Archive: What’s on your mind blog

Overdose deaths are rising. Why not try something different?

By Heaven Sensky / April 27, 2021
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This is the 20th installment in our What’s on your mind? blog series and was written by CCJ Community Organizer Heaven Sensky. This past year has brought many new challenges to many of our families, including mine. I lost someone very young and dear to me to an accidental overdose this past fall. My loved […]

CCJ Organizing Fellow, Prem, joins allies in DC to protect our rights

By Prem Rajgopal / October 27, 2020
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This is the 20th installment in our What’s on your mind? blog series and was written by Organizing Fellow Prem Rajgopal. I was in town to join organizers from the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) and various other organizations to protest the hearing for the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. We […]

Flags on the Mind

By Ethan Story / September 4, 2020
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This essay is the 6th of our monthly staff posts and is written by Community Advocate Ethan Story. These posts by staff are intended to be a way for people to get to know us better and to provide topical variety that is of interest to our members. This is also the 19th installment in […]

The “Close to Home” Beauty of SW PA

By Kristen Locy / August 4, 2020
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There is a word for this in Japanese, shinrin-yoku (森林浴), which translates to ‘forest bathing’. I’ll think of this when I am out in the woods sometimes, when being immersed in the forest does literally feel cleansing. So there you go! In case you needed another excuse to get out of the house. Veronica Coptis […]

With this Mask I Thee Wed

By Heaven Sensky / July 30, 2020
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This blog was written by CCJ member and supporter Jeremi Sensky (aka “Heaven’s dad”). It is the 17th installment in our What’s on your mind? blog. Enjoy! Set aside all of the lies being spread about the dangers of wearing a mask, and search yourself for the common sense in it all. I feel the […]

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