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No, this post is not about the United States military’s homophobic silencing of gays and lesbians in the armed forces. It pertains to the policy adopted by colleges and universities around the country that have to deal with undocumented students.
Undocumented high school students, upon graduation, are faced with limited options for higher education unless they [...]

25 Jan, 2008

Education - A Basic Human Right?

Posted by: Prerna In: Immigration

I have been blogging on immigration a lot, trying to get past the alleged transgressions of my parents and making a case for the DREAM Act. Yet, I also sincerely believe that at the heart of this debate is our basic and fundamental right to education and how it is being squashed due to our [...]

Today, the Sacramento Bee ran an article on the solidarity and support network amongst undocumented students at University of California Davis. The comments on the article quickly turned into one over illegal immigration rather than focusing on the trials and tribulations that many students at UCD had undergone and how the groups they built provided [...]

20 Jan, 2008

So what’s the point of attending academic conferences…?

Posted by: Prerna In: Uncategorized

A Grand escapade? Psychic numbing? The ability to get away from the guilt of ignoring the need for real change and revel in the comfort of conversations about change? To pretend and hold on to the idea that discourse amongst intellectuals can give us something to hold onto even in the darkest of times? The [...]

13 Jan, 2008

Now we are simulating immigrant lives…

Posted by: Prerna In: Immigration

Ever since Will Wright’s The Sims, an explosion of the simulation genre has ensued in the gaming world. Games like Civilization have become Classics, whereas The Sims and Sim City with its plethora of expansion packs have multiplied across various gaming platforms and inspired new games based on the same genre (i.e. Black and White). [...]

12 Jan, 2008

A Dream Deferred - Massachussetts

Posted by: Prerna In: Uncategorized

Governor Patrick is mulling over bypassing the legislature to allow for instate-tuition to undocumented students in MA similar to AB-540 in California. The state legislature crushed the proposition in 2006 and the Governor’s desire to circumvent the legislature this time has caused a media frenzy.
Dreamies were brought here by their parents and did not break [...]

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I have been itching to write something but seriously, nowadays whatever I want to say just sounds repetitive in my head or my mind is so cluttered that I want to write about a million different things that are loosely connected to one another (I hope).
Anyway, I found this article in the Times of India. [...]

On torrent sites, I mean.
These are part of the “banned books” collection that I have come to index. They are either classics, controversial, very leftist or called “conspiracy theories.”
Enjoy.

! - CIA Psycohological Operations in Guerrilla Wafare.pdf
! - Defeating Electromagnetic Door Locks.pdf
! - Pay no Fine - A User Guide to Successfully Fighting [...]

The following is a list of books and resources that I find interesting and referencing here for educational, non-commercial purposes.
Noam Chomsky -

Noam Chomsky - 2003.08.11 - Preventive war, the supreme crime.pdf
!! Noam Chomsky - Failed States.pdf
Noam Chomsky - 5 books.pdf
Noam Chomsky - 9-11.pdf
Noam Chomsky - America’s war on terror.pdf
Noam [...]


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