JUNE 13, 2025 THINK ABOUT IT The unknown reality Q: When did Puerto Rico become a United States territory? A: 1952 Q: Does Spain permit U.S. military bases on its land? A: Yes, Spain allows the United States to use certain military installations. Through bilateral accords, they authorize U.S. presence in some Spanish military bases, like Morón de la Frontera and Rota. The U.S. utilizes these installations for military means and to provide logistical support, in other words, necessary resources to carry out an operation. Q: Why do the islands (Puerto Rico, Cuba) produce what the United States doesn’t have? A: In the United States, when the winter season arrives, or when there are storms and tornadoes, they don’t produce a lot of things. The islands like Puerto Rico and Cuba, then, produce a lot of what the United States cannot produce. Cuba for example has for years produced tobacco, coffee, sugar and enough livestock to provide for all of the United States. The blockade prevents it from coming here. Some of the soil in the United States is very dry due to so much snow and salt. Q: Where do such obscenities come from that people throw in the trash and say that it’s recycling? A: People throw away ugly things in the trash, but they don’t contaminate recycled products like that. Q: What is the difference between recycling and compost? A: Compost doesn’t contaminate food or the plants that are fertilized MEDICINE from page 6 attend medical school, they decided to join WSM and do what they love to do, and also providing medical assistance for those who need it. Casetti expressed their passion for making connections and relationships in the unhoused community and wants to give a big thank you to Fleet Feet Running Shoe Store on the corner of Fourth and Library for helping WSM help the unhoused community by donating hundreds of pairs of shoes. When it comes to foot care, a comfortable pair of shoes that fit is half the battle. Many interviewees gave a shoutout to Molly Fessler, a Wolverine Street Medicine alumna, and current resident in psychiatry at Duke University for her concern and understanding of ROBERTO ISLA CABALLERO Groundcover vendor No. 347 with contaminated compost material. Q: Why do humans have so much depression? A: Because life is difficult. We work, pay, take care of homes, that sometimes turns into trauma. Other ponderings: Where do human beings stand if they don’t know what to do with so many astronauts, with so much conspiracy in our world, when we don’t have anything to eat and we do have millions of recycling and our ancestors taught us to work and to not speak nastily? What is each visit to the moon going to do, what are they looking for on the moon still? All of that money that they’re going to spend on going to the moon, why don’t they spend it here on earth, on ensuring that people have homes, and that everyone that sells Groundcover in the street has a real job? Why do people sell newspapers for so many years, yet people think they don’t work? Why are there so many bombs under the sea in the United States? It’s contamination, throwing so many bombs into the sea; one day there won’t be any fish to eat! They’ll die. They also throw trains that they don’t use anymore into the sea. So much contamination in the waters! Luis Gutiérrez used to protest against the United States because they commit such pure stupidities. Springs are what is produced by rivers and wells. Wells are like water that has been taken out of the ground, such as water from the sea, coconut water. [Where does coconut come from? Cocotera, or the coconut palm tree (Cocos nucifera), has an uncertain origin, but it is believed that it originated on the tropical coasts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, specifically in the south of Asia. The evidence suggests that it was dispersed to other tropical regions of the world, including Oceania, through human migration and the abilities of the coconuts to float in marine currents.] Why is coffee bitter? When you mix in sugar it is so sweet that you have to drink water! Why does it produce this astringent sensation in the mouth? Springs sprout through the earth like a flower to a woman without a mother. A flower that is planted breaks through the earth alone. There are women that cannot have children, so they adopt them from a foster house. Why are there so many questions and sometimes there are no answers? Like when a journalist from the press goes to pose a question to a president and the president doesn’t respond to them, like a person without schooling? Who knows more, the journalist or the president? If your country has millions and millions of things to export to other worlds, why is there so much poverty? The Bay of Pigs invasion was a the importance of foot care. Just like the military during war time, foot care is paramount because you are always on the move under harsh conditions and circumstances, this is true for those facing homelessness. We need to take care of our feet because our feet are the window into a lot of aspects of our bodily health overall. I would like to say thank you to all the U-M Medical Students past, present, and going into the future for your needed medical services in our community. Wolverine Street Medicine Clinic schedule Detroit: First and third Saturdays at Manna Meal Soup Kitchen (located at Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, 1950 Trumbull, Detroit). Washtenaw County: Ypsilanti District Library-downtown branch (229 W Michigan Ave, Ypsilanti): Mondays 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. Liberty Plaza (310 S. Division St., Ann Arbor): Mondays 4 p.m.- 5 p.m. St. Andrew’s Breakfast Program (306 N. Division St. Ann Arbor): Every other Friday 7:30 a.m-8 a.m. (foot care only) Phone: 734-436-1172, leave voicemail or text Wolverine Street Medicine relies on donations to provide the free services they offer to the unhoused community. Donations go directly to purchasing medications, supplies and necessities for their clients. If you would like to purchase something on their Amazon wishlist, donate online, directly by mail or discuss other ways to donate, please email at wolverinestreetmedicine@ gmail.com for more information. GROUNDCOVER NEWS 11 betrayal by the United States. Why in years past did humans not think the way they think now? Human beings in earlier times used to work the land, they lived in the fields without thinking about the light, they lived as shepherds. If they were thirsty, they drank from the river. They were more in step with nature. In what year did Facebook start? Why did they say that the world was going to end in 2000? Why are human beings so tired now? Because of the same depression? The same capitalism, the government, communism? When they give you a humanitarian stroke for exhaustion, traitorship doesn’t make sense. When the police nab someone for the number of infractions … It is an act of traitorship to work and not to have anything to eat afterwards. Why do the federal police use the state police and then make deportations? Why do the federal police order the state police to do things. They do it with a stroke of a pen and they betray us. This essay was originally written in Spanish and was translated by Regina Duerst and Luiza Duarte Caetano. Este ensayo fue escrito originalmente en español y traducido por Regina Duerst y Luiza Duarte Caetano. Para leer el ensayo original en español escanee el código QR a continuación. Casetti takes Mike Jones's blood pressure at the downtown Ann Arbor District Library.
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