“Sunset on Inishmore� by Denise Labadie
A Revolution By Tai Nass Let me tell you a story about a revolution. The revolution brought me here to this cell. When they shoved me into my new home of rock and blood and excrement it was not my own but now my blood stains these monoliths of entrapment. I have taken each brick apart one by one in my mind and contemplated my pristine country, The Land of Lakes and Volcanoes. In the vista from my window I can almost make out the view of Isla Ometepe over the vast waters of Lake Nicaragua. Instead of despair, I am rapturous, proud to be a Sandinista. Like all revolutions, thoughts turn to whispers, whispers to plans and plans transform into action. Those actions change paradigms. All revolutions or risings as I call them now, are massive transformations. A shift was happening, and my people, the Nicaraguenses, were rising. This shift comes from a deep place in human existence where consciousness is awakened into the light of knowing. Knowing that we, all creatures on this planet and beyond, have a right to be here with hope and dignity as livelihood. When hope is taken away, the human senses come alive to search for it. And that is what happened. As I watched my people starve and languish in sickness, I put one hand on my loved ones for solace and one fist in the 20
