Io̧kwe! Hello! I’m Rev. Jim Parrish, minister for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fayetteville, a city in northwest Arkansas (NWA). I’ve been the pastor there for six years, and my congregation and I are involved in a number of social justice works in the area. One justice area we participate in is helping the workers […]
A total of 313 people – 268 American workers plus 17 Americans and 28 Marshallese expected to be released from quarantine this week – have been repatriated to the RMI through Kwajalein as of November 27, 2020. While it has proved possible to bring people into the Marshall Islands and contain COVID-cases to the border,
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As soon as there was community spread of the novel coronavirus outside of Asia, the RMI closed its borders. There has been discussion and debate all year surrounding the possible repatriation of essential workers to the US military base on Kwajalein and Marshallese citizens. The US military successfully convinced the RMI that they could safely
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With a projected 306 electoral votes and more than 75 million votes, Joe Biden wins the election to take office as the next president and Kamala Harris as vice president of the United States. The U.S. election process is a complicated system that usually involves one-stop early voting and in-person voting on election day with
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The big surprise last election was the number of Midwestern states that flipped and voted for Trump after consistently voting for the Democratic candidate for six elections. Most of the Midwest voted for President Barack Obama, including North Caroline in 2008. It was nerve wracking waiting since many of those states took longer to count
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I grew up in Rogers, AR and have recently moved back. I studied history at Yale University, where I graduated in 2018. After that, I worked at The Atlantic in Washington, D.C. and I am now a staff reporter with Facing South where my writing focuses on democracy, politics, and agriculture and rural communities. I
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Between the president’s general disdain for mask wearing and the administration’s rush to nominate and confirm another conservative justice to the Supreme Court that more than 30 people directly got sick from the virus. After a week isolated in intensive care, former governor Chris Christie regrets letting his guard down and urges people to keep keep taking precautions.
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