by Aya de Leon | Aug 24, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
When my partner and I decided to become a one-car family in 2016, I began to use Uber when I wasn’t able to walk or bike. Until this happened in 2017: As news of Donald Trump’s travel ban on Muslim-majority countries spread, protests sprang up at airports around...
by Aya de Leon | Aug 17, 2020 | Action, Poetry
As a member of the Daily Dose crew, I have been figuring out ways to put the climate emergency at the top of my agenda in all areas of my life: parenting, writing, and work. To that end, I have figured out how to engage climate in my teaching at UC Berkeley. Instead...
by Aya de Leon | Aug 14, 2020 | Opinion
What Kamala Harris needs most right now is us. Not just a cheerleading team, or our pledged support for the Biden/Harris ticket, but all of us. As a Black/Indian woman in politics, she has had to make ugly calculations and compromises with entrenched power. An Afro...
by Aya de Leon | Aug 12, 2020 | Opinion
Elizabeth Stark: One of my students told me tonight that her grandmother’s name was Kamala. “My little diabetic, illiterate grandmother who is no longer with us would NEVER HAVE IMAGINED that she might be vice-pres of the U.S.!!!!!!” she wrote into...
by Aya de Leon | Aug 10, 2020 | Audio/Visual
In order to win a Green New Deal, defund police, transform our economy and save our nation, we need to get Tr*mp out of office. We need to elect progressives to the House and Senate, as well as in state and local elections. AND we need strong movements to hold those...
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