by Eram Alam | May 16, 2026 | Book Excerpt, Colonialism, COVID-19, Excerpt, health care, Health Care Workers, history, Immigrants, immigration, medical workers, physicians
Soon after Medicare, Medicaid, and the Hart-Celler Act, also known as the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, became law, the federal government began to label certain geographic areas as Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), which designated an inadequate number of physicians in relation to the population. HPSAs were generally populated with people who were low-income, elderly…
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by Eman Basher | Apr 25, 2026 | Book Excerpt, education, Excerpt, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Peace, Students, War
I used to be an English teacher. My classroom walls seemed to breathe with the wind, and the light depended on the mercy of the sun; a very eco-friendly setup, if you think about it. Who needs electricity when the sun graciously decides to show up for class? For eight years, I taught in Beit Hanoun Prep School for young girls; a place where optimism stubbornly thrived in conditions that would…
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by Omar Zahzah | Apr 19, 2026 | big tech, Book Excerpt, censorship, Excerpt, Internet, Israel, Media, Palestine, Social Media, Surveillance
An outgrowth of the counter-revolutionary Oslo Accords, the Palestinian internet digitally encapsulates the contradictions of anti-colonial resistance in the neoliberal era. As such, the internet today is both an instrument for collective interconnection to Palestinian revolutionary history and struggle as well as a site of suppression and surveillance. As Miriyam Aouragh writes in Palestine…
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