“All men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable Rights, including
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
~ BLACK LIVES MATTER ~
Table of Contents ~ Syndic No.30 ~ July 4th 2020
♦ Francis Poole ~ Poem ~ “We All Must Wear A Lovely Crown of Fish Heads”
♦ John Ladd ~ A Play In One Act ~ “The Boys of ’76”
♦ Dav Rose ~ Poem ~ “Obituary”
♦ Charles Rammelkamp ~ Story ~ “Fireworks”
♦ Nitin Jagdish ~ A Meditation ~ “Fourth of July”
♦ Matthew Hohner ~ Poem ~ “Slave Stones”
♦ Jennifer Lagier ~ Poem ~ “Independence Day”
♦ Robert Cooperman ~ Poem ~ “The Commander- in- Chief on July 4th 2020”
♦ Bebe Barkan ~ Painting ~ “Quarantina”
♦ Bill Wolak ~ 7 Photographs ~ “July 4th, 2020”
♦ Charles Rammelkamp ~ Story ~ “A New Birth of Freedom”
♦ Stanley H. Barkan ~ Poem ~ ” Shelliach Mitzvah”
♦ Terence Cannon ~ Memoir Story ~ “Reborn On The Fourth of July
♦ Tim Brown ~ Music ~ “Blue Day”
♦ LeRoy Chatfield ~ Commentary/Opinion ~ ” Our Commander-In-Chief”
♦ Stephen Mead ~ Video ~ “George Floyd, Last Words (Someone Please)”
♦ Stanley H. Barkan ~ Poem ~ “JULY”
♦ Richard Baldwin Cook ~ Essay ~ “Tell Us Watchman, Of The Night”
♦ John Digby ~ 4 Collages ~ “Miss Liberty”
♦ Barbara Rhine ~ Handbook ~ “Covid 19 Handbook”
♦ LeRoy Chatfield ~ Syndic Dedication & Honor Role
♦ Bebe Barkan ~ Painting ~ “Shelter In Place”
♦ Matthew Hohner ~ Poem “A Dialect of Hammers”
♦ Charles Rammelkamp ~ Story ~ “Miracle Baby”
♦ Dav Rose ~ Poem ~ “The Noble Army”
♦ Stanley H. Barkan ~ Poem ~ “SHPILKES”
♦ LeRoy Chatfield ~ Easy Essay ~ “I’ll Be Damned!”
♦ J.H. Johns ~ Poem ~ “We The People”
♦ Pat Hoffman ~ Poem “In Gratitude for Women”
♦ Jennifer Lagier ~ Poem ~ “Thinning The Herd”
♦ Nitin Jagdish ~ One Act Play ~ “Independence Day”
♦ Stanley H. Barkan ~ Poem ~ “Discontinued American”
♦ Charles Rammelkamp ~ Story ~ “Bye Bye Centennial”
♦ Elaine Elinson ~ Story ~ “On Solidarity”
♦ Mike Miller ~ Commentary/Opinion ~ “I Fear For The Future”
♦ John Hartmire ~ Essay ~ “Quality of Noise”
♦ Stephen Mead ~ Graphic ~ “ME ME ME ME”
♦ Ernest Lowe ~ Poem ~ “For a Friend”
♦ Yolanda Barrera ~ Poem ~ “Ode To A Farmworker”
♦ Mike Hill ~ Essay ~ “Interdependence Day”
♦ Erika Prasad ~ Essay ~ “A Freedom of the Mind”
♦ Stephen Mead ~ Graphic ~ Trump’s Covid 19 Reports Jan-Mar 2020″
♦ Michael Lee Johnson ~ Poem ~ “Hamilton Lakes/ Itasca, Illinois”
♦ Victor Aleman ~ Photographs ~ “Marching For Immigration Reform”
♦ Ernest Lowe ~ Poem ~ Ode To Interdependence”
♦ Gary Beck ~ Poem ~ “Holiday IV”
♦ Laura Boss ~ Poem ~ “The Fireworks”
♦ Yolanda Barrera ~ Poem ~ Dedication To Parents of Graduates”
♦ Charles Haddox ~ Story ~ “A Martyr”
♦ Richard Ybarra ~ Essay ~ 1776 – 2020 “When Freedom Rang”
♦ Roger Netzer ~ Story ~ “Fourth of July 1968”
♦ LeRoy Chatfield ~ Easy Essay ~ “Pandemic Death”
~ IN MEMORIAM ~
♦ In Memory of Cesar Chavez ~ In His Own Words
♦ Jelly Roll Justice ~ Katrina Memoir ~ “First Year After Levees Broke”
♦ “In Memory of Jessica Govea ~ July 4, 2020”
♦ In Memory: Glen Pearcy ~ Filmmaker, Friend & Colleague ~ “Another River To Cross”
♦ In Memoriam: Photographer Jon Lewis – 2009
~ Post Deadline Submissions ~
♦ Bill Berkowitz ~ Poem ~ “You Can Get Killed By The Police”
♦ Chris Giovacchini ~ Retrospective ~ “Emmett Till and Other Black Lives”
♦ Lee Foust ~ Excerpt ~ “Fake Novel”
♦ Kate Chatfield ~ Commentary/Criminal Justice ~ “Four Boys”
♦ Eric D. Goodman ~ Story ~ “The Flag in the Road”