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Today’s Mantra

forgiveness is more powerful than revenge.

Vengeance only begets vengeance. It is a destructive cycle. But when you forgive, you inspire change in both yourself and the other. Forgiveness has the power to transform people and create better world for all.

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Are you looking for an internship? Are you looking for an internship that pays?

CAPAL’s Federal Internship Program places undergraduate and graduate students in internships within the federal government in Washington, D.C. Opportunities in regional offices, including California, Texas, and...

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Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

Anna Quindlen, Every Last One (via wordsnquotes)

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logic of whiteness

http://mediadiversified.org/2015/03/02/the-logic-of-whiteness/

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The Death of Ethnic Studies

Earlier this week, I was invited to a lunch with other Asian/Asian American student leaders on campus with our university president, to discuss issues or concerns AAPI students may have at Wesleyan. A major point of discussion was Asian American Studies and the general lack of Asian America in the university curriculum, as well as a push from the Asian American Student Collective to ensure continuity for a possibly new Asian American history/studies professor that may be visiting campus in the fall.

The conversation grew increasingly contentious, despite the fact that our request was absolutely reasonable—no one is asking for an Asian American Studies major program or anything even close to that, simply for our lived experiences and histories to be represented in the curriculum more than just a few literature courses. 

That’s when Wesleyan University’s president decides to say something along the lines of: 

"Ethnic studies is a dying field of study."

To be clear, I cannot recall the exact quote, however, I am certain that I am representing the gist of his comment accurately (especially as he definitely used dying and ethnic studies in the same sentence). 

He further elaborated to explain that he does not see ethnic studies at Wesleyan expanding at any rate in the future, as he continues, because the focus is shifting more towards the sciences.

I do not know where to begin. 

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A federal jury in an SPLC case today awarded $14 million in compensatory and punitive damages to five Indian guest workers who were defrauded and exploited in a labor trafficking scheme engineered by a Gulf Coast marine services company, an immigration lawyer and an Indian labor recruiter who lured hundreds of workers to a Mississippi shipyard with

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Nothing ever changed by following the system

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Dont Worry on your past Decisions

He has more in store for us than we can ever predict, and what we fear are bad choices frequently turn out for the best, because our hidden aspirations know better where we are going than our rational minds.

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Black mother allegedly shoplifts and gets shot and killed in front of her two children after an officer opened fire shooting into her vehicle, which the children were in at the time, all on suspicion. Her name was Shelley Frey. The family has spoken out saying “she didn’t deserve to die”. 

Rich white woman steals loads of clothing and ends up with community service and even her employer said they would continue “to value highly her association with Warburg Realty”. Also, she was not shot and killed.

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Many(most) movement spaces are led by brilliant phenomenal #woc #qwoc . We have to acknowledge the tremendous work @thesynead and @umaaraiynaas did !!! +50,000 ppl in #NYC turned out for #MillionsMarchNYC !!! Do not erase that #BlackLivesMatter was started and been led by Black women !! Acknowledging this is also part of the resistance and so critical in many levels ! #NY via @theekatsmeoww

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Okay so there’s this arsehole called Julien Blanc who makes his living by giving expensive seminars on how to pick up women by sexually assaulting them, insulting them, threatening them, degrading them and fetishising them. He was scheduled to give a seminar in Melbourne Australia when activists hit back.

The protests against him were so great that he was kicked out of his hotel, booted from his proposed venue and then literally deported from the country. 

Karma is awesome sometimes.

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Fucking Awesome!

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‘So You Think You Can Dance’ made history this week with a romantic same-sex routine

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In Purbalingga, central Java, numerous small workshops represent the first step in a global supply chain. Almost all workers are women, all of them scraping a living by measuring and cutting artificial hair to the requisite size for false eyelashes, and then knitting them onto a thin plastic thread. The job requires intense concentration, often leaving workers with sore eyes and backs. Their financial remuneration for such monotonous work is about $0.04 per pair, sometimes lower. By the time the product reaches Western consumers, the price they pay has often reached $10 a pair – a mark-up of 2,400%.

M.E. Hardianto, “Battle for Lashes”, Southeast Asia Globe, 2014/03/20 | Photography: Michael Eko Hardianto

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Dr. Martin Luther King reflecting on his “I have a dream” speech, the state of Africans in America, and the Vietnam War.

"I must confess that that dream that I had that day has at many points turned into a nightmare."