What is happening in Haiti is of specific and urgent import to the people that I represent, dealing with the fact that they cannot travel back to the funerals of their loved ones due to the violence; the fact that students cannot go to school; that hospitals do not have enough oxygen for critically ill patients seeking care.
Pressley highlights the urgent humanitarian issues facing the Haitian community.
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It is no accident that communities experiencing the worst of these causes are the same ones that have been on the front lines of historic inequities.
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we certainly will keep the pressure up until we see a restoration of equitable, reliable services, because every community deserves exactly that.
When we focus on healing, that is right, we do have to also acknowledge the work of the healer, who is healing the healer?
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