Joel Wendland-Liu

Joel Wendland-Liu

Joel Wendland-Liu is an associate professor in the Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies Department at Grand Valley State University.

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As the protests spread to every state and were met with violent police aggression, mass arrests, beatings, attacks with rubber bullets and truncheons, the sympathy for protest also spread. (Photo: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images) Views
Friday, June 05, 2020
Some Lessons of the American Uprising 2020
What lessons have we learned from the American Uprising of 2020? First, we now know Trump's America is no longer governable. It is unled; its people are angry. They are fed up with business as usual. The Trump administration must end. If Congress refuses to stop his fascist moves, the American...
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U.S. President Donald Trump is flanked by Vice President Mike Pence Views
Sunday, April 19, 2020
Trump's Anti-Chinese Racist Campaign Strategy Mobilizes Right-Wing Extremists
In a direct attack on China and a clear indictment of international cooperation to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump unilaterally ordered withholding funds from the World Health Organization. In a White House statement, Trump accused the international body of "preferential treatment" for China and "mismanaging" the pandemic.
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