“A couple of years after I began volunteering, I realized I was hell-bent on healing birds because they, too, had healed me—in more ways than one.”
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In the Shadow of an Immigrant Detention Center, a Small House Offers Refuge
” Amid rising ICE arrests, volunteers provide aid—a meal, a bed, gas money—to anyone visiting someone detained in remote rural Georgia.”
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Diary of a Spreadsheet
“Landlords raise rents, evict, harass, all without hesitation. Were they finally feeling a consequence for their actions?”
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Diary of a Do-Gooder
In this personal essay, after years of trying to distinguish herself, Sara Eckel considers the value of door-to-door canvassing, phone-banking, and other anonymous tasks of everyday activism.