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Tag: Social Justice

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The Way It IsDecember 3, 2020

2020: The List of Lists

It’s the year no-one will want to remember but we’ll never be able to forget. Help me give it the kiss-off it deserves.

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Coronavirus/COVID-19December 1, 2020

One in Ten

I am a North Dakotan in a global, but increasingly local and personal, pandemic.
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Election 2020October 12, 2020

#3 – Policing, Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform

I’m voting in this election because… for BIPOC, we might as well call the system what it actually is – Criminal Injustice. Or more accurately, The No Justice System.

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ActivismSeptember 7, 2020

The Progressive/Protest Purity Test

I enjoy the back and forth, give and take. I also admire the furor and, to a certain extent, the intractability; reminds me of myself.

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BigotryAugust 6, 2020

The ND GOP’s Despicable Platform

Even after adopting anti-LGBTQ language in its platform for three successive election cycles, what the N.D. GOP truly regrets is the bad publicity.

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#BlackLivesMatter March for Justice 2020
Black Lives MatterJune 21, 2020

I’m just walkin’ here.

It was deafening. It was exhilarating. It was pure. It was a necessary primal scream against the brutality visited upon people of color over centuries in the United States of America.

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#BlackLivesMatter March for Justice 2020
Black Lives MatterJune 20, 2020

#BLM-FM, OneFargo March for Justice – June 20, 2020

Two Days, Two Peaceful Protests For the second straight day, organizers from Black Lives Matter-Fargo/Moorhead and OneFargo led a peaceful march for justice through Fargo, N.D. Read about yesterday’s march. […]

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Black Lives MatterJune 3, 2020

Reasons for the Riots

Black men still swing from trees; White men still put them underknee.

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Fake Climate Emergency Resolution
Climate CrisisMarch 18, 2020

Activists Push for Fargo and Moorhead Climate Emergency Declarations

Declaration will be an acknowledgement that the climate crisis is an issue and that cities need to begin preparing to adapt.

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