I write to you as one of the student organizers of the protest surrounding your visit to Notre Dame campus. As a fellow Catholic and member of the Notre Dame community, I want to express my frustrations with your recent opinions on the Supreme Court that I believe to be incongruent with the “Gospel of Life” we are called to as Catholics. I implore you and all students to read my statement with an open and discerning mind.
I saw the best minds of your generation squished like flies between headlines. Above: Sofia Coppola’s Latest Release? A Lip Balm. Below that: Three days after the Israeli military announced it was conducting “extensive strikes” on Hamas targets, the death…
I was born from hunger to feed your appetiteUnited from rib to make you wholeTear me to pieces until I satisfyChew my bones and eat my fleshFeast upon my insidesAbuse my creation From clay I was molded by the creatorGranted…
Jesus is alongside us, a partner in fighting for a better world. Jesus is relational, Jesus is radical. “Chains shall He break, for the slave is our brother/And in His name, all oppression shall cease”. May we follow his example in our own work.
On Monday night there was a council meeting to introduce a ceasefire proposal for the city of Indianapolis. A member took a vote to completely remove it off the agenda for the 5th month in a row, completely ignoring the crowd that gathered for the event and even threatening the audience into silence.
In the troubling times the US is going through, I ask for your time to reflect on our next steps in search of a more egalitarian society under the Trump administration. Hopefully, our community will be able to continue fighting for change through our mobilization and unification. I ask you to engage, study, learn, and teach politics as your civic duty: not because it’s fun, not because we like it, but because we care.
This poem takes a golden shovel poetic form, inspired by W.B. Yeats’s 1919 poem, “The Second Coming”. Reading the last word of each line will reveal Yeats’s original poem
I talked with six different students from around the country––from Los Angeles to New Orleans to New Haven––to gather their insights and perspectives on how the Palestinian solidarity encampments have affected them, with the hope of painting a broad, yet still very incomplete, picture of the general trends, patterns, and conclusions that can be taken away from this specific and powerful moment in American history.
Passover at its best says that oppression anywhere is a threat to oppression everywhere, and that all peoples are chosen, and all lands are holy.
Free on the sun’s surface, the tyranny of one-oh-nines glisten in their tears. Free as flesh ripped from children’s cheeks. I prefer to die with head high… than to live in humility and renounce the principles which are sacred to…
