Arts For Everybody brought unlikely community partners together— artists, government officials and community health leaders— to produce participatory arts projects seeking to bridge the arts with the health and well-being of our communities. The activation part of “One Nation/One Project” spanned 18 communities across the country from Hawaii to Washington state to Texas to Florida to Illinois to New York and to the nation’s capital Washington, DC and beyond to share, to create, to perform in celebration of health, community, belonging, and togetherness. Each project sought to address the unique challenges of their city, from access to clean water to access to lost customs and culture—issues that, many times, disproportionately impacted Black and brown and low-income communities. These same communities face the biggest barriers when it comes to access to the arts and health care.
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Recently, many opinion polls indicate that Donald Trump―a convicted criminal, a pathological liar, and the latest in a long string of rightwing demagogues―is likelier than not to be elected President of the United States.
The cannibalization of a nation’s form of government isn’t new. Approximately ninety-one years ago, Hitler cannibalized Germany’s Weimar Republic, which was a parliamentary Democracy, and turned it into a dictatorship. Now former President Trump, using similar tactics borrowed from Hitler, is attempting to cannibalize America’s Democracy by turning it into an Autocracy as though it’s an outdated relic.
In releasing the advisory, “Parents Under Pressure: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Parents,” Dr. Vivek H. Murthy specifically addressed the needs of the 63 million caregivers (e.g., biological parents, adoptive parents, stepparents, other kin) who handle the day-to-day responsibilities of raising children up to the age of 18.
Men Voting to Support Reproductive Rights Could Help Send Kamala Harris to the White House
At the beginning of the Kamala Harris campaign, Black women were full of joy. Some observers described the Harris effort as “the joy campaign”.
The Tar Creek Superfund site is the first such site to have its clean-up efforts led by an Indigenous tribe. It sits in what was once the Tri-State Mining District, which supplied the lead and zinc for more than 75 percent of the American bullets and shells used in World Wars I and II.
National and state laws set some guardrails for our elections, but elections are managed locally. That means that elections are run by our friends and neighbors. Thousands of veterans and members of military families are working at polling stations, as are nurses, retirees, small business owners and others. “We the People” indeed.
Over the years, as national leaders and members of the public recognized the drawbacks of an anarchic world, they turned toward developing institutions of global governance, including international law, a League of Nations, and eventually the United Nations. International security, they believed, would help to maintain national security.
In an interview at Democracy Now, Anthony Lowenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, referred to the phenomenon as a “global Palestine.” That is to say, the Israeli genocide of Palestinians and its current bombing of Lebanon – possibly the beginning of a devastating war in the Middle East – is just the most egregious example of the planet’s evolving colonialism in the present moment.