http://thesiegeonline.net/index.php Awakening the Community at Santa Monica College --- and Beyond Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:45:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A Poem by Aaron Howell Luscious cauchemar ostentatious comme suite, The lotus et lost sheep, And a coup de traître ravishing contentment (contention) Into an eye-sore, then extinct. Et Amoré? Love = Adore: adoré ... Jé rêve of she, With those enombrable eyes Diluted in LA beauté du diable, Et lips as rouge as a rose! Hors d'haleine with the ... http://thesiegeonline.net/index.php/aaronhowell/2006/08/27/17/death/ First Step – Taking Notice Yeah, that's right. "You're just a student" is not only insulting to you, but more importantly, such sentiments betray an attitude, especially if coming from someone in a position of power, which can seriously undermine your rightful opportunities to fully participate in the college experience. You ... http://thesiegeonline.net/index.php/admin/2006/07/26/13/%e2%80%9cyou%e2%80%99re-just-a-student%e2%80%9d-is-an-insult/ A Warning to the Office of Student Life Click here to read the entire five-page letter. This is what happens when the remedies of the system are exhausted and inadequate to the task. You go outside of the system. And now the participants in the Office of Student Life – ... http://thesiegeonline.net/index.php/admin/2006/07/02/02/la-district-attorney-to-smcs-student-government-obey-the-letter-and-the-spirit-of-the-brown-act/ SMC has a BIG PROBLEM JUNE 6 UPDATE: Today, The Siege had a wonderful meeting with Dean Judith Penchansky (SMC Disciplinarian) and student Nehasi Lee in response to a false police report that described me as a "disruptive student" at the May 18 event detailed below. The dean and I had a ... http://thesiegeonline.net/index.php/admin/2006/05/28/18/widespread-police-misconduct-reported-at-santa-monica-college/ A Poem by Matt Gillam You drowned me down to a spinning haze, a cloud that hurricaned with little fizzles of flashes in blue, a single vicious notion that the number of two was one number too many and must be destroyed. Skin soaked in with twisted grins, a head of wine and fingers panged with a hunger for a ... http://thesiegeonline.net/index.php/admin/2006/07/26/23/our-singularity/ Where are the local demonstrations of outrage over the war crimes presently being perpetrated by the Israeli Goliath against the Lebanese people? Go to Save Lebanon to find out when and where demonstrations will be staged in your community. And since the Western mainstream media (MSM), particularly in the United States, ... http://thesiegeonline.net/index.php/admin/2006/07/17/17/israel-must-stop-murdering-the-innocent-lebanese/ A Poem by Matt Gillam I carry a velvet violin in the case where you left it padlocked by my eardrums You meant to throw it out, to leave it shattered in the trash when your fingers had finally betrayed you, too But I kept it safe from you (in me) and play it the way you used to play No one but me can hear the sounds you ... http://thesiegeonline.net/index.php/admin/2006/07/16/00/stolen-violin/ There’s so much deception, confusion and nonsense spewed forth in the popular media which undermines the notion that global warming is a reality, it’s little wonder that many people remain unconvinced of its immediate threat. Such intentionally-sown confusion allows George W. Bush and those he services (that’s not ... http://thesiegeonline.net/index.php/admin/2006/06/18/01/a-must-see-film-an-inconvenient-truth/ All you Santa Monica College students who want to transfer to UC Berkeley, want to do some advance reconnaissance, beyond just reading the contents of their website, before you get there? Now you can at iTunes via the progressive reach of this stellar university. Go to Berkeley on iTunes U ... http://thesiegeonline.net/index.php/admin/2006/06/12/09/uc-berkeley-courses-and-more-on-itunes/ A Poem by Matt Gillam he gave me a riddle I couldn't solve a koan a puzzle of pretence of desire and intent he touched my arm in the dark drunk bar he le let me lead him to my house he let me look as his back was turned he let me touch his head but not ... http://thesiegeonline.net/index.php/admin/2006/06/05/17/the-riddler/