Jiré Saffron

Joined May 2021

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Order of Social Movements
If it feels like new movements are popping up everywhere, that’s because they are. And they always have. Social movements are one of the most powerful tools for meaningful change. Movements cause social pressure that stimulates public awareness, awareness can lead to political pressure, and that pressure can change the status quo.
By Jiré Saffron5 years ago in The Swamp
Money, Trust, and a New World
Before the explosion in Beirut killed and displaced thousands of people, Lebanese citizens were already experiencing one of the worst crises in their country’s history.
By Jiré Saffron5 years ago in The Swamp
What Our Heroes Say About Us
About You Who are you trying to be? Whether or not we realize it, we are all emulating the people that we look up to the most.
By Jiré Saffron5 years ago in Humans
Just for Being
I recently read a report by the Human Rights Watch, a not-for-profit watchdog that is usually the authority on these things, that the country of Israel’s treatment and policies towards Palestinian residents amount not only to Crimes Against Humanity but legally defined apartheid.
By Jiré Saffron5 years ago in Poets
American Experiment
by plane, not by boat I reached the shores of my American Dream Forced to desert my mother’s land I entered the country a refugee
By Jiré Saffron5 years ago in Poets
I Needed Color
Gripped by the winter left in the dark and choked by the cold I needed light… I needed light I found it in color
By Jiré Saffron5 years ago in Poets