humanity

Humanity topics include pieces on the real lives of politicians, legislators, activists, women in politics and the everyday voter.

"How corruption and impunity Curtails advancement"
b “How corruption and impunity Curtails advancement” People don’t even realize again that they’re suffering. They even believe that to live this way is the way to live life.
By Philip Ebuluofor5 years ago in The Swamp
Getting Help
I can’t find the image now, but there used to be this flier full of phone numbers that got posted and passed around. There seemed to be help for everything — places to get food, help with housing, getting health insurance, mental health services, even things like diapers and clothes.
By Dane BH5 years ago in The Swamp
Why Are States Blaming Stimulus and Unemployment for Lack of Workers?
Once again I heard the same refrain repeated on right wing media this week. The real reason that businesses cannot find workers is because Biden is giving them stimulus money and unemployment cash to just stay home and not come to work. The old trope that continues to play out is that poor people are lazy and if you give them any kind of safety net they will not work and just stay home.
By Trent Fox5 years ago in The Swamp
I'm leaving Portland Oregon Heres Why
I fell in love with Oregon when I was 14, from the backseat of my aunt's tiny car, which was stuffed to the brim with other family members. The mist hanging on the tall pines seemed magical. My shoulders relaxed, and the air soothed my lungs.
By RJ5 years ago in The Swamp
Police brutality will never be justified.
If you like this, you can get more of my articles when you subscribe to my account. The purpose of the police is often questioned by many. People don’t trust the power given to the police to maintain law and order, among other functions. Over time their position has been perceived as a reduction to the role of harassers and unlawful individuals that embrace their power a bit too much. This is further boosted by some personal vices. Masked intentions and hidden agendas by various officers have stopped them from achieving their true purpose. Most police officers have violated their function regardless of the nation and resulted in all forms of police brutality. Police brutality existed a long time ago and is still rampant to this day. This term was formed to describe the loss of power control by the police over its citizens and inhabitants.
By 'Vive Akugha5 years ago in The Swamp
UNIFY
Why do we forget so quickly? We witnessed these acts of violence, blatant racism, and disregard for human decency, and yet we get distracted by another similar act, or settle for a police officer being fired or resigning. And while the victim endures pain for the violence to which they were subjected, the culprit gets to go about his or her business without a care in the world. Is this really justice, is this fair? And -let’s not rely on the cliché life is not fair, to excuse this type of transgressions-.
By Pedro A. Idarraga5 years ago in The Swamp
Why Most Millennials are Embracing Socialism.
NOTE: This article is of the opinion of the author. Readers are free to make their own interpretation based on all information presented.
By Halden Mile5 years ago in The Swamp
The outbreak exposed a lack of medical practitioners and resources in rural America.
24 percent of households in rural America reported that they were unable to receive treatment for serious medical problems during the COVID-19 outbreak.
By Viona Aminda5 years ago in The Swamp
An Everchanging World
Throughout the peak and fall of the Corona Virus, speculations and exaggerations have been running rampant. So how exactly is it that the world has adapted the way that it has?
By Tyler Perry5 years ago in The Swamp
Why the Cupboard Is Bare
Whether you have contracted COVID 19 or have remained healthy since this nasty little bug made it to our shores, it has affected many aspects of your life. We have had to deal with major and minor inconveniences from mask-wearing and social distancing to unemployment and losing loved ones to the disease. But one thing you may not have anticipated was the possibility of not having enough to eat due to societal upheaval.
By Juliette McCoy Riitters5 years ago in The Swamp
Daunte Wright: The Loss Of Another Black Man
For those of you who have not seen the news Daunte Wright was a 20 year old man that was pulled over in suburban Minneapolis on a "routine" traffic stop which resulted in his death via the police officer that stopped him. It is still early in the investigation and they are still pulling evidence and collecting the facts but the chief of police released a statement stating that the officer meant to fire her taser and not her gun.
By Blue Dymond5 years ago in The Swamp
France Enter Yet another lockdown
Referring to Macron's pledge in his Wednesday statement that France might begin reopening in mid-May, Girard stated, 'I'm skeptical approximately a mild on the cease of the tunnel. They've been making guarantees for the beyond yr that have not been kept. I do not trust it, I do not trust it anymore. I do not know if we will get returned our vintage existence.'About a year ago, confronted with the primary national lockdown against a raging coronavirus epidemic, Parisians desperately jammed into trains in an exodus that became Montparnasse into an area of worry and anxiety, and the capital right into a ghost town.
By 12 News World5 years ago in The Swamp