Category: Poverty
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe
What will Cuba’s new single currency mean for the island? That means the tourists who typically flock to the island nation’s beaches and city streets to hear Cuban music, enjoy a meal and experience its unique culture likely won’t return until widespread vaccination makes international travel more feasible. Until then, Cubans are left to do…
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Happy “Fucking” New Years!
Farewell 2020! Last year, I reflected on the decade where I was fortunate enough to make 30 plus trips around the sun. One year into the new decade, and I’m looking at the BIG 4-0! If I’m lucky to see 2023! Unfortunately, three hundred thousand plus of my fellow U.S. citizens have perished due to…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
American Sociopath We have a toxic masculinity crisis in America. We have a gun crisis in America. We have a white supremacy problem in America. #MassShootings #thisisamerica #PoliceBrutailty ‘We Feel Safe’: Americans Keep Visiting Mexico Despite Pandemic Risks “We aren’t invincible. Sure you can get infected, but the risk here is much less than in other places,”…
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Letter from a Proud Boy
Dear Evolving Man Project, My name is Jack Asserman. All my friends call me Jac. I’m a proud member of the Proud Boys. I want to thank this ‘race-baiting, I hate whitey’ website for giving a platform to one of the most marginalized groups in the United States, “the white man!” It’s completely okay for…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Covid: Nations impose UK travel bans over new variant Top health officials said that there was no evidence the new variant was more deadly, or would react differently to vaccines, but it was proving to be up to 70% more transmissible. #COVID19 #unitedkingdom #Europe UN Warns New Wave of Locust Swarms Threatens Food Security of Millions in…
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Melancholy for Radicals
The Diagnosis The year 2020 has been one for the history books in countless ways. It’s also been a year where billions of humans have had to spend their lives on lockdown or sheltered in place due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. A pandemic that has brought the world to its knees. The virus has already…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
250 million people participate in countrywide strike in India “The workers and peasants will not rest till the disastrous and disruptive policies of the BJP government are reversed. The strike today is only a beginning. Much more intense struggles will follow,” said Tapan Sen, general secretary of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), one of…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Death toll at 37 in Uganda unrest after Bobi Wine’s arrest ”This was a deliberate and pre-planned move to cause chaos, because we have evidence,” Tumwine asserted. “But I want to warn those inciting violence that they will reap what they sow.” #Uganda #Politics #Election2020 #Africa White House Orders Thousands Of U.S. Troops Withdrawn From Afghanistan And Iraq…
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The Week in Stories Across the Globe
‘Game-Changer’: Kamala Harris Makes History As Next Vice President Harris, 56, will bring a legion of firsts to the vice presidency: A daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica, she will be the first woman, the first Black person, the first Indian American and the first Asian American to hold the office. She will also…
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On Our Ancestors
Every Election Year As the 2020 Presidential Election sways on, we have the possibility of a new President of the United States. Or the current one that will use the injustice system of the United States to remain in office. (Thanks, checks, and balances). Every two to four years, as a black person, I’ve been…
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