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  • | Michael and Debby Smith with their pet parrot Charlie ParkerBrian Geltner | MR Online

    Why I wrote a book about my pet parrot

    Originally published: The Indypendent on February 7, 2023 by Michael Smith (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Feb 10, 2023)

    Michael & Debby Smith write about 30 years of living with a parrot whose intelligence and emotional awareness challenges our human-centric world view.

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    Amazon Labor Union’s small army of volunteer law students

    Originally published: The Indypendent on November 21, 2022 by Katie Pruden and Amba Guerguerian (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Nov 26, 2022)

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    Originally published: The Indypendent on February 14, 2022 by Linda Martín Alcoff (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Feb 17, 2022)

    Pretending CRT isn’t real robs us of the chance to mount a strong defense.

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    The idea—that 20,000 people would set up a round-the-clock protest encampment at the foot of Wall Street—had been proposed by Micah White of the Canadian magazine Adbusters without consulting anyone in New York.

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    It takes but a few minutes for the ruling elite to recast collective calls for an end to state violence against black people into images of the criminality of black protesters and to call for an end to looting.

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