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Alyssa Boyle
- Mar 16
- 9 min
Anti-Asian Violence and Hate Crimes Surge
While the coronavirus pandemic and political upheaval rages on in the US, another critical tragedy demands our attention: the explosion...
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Kwaku Aurelien
- Mar 12
- 12 min
COVID-19 is a PRELUDE – The South in Crisis! – The Steps We Must Take to Stave Off Something Worse
Photo: The Texas Tribune The 2030s promise to be the longest, hottest, and bloodiest decade in both America and the world over since the...
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Alyssa Boyle
- Feb 18
- 7 min
GameStop Reveals How the Growing Wealth Gap Defies American Meritocracy
What GameStop reveals about the widening wealth gap in the midst of a nationwide pandemic.
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Kwaku Aurelien
- Feb 5
- 7 min
Electoral Politics is a Steel Trap – Don't Get Caught
I believe that the majority of Democrat voters are progressive and well-meaning. They see environmental protection, gun control,...
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Kwaku Aurelien
- Jan 7
- 4 min
The Need to Recontexualize "Fairness" in the United States
By Kwaku Aurelien Given what transpired in Washington D.C. today, with the United States Capitol Building having been stormed by...
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Alyssa Boyle
- Jan 6
- 11 min
The Model Minority Myth: The Construction of a Racial Order
How the "model minority myth" is an insidious obstruction of racial equality.
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Kwaku Aurelien
- Dec 4, 2020
- 11 min
Revisiting Malcolm X’s Address at the 1964 Oxford Union Debate
By Kwaku Aurelien “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” The above phrase...
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Alyssa Boyle
- Nov 24, 2020
- 8 min
Immigrants in Agriculture: Exploitation as the Foundation of Success
Why the powerhouse economy of the U.S. has its tenacious immigrant populations to thank.
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Alyssa Boyle
- Nov 9, 2020
- 6 min
Asian America: the Disparate Impacts of COVID-19
Why COVID-19 has had a disproportionate impact on our Asian American communities.
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Kwaku Aurelien
- Nov 7, 2020
- 10 min
The Green New Deal and the Failings of Western Environmentalism
By Kwaku Aurelien The Green New Deal — is it sincerely designed to eliminate from American society the environmental evils that confront...
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Alyssa Boyle
- Oct 28, 2020
- 7 min
Are We Truly Colorblind? The Racialization of “Race-Neutral” American Policy
All policy "administered with an unequal hand" directly violates American fundamentalism.
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startempowerment
- Oct 17, 2020
- 11 min
The International Labor Defense: What it Was and Why the Environmental Movement Needs its Own
Aurelien covers the history of the International Labor Defense (ILD) and why the environmental movement needs something similar.
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startempowerment
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
Black Lives Matter: A Guide by Start: Empowerment
Black Lives Matter Action Guide
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