Stop the War Makers. Hands Around the Lab. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Never Again!
Aug 10, 1:30pm - 3pm, Robert Payne Park, 5800 Patterson Pass Road (at Vasco), Livermore

March for Immigrant Rights
Sep 20, 11am Assemble at Yerba Buena Gardens (Mission St. between 3rd & 4th), San Francisco; 12pm - March up Market St.; 1:30pm - Program & Festival at Civic Center.

Rally and March to Defeat Proposition 54
Sep 25, 12:00noon - Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley

Reportback from Palestine
Sep 27, 6:30pm - Redwood Gardens Community Room, 2951 Derby Street, Berkeley

End the Occupation! Bring the Troops Home Now!
Sep 28, Noon - Dolores Park, San Francisco - 12pm. Gather at Dolores Park, march to: 2pm - Rally at Civic Center

Forum: Defend Environmntal Justice, Defeat Prop. 54!
Sep 30, 7:00 PM - Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave., near Dwight Way, Berkeley.

In Celebration of the Free Speech Movement: The Berkeley ACLU Presents Larry Fly
Oct 6, 7:00 PM - Pauley Ballroom West, Berkeley campus

Stop the FTAA and School of the Americas
November 19-23, Miami and Colombus, GA.

Buy Nothing Day
November 28, Everywhere.

The sun carriers
By Sriram Shamasunder

Your hardwood floors match the color of my skin

I wait for you to enter the sky lit kitchen

sunlight settles on the countertop

specks of air are made visible and touchable

Until i try to bring them into my palm

When you finally enter the room

Treading lightly as ever on the ground

You come to stand

statue solid when and where you choose

sun tints your short hair

we wait

in your house

together

for a doctor phone call

determine if cancer has spread

to your brain

you light a cigarette or

move towards the hot printer

to find

an essay

revised and reddened

any movement to keep pace with the cancer

something as to not stand still

I want to say then:

The story goes

The Sun at dusk doesn’t just disappear

chosen folks wait behind the hill

cradle the sun as it falls

Store shiny slices

Fine In their spine

and

morning only comes when

the chosen gather and pack

fire tight like snow balls

hurl the sun back into sky

my auntie always said

Sun carriers come closest to saints

Can be told apart

during the day

cuz

traces of sun left in spines

pour beautiful

through eyes

Or even a belly button

Are you one of those people?

Is that why they call you June?

Is that why you stand up so straight?

To respect the sun you must carry?

I want to ask all this and

Simultaneously say:

do not worry about legacy

when lying crows all around crowing

to tell the truth is much

to carry the sun for so long is enough.

But I say nothing

and

After so much silence

Your sister says

“Could I please be alone with June

I hope you understand”

What can I say or do now

Except spread my arms always to embrace the
exact size of your diminished frame

And try to carry along some of the sun

You: 64 and dying

I: 23

You stay and

I leave

Sriram Shamasunder is a medical student and was a student teacher poet at Poetry for the People for a two years. He wrote this after visiting June, a few months before she passed.

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