Lower Frequencies
Luis Feliz LeonWelcome to Lower Frequencies! Your subscription to my biweekly newsletter will support fiercely independent journalism from a fellow worker.
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Poem: Groceries
Photo by Kim Leary on Unsplash
They snatched him
taking the groceries
home.
Egg cartons burst,
white shells on dark asphalt,
road kill outside Walmart.
In the desert,
camps rise.
steel and concrete
flower in the arid sand.
Daddy,...
Poem: On Nicollet Avenue
The flowers have turned into frozen tribute. The pleas have hardened into the harsh and jagged edges of denunciation.
The parking lot walls have grown welts of language, scrawled in skinny graffiti written in haste; shadowy silhouettes sku...
Defining a General Strike
Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 23, 2026.
A general strike is a social earthquake. It reorders the tectonic plates beneath the existing hierarchies that define the relations of class antagonism and capitalist rule. They arise when a space...
The Noise of Death
Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 23.
If it bleeds, it leads. That’s the dictum most reporters follow. And while murders and shootings in Minnesota warrant attention, the authoritarians haven’t gripped people there only through extreme viol...
The U.S. Government vs. Minneapolis
It was an act of war. Just a day earlier, tens of thousands marched or stayed home in an historic political strike to demand Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leave Minnesota. On the morning of January 24, flash bangs and tear gas c...
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