Drone Footage Shows Mass Coronavirus Graves On Hart Island In New York, Vice News // AP PHOTO/JOHN MINCHILLO In the fall of last year, before novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 was on everyone’s tongues, I was spending a lot of time in hospitals. I would leave the house as the sun was going up [...]
We’re watching racists and xenophobes march in record numbers. We’re watching our planet get sold out for corporate gain. We’re watching our rights disappear. We tell ourselves the solution is to #votethemout, vote with our dollar, “make our voices heard” on social media or in the streets, and punch Nazis. But should we be [...]
In this moment of “fake news,” relativism and historical amnesia, concepts matter. Concepts allow us to construct a lens to interpret and affect the world around us. Join One Struggle for Seeds of Unity: It’s Fascism Y’all We'll be in Miami, Gainesville, FL, NYC, or YouTube Live! The Hot Box July 28 at 2:30pm 1036 [...]
This piece was originally written in August 2018 in response to the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Now, in May 2019, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and Utah have passed new anti-abortion bills in the interest of creating court cases that will lead to Roe V. Wade being challenged in [...]
Entering a third week, this government shutdown isn’t about a border wall. It’s about a power struggle, and neither side represents us. As Republicans and Democrats grandstand and posture, thousands of government employees are on furlough or working without pay. To help, the federal government released tips for employees without wages on how to offer [...]
Our radios play recordings of children’s screams and our newsfeeds are filled with endless images of bleak detention centers: six and seven year-olds in cages, on matts with emergency blankets, and younger toddlers are even legally barred from being touched or consoled after being ripped from their parents. Trump’s new “zero-tolerance” policy has set in [...]
Earth Day 2018 is marked by extreme contradictions. Scientists around the world agree that climate change, caused by an increase and trapping of greenhouse gases within the earth’s atmosphere, is our reality. Ocean temperatures and acidity, sea levels, and coastal flooding are on the rise because of temperature shifts. At the same time, President Trump [...]