#Struggle

Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin was a SNCC and BPP member who hijacked a plane to Cuba to evade prosecution for allegedly trying to kill a KKK leader before being extradited from
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GOD LIKE SLEEP.The process of recovery, restoration, maintenance, and growth commences once your dome hits your pillow full of feathers.Let's delve into my sleep routine which has me vivid dreaming,
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Today’s #COVID19 vaccinations are a bright ray of hope after months of struggle and sacrifice. Even after the arrival of vaccines, the U.S. needs a campaign centered on harm reduction
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Five years ago today, #RohithVemula, a Dalit scholar, took his life after he and four students from the Ambedkar Students’ Association were suspended from the University of Hyderabad under pressure
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I’ve seen this pop up a few times and am fairly sure it will be an issue here in Sweden (given how committed we are here to exclusionary digital-only services),
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What does it mean to be an international student in the current environment? It wasn’t easy for me to answer this in the form of a first-person essay but it
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This is going to be a long one… This past Friday, Governor Baker signed the Transportation Bond Bill—but his signature also included a number of frankly heart-breaking vetoes. @MAPCMetroBoston @T4MASS
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My thread for White Mexicans is doing well. Here's something similar in English.White Latinx, follow these steps. 1) Admit that racism exists & that it benefits you.2) Understand that you
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How I got my first dev job in the apocalypse: A Thread Note: I have an AA in social work, went to Lambda School, started off homeless at both I
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12 Key Highlights from United’s 3-1 Win over West Ham in the Premier League: the good and the not so good. 1. Struggling Against Press.(A) WHU were compact centrally —
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I’m a big fan of both @peretti (savviest operator/observer of digital media business) and @benthompson (all my academic colleagues should study aggregation theory) but think they veered into some problematic
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HISTORY THREADThis is Monte Melkonian, the strangest, most interesting man of the late Cold War.His story took him from suburban California through the Vietnam War, the Iranian Revolution, the Lebanese
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CubaBrief: Bacardi environmental stewardship recognized while Castro regime's rum maker harm's Cuba's, yet a travesty continues https://www.cubacenter.org/archives/2020/11/11/cubabrief-bacardi-environmental-stewardship-recognize
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In the writings of medieval Muslim astrologers, Virgo earned a reputation as a sign of the wise. Today known as The Virgin in the zodiac, Virgo had a far more
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Sharon Astyk's latest FB missive, sent to me by someone else, since I refuse to have a FB account: "Both NY and MA seem to be following a rough pattern
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Thank you everyone for your kind words about yesterday’s court victory. But a few notes: Free speech is not free. The legal cost to defend attacks from highly funded antagonists
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