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Wage Theft
Nate Scott
In the midst of the only global pandemic anyone on the planet has witnessed, President Trump abruptly decided to withdraw from the World Health Organization and to ban the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from reporting their facts and figures directly to the public. Continue Reading...
Trump’s COVID Executive Order – Not Actually Helpful
Taylor Knox
HOW REPUBLICANS DEFLECT RACISM
If you're old enough to remember trying to call someone only to hear a busy signal, the family drama of sharing a landline, and the jubilation and relief the invention of call waiting brought; you also remember a time that the smartest person you knew was the only thing that could save you from a trip to the library. Continue Reading...
HOW THE 13TH AMENDMENT LAID THE FRAMEWORK FOR SYSTEMIC RACISM AND OPPRESSION
Angela Purnell
Did you know the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free all the slaves? Thus the reason for the need of clarification through the 13th Amendment, (ratified in 1865) which states: “Neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” To be clear, this amendment did not effectively stop slavery, rather it created a legal loophole for the racist south to continue their inhumane practice of oppression and brutality on black Americans. Continue Reading...
POLICE BRUTALITY IN AMERICA
From its barbaric origins as slave watchers in 1704, to the first police force in Boston Ma. in 1838, to the first official police department in New York in 1845, racism and brutality are deeply woven threads in to the fabric of law enforcement. Continue Reading...
Let’s Unpack the Proposed Stimulus Packages: HEROES Act (D) v. HEAL Act (R).
Stimulus Package is a new term for the vast majority of American citizens, yet we learned the basics pretty quickly. Really though, what do we know about stimulus packages and what should we know? Continue Reading...
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS
If the founding fathers were alive today, it's obvious that they would hitch their ponies to the All Lives Matter wagon. They were, so to speak, the founding fathers of saying all lives matter, while simultaneously upholding the opposite. Continue Reading...
#M4ANow #DrawTheLine
Use the hashtags #M4ANow and #DrawTheLine Tuesday, August 11th and tell your story about how Universal Healthcare could have changed your life. Continue Reading...
Black Lives Matter is Not a Terrorist Organization.
We often hear the comparison of BLM to Antifa, or other terroist organizations. They have been called “domestic terrorists” by many. So what comes to mind when you hear the term “domestic terrorist?” Continue reading...
Leaving the World Health Organization; What You Should Know.
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