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By Pearl Benjamin

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• Slow burn

  By Pearl Benjamin - Dec 17
  Coronavirus forced me to grow up a lot faster than I thought I had to. I may legally be an adult, but I never expected to really feel like one, ...
  

• Politics at the dinner table

  By Pearl Benjamin - Oct 22
  We all need to start talking politics at the dinner table. If that suggestion makes you uncomfortable, I have a few questions to ask you. What is ...
  

• Want change? Send real leaders to Congress

  By Pearl Benjamin - Sep 24
  We're less than two months away from the November election, and things are heating up. While political races intensify, California is ablaze with ...
  

• Finding certainty in the face of uncertainty

  By Pearl Benjamin - May 05
  If someone had told me three months ago that, come spring, I'd be working in a full time unpaid administrative manufacturing job I would've had a ...
  

• She has a plan and I like it

  By Pearl Benjamin - Feb 27
  This year's presidential primaries are set to be historic. American women are celebrating the 100th anniversary of their right to vote. Maine is ...
  

• Loosen up and listen: the lesson of OK, Boomer

  By Pearl Benjamin - Dec 05
  After years of unsolicited advice, rambling life lessons and patronizing lectures, my generation finally found a comeback with teeth. Now, ...
  

• All the wrong rules

  By Pearl Benjamin - Oct 31
  America needs to sit down and have a serious talk with its education system. For too long, kids have been attending schools that have more rules ...
  

• The limits of youth power

  By Pearl Benjamin - Sep 19
  Greta Thunberg is here in our country, and I am totally fangirling. The movement that inspired national strikes all over the world and amplified ...
  

• The tragedy of inaction

  By Pearl Benjamin - Aug 08
  So here it is: my fourth editorial on gun control. Sick of it yet? Feel like you're being overwhelmed by mass shooting details all over Facebook? ...
  

• Size matters

  By Pearl Benjamin - Jul 04
  Last month, an organization called Animal Recovery Mission released a video titled “The Biggest Undercover Dairy Investigation in History– Fair ...
  

• The buck stops with us

  By Pearl Benjamin - Nov 12
  After four years of chaos and absurdity, I can finally sleep at night. The American people fired Donald Trump along with his team of unqualified, ...
  
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  Notoriously persistent

  By Pearl Benjamin - Oct 01
  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a giant among men. She worked with what she had, to achieve what was once unimaginable. She used patience and grit ...
  

• They can’t breathe

  By Pearl Benjamin - Jun 18
  Let's talk about law enforcement. The conversation is long overdue. In just the past five years, police have shot and killed over 5,000 Americans. ...
  

• Keep calm and help on

  By Pearl Benjamin - Apr 09
  It's official: we are living in Crazytown. Just a few weeks ago I was working in a restaurant, meeting up with my friends, and going to school ...
  

• Choose the right battle

  By Pearl Benjamin - Jan 09
  2020 is looking bleak already. Forests are burning, cities are flooding and suddenly we're on the brink of war in the Middle East. Yet again, my ...
  

• Standing against Susan Collins, the Senator: an open letter to ...

  By Pearl Benjamin - Nov 14
  Dear Mr. Brower, Recently you wrote an editorial titled “Standing up for Sen. Collins, the person” about your disapproval of Susan Collins' ...
  

• Grown before our time

  By Pearl Benjamin - Oct 10
  Today I am eighteen. Still a teenager, but no longer a child. I can now sign my own legal paperwork, get drafted (maybe?), go to jail and use a ...
  

• Be an activitist, not a clicktivist

  By Pearl Benjamin - Aug 29
  Modern activism comes in many forms. Some activists host marches and protests, some meet with their legislators and help to draft bills. Some take ...
  

• Gun violence prevention: the missing ingredient

  By Pearl Benjamin - Jul 25
  Mainers are not safe from gun violence. Our state may be sparsely populated and rural, but our gun death rate is higher than that of New Hampshire,...
  

• Not your grandfather’s Camden

  By Pearl Benjamin - Jun 13
  Our town's scenic beauty and historic landscape are in danger. As global temperatures increase as a result of climate change, species shifts are ...