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Access to Higher Education in Crisis
I've been reading article after article about how higher education is becoming more out of reach for students due to higher fees because of budget cuts.
Below are three articles, one on colleges in general and two specifically the University of California and California State University systems.
What will Obama's immigration policy be?
Below are links to two articles giving different perspectives of what immigration policy will look like under the next administration. I think they are in interesting conversation with each other and wanted to share them on here:
One community we might not have thought about this past election cycle
Below is a link+post to a blog entry on racialicious.com on the involvement of native communities in the Obama campaign.
Barack isn't the only new face on the block
This makes me ultra happy ^.^
Diversity in the capital, a goal far off, but slowly in the making.
[from http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=ceca475cc2827e8c6d4f297296577f53&from=rss]
FILIPINO AMERICAN WINS OHIO CONGRESSIONAL SEAT
Yayuh for Obama! Boo California :/
I was ecstatic to wake up after a nap at 8:30p to see on TV that Obama would be our next president. Berkeley students and citizens were taking to the streets on Bancroft and Telegraph amassing in a huge crowd cheering yelling dancing clapping for Obama and the future of our country.
TOMORROW
VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!
I know I don't need to remind you all, but let's call/text/e-mail all our friends and family who are registered to VOTE! tomorrow.
response to a racist
Strong Vietnamese American Support for McCain
The article posted below gives interesting insight into why Vietnamese Americans are supporting McCain.
Black, White, Whatever
[I first saw this on http://drepoetic.wordpress.com/]
Spoken word artist, Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, speaks on race and the elections:
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Marcus Garvey in the classroom?
For the first time in my life I heard a whole 80-minute lecture on Marcus Garvey this Thursday in my political science course on revolutionary change. It was more than two sentences composed of the words “Back to Africa” and “Black is Beautiful,” and not once did I fall asleep like I usually do in this class.