The current climate crisis has led to a rise in climate migration globally, as millions of people are forced from their homes due to devasting weather disasters.
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Jami Nakamura Lin is a Japanese Taiwanese American writer whose essays focus on mythmaking, folklore, culture, and mental illness. She is a columnist at Catapult, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the New York Times, Electric Literature, Woman's Day, and the anthology What God is Honored Here? (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). She was awarded a Creative Artists’ Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts/Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission and an inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant from We Need Diverse Books. With her sister, artist Cori Lin, she runs ROKUROKUBI, a project that melds visual and written narrative to investigate cultural identity. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from Penn State and works for a public library outside Chicago. Find her on Twitter @jaminlin or at www.jaminakamuralin.com.
Due to current U.S. tax policies, tax inequity is one of the driving factors in wealth inequality in America.
Throughout 2020, more of us have heard about mutual aid than ever before. After COVID-19 started affecting people’s livelihoods, mutual aid networks popped up like never before—with new networks likely in the thousands (Sustainable Economies Law Center). The uprisings after George Floyd’s death also accelerated mutual aid; groups quickly came together to feed protesters (Eater), post bail (Chicago Community Bond Fund), and provide support in many other ways.
But the concept of mutual aid is much more deeply rooted than the simple act of Venmo-ing $15 to a stranger on Twitter.
But behind each hashtag is a person. This time, his name was Jonathan Price. He was a 31-year-old from Wolfe City, Texas, a small town outside Dallas. He was a “motivational speaker, a mentor to student-athletes in the area, and a frequent participant in community service activities” (Yahoo News). He was beloved by his community. And on October 3rd, he defused a fight he witnessed between a man and a woman at a convenience store. For his intervention, he was killed. To be more precise: on October 3rd, a police officer, a Texas Ranger, murdered an unarmed Jonathan Price as he walked away from the scene (Washington Post).
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