#Communities

On World AIDS Day I like to marvel at how things have changed. When I was a teenager, I was a volunteer at the local AIDS Project, mostly doing peer
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If you want to play an optics game, you have to think like the GOP - that means shifting the terrain of a debate entirely, not accepting the existing frame.Playing
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There was a guide on how not to get doxxed I saw being spread around here and as someone who grew up in and is still in uber toxic communities
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A thread on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, social justice and ‘the poor people who live on the busy roads’. I was one of those 'poor people'. I hear a lot about
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Today GardaĂ­ pepper sprayed, tasered and shot dead a young Black man with mental health issues. There will be an ombudsman inquiry, as there always is in the case of
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Brian Stanley's tweet was a criticism of neoliberals like ("Tory") Leo Varadkar who pinkwash socio-economic policies like austerity, public spending cuts and wage-freezes that harm ordinary people and communities less
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One of the comments that I hear most often as a sensitivity consultant is that people don’t know what to expect from the process. So, I thought I’d share my
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Nigeria is an extreme economic experiment with extreme actors. Even our politics is not rooted in any ideology but based on crude demand and supply resource dynamics. There is no
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This goes back to the need of centering Indigenous voices over other voices bc it’s not about “intention” but the IMPACTS Frida has today on us Zapotec folks whose culture
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As we witnessed in the #BidenHarris election, there is power in using #communityleaders to get #COVID19Ontario under ctrl. This isn't abt just #onpoli or even #cdnpoli making rules & mandates.
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We are living in a golden age of predatory capitalism, in which businesses that generate real value and stable employment are being destroyed by deep-pocketed quasi-tech firms that lose money
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Good morning Asian diaspora in North America. Lots of conversations happening about incidents of violence against Asian elders. Community organizers & activists have offered thoughts & suggestions on actions.
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1/Invest in Louisiana’s Opportunity Youth: Nearly 1 in 6 Louisianans aged 16 to 24 are neither working nor going to school. But there are steps that state policymakers should take
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A thread of all the things I want to say when somebody says "You hate The Sims 4 for NO reason" The first reason is it was unfinished upon release,
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Black people organize for our communities. Nearly everyone else ends up benefitting. Why? Because the way anti-Blackness is set up, our liberation is central to *everyone’s* liberation. Black organizers strategized
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Rick: Only 17% of black people say they will get the coronavirus vaccine; 49% of black people say they won't get it.Propane Jane: It's partly b/c of a lack of
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