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We Need Each Other
I just keep thinking that we have to adapt. We still need each other. That never stopped, only becoming more true when the virus hit.
Renting Sucks in Watauga County, Part II
If you’re going to retaliate against someone for speaking generally about renting conditions in Boone, you’ve proved my point that you have more interest in maintaining your market dominance than listening to the community you serve.
The Age of Enlightenment is Ending
There is no climate crisis without the Haber-Bosch process, no chemical weapons. There is no mass marketing without sociology and behavioral science. Facebook itself is a scientific triumph that ultimately degrades public discourse and trust in scientific authority.
Renting Sucks in Watauga County
WNC Renters Help is accepting submissions of landlord stories for a new community accountability database!
Mutual Aid, vending machines, zines, cataclysms and then some
It’s been a busy pandemic, that’s for sure. Now accepting zine submissions for publication.
Theory of Change
I’m not saying stop paying attention, or don’t vote. This isn’t a call to not participate in the current system. I am saying vote your conscience come November, but treat that vote as your least important political act of the year.
Commerce and capitalism are not the same thing. I think it’s good to separate these concepts that have become so intertwined because making these two terms synonymous leads to all sorts of misunderstandings.