
"We aren't sitting at home. We are working, taking care of our families, paying our bills, and dealing with our own problems. Not raging … read more for someone else to do something." -I'd like to add, those of us community organizers work too. I have a full time job, pay my bills and taxes, take care of my family like a lot of people do. I come from a working class family, my parents still live in the same rickety old house in the same neighborhood and I am one layoff away from the roots of my poverty. I don't get paid to write this blog, and I don't get paid to do a lot of the activist work that I do. And neither do a lot of activists that I know. The activists that I profiled for this entry do it because they work hard to try and make the world a better place. So I do find it offensive, and massively ignorant, that you would characterize a lot of activists and community organizers as people who don't work and complain to others to do something. That is certainly not the case.
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