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  • Reflecting on Bad Boys II in 2020 (or, How the Bad Boys Franchise Helped Normalize Police Misconduct in America)

    Reflecting on Bad Boys II in 2020 (or, How the Bad Boys Franchise Helped Normalize Police Misconduct in America)

    Karma Bennett

    January 20, 2020
    Arts & Culture, Politics

    Bad Boys for Life, the third in the Bad Boys franchise, just hit theaters. So it’s a good time to remind you that Michael Bey’s sequel Bad Boys II was a big red warning flag of all that is wrong with America in 2020.

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  • Happy Fortieth Birthday Millennials

    Happy Fortieth Birthday Millennials

    Karma Bennett

    January 6, 2020
    Arts & Culture

    Did you know that the oldest millennials turn forty this year? The defining end and beginning of a generation is ambiguous. Some put the cutoff at those who graduated high school in 2000, others define it by ten-year periods, putting the start at those born in 1980…and anyone who was born in 1980 will be…

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  • How to Protest EFFECTIVELY: Planning a Social Justice Campaign

    How to Protest EFFECTIVELY: Planning a Social Justice Campaign

    Karma Bennett

    December 20, 2019
    Politics, Resistance

    Don’t waste your time planning an ineffective rally. Here are the basic steps to follow to organize a smart protest campaign.

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  • Celestial Revolutions: Horoscopes for December 12 through January 10

    Celestial Revolutions: Horoscopes for December 12 through January 10

    Jordan Wilson

    December 12, 2019
    Politics

    by Jordan Wilson This next month consists of several significant changes in your professional, spiritual, and romantic life. While we still may be in Sagittarius season, there is a lot of cardinal and forward-moving energy present in this next cycle. With the moon full in Gemini tonight, it is a good night to place your…

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  • “I am 69 years old. I will never not be a racist.”: Reflections from a South African Expatriate

    “I am 69 years old. I will never not be a racist.”: Reflections from a South African Expatriate

    Jennifer Woodhull

    May 31, 2019
    Arts & Culture, Politics

    I am a racist. I grew up white in apartheid South Africa. My neighborhood, buses, trains, movie theaters, restaurants, schools, beaches were all strictly segregated. Even park benches were marked “Whites Only.” People of color were known as “Non-Europeans.” Non-Europeans built and cleaned and maintained my buses, trains, movie theaters, restaurants, schools, beaches, park benches.…

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  • The Rise of Punk in Morocco

    The Rise of Punk in Morocco

    Brian Trott

    April 26, 2019
    Music

    It was my fourth stay in Morocco in the fall of 2016. I was on my own, hopping around hostels and couches between the cities of Rabat and Casablanca while conducting interviews for my graduate research on the history of punk rock and heavy metal there. There’s something about Casablanca and Rabat, two coastal cities…

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  • Sofi Tukker Tops Bands to Dance to in 2019

    Sofi Tukker Tops Bands to Dance to in 2019

    Karma Bennett

    March 28, 2019
    Music

    Sofi Tukker is starting to get radio play, but they have a lot more to offer than that one track. Here are 7 songs that are honest, relatable, and incessantly danceable.

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  • We have twelve years to fix the planet: It’s time to change the way we bank

    We have twelve years to fix the planet: It’s time to change the way we bank

    Samara Hayley Steele

    March 20, 2019
    Resistance

    It can seem daunting. The UN has warned that we have twelve years to limit the catastrophic impacts of climate change, and climate change isn’t the only threat.  We are also facing massive species die offs, the oceans are becoming too acidic the bare life, and ecological harm is being caused by everything from concrete to…

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  • Fighting displacement with clay: A subversive real estate office is coming to Oakland

    Fighting displacement with clay: A subversive real estate office is coming to Oakland

    Samara Hayley Steele

    March 20, 2019
    Arts & Culture

    In 2015, shortly after being displaced from her San Francisco Apartment, Cassie Thornton came to possess a large truckload of clay. This clay was being removed from the construction site for Salesforce Tower when Thornton walked by and was enamored.  Since then, Thornton has been the caretaker of the clay. “At times the clay has…

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  • Resisting the planet-killing banks with style and mirth

    Resisting the planet-killing banks with style and mirth

    Samara Hayley Steele

    March 19, 2019
    Arts & Culture, Resistance

    Last week, Alexandra Casio-Cortez flayed a Wells Fargo Bank executive on Capital Hill for the role his bank played in backing the Dakota Access Pipeline. Well Fargo is one of many megabanks funding countless big oil projects, including DAPL and the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline. A 2018 report shows that Wells Fargo invested more than $4.6…

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