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In a small, conservative town in central Washington, sidewalk chalk has become a highly contentious issue between residents and the City Council. The situation came to a head time and time again in the spring and summer months of 2020. In one such confrontation, young adults and children writing “BLM” and other slogans in chalk on a suburban street were sprayed with a pressure washer by city workers.
This clear attack on free speech in general and the Black Lives Matter movement in particular eerily echoed images of civil rights activists attacked with fire hoses during the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century. Over the summer, it became clear to Selah residents that the city administration had every intention to crush this uprising and enforce the status quo of racism and repression.
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state. he went over there and negotiated this deal last weekend. he had been quietly working behind the scenes with sherry raymond, the ambassador in the united states, and it was in her backyard at a barbecue where finally the end of june, tom accepted the invitation and the national security adviser going to her house was a signal they were ready to deal. absolutely. this is proof of a case where as problematic as our relation with pakistan is, as legitimate as our gripes are, we just cannot afford not to do the diplomacy s work, that in the end, it s better to have a relationship with pakistan than not have one. we re likely to get more from them by cooperation than by just applying pressure. and in this one case, the state department ultimately was proven right, and the white house saw the benefit of going back to a policy of engagement. it was partly that we re in the middle of a campaign and the republicans were accusing the president of going on apology tours. and so,dq
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