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LIVSHITS | Cornell’s Co-Ops Represent an Ideal(ized) America
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At their core, co-ops are a working critique of capitalism — the economic system based on competition, not cooperation.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/ilanalivshits/)
At their core, co-ops are a working critique of capitalism — the economic system based on competition, not cooperation.
When we lack the language to explain this violence, this wronging of the body, we reason that we deserve it: Something is wrong with us.
While Cornellians assume that attacks on women’s rights happen elsewhere — in esteemed legislatures and gilded courts — DeLorenzo’s actions remind us that many of the attacks on reproductive freedom and gender equality occur on campus.
While I wholeheartedly condemn the (denied) proposal to CFI’s executive board of rape as a spectacle and the organization in and of itself, I further understand that there needs to be more support for the Israeli victims and survivors of rape.
Let us write. Let us cry. Let us shout. Silence is complacency and your silence is deafening.