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Blogging for Human Rights Day
Get ready to blog on the first ever Blogging for Human Rights Day!

TAGS: #Blog4HR, human rights, International Human Rights Day, UN Declaration of Human Rights
Watch this new documentary on voter suppression for free.

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Middle of Nowhere- Film Review
A new film explores the impact of incarceration on the loved ones of those locked up.

TAGS: Middle of Nowhere, Books Not Bars
It Is about Race
How can we start to talk about race in our country, even when we'd rather not see the impacts of race?

TAGS: racial profiling, Aurora, Anaheim, Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, OPD, Manuel Angel Diaz, police violence, racism
Contrasting the media coverage of two incidents where working class people took action to save a coworker.

TAGS: Racism in America
A few years later, my sister told me about a new organization called Bay Area Solidarity Summer. I read the organizations mission statement “Bay Area Solidarity Summer (BASS) is a collective run by diverse volunteers of South Asian descent

TAGS: model minority
Having the Talk With My Son
Recently, I had the opportunity to be interviewed by the Oakland Tribune.  It was for  Hoodies: Why parents of teens of color have the 'survival' talk? in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin. 

TAGS: Trayvon Martin
Having the Talk With My Son
Recently, I had the opportunity to be interviewed by the Oakland Tribune.  It was for  Hoodies: Why parents of teens of color have the 'survival' talk? in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin. 

TAGS: Trayvon Martin
The Eve Ensler Cycle
A new play gives South Asian woman the opportunity to share their stories.

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In 2007, Paul Hawken published Blessed Unrest, which documented a new type of movement. One which has no single leader, but in which many people are leading. There are literally millions of organizations large and small that were -- and still are -- growing a new type of movement.

TAGS: Billy Parish, Dev Ajula, Making Good
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