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:: Friday, February 25, 2005 ::
Laboring for the Right Words ; Zeek Green is a Longshoreman and Poet Who Works Tacoma's Waterfront for Meaning. RedNova.com, TX
Green calls himself a spoken-word artist, who writes and records his take on politics, AIDS, women, the environment and economics.
He's also proud to call himself a full-time longshoreman.
On Tuesday, he'll read some of his poetry at an ILWU-sponsored event in Tacoma called 'A Call to Conscience: A Celebration of Black History, Women and Labor.' Green, a regional semifinalist in the 2004 Seattle Poetry Slam, will share the stage with black luminaries and activists including actor Danny Glover; rapper Chuck D, the co- founder of Public Enemy; and Naomi Tutu, daughter of South African Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Although black workers have a long history on Tacoma's waterfront, their experiences haven't always been positive. But Green is proud to be a part of what's evolving there today. He claims the bad old waterfront ways so familiar from Hollywood movies have been 'litigated and lost through attrition.'"------------------------------------------- posted 12:23 PM :: reference link ::
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