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poetry

To My Classless Motherland

Weijia Pan the Journal
Chinese Poet Weijia Pan offers a glimpse of the contradictions in a “classless” society.

food

Dietary Guidelines Should Be Led by Science—Not Politics

Mary Story, Eric Rimm Center for Science in the Public Interest News
Proposed language in the House Farm Bill would explicitly introduce political interests to and harm the integrity of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans—the foundation of school meal programs, SNAP, WIC, and other necessary nutrition programs.

film

A Lyd Without the Nakba

Dikla Taylor-Sheinman +972 Magazine
Merging documentary with sci-fi, this new film narrates the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian city in 1948, and imagines what it would look like if the war never happened. So the Israeli government banned it from being screened.

poetry

Voting Rites in America

Philip C. Kolin White Terror, Black Trauma: Resistance Poems about Black History
Poet and scholar Philip C. Kolin offers a succinct overview of the meanings and mis-understandings of the term “Voting Rights.”

poetry

A Moment in Gaza

Lola Haskins Porter Gulch Review
Precise as a haiku, with the force of a hand grenade, poet Lola Haskins offers a terrifying glimpse of the war in Gaza.

poetry

Bullets

Terry Adams Portside
Poet Terry Adams relates how a sensitive child might learn about the intricate relationship between bullets and death.
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