by Elizabeth Stark | Jun 23, 2020 | Opinion
“This is a moment of reckoning for racial injustice and health disparities. Doing nothing about air pollution, which so clearly has a greater impact on Black Americans, is racism in action.” — Catherine Garcia Flowers, a field organizer in Houston for Moms Clean...
by Aya de Leon | Jun 15, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
Part of the pattern of intimate violence is when an abuser tests his partner to see how much he can get away with. Early in a relationship, he might hit her “in jest” but it’s a little bit hard, what will she do? Will she leave the date and tell him that she won’t...
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 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...
by Susan Defreitas | May 25, 2020 | Book Reviews, Opinion
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet by Kristin OhlsonSometime in the spring last year, I talked to Andrew Millison, one of my oldest friends. He’s a senior instructor in the permaculture program at Oregon...
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