GUEST COLUMN: My experience at COP27: The climate conference for humanity
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I’m writing from Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard, a community food resource center working to improve access to healthy food while cultivating dignity, agency and community. I joined the Hub a year ago, as we were wondering what moving beyond the immediate, visible crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic would look like.
Earlier this year, I spoke to a class of IU students about the complexities and challenges of people who are housing insecure and of our region’s response to this crisis. It’s a difficult, overwhelming topic — everyone has an opinion — but we often don't agree on solutions. Even on a good day, hope can be hard to find.
My first thought, as I stepped out of the plane mid-morning Wednesday, June 8, at Indianapolis Airport after a harrowing two days of traveling, was just how humid the air was. I could immediately feel the seasonal change having just come from a cold and dry Botswana winter. For a second, I thought I wasn’t going to breathe. But, after a few deep breaths, I managed to go on.
Recently, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said in a speech that masculinity is under attack in our society. His words walked me back to an indecent incident at IU in September 1988 when I was a happy-go-lucky undergraduate.
The article “Preschool teachers deal with higher COVID risk, overwork for low pay” by Carson TerBush should serve as an example of irresponsible, sensationalized journalism. It is contradictory and inaccurate, and it insults an institution whose teachers and staff have worked tirelessly to keep children safe during a pandemic while painting a false picture of an exceptional preschool.
As college students, we’ve seen our public schools under attack for over a decade, courtesy of the Republican stranglehold on our state legislature. From repealing the democratic election of the state superintendent and under-funding our public schools to refusing to pay our teachers a fair salary, it’s clear that our students’ future is the last priority on the Indiana GOP’s checklist.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita declared his opposition to proposed federal voting rights legislation in a testimony before the U.S. Senate Oct. 6. He argued that such legislation violates the U.S. Constitution because it gives states, and not the federal government, the authority to organize elections.
From Josh Davis, IU PhD candidate
As IU continues to raise tuition, subject workers to hazardous conditions and slash funding for ethnic studies departments, student leaders haven’t had the tools to properly push back. It’s time to change that.
I’m a graduate worker. The stipend I earn from IU, which is $15,750 before taxes for the 2020-21 academic year, covers all of my living expenses from rent and utilities to those obnoxiously priced textbooks (when they aren’t to be found online) to sustaining a pitiable diet.
On Jan. 5, Georgians will vote in a runoff election for both of their Senate representatives. The ballots cast will have ramifications for each of the additional 49 states, including Indiana. Across the aisle, there is consensus among Americans that little progress is being made in Washington, particularly in the Senate. This gridlock has been sustained throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, during which more than 6,200 Hoosiers have died. As Indiana faces another wave of cases, this lack of action from the Senate continues to drastically limit COVID-19 relief funding and jeopardize the Affordable Care Act during the worst pandemic in modern-day history.
Election Day has come and gone. As we wait for results, we should reflect on what this election won’t decide for us. It will not offer solutions to the political predicaments in which progressives find themselves. Neither former Vice President Joe Biden nor President Donald Trump has offered ethical ways to contend with anti-Black police violence, climate catastrophe, immigration or health care.
IU student Zhao Kaikai was arrested in July by the FBI under the charge of visa fraud. It has been three months, and we have yet to see IU take steps to protect its international students, especially those who are in dire need of institutional protection.
On Sept. 16, the Bloomington City Council voted 5-4 to reject Mayor John Hamilton’s Recover Forward proposal. The five nays came from councilmembers Isabel Piedmont-Smith, Susan Sandberg, Ron Smith, Sue Sgambelluri and Jim Sims.
College students are in a powerful position to shape the future of our democracy.
International students come from all over to attend America’s universities, and they give American students like myself direct access to the cultures and goings on of countries around the world.
As evangelical Christian pastors we are called to share the good news concerning Jesus Christ and to care for the congregations that God has entrusted to us. The popular persona of our evangelical tradition often suggests that we are those Christians whose primary emphasis is on the salvation of souls. To a certain extent this is absolutely true. If this were not our theology, we would be in danger of de-emphasizing a central teaching of Jesus Christ.
In 1887, a Denver woman, a priest, two ministers and a rabbi got together. It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but they didn't walk into a bar; what they did was recognize the need to work together in their community in new ways, in order to make it a better place.