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Valerie Vande Panne

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Is Unschooling the Way to Decolonize Education?

We are midway through 2020, and struggling through a pandemic-fueled economic crash exacerbated by the federal government’s inadequate “stimulus” efforts.…

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14 Jul 2020

Why Hospitals Are Building Housing

As U.S. coronavirus infections rolled past 30,000 this weekend, approximately one in four Americans is under some kind of order…

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27 Mar 2020

How Native Hawaiians Are Taking Internet Access Into Their Own Hands

There is a sovereign, 55-acre territory on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu, Pu‘uhonua o Waimanalo, that, for the first time,…

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13 Nov 2019

We Are All on Native Land

With three news bureaus nationwide and a partnership with the Associated Press, Indian Country Today brings Native voices to mainstream…

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12 Nov 2019

De-colonial Joy: Puerto Rico’s Community Currency

While the United States has some of the most successful community currencies in use, such as the BerkShare , surprisingly few Americans…

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19 Aug 2019

The Case to Repair, and Not to Replace

The Right to Repair movement rejects the primacy of disposable culture and proprietary technology. How proposed legislation could notch a…

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17 Jun 2019

The Paper on the Street

How street newspapers in cities empower the people who experience homelessness. In 2011, when Michael Thistle, 60, became homeless after…

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28 May 2019

I spent a day with Rashida Tlaib

Photographers Eric Howard and Rosa Maria Zamarron were there too. We were there for In These Times, a socialist magazine out of…

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18 May 2019

About those Rocket Mortgage commercials

My take, for National Lampoon’s Final Edition Radio Hour: Apply Simply. Sign Quickly. Bend over.  

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4 May 2019

Fight for your right to repair

You might remember, not that long ago, your town had a camera repair shop. It was probably a mom-and-pop place,…

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27 Feb 2019

NPR “Stateside” interview

You can hear me on NPR-Michigan Radio’s show “Stateside”: New immigrants turning to a community-based banking alternative to build savings, trust

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24 Jan 2019

Universal Basic Income is a Scam to Further Entrench Us in Capitalism

Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a much-touted solution to our increasingly tech-driven society, proposed by everyone from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to conservative libertarian…

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15 Jan 2019
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