Content by author: Mickey Z.

Activism Could Make A Difference If Protestors Would Abandon Obsolete Tactics | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 3, 2020 As I scanned reports of the latest spasms of anti-racist protests and police brutality, I promised myself I’d resist writing any articles about it. After all, how many activism-related articles have I already written? But… My mind instantly went to a paradox. When Colin Kaepernick took a knee, America was outraged… demanding that ...

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Pandemic Reminder: Community Can Transcend Ideology | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 1, 2020 “To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us ...

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As a White Writer, Here’s Everything of Value I Can Add to the #BlackLivesMatter Discussion | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 1, 2020 Mickey Z. can be found on Instagram here. He is also the founder of Helping Homeless Women - NYC, offering direct relief to women on ...

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Coronavirus and the Cost(co) of Freedom | Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 29, 2020 Screenshot from TMZ In this time of lockdowns and quarantines, how far are you willing to go to display your liberated spirit? Let’s say you had to drive to ...

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Social Distancing: (Fire) Escape from New York | Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 21, 2020 Photo credit: Mickey Z. The Covid quarantine has helped remind me of just how much I appreciate my fire escape -- and fire escapes, in general. Unable to sp ...

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I haven’t been touched in more than 2 months… | Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 16, 2020 Photo credit: Mickey Z. Note: Please click on all the hyperlinks. On Sunday, March 8, as I was leaving a personal training client’s home, she gave me a hug. ...

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Interview with a COVID-19 survivor | Mickey Z.

Coronavirus structure. Credit: https://www.scientificanimations.com / CC BY-SA “It felt like a global tidal wave of human sorrow” Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 14, 2020 “At my lowest points, the ...

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Pandemic: Dispatches From Fun City | Mickey Z.

FPhoto credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 5, 2020 “I still think it’s a fun city.” Mayor John V. Lindsay (during a 12-day NYC Transit strike in 1966) As I sit here in the epicenter o ...

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Climb Every Mountain (Well, Maybe Not) | Mickey Z.

Gangkhar Puensum seen from Gophu La Pass; it is Bhutan's highest mountain at an elevation of 7,570 m (24,836 ft) and most likely the highest unclimbed mountain in the world. Image: Photo by Gradytheb ...

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I wrote this article of my own free will. Or did I? | Mickey Z.

PHOTO: CC0 Public Domain Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 2, 2018 Why am I writing this article? Because I feel like it… right? Well, there’s that — but there’s also the fact that my mother survive ...

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