social issues
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The Urgent Need for Global Peace
To the informed observer it’s clear we are increasingly in dangerous times. This isn’t alarmist thinking, it is the reality we collectively face. Continue reading
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Gaza Famine: The Human Cost of Apathy
As global leaders prioritize their interests, a preventable catastrophe of human suffering is unfolding in real-time. Continue reading
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Why the Civil Rights Movement Matters Today
Today, we are at risk of losing the social equity and institutional reforms necessary to make segregation, discrimination, and racism a true reality of the past. Contrary to common misconceptions that presume the Civil Rights movement is “over” or “settled… Continue reading
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Holistic Leadership: Balancing Personal Power and Community Good
The freedom to live purposeful unobstructed lives is what humanity has been striving to achieve across time. Deep within our souls, we long to break free from the bonds of oppression and the circumstances that create suffering, pain, and exploitation.… Continue reading
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May Day: Lessons from Haymarket Square
Late in the evening of May 4, 1886, on the near west side of downtown Chicago, Illinois, hundreds of working laborers from across the city gathered for a rally at a well-known produce market, Haymarket Square. Continue reading
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The Promise for Future Generations
Despair and cruelty are on the rise. Hope and goodness is how we’ll persevere. Continue reading
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How Caring for Global Neighbors Transforms Society
We live in a time marked by a dramatic shift toward national isolationism and exceptionalism. By cutting healthcare and social development programs, antagonizing friendly and cooperative foreign neighbors, enforcing inhumane immigration policies targeting individuals from less wealthy and influential countries… Continue reading
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Human Rights Are Under Threat: A Global Crisis
Targeting civilians and activists who stand for peace and justice is seemingly in vogue today. Viral doxing and smear campaigns, unjust arrest and detention, and indiscriminate mass murder with weapons of war are the tools of the powerful with little… Continue reading
Matt Till 