May 2013
In Sheep's Clothing: When Prejudice Hijacks... →
By Dante Pérez Master’s Candidate, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
May 24, 2013
As a Mexican immigrant studying at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, I was disappointed to learn that my school accepted Jason Richwine’s Ph.D. dissertation arguing immigration policy should reject cognitively inferior Hispanics. However, what is most frustrating is not...
“Today’s words like ‘Progress’ and ‘Development’ have become interchangeable with...”
– Arundhati Roy, Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy. (via itsbeenablast)
President Obama, Close Detention Facility at... →
alibaadi:
We’re still waiting for Obama to close Guantanamo down aren’t we?
The interrogation methods they use are sickening: Water-boarding, physical abuse, forced injections, sexual assault, sexual humiliation, sleep deprivation, environmental manipulation, forced nudity, using phobias, extreme cold, cultural humiliation, sensory bombardment, stress positions, sensory deprivation,...
“The bulk of the president’s speech was devoted to justifying drone strikes. I...”
– Medea Benjamin, Why I Spoke Out at Obama’s Foreign Policy Speech
(via jayaprada)
“Black women do not fare well in the porn industry because the “plum” jobs for...”
– Gail Dines, Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality (via wretchedoftheearth)
