Opinions
11/19/16
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Optimism. It’s a powerful motivator. And it electrified me out of a deep, three-hour slumber the morning after Donald J. Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States. “Oh, my God. He did it!” were the first words I spoke. Remembering...
Lynn Armitage
11/18/16
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This is dedicated to the brave white people taking a stand on Facebook against Trump and sharing various Standing Rock articles. You could have been on the front line, in the marches, putting money where your mouth is, but you had the foresight to...
Terese Mailhot
11/17/16
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There comes a time when history begins to repeat itself. The Indigenous occupation around the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation is such a time. While there are many differences between the occupation of Wounded Knee in the early 1970s and the...
Michelle L. LaPena
11/16/16
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“I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.” – Groucho Marx In 2011, Cedric Sunray wrote a column here simply titled, “Disenrollment Clubs.” He opened with a quote about the Cherokee Freedmen, from Cherokee Nation Tribal...
Gabriel S. Galanda
11/16/16
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The Water Protection Camps at Standing Rock in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline project are within the treaty-recognized territory of the Oceti Sakowin (the Seven Council Fires of the Great Sioux Nation). The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, being...
Steven Newcomb
11/15/16
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Hey America, Well, it’s been fun. We’ve had a good run. But we’re done now. No hard feelings, it’s just not working out. It’s not you, it’s me, okay? Well, actually it is you, but whatevs. If it’s cool with you I’d like to drop by your place when...
Tiffany Midge
11/14/16
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After twenty years with the same employer I started a new job recently. WOW! After that long it nearly took me two weeks just to pack up all my personal items. My office was liberally decorated with a random collection of plants, student drawings,...
André Cramblit
11/13/16
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Disney imagineers have just rolled out a powerful anecdote, connected to the November release of its latest animation, Moana, wherein an elder from Mo’orea, in French Polynesia, is depicted as having asked one of them, “For years, we have been...
Vicente Diaz
11/12/16
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The concept of civil society is traced to the ancient Roman Empire. Today we find this concept in the phrase “civil disobedience.” That phrase communicates the idea that there are people willing to “disobey” the imposed “civis” or “civil order” of...
Steven Newcomb
11/11/16
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On October 28 hundreds of Yale students and people from the community stood on the New Haven Green opposite a Yale University residential college that has been called “Calhoun College” since the 1930s. They chanted “Change the Name” and “Take Down...
Stanley Heller
11/10/16
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My son was in tears. He asked me if his grandmother would be deported (she’s a citizen born in Mexico). He’s eleven and a better, kinder person than I am. I told him that she wouldn’t be deported, and that we can afford lawyers, and then I named all...
Terese Mailhot
11/10/16
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Choco Gonzalez Meza, was a tireless activist for the Democratic Party and the head of the Clinton campaign in San Antonio, died on Sunday, October 9 after a battle with cancer. Community Organizer Choco Gonzalez Meza, a Coalhitecan, worked her whole...
Jennifer K. Falcon
11/9/16
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UPDATED NOVEMBER 11, 2016: This column has been updated to reflect election results not complete when it was written. In addition, the first version listed Florida as having legalized recreational marijuana by referendum. The Florida referendum...
Steve Russell
11/9/16
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Bomani Jones didn’t give the “Hoka Hey, it’s a good day to die,” he was just talking about his show #TheRightTime and the social media response that “Today Was a Good Day” on October 27 because he moved the needle in talking about how racism is...
Alex Jacobs