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Why do i have to tell you i was abused?
"I find myself constantly having to replay, over and over and over again the abuse, the trauma which has placed me in an economical disparity and class of mental disability unlike any other" This is what i envision a woman that has suffered from domestic violence telling herself. Every-time i find myself overcoming any barrier, rather it big or small, i have to AT-LEAST mention the nature of my past abuse. Can you imagine having to relive that moment of terror over and over again in your head? all while interacting with a stranger? especially someone like a potential employer, or an organization offering services and goods. The moment when things get too difficult either on your end or theirs you have to tell them "i am a victim of domestic violence", and sometimes being that broad isn't enough. Often you find yourself providing an example of the horrific incident just to prove your point.
By Aquafinafloe5 years ago in The Swamp
The African American Addict
The African American Addict Is it still easier find dope, than it is to get a job? Langston Hughes was an American poet, but he was also a social activist, among other things. The most fascinating thing about his work perhaps, is that it is still as relevant today as it was the day he wrote “Junior Addict”; the problems posing African Americans due to their marginalization by a social hierarchal system deep-rooted in sympathies to slavery have never gone away. In fact, one could argue that the problems have increased exponentially. In America today, there are more African Americans under correctional control—in prison or jail, on probation or parole—than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.
By Jonathan Mosby5 years ago in The Swamp
Homelessness
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By Fatma M Robinson5 years ago in The Swamp
Give the People What they Want
As the history of the performing arts marched forward into the modern era, the atmospheres of 20th Century drama shifted from melodramatic “bombasticism” of Aphra Behn and John Augustus Stone, to social realism and to the “epicness” and simplicity of political playwrights such as Bertolt Brecht and Luis Valdez. Instead of having audiences sit back and relax, the encouragement was to sit up, take notice, and act upon the values and messages for which the play brought forward to it’s audience; to walk into the show with one mindset and walk away from the show as a changed person, with an alternate social or political position. What is to be analyzed here is how Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Luis Valdez’s Quinta Temporada illustrate how the theatre can interact with the programs of social power, in order to provoke the message of how it is the will of the people which ought to stand as most powerful of all other entities (politicians, bureaucrats, etc.).
By Jacob Herr5 years ago in The Swamp
LIFE IN THE TIMES OF PANDEMIC
As Novel-corona virus spreads throughout the world the Modi government had to take an important decision of LIFE Vs LIVELIHOOD. The nation has been in lock down for more than 30 days now. The magazine covers an in-detail review of the situation in the country, the problems and impact caused by nationwide lock down society.
By Aditya verma5 years ago in The Swamp
Vote by Mail: The Pandemic’s Saving Grace?. Top Story - August 2020.
Introduction Corona Virus Pandemic in US and Voting Right now, with the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the country, a lot of citizens are scared just to go to the grocery store. So with one of the most important elections in years just weeks away, many are turning to vote-by-mail. However, can states that don’t have the infrastructure for mail voting make the change, or will this election season go down as one the most chaotic in American history?
By Eli Mshomi5 years ago in The Swamp
Defending the Postal Service
It seems strange to have to write in defense of the U. S. Postal Service, but it's a measure of the depravity of the man in the White House, and how far he's willing to go in his flailing attempt to win another term in office. Removing sorting machines, removing mailboxes, doing whatever he can to gum up the works of a service that everyone loves and has never been more essential in this our age of the COVID-19 pandemic and the upcoming Presidential election. An election which could well determine the fate and future of democracy in this country. An election which the person now in office will do anything to win,
By Paul Levinson5 years ago in The Swamp
Covid-19
In 2010, global health leaders launched a “Decade of Vaccines” collaboration to guide the discovery, development, and DELIVERY of lifesaving vaccines to enable greater coordination across all stakeholder groups- national governments, multilateral originations, civil society, the private sector, and philanthropic organizations- and it will identify critical policy, resource, and other “gaps” that must be addressed to REALIZE the life-saving potential of vaccines.
By Paul Forshtay5 years ago in The Swamp
COVID - 19
I live in New Hampshire where there's two hundred and fourteen cases of people who have tested positive for the Coronavirus and two have died. No one knows if that's the accurate numbers because we all follow something different, social media, newspapers, and the tv. Even then how do we really know everything is actually true? It could be, but what if someone said the wrong number, hit the wrong button, or recorded something falsely on purpose to try and reveal some "new" news.
By Kieko Kazi 5 years ago in The Swamp
HOW CAN THEY ADJOURN?
I don't get it. I really don't! I'm a United States citizen, worked for 60 some years, disabled now and struggling to keep healthy and alive. Never in the history of my life time has there been a time such as this. People are sick with Covid 19 by the thousands and millions more have died of the coronavirus. Nothing can be trusted as fact. What we know today changes tomorrow or in a few hours. Chaos, confusion, fake news, lies, censorship of medical professionals on the front lines. There may be a drug, but its in short supply. There is no vaccine. "They" are testing a vaccine. No one is sure if it is safe. Distance at three feet, six feet, twelve feet, no sixteen feet! Wear a mask. No don't wear that kind of mask. Wear a shield. Wear gloves, don't wear gloves. Use sanitizer, but make sure it is chemically safe. Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds, a minute, a minute 30 seconds. You may have the virus if you have a headache, a fever, no taste, no smell, purple toes, a cough, a stuffy nose, fatigue. It lasts 14 days, but there are some that experience organ failure a few weeks later. You can carry it but show no symptoms. You CAN get it again. Good Lord! If ever we were in CRISIS it is NOW, TODAY! It will even be worse by September 7th or 14th or whenever congress comes back in session. Then the little they were going to send is going to be too little, too late! It's not that the money is going to cure everything. It is that the stimulus is going to make things a little better to deal with as well as help turn some parts of the economy around.
By Arlene Pitts5 years ago in The Swamp
Oil and Gas Energy Politics
Turkey has been very visible in the region, thus it presence in nation states such as Syria, Libya, and Cyprus further loud its cause in the region. For effective deployment of power, the realist believes nation states must be able to advance their national interests and aspirations through the effective articulation of national security elements such as Economic, Military, Technology, and Resources within the international system. The activities of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan within the East Mediterranean region further rekindles it cause to achieve regional hegemon.
By Ekobor Alueker5 years ago in The Swamp
