Thanksgiving — SOCIAL JUSTICE — The Catalyst Project

By: Ela Mody

The nationally celebrated holiday “Thanksgiving” happens on the 4th Thursday of November every year. The concept of “Thanksgiving” stems from the story of the Pilgrims and Native Americans sharing a meal and being friends after the Mayflower landed. The Native Americans then later experienced massacre, tragedy, disease, erasure and forced removal off their original lands at the hands of these Pilgrims.

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This Year, Just Wait.

By: Caroline Jung

This poem is based on Thanksgiving and how some extended families are traveling despite COVID-19 concerns. As someone who hasn’t seen extended family for a couple years, I’ve continually been struck this year that people don’t realize that not being able to see family is daily life for people in diaspora.

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Social Justice;

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Eva’s capstone project, described by Eva;

My page is about understanding the social inequalities of shaker heights. Holistically, shaker heights succeeds national standards in

average income, health insurance, and poverty percentage. However, this affluence does not apply to all of our community. IN my

project I use public 202 cencus data to find this divide. I also investigate the history of shaker heights to understand why this has

happened.

Project brief video;

Why explore inequalities of Shaker Heights?

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