![In Defense of Coal Miners – Centering Corporate Cultural Manipulation in the Age of Environmentalism](http://ec2-3-20-180-125.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Schermata-2021-06-30-alle-16.01.50.png)
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Reproductive Justice Means More than Abortion
While all child-bearing people have faced reproductive oppression, BIPOC have had to fight harder to have children, to raise their children safely, and at the most basic level, to be heard.
![Cancel Our Culture: Compassion in an Age of Reckoning](http://ec2-3-20-180-125.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/pasted-image-0-23-e1595624785923.png)
Cancel Our Culture: Compassion in an Age of Reckoning
Do not simply fall into cancel culture, rather, cancel our culture. Change it and shape it for the better as you are working to move humanity ever forward toward the golden ideals of utopia, but do it with heart and compassion in the eye of justice.
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Losing One’s Tongue: Endangered Languages in Pandemic New York
For many of the world’s minority languages, NYC holds the power to make or break them.
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The Soul of a Nation
America is an aberration in the history of the world, an unnatural community that dared to defy conventional wisdom and aim for something greater. Those who want to drag the country into a mythical past where America was white and utopian would return the United States to the league of ordinary nations.
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On Providing Students a Seat at the Table
Not only do these programs uplift marginalized voices, but they also ensure that transparency and accountability are key components of decision-making when it comes to public education policy.
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Progress to What?
Meaning is fickle and cannot be easily replicated. It is not pliable or malleable, or even durable. It cannot be created in a lab or a government building, and once destroyed it is difficult to resurrect
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The Counterculture Conflict
Silicon Valley has outgrown its counterculture. It’s time to professionalize the tech industry.
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Bad Dogs, Old Tricks
Let’s start with a metaphor: Imagine a giant toilet filled with diarrhea is overflowing and the government proposes a tax holiday on plungers as the solution.