It begins with a large white envelope, delivered to your mailbox. Within that envelope is a folder whose cover depicts a flat landscape and endless blue sky familiar to anyone living on the High Plains of Eastern Colorado. Except, in this iteration, the prairie-grass sea is punctuated with a series of slender white towers, each of which is topped by three delicate-looking blades whose design simultaneously evokes a peace sign and the logo of a Mercedes-Benz.
It shouldn’t be a mystery that student debt is a top issue for young people — in Colorado alone, over 743,000 current and former students owe student debt. Despite the fact that the Biden administration ran on a campaign of student debt cancellation, we have yet to see significant support for students in need. This is in spite of the fact that studies show that debt cancellation is one of the best tools the federal government has to provide reparations and bridge the racial wealth gap, as student debt is disproportionately carried on the backs of Black borrowers and borrowers of color. With racial and economic justice consistently named as another clear priority for young people, the demand to reform these systems is greater now more than ever.
We are all working hard to rebuild and recover from this pandemic and while our economy is beginning to strengthen, new variants repeatedly crop up and wreak havoc across the country. A critical component of ensuring we can stay on the road to recovery is making certain everyone has a safe and healthy workplace. Now with Colorado’s paid sick leave policy in effect, I feel we are on the right track.
Earlier this year, a small group of women and I gathered to post artwork around Washington, D.C. We were celebrating the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which protected women’s constitutional access to abortion.
The fight for justice and accountability continues for six Amazon employees who were killed when a warehouse roof collapsed during a tornado last December.
Over the weekend, the Goyim Defense League was at it again, distributing anti-Semitic flyers to residences in Parker with their usual schtick — “outing” Jews connected to the Biden administration and blaming them for everything related to COVID-19. This incident was again one of many across the country. NPR reports that similar flyers from the GDL also appeared in driveways in Colleyville, TX, where in January a man entered a synagogue and held a rabbi and his congregants hostage. This time, at least in Colorado, however, it’s possible that the individual culprits have been identified.
In this, the third piece in my series on The Great Renewable Land Rush in Yuma County, Colorado (read the first two here and here) I’ll provide some background on the logistical machinations behind what could prove to be the most significant revolution in land use since the homestead act invited thousands of settlers to break sod in a semi-arid region that had never before seen a plow.
If you’re the sort of person who follows the news, you’ve probably heard a good bit lately about podcaster Joe Rogan, Neil Young’s fight with Spotify, and maybe a little about Russia and Ukraine.
