by Elizabeth Stark | Jun 9, 2020 | Opinion, Uncategorized
Crowds of people demanding justice in the middle of a pandemic is a terrifying and thrilling vision. A risk-ratio analysis keeps circling back to “I can’t breathe,” the grim vision of a man being killed in broad daylight, on camera, for nine long, terrible minutes, by...
by Aya de Leon | Jun 8, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead. And then it happened. The Minneapolis City Council, in a veto-proof majority, voted to defund the MPD. After years of...
by Sally Morton | Jun 5, 2020 | Reporting, Uncategorized
View this post on Instagram i poured my heart and soul into this. i feel a rage. A righteous one. I feel a sadness. One that makes me want to cry. I feel a love. A love that overflows. I feel a power. A power that calls us. head to www.m4bl.org for demands, and for...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Jun 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
It was the mirror that the civil rights legislation provided in the 1960s that revealed the deep bias against non-white immigration from Asia, Africa and South America, ever since the country’s founding. Did you ever wonder why it was only recently that there were...
by Elizabeth Stark | Jun 3, 2020 | Opinion
Larry Kramer, with activist Jason Walker, on the rally stage in Central Park last June following the Queer Liberation March. I’m supposed to begin my day with morning pages and meditation, but of late they’ve sort of merged–I’ve allowed myself to understand them...
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