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Police aggression outside the Republican National Convention

On Sept. 2, the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign organized a peaceful protest that started at Mears Park in St. Paul, Minnesota, and headead for Xcel Center, where the Republican National Convention was taking place. The protest remained peaceful until the police released tear gas and shot rubber bullets and stun grenades as the protesters made their way home. More (3)»

Campaign for Liberty, Rally for the Republic

On Sept 2 2008, as the Republican National Convention took place at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, MN, Ron Paul, the party’s “black sheep” Republican Congressman from Lake Jackson, TX, hosted his own Campaign for Liberty’s Convention about 9 miles away at the Target Center. More»

Nepali Politics on Asia Pacific Forum, 99.5 FM, New York

Nepali politics seldom receives the kind of coverage in the international media as Nepalis and Nepali journalists hope for it to. Usually it takes something extraordinary, such as the Constituent Assembly Election of April 10, or a King stepping down and becoming the ‘former king.’ An uprising gets attention too as does a massacre. More (3)»

What Happened in Huntsville

A furnished apartment waiting for a stranger in a new country is indeed a convenience, as it was for the Nepali workers who arrived in Huntsville, often late at night after 10 p.m. But that fact itself has created a small confusion. “We were so tired and sleepy and disoriented when we got there late at night,” says Raju Gurung. “And then we just signed these papers and came into the rooms they showed us. We didn’t have any idea what we had signed, but then we didn’t care because we didn’t think this situation would ever arise.” More (12)»

Obama Fad and the Madness of Crowds

Aspiring presidential candidate Barak Obama and his messianic call for ‘change’ have grappled America. In recently fought American primaries, Senator Obama, in ways more than one, gave his opponent a good run for her money. While the registered Democrats had reasons to vote for the candidate they did, this unregistered, underpaid and underrepresented ‘Brown-with-a-frown’ wonders if mainstream American popularity necessarily translates into better representation for the neo-immigrant class, more precisely, us ‘Brownies’. More (30)»

Suspects in the Alabama Mystery

The facts can be clearly explained in at least two matters: first, all Nepalis involved had been given an official document by the employment agency, Ambassador Personnel, stating they could leave the job any time they wanted to; second, there had never been thousands of dollars worth of furniture to steal in the first place. More (11)»

Thank You, Pinochet!

The death of Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, last month hardly made a stir in Nepal. This man, who once reigned over a faraway country remarkable to us only for its unusual contour, had appeared utterly extraneous to our regular course of politics. Yet, in an uncanny way, the story of this dictator from the other side of the world has triggered quests for justice at a scale that may have reshaped the contours of our own nation as well. More (4)»

Arundhati Roy on the dubious trial of Mohammad Afzal

Mohammad Afzal, who voluntarily surrendered to India’s Border Security Force without ever having actually practiced as a militant in Kashmir, has been given three life sentences and a double death sentence for his alleged involvement in the Dec 13 2001 attack on the Indian parliament. In a column published on Guardian’s website, Arundhati Roy lists thirteen compelling questions that threaten to expose the Indian government of “complicity, collusion, involvement.” More (2)»

“No human is illegal”: The fight against anti-immigration legislation

On December 2005, the House of Representatives passed the Border Protection, Antiterrorism and Illegal Immigration Act (H.R. 4437). More (202)»

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