
A bilingual collection of essays in the form of open letters-- to public figures and private ones, ancestors of the flesh and the spirit, organizations and activists. Aurora Levins Morales speaks out about book banning and eugenics, anti-Semitism in Latin America and sexism in solidarity movements, addiction and colonialism, the trafficking of children and the power of metaphor, and she speaks as a citizen of the Matria Grande, a feminist version of the unified and sovereign Americas Simón Bolívar dreamt of, and today's new revolutionaries and beginning to build.

Imagine there is no visa that will take you to the room where you can place your hand on one side of the glass matching finger to finger the hands of these men on the other, so you paint their faces on every wall and demand of the world that they be freed, work day and night to get them back. Years pass and the parents grow old and die, the children grow up and go to college, the landscape changes without them, but you don't stop. You name them every day, on every corner, and you call out to people everywhere in the world to name them and argue for them and work to get them back.
from "Imagine This."
from "Imagine This."