#Communities

I’ve been reflecting on the proposed ‘new deal’ between the Government and the Christian church: https://bit.ly/2G9ZgY0  #levellingup As these conversations continue, here are a few things I’m hoping… (1/10) 1.
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#BanazMahmod #HonourTW: Sexual violence, murder, torture, suicide.Thread. /1 Banaz Mahmod was an Iraqi Kurdish woman, living in London since the age of ten when her family sought asylum. /2 She
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#medsoc #epitwitter #blacklivesmatter Been thinking about @DebUmberson 's paper "Black Deaths Matter" (https://tinyurl.com/qvo44jz ) in 2017, which points out that the black community has always borne more exposure to death
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One of my soldiers is leaving #ATDU this week on promotion. We talked a lot on mental health and #BlackLivesMatter He is of a mixed race background and he
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It can't be said enough: so many ppl don't have enough money to pay rent, to pay for food, to pay for medicine, to pay for clothes for their kids,
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you’re right in saying that capitalism did aid in the industrial revolution but not through means that are unique to capitalism and not because of private property. capitalism was only
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To continue my discussion of the harmful & pseudoscientific nature of broad swaths of modern US education, I want to bring in my work as a literary dignity activist (Google
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Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.Between 1894 and 1924, the number of Christians in Asia Minor fell from some 3-4 million to just tens of thousands—from 20% of the area’s
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Okay #FrontofHouse/Customer Service industry people.... There's something we need to be talking about as we reopen our businesses and museums: BIGOTRYHere me out. This is a thread. Please read.#FOHmuseums1/10 This
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Tuesday morning thought: why is it that rare book librarians as a profession are morally outraged by theft from white institutions than they are by the legal but exploitative trade
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#COVID19 Showed Oklahomans the true nature of Oklahoma's infrastructure to be able to take care of our communities in crisis - there virtually isn't one. Our local government didn't take
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Today we’re celebrating #FreeThePill Day (officially May 9)! More than 60 years ago, the FDA approved the first birth control pill—a development that allowed people to exercise more autonomy over
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Things we will know from today’s apportionment numbers:* The population of each state. * How many congressional seats each state will have for this decade. Things we will *not* know:*Where
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I don’t understand what we’re supposed to take away from this. Dollar Generals should hire armed guards? Call cops on loiterers? Also, how does 200 violent incidents over 3 years
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I am really afraid that a country which didn't prioritize keeping school children safe from gun violence won't prioritize finding ways to keep them protected from a virus, but still
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we have to get better at the long fight. that doesn't mean not celebrating triumphs along the way, but i'm embarrassed to see people praising/thanking our gov. for the scraps
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