Results for: meet up
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How To Fight An Eviction
Given the poor protections for tenants, the economic fallout and the chronic lack of access to affordable housing and healthcare, America’s housing crisis has only deepened since the pandemic began.
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Extra! Extra!: How to Begin to Process the Unfolding Horror of COVID in India?
COVID returns to the forefront of this week’s Extra! Extra! as we look at the outbreak of COVID in India and the threats posed by variants across the globe. We look at the one thing that’s proving stronger than COVID: capitalism and how that’s impacting our recovery. The team also examines new developments on the immigration and criminal justice fronts and ponder what it means to hear the president tell transgender Americans he’s got their backs.
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MedSupplyDrive Relief Work Started with COVID-19, Now Includes Support for Protestors
We cold-called and emailed hundreds of places, heart in mouth, praying for someone to be generous. And people came through, offering gloves, masks, and more.
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Extra! Extra!: Some of the Changes We Can Already See as the Trump Era Drags On
In this week’s Extra! Extra! we continue following America’s election 2020 saga, the havoc the Trump administration continues to wreak in its final two months and a few encouraging outcomes from the 2020 election. We also have some States-side updates on the COVID-19 pandemic and other situations unfolding around the world.
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Bed-Stuy Strong: How to Start a 3,000-Member Neighborhood Mutual Aid Network
“Nobody may come to help us in time; we are all we’ve got. We need to organize, quickly, online, and geographically.”
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How to Start a Mutual Aid Fund
I know that collective care is the future because it has made my past and present possible. We must acknowledge that mutual aid is not original—or optional—for chronically dispossessed people and therefore, always already political.
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Extra! Extra!: Where to Start, Trump’s Tax Avoidance or COVID Superspreading?
This week’s Extra! Extra! gives an update on the latest scandals from Trumpland, some reflections on what happened in Minneapolis this summer, another setback in the fight for Indigenous rights and sovereignty and news on some of the growing conflicts in the Western world.
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Extra! Extra!: How Much Does Yet Another Trump Reveal Actually Reveal?
This week’s Extra! Extra! Offers more reflections on police brutality and delves into some damning news coming out of Trumpland. We also look at some LGBTQ+ news from around the world and dive into some of the not-so-great situations unfolding in Europe. And to close out, a look at the state of the Internet, climate change and the pandemic.
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Extra! Extra!: A Race Between Education and Catastrophe
We used this week’s Extra! Extra! to revisit some not-so-distant history, examine the fucked up shit happening in the name of “Homeland Security,” take a look at some of the global headlines that caught our eye and check in on how COVID continues to impact our lives. Finally, we leave you with some good news… a little optimism to carry you into the weekend.
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Extra! Extra!: How Do We Imagine the Future in a Pandemic Where We’ve Yet to Reckon with the Past Two Months?
This week’s Extra! Extra! covers new expose’s on police brutality and violence against Black and brown bodies, an update on the pandemic that isn’t actually happening right now and tragically recalls the deaths of Angela Martinez Gómez and Jose I. Escobar Menendez.
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COVID-19 Is Laying Bare the Vulnerabilities of Sex Workers, So Often Canaries in the Coalmine
Centering sex workers, and the hard won lessons that come with being a part of this community, are perhaps the most important steps we can take in an effort both to reduce harm, and to rebuild in the aftermath of COVID19.
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Extra! Extra!: The Harrowing and Hopeful News about COVID-19 Around the Globe
This week’s Extra! Extra! COVID-19 offers a case-by-case look at how the pandemic is playing out in different parts of the world. Please join the conversation with stories from around the world that interested you in the comments.
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Extra! Extra!: Is the Arc of the Universe Bending Toward Justice for Trans Inmates and LGBT Rights in Utah?
This week’s Extra! Extra! brings a mix of hopeful and sobering news about trans rights, the criminal justice system, violence against women and the climate catastrophes in the Bay of Bengal and in Michigan. Also, Natalie updates us on the latest Veepstakes 2020 news.
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Coming Together, Staying Apart: What Taking Care and Taking Action Look Like on HIV/AIDS and COVID-19
Talking to survivors and caretakers of the HIV/AIDS epidemic about what we can learn from the past about our present.