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Small Groups and Meeting Times

I have made slight adjustments, because I forgot Connor and Ashley are working on the original project. Notice that Thursdays there is a 2:00-2:30 session for ANYONE who needs extra help. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO ARRIVE TO CLASS ON TIME. You may have a short wait in the waiting room. THANKS! Kylie, Megan, Kayla.  Tuesdays           12:30-1:00 Carly, Julissa, Marie, Tuesdays             1:00-1:30 Selena, Genesis, Christine, Tuesdays    1:30-2:00 Connor, Ashley. Tuesdays                     2:00-2:30 Mahogany, William, Ocia Thursdays    12:30-1:00 Josh, Rachel, Charles, Thursdays          1:00-1:30 Brianna, Tyler, Eli, Thursdays               1:30-2:00 OPEN HOURS, Thursdays                    2:00-2:30

Paul Farmer: Infectious Inequalities and Structural Violence

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Plagues and Pandemics in History

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Plague of Justinian (541 - 750 AD) Justinian I (483 - 565 AD) ruled the Byzantine (aka Eastern Roman) Empire, and reconquered much of the Western Roman Empire before losing it again.  Bettmann/Getty Images The reign of Justinian I, the emperor of the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century, was hampered by an outbreak of bubonic plague. Now known as the Plague of Justinian, this pandemic is thought to have killed between 30 million and 50 million people, perhaps equal to as much as half of the world's population at the time. The Justinian plague definitely  happened , but researchers are still poring over the evidence as to just how bad it was, about 1,500 years ago. The traditional narrative of this pandemic was that trade largely ceased and the empire was weakened, allowing other civilizations to reconquer previously Byzantine lands in the Middle East, Northern Africa, and parts of Asia. As Justinian was in the process of reuniting the eastern and western halves of the

Naomi Klein on Corona Virua

The coronavirus is officially a global pandemic that has so far infected 10 times more people than SARS did. Schools, university systems, museums, and theaters across the U.S. are shutting down, and soon, entire cities may be too. Experts warn that some people who suspect they may be sick with the virus, also known as COVID-19, are going about their daily routines, either because their jobs do not provide paid time off because of systemic failures in our privatized health care system These are the perfect conditions for governments and the global elite to implement political agendas that would otherwise be met with great opposition if we weren’t all so disoriented. This chain of events isn’t unique to the crisis sparked by the coronavirus; it’s the blueprint politicians and governments have been following for decades known as the “shock doctrine,” a term coined by activist and author Naomi Klein in a  2007 book   of the same name. History is a chronicle of “shocks”—the s