The Evening Blues - 10-16-20
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 10/16/2020 - 2:01pm


by ORION STAFF
To honor the 100th anniversary of the U.S ratification of the 19th Amendment — which guaranteed women the right to vote — we’ve curated 19 of our favorite Orion articles written by women.

A discussion on Latinx identity and intersectional environmentalism.
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Eighteen more below the fold ....
Between six and eight million Americans fell into poverty just since Covid, and that's the good news.
Jeanine Áñez speaks at the anniversary of the Bolivian Air Force, October 12, 2020
First: ‘Civil war elections in Bolivia’, Tomas Castanheira, 13 October 2020, wsws.org (w/ permission)
“Next Sunday, the first general elections will be held in Bolivia since elected president Evo Morales was overthrown in a US-backed military coup, placing in power Jeanine Áñez’s self-proclaimed government.

America, you see, really needs to think that it has a "Left" playing a part in its political drama, and so everyone is being asked to imagine that there is some great heroism to be accomplished in defeating the "fascist" Trump by electing Joe Biden w
Five more states will be voting in a couple weeks on legalizing marijuana.
In the last days of his life Chief Sitting Bull wore the clothes of a poor white person in America. The traditional buckskin garments of his tribe, and all the other Native American tribes has been outlawed. No buckskin trousers. No feathered head dresses. The triumphant white government wasn't satisfied with genocide and removal to arid wastelands. All the visible signs of the Indian culture were meant to be obliterated.


I found this first aid kit in a free pile on my walk recently. I thought it would make a great art piece. Then I saw the writing.
REPORT ALL INJURIES
What? Corona virus deaths? Jews in WWII? The critters burned to a crisp in the fires? Flint? Say Her Name? Ideas raced.
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