activism
Grassroots campaigns have proven instrumental in bringing about political, social or environmental change; you've got to start somewhere-might as well start here.
What to do if you hear racism
It is all of our duty to do our best to defeat racism. Regardless of your ethnicity or the colour of your skin, the world needs you to be an active anti-racist in order to finally get the situation under control. No one should be treated differently because of where they are from or what they look like. Here are some things you can do to help.
By Tone Breistrand5 years ago in The Swamp
Fresh Produce to LA’s Stores Won’t Solve Food Inequality.
Only a couple of miles from Downtown Los Angeles opened Lupita's Corner Market in the city's Westlake neighborhood. Almost thirty years after the fact, the store exists, standing apart as one of not many in a region with a deficiency of markets. For quite a long time, it has sold the run of the mill corner store admission—pop, chips, and candy. Yet, well that is changing because of Lupita's association in the Healthy Neighborhood Market Network. An undertaking of the LA Food Policy Council (LAFPC), the Network prepares entrepreneurs in financially burdened networks with the help they have to sell the sorts of food that are rare in numerous areas.
By Muhammad Ahmed5 years ago in The Swamp
How activism is shaping the Post-Soviet sphere
It was December 25th of 1991 when the USSR collapsed. Just before that day, the soviet red hammer and sickle banner was pulled down from the Kremlin for the last time. It was the rebirth for Russia and the other 14 countries. A soviet union, the communist behemoth was simply destroyed.
By Giorgi Mikhelidze5 years ago in The Swamp
The Running Faucet vs. The Leaky Faucet (The Slow Drip). Top Story - August 2020.
Being Black, at any given time, in any given country, on any given day, is usually in and of itself a trying experience for most (but not all) Black people. Whether it’s the constant microaggressions we face on a daily and continuous basis, the sometimes blatant racist attacks and remarks that are levied at us with complete disregard for our humanity or feelings, or the total lack of regard for our lives when encountering law enforcement and medical professionals, we live our lives knowing that in most cases we will be treated differently. We see it in the ways we are treated in other non-black POC’s grocery stores, taxi cabs and restaurants. We see it in our education systems and the ways Black children and communities in particular are not or poorly invested in. These disparities are not new or unique to the Black experience, no matter what country you live in. But there IS a difference in how they are displayed and the corresponding effects they have on our community as a whole.
By Whitney Smart6 years ago in The Swamp
You Can't Stop the Beat
PICTURE IT… THANKSGIVING 2015… My then-boyfriend and I were celebrating with my family at my mother’s new home. My two brothers and their respective spouses/families joined us, as well as my baby brother’s in-laws. We ate, we laughed, we watched television, we ate some more, and of course, with any family gathering, we had conversation. Being that it was Thanksgiving, we played that classic game of saying what we were thankful for (I know, being thankful on Thanksgiving… GROUNDBREAKING).
By Sebastian Kern6 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 Herr6 years ago in The Swamp
