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We live,
We live but how we do it...
This living kills the world and turns the living into dead
How angry do we need to be to act?
And will this feeling come soon enough
Or will we let the greed consume us until there is nothing left?

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Stigma takes us over
and we become slaves to it,
much like the prisoner
who's been deemed mentally fit
to serve a life sentence
but that's almost a relief,
because while that's a lot of time in essence,
it's better than spending it on the street.

Grant Wothe

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Sitting in the chair
Electricity in air
The sound of a drop
Why can't this just stop
A new body for the heap
Now, repeat, repeat...

Sebastian Oleksy

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Eat more veggies, not meat
Help save the planet and trees
From greenhouse gasses
Bekah

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One day student debts
Will not increase but decrease
Helping people go to college

Kristine Cordero

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Handcuffed to a chair
Treated like a criminal
Misunderstood kid

Isaac Nuñez

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There is no innocence when you are poor. There is no freedom.
I am humiliated, defeated, angry.
When you are poor, it is not “innocent until proven guilty”
When you are poor, it’s “guilty until proven innocent”

Ellen Phillips

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Solve the equation:
If sexual assault is happening on
every college campus in America, but B*tsy Devos is the sec. of Ed. - then how long will it take for the assailants to walk free?

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No more prison bars
They are more than dollar signs
Open more cell doors

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Humans wage war against Earth
Earth is injured
Earth fights back
Earth is heating
Earth's oceans are rising
Human refugees flee from war
Humans must make peace
Humans and Earth must coexist

Albert George

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people of color
need repro access as well
they have bodies too

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Children pay everyday
Their parents don't have bail money
It uproots their lives
Kaili Kleinschmidt

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Disappointed, we are destroying
Nature and beauty, by being
Selfish and greedy, by hurting
Animals and ourselves
Why do we waste food?
Stop meat consumption

Silvia Castillo

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Fight for the children
Education is not cheap
More equity now
-Kaela Harber

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Troubled child.
You are destined to fail.
What are your goals? Your aspirations?
Drug Dealer? Gang Member? Criminal?
There's no saving you.
Innocence? Gone.
Youth? Gone.
You are destined to fail.
You are destined to fail.
Who destined you to fail?
What are your goals? Your aspirations?
Doctor? Engineer? Artist?
We CAN save you.
Innocence? Stolen.
Youth? Stolen.
GIVE IT BACK.

Lindsay Oleksijew

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Climate change is real
We are all being affected
It's on us to change.

Gabriela Valdano

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Special Ed. Problems,
Teachers, parents, advocates,
Together they shall fight,
Powerless Children,
Impotent parents searching,
Solucions not found!

Monique Weddle

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As history goes
the school to prison pipeline
sentence another child

Samantha McCauley

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Save money! Vote now!
While you don't need Medicaid,
Your neighbors will die.

Chase Gauthier

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No getting out soon.
Recidivism reels back.
An endless loop now.

Sarah Palkowitz

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Am I doing enough?
Where do I stand?
I stand on one side
They stand on another
Yet, when we're on the same side
It's still not the same
Because of my birthplace
Because of theirs
Because the world can't see
That we all come from the same damn seed

Corr

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It feels like an invisible issue for
It took me traveling 5,700 miles
To finally become aware of it all

Maybe it'll take another 5,700
To reach the next person/people

But for now, I'd like to think
The importance is in using the
Space I am in to tell others
And to try and educate about
Neo-extractivism

Mariana Weiss

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Immigrants and Crime: The Trump Administration

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Immigrants and Crime: The Trump Administration

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"Strangers in our land"
Mr. President save us
Please if you can

Sherijay L. Beckford

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Men’s lives drip down the drain

Minute by minute and none of the uniformed men mind

Inside, or beyond barbed wire.

Where is the justice in rotting like a piece of

bread in the back of the cupboard

Where the only lesson the bread learns is how

To fester in the darkness?

Like an animal being studies, every movement to

Shit or walk or chew is quantified by white men with

Extra letters at the end of their name.

I want to walk down a sidewalk and get soaked in the

Rain and buy a cup of coffee from a proprietor, who

I would smile at and have a conversation like

A human being.

Where is the justice in a life of concrete made by men

Because of laws of men that were broken?

There is so much more to this terrible, beautiful world

than men.

Locked up for only a joint, which young white teenagers

Smoke in leafy north shore streets in their cars

Every night.

And when the cops roll up to them,

They are told to go home.

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"One-size-fits-all."
I'm disheartened, angered, and tense.
Promote change through differences, not similarities.

Jovanna Kasabuske

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Rejected, alone.
Sickened by the hatred present.
Time to change now.
Camila Flores

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I hear stories of students being kicked out of school.
Suspended. Expelled. Incarcerated.
Way to many stories.

I hear long cries in the distance.
Cries of despair.
I hear the sound of voices wanting to be heard and listened to.
I hear the sound of people longing for opportunities.
Longing for a second chance.

Yet, this zero tolerance policy does not budge.
The police officers stationed down the hall do not leave.
They are too quick to act.
Without allowing for any explanations.
When they hear our cries they do not listen.

All we want is to learn.
To be supported.
To be cared for.
To be respected.

We deserve better.

By: Paige Arenas