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The End of Justice for Our Neighbors

20 Dec 202520 Dec 2025
On December 16th, I mailed out the final 990 from North Carolina Immigration Law & Justice Center (founded as Fayetteville Justice for Our Neighbors) to the IRS. I notified Truist…
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Time Travel and Guilty of Everything

25 Nov 202525 Nov 2025
Aside from giving two interviews in January, I've gone a year without engaging with the news media. I am essentially a time traveler from November 2024. This is, of course,…
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Why You’re Scared and Why It’s Not A Personal Failing

24 Oct 202525 Nov 2025
Several years ago, before the pandemic, the Institute for Precarious Consciousness released a zine: "We Are All Very Anxious." The thesis of the zine was that capitalism generally has a…
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Face to Face with Fascism: Reflections on The Long March for Unity and Justice

14 Dec 202431 Dec 2024
Foreshadowing By late September, I was nearly certain Donald Trump would win the election. The signs were everywhere, figuratively and literally—even in unexpected places like the Long March for Unity…
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The Fraught Recent History of the Human Relations Commission

24 Sep 202424 Sep 2024
In October 2020, I decided not to seek a second term on the Fayetteville-Cumberland Human Relations Commission (FCHRC) after serving for two years. While the Commission’s official mission was to…
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Collateral Damage

17 Oct 202317 Oct 2023
Yesterday in class we were discussing the differences between traditional media (TV, newspapers, radio, etc.) and new media (social media, podcasts, blogs, etc.). We talked about how 9/11 might have…
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Families Belong Together: Fayetteville

18 Jun 201828 Mar 2023
Cape Fear Indivisible held its rally yesterday at the Market House in downtown Fayetteville, North Carolina. The site of the rally itself, built in the 1830s, is not without controversy.…
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