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It doesn’t see the world as a battle between oppressors and the oppressed.

The Sunni-dominated structure was overturned, and members of the Shia majority, previously oppressed, were now eagerly taking their place at the top of the system.

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What the play most painfully illustrates is that for women like these—impoverished or politically oppressed—appealing options are nonexistent.

"We cannot accept that organized crime continues to destroy families, oppress residents, and spread drugs and violence throughout the cities," Lula wrote on the X social media platform.

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Jobs, health care, criminal justice and education are linked, and progress will not be made unless we address the economic systems that oppress Americans at their root.”

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