The American safety net didn’t catch me when I fell. The people I was warned about as a child did.
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Lift the lamp higher
Far from the image of social breakdown so often depicted in Hollywood blockbusters, every disaster survived deepens a community’s knowledge of itself. It reinforces and strengthens the relationships people can actually rely upon.
ICE is reading from an old textbook
Democracy not rearmament
Will limitless power meet unlimited resistance?
Being “the right kind” of progressive or feminist or socialist can easily become its own goal, rather than winning concrete victories that match the values and goals behind these labels. Unfortunately this has been a common response in recent decades
Restaurant workers threw themselves into cooking meals for thousands of displaced people with the local Mutual Aid Disaster Relief group. AFBU members helped workers apply for relief funds and more.
The fierce urgency of now
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