Michael Ventura
- Jul 18, 2020
- 6 min
Ventura at 4am / The Horrors in Portland are 'Legal'
Last night Jazmin showed me a feed from NPR about federal officers in unmarked vans cruising Portland, Oregon, and (her word)...
Michael Ventura
- Jun 14, 2020
- 17 min
Ventura at 4am / History as Oneself
April 4, 1968 – New York City As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love....
Michael Ventura
- Feb 20, 2020
- 4 min
Ventura at 4am / Impressions - Democrats Debate in Las Vegas, February 19, 2020
Who did we see? A gay guy. Two New York Jews age 78. A no-nonsense hard-working Oklahoma woman and a no-nonsense hard-working Minnesota...
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
- Feb 14, 2020
- 7 min
Ventura at 4am / The Most Integrated Space in the U.S.A.
1: Some data A majority non-white U.S.A. is widely predicted in more or less a generation. That doesn’t mean someone in 2045 (my...
Michael Ventura
- Oct 22, 2019
- 11 min
Ventura at 4AM / Election 2020 – Some Notes / October 2019
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY —– Missing the Point The most important element of the 2020 election stood unnoticed in plain sight from start to...
Michael Ventura
- Aug 13, 2019
- 22 min
BACK TO THE GARDEN: WOODSTOCK Across 50 Years
This beautiful world is a garden of flowers . . . This beautiful world is a city of pain . . . This beautiful evening it’s time to rock...
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
- Jul 12, 2019
- 2 min
Ventura @ 4am / Re Concentration Camps
“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. They’re...
Michael Ventura / Photo Art: Dan Hubig
- Dec 4, 2018
- 8 min
No Hiding Place - An Election Notebook
There’s no hiding place down here — traditional Gospel song November 3 I look up at a clock: In more or less eighty hours the polls will...
Michael Ventura / Photo Art: Dan Hubig
- Oct 18, 2018
- 6 min
Ventura at 4am / The Politics Of Helplessness – Part II
They strewed white flowers of cowardice, as they passed… ~ Anne Spencer If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced...
Michael Ventura
- Sep 21, 2018
- 7 min
The Politics of Helplessness - Part 1
Art/Photo: Dan Hubig © 2018 This essay begins with poetry by Tadeusz Rozewicz (1921-2014). For most Americans, he needs an...
Michael Ventura
- Aug 20, 2018
- 7 min
Ventura at 4am / Naunie, 1935 - 2018
I’ll fly away, Oh Glory! I’ll fly away! In the mornin’! When the shadows of this life have gone I’ll fly away! One of her Gospel...
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
- Jul 12, 2018
- 7 min
Ventura at 4AM / THIS USA: Origins
Each sluggish turn of the world has such disinherited to whom belongs neither what’s been nor what’s coming next. Rainer Maria Rilke, The...
Michael Ventura
- May 14, 2018
- 9 min
Ventura at 4am / March 24 2018: History As This Afternoon
Note: My first draft was written on the afternoon and early evening of March 24th. Pneumonia intervened. The piece was completed in May....