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Dispatches From the Culture Wars - Heartbreak Hotel Edition

Alien-nation; American and Arab; Taking back the land; Politics and the WV teachers; Rainbow gunbusters

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Alone in America

By Elle Hardy
March 17, 2018
Current Affairs

Loneliness strikes people who are married, who are successful, who have friends. The key element is the absence of a human connection, a true feeling of intimacy with others.

Being Demonized in Your Own Country    

By Nate Terani
March 22, 2018
TomDispatch               

In our living nightmare, an administration that can seem not just ineffective but hapless beyond imagining, might nonetheless transform itself into something even more deeply threatening to Americans like us.

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‘It’s About Taking Back What’s Ours’: Native Women Reclaim Land, Plot By Plot

By Julian Brave NoiseCat
March 22, 2018
Huffington Post

Corrina Gould, a Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone leader and activist, and Johnella LaRose, who is Shoshone-Bannock and Carrizo, founded the Sogorea Te Land Trust in 2012 to reclaim Ohlone land in the Bay Area.

Why is Organized Labor So Active in Trump Country?

By Erin Cassese and R. Scott Crichlow
March 7, 2018
Vox

Partisanship is weak in West Virginia, creating grounds for labor activism even in a conservative state.

Finally, An Anti-gun Violence Movement That’s Inclusive

By Kay Wicker
March 26, 2018
ThinkProgress   

March For Our Lives was diverse on and off the rally stage.