Essential workers need to know that they have someone in their corner and that’s why I will not give up this fight. We are just as important as the non-essential workers who are unemployed due to being furloughed or laid-off. We deserve the same extra assistance. Our daily job functions have increased because we short staffed. We have much more pressure on us and economic hardship has intensified because we are carrying a heavier load. Meanwhile, food, childcare, utilities, medical bills, as well as daily life is increasing in price. This is bringing on mental and emotional stress for essential workers everywhere, and we are feeling unappreciated. Our work is necessary to keep the economy functioning and deserve extra assistance.

If true, Donald Trump is complicit in the murder of member of the US Armed Forces. He must be made to testify on oath as to the counterintelligence he received that led him to believe the reports of the bounties are untrue. He must defend his position, or be held accountable for their deaths.

Because on a daily basis we are witnessing our country under attack by an enemy who is our president.

We are all front line workers through this pandemic and a lot of us are struggling also. Most of but as we know not all, the people that are out of work are the ones that don't need to work because they make thousands of dollars. The ones that are standing there on that front line are lower paid people that deserve that money also. I agree the extra money shall be there for unemployment but where is our bonus pay?

Recently, a variety of concerning issues have come to light that are directly associated with social organizations in AU Greek Life. Accusations of sexual assault and the lack of inclusivity associated with Greek Life, among a variety of other incidents, have taken a toll on our student body, so we think AU would be a better place without them. If AU claims to be the inclusive, diverse, and just place it brands itself as, it will stand with us in taking this crucial step.

If Comcast truly wants to be on the right side of history, they should fire their professional racist lobbyist Matt Schlapp.

It is important for all US Citizens to be allowed to vote! This was planned by Mitch McConnell to close all but one polling place in the Louisville area which has a resident base of 600,000 people. He didnt close them in the white districts!

I am a member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma (UKB) and stand on the history of the UKB, and their rights and liberties that are afforded to them by an Act of Congress, by virtue of the tribe's organization under the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act. I have watched for years the discrimination policies of the Cherokee Nation as they have withheld critical health benefits from UKB members, prevented UKB young people from higher education scholarships, and refused to grant employment to our tribal members unless they switched to CNO. CNO has the service area contract that is not benefiting the UKB Cherokee members. The UKB are an impoverished tribe, while the CNO are flourishing, with ten or more casinos in operations, operating on the very lands that the UKB are entitled to.

Because some of us have families and kids of our own that need us. But we are out there making sure u guys have everything you need to survive. We risk our lives for you guys

Over the past nine weeks, 38 millions of American workers who have been laid off are receiving double or even TRIPLE of what those are working hard and even risking their lives to make sure everyone else is safe. If essential workers are ESSENTIAL, then we should be treated as so. By signing this petition the goal is to receive the backtracked amount of money that has been given out to those who are unemployment. Essential workers such as teachers, doctors, FDNY ,etc. Please sign this petition and ensure the financial security that essential workers need.

The North East neighborhood of St. Cloud desperately needs more street lighting to keep our youth safe. Why is this important? The North East neighborhood of St. Cloud is very poorly lit, and this is cause for concern for youth safety. The streets that are particularly concerning are 3rd St NE and 4th St NE leading to the bus stop on Wilson Ave NE. Youth and adults deserve a well-lit neighborhood to stay safe when walking at night to access public transportation. Help us keep our community safe by illuminating the North East neighborhood of St. Cloud!

This is important because as James Baldwin wrote in 1965 “people who imagine that history flatters them (as it does, indeed, since they wrote it) are impaled on their history like a butterfly on a pin and become incapable of seeing or changing themselves, or the world.” There is a history that TAMU tells that flatters white Aggies, confirms the greatness of whiteness and informs the identity of TAMU. But the story that we tell about TAMU also causes injury. Black Aggies and other Aggies of color, past and present, know how TAMU’s racist past informs its racist present and that the university is the master of lip service and gradualism when it comes to dealing with that past and present. TAMU needs to confront this history and tell the truth so that Old Ags will know their history and future Ags won't be trapped in historical distortions that bend toward and confirm white supremacy. Again, I beg of you to say that without the valor and political will of formerly enslaved Black folks, Texas A&M University would not exist. Five years ago a PVAMU alum by the name of Sandra Bland died while jailed at the Waller County Jail. The cause of her death remains unclear, but what is clear is that she would not be dead if not for an encounter with Brian Encinia. As you probably know, Encina is a member of the TAMU class of 2008. By 2008, TAMU already had many diversity programs in place and a well established Department of Multicultural Services. In fact, I have argued multiple times that TAMU has long been a model for diversity efforts in higher education. However, these diversity efforts could not make Encina see Bland, a black woman, as a fellow citizen or a person whose rights should be protected. Instead, Encina criminalized her and escalated a minor traffic stop. Encina did not learn how to be anti-racist at TAMU. Sandra Bland is dead because of this. This is why I say that diversity is not enough, because it does not move us toward anti-racism. Students are protesting the university’s history and present racism. This racism is systematic and institutional. This is why any statement or redress must be systematic and institutional. Put more simply, Texas A&M University needs to institutionalize anti-racism. If not, we will be here again. Your peer at PVAMU, Dr. Ruth Simmons, is an example of leadership and forcing a university to reckon with its history. As you probably know, under her leadership at Brown University, she launched an inquiry of the university’s ties to the slave trade and slavery, which resulted in a lengthy report and creation of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown Univesity. These efforts not only helped the university begin to reckon with its history but also the broader Rhode Island community. Students leave Brown University knowing this part of the history and while enrolled get an opportunity to grapple with this history. Texas A&M University likes to characterize itself as a world-class university. We now have an opportunity to go further and impact the broader Texas community and higher education world by taking a stand on racism by moving towards anti-racism. This requires a reckoning. I beg of you to lead the university in doing so. Gig’em, Maco L. Faniel Texts Referenced and others you should read: Baldwin, James. “White Man’s Guilt” in Baldwin - Collected Essays / Notes of A Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work. The Library of America: New York, NY, 1998, 722-727. Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America. 2018. Dubois, William Edward B. Black Reconstruction. New York: Russell & Russell, 1962. Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. 2019. Perry, Imani. More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States. New York: New York University Press, 2011. Wilder, Craig Steven. Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities. 2014.