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Around Medford Community Content Note: In response to concerns about the coronavirus, area events may be subject to cancellation, postponement or attendance limits. Please contact organizers to confirm event details. Ongoing Volunteer with the Community Cupboard Food Pantry: The Community Cupboard Food Pantry in the Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford seeks strong volunteers who can lift heavy items and stock storage shelves to work about three hours on the second Thursday of each month. V...

Exodus drummer Tom Hunting has vowed to beat cancer like a f****** snare drum" after being diagnosed with the disease. The thrash metal legends sticksman found out he has a gastric tumour in his upper stomach in February, and the 56-year-old rocker has shared his diagnosis to encourage people to watch out for the symptoms and to get themselves checked out by a medical professional if they "persist". Tom also thanked the "great doctors" and support network around him. He told fans on the bands F...

The pandemic has pushed many to the breaking point. What can be done? Samantha McCabe is a Vancouver-based freelancer focused on politics, equity and sexual violence. Find her on Twitter @sam_mccabage. SHARES Kylie McMullan, business owner and mother, works on her laptop while her daughters play outside their home in Vancouver. Photo by Maggie MacPherson. Kylie McMullan set her daughter up in front of a children’s art class on Zoom and sprinted into her bedroom. S...

Volunteers with the Student Support Network and the Maryland Food Bank, who distribute food to those in need, have been addressing the food insecurity that afflicts so many in Baltimore County, the rest of the state and across the nation, particularly during this pandemic year.

Abortion Support Network (ASN) is currently seeking a new Secretary for our Trustee Board. Trustees work with ASN’s Director and have specified roles and responsibilities along with providing strategic oversight for ASN. This is an exciting opportunity for someone passionate about reproductive rights to work with a dynamic, creative and motivated group of people to have a direct impact on the lives of women and pregnant people. What is the Abortion Support Network? ASN provides practical inf...

BBC News By Robbie Meredith Published Relationships and sex education (RSE) in schools in Northern Ireland is "inconsistent and insufficient". That is according to an expert advisory panel on a gender equality strategy, appointed by Stormonts Department for Communities (DfC). They said age-appropriate RSE should be compulsory in schools and "inclusive of the experiences of all young people". RSE should not be "dependent on school ethos", a separate panel on a sexual orientation strategy also re...

The Atlantic We have been doing this so long, we’re forgetting how to be normal. Peter Marlow / Magnum I first became aware that I was losing my mind in late December. It was a Friday night, the start of my 40-somethingth pandemic weekend: Hours and hours with no work to distract me, and outside temperatures prohibitive of anything other than staying in. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to fill the time. “What did I used to … do on weekends?” I asked my boyfriend, like a s...

Before Boma Brown moved to Victoria in 2011, she never really thought about racism. Growing up Black in Nigeria, it just wasn’t something she had to think about. Now, she spends a lot of her energy. . .

A community here in Niger’s capital city is answering a security problem common across the Sahel. Nigeriens suffer violence by extremist organizations, drug smugglers, human traffickers—and the hazards of COVID. Yet Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, has few financial resources to respond to this insecurity. So at little cost, a community here in Niamey has found ways to improve its own security in partnership with the local government. This has been critical to help the comm...

Before Boma Brown moved to Victoria in 2011, she never really thought about racism. Growing up Black in Nigeria, it just wasn’t something she had to think about. Now, she spends a lot of her energy. . .