July 2012
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“The real world as it is given objectively at this moment is the sum total of all...”
– by William James. One day at work, I returned to my desk to find a message from an old classmate who I haven’t seen in years. This quote was pasted into a Google Chat message. We didn’t exchange any other communications but I printed it out immediately and read it every day I’m at...
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“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our...”
– Audre Lorde (via twocatsandatrombone)
“People are arriving in such an emaciated state that our medical staff are...”
– Ruby Siddiqui is an epidemiologist currently working on the refugee crisis in South Sudan. (via doctorswithoutborders)
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“I can breathe.”
– Ricardo Muniz, 24, en route to a celebratory rally in downtown Los Angeles. Celebratory chants and speeches could be heard outside the federal building at Los Angeles and Aliso streets after the Obama administration announced the decision to halt deportations of young illegal immigrants who arrived...
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The Obama administration will stop deporting young illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and who do not pose a security threat, senior administration officials said this morning, a move that could prove important in a presidential campaign that will turn in part on who wins over Latino voters.
Effective immediately, young immigrants who arrived in the U.S. illegally before they...
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“only time tells with these things and it generally says get over it because we aren’t here forever and by making a big deal out of all of that you are saying otherwise.”
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