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Let's Talk About Justice
I'm going to be honest, while I frequently stay up to date on politics, I never knew how much Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or RBG for short, influenced women's rights. Her famous quote "Women belong in all places where decisions are being made," is a perfect representation of how women need to be involved in politics.
Grace GenetPublished 4 years ago in The SwampGen Z Wanted Matching Tattoos... but the Suggestion was a Nazi Symbol
The idea for a Gen Z matching tattoo first sparked after @smoothavacado on TikTok suggested the idea. The now deleted original post said that this tattoo would be "as not only a symbol of unity in our generation, but also as a sign of rebellion" implying that great changes would be made in the future because of Gen Z. Below is the image of the original design.
THE FIRE THIS TIME
James Baldwin wrote, “One’s bitterness begins to be palatable and hatred becomes too heavy a sack to carry.” Indeed, these days hating is tasty. It’s the number one flavor once you tune in to your news of choice or log on to Facebook. A Senior Engineer recently got fired by Mark Zuckerberg for sharing evidence that the social media site lets conservative online ruckus slide. While liberal users posting news about Trump’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic often spend thirty days in Facebook jail. Somehow the condition of COVID has been branded with race and class. Does this truly overlap and interplay? Or just distract? It ain’t droves of Black and Brown spreading the pandemic from the Sturgis Motorcycle rally.
Tanya KennedyPublished 4 years ago in The SwampDear Donald Trump
Dear Mr. Trump, It is difficult to write to someone you don't really know, other than through the media. However, I have watched you in the White House over the past four years, and I have a few ideas about what you are about and who you are.
Denise WillisPublished 4 years ago in The SwampModern Epidemics
Every doctor takes The Hippocratic Oath to not harm and ensuring that the medicine used is lifesaving. Whatever happens to our health professionals staying true to this oath that begin in Ancient Greece. It was what you could hold your doctor to and if any harm happened then they would have to explain themselves and the steps that they took to ensure the health and safety of their patient. We must end the money disruption in the health system because it overlooks and undermined the value health can bring to society, We must create a society that can trust its health professionals and listen to their evident-based answer. In this epidemic, it grows ever so imperative that we make healthcare a right and other necessities that cause poverty a right. We have the knowledge and the proven facts that these necessities lead to meager ends and we must acknowledge that. Again, we see in this epidemic that those bound by poverty suffering the most along with minorities. This is unacceptable and the government can balance out the effects and minimize them by researching and providing adequate support. We are met with one universal point of direction choosing either longevity or death. We can no longer ignore the consequences of not only diverse leadership but also ignoramus wants. Our needs must come before our wants, what we need to do right now is more important than a want for greater freedom.
Matthew PrimousPublished 4 years ago in The SwampPolitics Limit Opportunities to Establish Long Term Life Plans
At the age of 21 in 2009, my daughter was diagnosed with bone cancer, Osteosarcoma. At that time she was an independent videographer contracting with ESPN, the US Army and local media. She lived a dream life of travel, earning an income that allowed her to be self-sufficient, meeting new people and working at a job that rewarded her passions and skills.
Brenda MahlerPublished 4 years ago in The SwampIs There a Connection Between Julia Child's Politics and Her Kitchen?
It was Nora Ephron’s film Julie & Julia (2009) that really introduced me to Julia Child and her tome of French cuisine Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Ephron depicts Child as a dominating but charming figure, who is firmly set in her opinions but also curious and open to learning new things. The reason she even attended Le Cordon Bleu while living in Paris with her husband Paul was so she could relish in her love of French food and teach Americans to do the same. And even though Simone Beck, one of the co-authors of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, points out in the film that a degree really isn’t required to teach cooking classes, Julia is adamant about doing things “properly.”
Maggie BlahaPublished 4 years ago in The SwampWho is Imran khan?
Imran Khan, fully Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi, (born November 25, 1952, Lahore, Pakistan), Pakistani cricketer, politician, philanthropist, and Pakistani Prime Minister (2018–) who became national hero by leading the Pakistani national team to World Cup victory of Cricket in 1992 and later entered politics as a critic of government corruption in Pakistan. Imran khan is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Pakistan and chairman of Pakistan Tehreeq-e-insaff. Before his entry into politics, he was an international cricketer and captain of the National team of Pakistan which he led to victory I 1992 Cricket World cup.
Muhammad HussainPublished 4 years ago in The SwampLincoln the Unifier
The war was raging yet Lincoln kept his light on the good of the union and the good of his countrymen and countrywomen. With every twist and every turn, he did not waver in his ability to negotiate. He remembered from his mother's last words, to never change and never compromise character to stay the same honest. He felt that his position gave him the greatest opportunity to use eloquence and diplomacy to get the right earning from the intense labor like a farmer, he was ever patient even with little time. This is how he educated himself, a little at a time until the heart desired more. Lincoln worked for everything he had in life and was too poor for privilege until he found himself. As president, he knew that the due season harvested will come on time. Lincoln secretly wanted to save his three living predecessors who were tortured and trapped by the Confederates. Even though he did not agree with his predecessors' stance, he believed that serving the highest office is a privilege that requires careful and dignified actions. With all-partisan set-aside, he knew that he had to act and to act quickly. Who knows what they might say about the union and who knows what they've been put through? Good, Old Lincoln answered the call because he believed that they can help him negotiate the future of America. He always thought about building America again and better including every issue that has been left out to restore the justice needed to last forever. This climax his decision to make sure that he makes the South yield to a truce because he saw how brutal their ambition was and how they dreaded the union. Lincoln had no other choice but to advance the war and keep the peace of the North, he saw that the South wanted to utterly destroy the Union and he was not going to let that happen. He remembered the belief of Van Buren who entrusted the presidency to him before he died winning his vote and support. Lincoln reminded Van Buren of the son who went to the Navy and served his country proudly. Van Buren had a son named Abraham and Lincoln had relatives in New York and it is believed that he came to New York, his relative Andrew Lincoln had a clothing company in East Rochester, New York like Washington came to Pittsford in the 16th Century. Lincoln's resolve was " That we remained one country and united but with no divisions." He knew this task would seem impossible but he did not waver in doing so making it known to his closest allies. And he knew his death would be on the line for taking the side of the liberation and using peaceful devices but also he was prepared and he prepared the union with leaders who were like him to win the nation over. He did not want to die a death in vain but a death that will bring the Union back together remembering that we need each other and that we need to be united for the good of all. That we have a mission to this land and this world to not tarry in ourselves but to avail ourselves as equal and no maltreatment or division has enough strength to divided us when too much blood united us. Lincoln kept the Radical Republicans at bay and always seeing the light manage to edge victory. For he felt each day that he is living and standing for something, it is not in vain. Lincoln believed this despite losing children and not having much of his birth family behind him but through faith and friendship enlightened the world. He was never afraid to defend friends and allies, something he learned all the time with Susan B. Anthony introducing him to supporters to win the presidency, Sojourner Truth as his personal minister who taught him about the struggles of everyday Americans. Frederick Douglass as his loyal friend who visited his house not too long after being freed, and Ulysses Grant, the general he renamed, his most faithful successor. Abraham Lincoln found friends and allies in all walks of life.
Matthew PrimousPublished 4 years ago in The SwampArt, Martin Swoboda, and Black Lives Matter
For some, especially for Martin Swoboda, his art reflects a sophisticated insight into the Black Live Matter movement within the United States and Europe. He has taken a brave stance, using his creativity and boldness to challenge our preconceptions of race and its place in the world today. He also pushes back against the status quo of racial injustice that permeates the fabric of our society and judicial systems.
Matthew AngeloPublished 4 years ago in The SwampInternational Monetary Fund-Objectives & Functions
International Monetary Fund-How Does It Work? Many occasions we read in Newspapers or in different journals regarding the International Monetary Fund. IMF has done this, IMF has done that and many more. But many of us don’t know Who actually IMF is and what does it actually do.
Arthik DishaPublished 4 years ago in The SwampSteil Against Equity, Diversity
A relatively slow week in Congress. Only 14 votes, seven of them party line. Steil stayed with his party this week, keeping with his general pattern.
John HeckenlivelyPublished 4 years ago in The Swamp