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‘A Harm-Reduction Strategy’: Biden Was Elected, Now What?

Myriam Gurba — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 21:33:37 +0000

K Romero*, a Mexican immigrant living in Pennsylvania, remains vigilant. After the 2016 election, Romero became active with a local progressive organization, but a commonplace obstacle soon emerged. The organization privileged the needs of white Democrats above everybody else’s, leaving women of color, like Romero, out in the proverbial cold. Racial exhaustion triggered Romero’s flight

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How the Term ‘Essential Worker’ Obscures the Cost of Racialized Human Life

Myriam Gurba — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 19:26:33 +0000

“The Latino community is suffering a lot right now,” says Arnulfo Romero. The former field supervisor lives in Santa Maria, California, an agricultural community that, depending on which way its sea breeze blows, smells of strawberry, broccoli, or diesel. The town is small by California standards, populated by about 107,000 residents. Most, like Romero, are

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Be About It: Resisting Your School District’s Plans for On-Site Learning

Myriam Gurba — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 17:00:44 +0000

Be About It is a column in which we dig into the philanthropic, necessary work our community is heralding or participating in. We encourage you to read about it and be about it. In October 2006, some students and I attended a Halloween tour of Sunnyside Cemetery in Long Beach, California. The tour’s eeriest moment

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Be About It: How a City Stands Together for #BLM & the Cry to Defund the Police

Myriam Gurba — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:05:19 +0000

Be About It is a column in which we look at issues affecting our communities and dig into the necessary work Latinos are heralding or participating in for a better “America.” We encourage you to not just read about it, but also be about it. On the morning of March 25, a cohort of Black

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Be About It: A History of Mutual Aid Has Prepared POC for This Moment

Myriam Gurba — Thu, 14 May 2020 15:11:41 +0000

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