June 14, 2008
As promised, I have taken a screenshot of Senator Obama’s finances through opensecrets.org to contrast his top contributors with those of Senator McCain. Let me make the disclaimer that I will look at this in a positive context so feel free to disagree with me at any point. Senator Obama has r...
go to article »June 13, 2008
I had to go outside my school system to learn about Puerto Rican history, activism and coalition building when I was about 17 years old. Now a Los Angeles English teacher is being told that her contract will not be renewed (aka "you're fired") not because she is a bad teacher but rather because she'...
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Boy Scouts are expected to be prepared, but no child should have to be prepared for what 13 year old scout Jose Andrade and his family faces. Jose Andrade faces being deported, alone. A good student who wants to be a policeman, defies the stereotypes portrayed of young Latino undocumented thugs. Jos...
go to article »June 4, 2008
Talk Turkey comments on the case of an immigrant from Armenia who has been in the United States since the age of two. The valedictorian at his high school in Fresno, Arthur Mkoyan will be deported after he graduates. The blog criticizes Congress for not passing the Dream Act which would allow illega...
go to article »May 31, 2008
Imagine you are a bright kid living on the Gaza strip. While your friends are throwing rocks, you burn the midnight oil studying because you know that your one hope of getting out of the place is winning a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the US. Finally, the thick envelope arrives: you're... ...
go to article »May 20, 2008
This is the face of what is left behind after the huge ICE raid in Postville, Iowa exactly one week ago today. Half of the school system's 600 students were absent Tuesday, including 90 percent of Hispanic children, because their parents were arrested or in hiding. Spencer S. Hsu - Washington Post ...
go to article »May 19, 2008
Writing on its blog, The Armenian Gay & Lesbian Association of New York reports on a recent anti-homophobic event at a Glendale school and the ensuing battle of words that materialized in the local press between ethnic Armenians living in the United States. ...
go to article »May 5, 2008
Fox News disseminated a story last year that claimed Senator Obama had been educated at a madrasah in Indonesia. This assertion continues to pop-up in the right-wing blogosphere. As I was in Jakarta this week, I decided to track down Obama's so-called "madrasah."* As a young child, Barack Obama.....
go to article »April 30, 2008
The NY Times has an article concerning how the fallout from the Tibet unrest is playing on US campuses. Universities have often tried to accommodate the anger of their Chinese students. Before the Dalai Lama’s visit to the University of Washington, the campus Chinese Students and Scholars... Cl...
go to article »April 29, 2008
It was back in December when I hosted Debbie Almontaser, Dr. Michelle Fine, and Donna Nevel to tell their side of a burgeoning NYC public schools scandal after a performance of MASKED and blogged about it here on MEY. The evil villian of the story: Daniel Pipes and the “Stop the Madrasa Coalit...
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