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To trade sweat for saltwaterbecause there can be no puzzling back togetherthe trays of drinksthat slipped from tired handsno swallowing the ugly wordsexchanged with the barfliestheir wearisome qu...

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/matt-haw/

Calling the U.S. farm workforce “critical” is an understatement. Agricultural workers’ labor feeds us. Yet their living and working conditions often do not reflect their immense contributio...

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/farmwork-is-difficult-but-not-hopeless/

Sarah Wildling is an illustrator and pattern designer living in rural North Yorkshire in England. Her intricate illustrations—rendered in pen and ink, then colored digitally—are inspired by ...

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Sometimes I think Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Now I fear he’s already won the 2024 election, too. To be clear, I don’t believe the lie that Trump won at the polls but had the election...

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/stuck-trump-america-harris-president/

A little less than two months before the 2024 election, I walked with 20 high school juniors and seniors through our community of Martindale-Brightwood, a predominantly Black neighborhood on the ...

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/indiana-get-out-the-vote-high-schools/

Carrie Etter is a member of the creative writing faculty at the University of Bristol. Originally from Normal, Illinois, Carrie Etter has lived in England since 2001. She has published five colle...

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/november-poetry-curator-carrie-etter/

Annie Wu Henry is a progressive social media and digital strategy expert, who’s worked with politicians like John Fetterman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ro Khanna, as well as organizations li...

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/political-digital-media-consultant-annie-wu-henry/

Joe Mitchell is the founder of Run GenZ, a nonprofit that supports young Republicans running for office, and he previously served one term in the Iowa House of Representatives. Before joining u...

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/run-gen-z-founder-joe-mitchell/

Ava Mateo is the president of 18by Vote, a nonpartisan, youth-led civics nonprofit. Before joining us as a panelist for “Will the Real Young Voters Please Stand Up?,” Mateo chatted with us in...

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/18by-vote-president-ava-mateo/

Christian Paz is a senior politics reporter at Vox, where he covers the Democratic Party and the 2024 elections. Before joining us as moderator for “Will the Real Young Voters Please Stand Up...

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/vox-senior-politics-reporter-christian-paz/