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UNITING EAST AND WEST |
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Joy Dutta: NY to CA
Inspirational rider does grand trek on 2 wheels in 2 weeks |
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Islanders bring youth
hockey teams from Harbin and Qiqihar in
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Related Photos: Harbin's Ice Festival
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LI - METRO NY
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NATIONAL NEWS |
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VAWA: Violence Against Women Act Signed Into Law : NAPAWF
Factsheet
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NAPAWF Statement in Opposition to Alito for the US Supreme Court
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Asra Nomani: A Muslim Woman's Fight to Pray
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Mohammed Was A Feminist: Interview with Asra Nomani, Mother
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US Visa Denials Imperil Construction of Chinese Scholars Garden in
California
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WORLD NEWS |
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Bill Gates, How Unethical Can You Get? Microsoft Takes Down
Chinese Blogger
- Rebecca MacKinnon, RConversation
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Global Voices: A Means to Bridge Cultures by Posting & Translating
Blogs, News, & FOI, Sponsored by Harvard Law
See country (China) example
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SPECIAL REPORTS |
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to
purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor
Safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1755 |
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As members of the press, and as Asian Americans a part of
America's immigrant community unjustly demonized since 9/11, of
utmost importance is maintaining the most basic premises this
country was founded on. Among them freedom of the press is one,
checks and balances to maintain democracy another, all falling
under that claim we make to the world that we are a nation ruled
by laws. Since 9/11 our laws have been broken and our rights
trampled. Many blindly believed the lies our government told. Yet
it is our own government that has stolen more of our freedoms than
any terrorists have. We need to change the direction the Executive
Branch is trying to take us. It is time for the press to not be
like The New York Times and keep hidden for a year a
President breaking the law. It is time to make the Attorney
General uphold the Constitution as he swore to do. It is time to
insure that the next Supreme Court justice is not someone who
believes in a supreme Presidency, superior to Congress or the
Courts. It is time for Americans to keep America free. |
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OK FOR U.S. TO SPY ON AMERICANS?
Nationwide Poll NO v. President YES |
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Spies Like U.S., Newsday Editorial
"The Constitution was violated and federal law broken, and
someone in the White House must be held accountable." |
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On the Subject of Leaks, New York Times Editorial "Illegal spying and torture need to be investigated,
not whistle-blowers and newspapers." |
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Bush Used NSA to Spy on Americans Illegally - Marcel Votlucka,
SB Press
"It's clear that this administration has engaged every possible
agency, from the Pentagon to NSA to the FBI, to engage in spying
on Americans." - ACLU |
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Congressional Research Service Report: Dubious Legal Basis for
Spying "may represent an exercise of
presidential power at its lowest ebb," - "does not seem to be as
well-grounded" |
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Besides Bush Ordering NSA to Illegally Spy on Americans, FBI Routinely Spied on American Mosques
“could lead to the perception that we
are no longer a nation ruled by law, but instead one in which fear
trumps constitutional rights. All Americans should be concerned
about the apparent trend toward a two-tiered system of justice,
with full rights for most citizens, and another diminished set of
rights for Muslims.” - CAIR |
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Is this to be a nation of laws or of men? -Nick Turse,
TomDispatch "If the President has
commander-in-chief power to commit torture, he has the power to
commit genocide, to sanction slavery, to promote apartheid, to
license summary execution." -Harold Hongju Koh, Dean, Yale
Law School |
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Checks and No Balances
-Sydney Schanberg, Village Voice |
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Why Microsoft Censorship in China Matters to Everybody
- Rebecca MacKinnon, RConversation
"If these American technology companies have so few
moral qualms about giving in to Chinese government demands... can
we be sure they won't do the same thing in response to potentially
illegal demands by an over-zealous government agency in our own
country?" |
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IS TORTURE LEGAL?
Congress NO v. President YES |
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Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh |
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Instead of investigating illegal torture, Gonzalez is
investigating who leaked the truth about that torture. Is he
protecting a man, the President, or the law, the Constitution he
swore to uphold?
Koh's prescient testimony is on the mark.
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America Outsources Terror: Internment Camps Found in Europe -Mike
Prazak, SB Press
"If our nation relies on deception and
pain as a means to an end, are they not in danger of becoming that
which they fight?" |
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President Backs McCain Publicly But Quietly Slips in Signing
Statement Saying He Can Approve Torture Whenever He Wants -
Charlie Savage, Boston Globe
"The basic civics lesson that there are three
co-equal branches of government that provide checks and balances on
each other is being fundamentally rejected by this executive
branch."
-Elisa Massimino, Human Rights First |
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3 GOP Senators Blast Bush Bid to Bypass Torture Ban -
Charlie Savage, Boston Globe
"...in enacting the law, Congress intended to close
every loophole and impose an absolute ban on all forms of torture,
no matter the
circumstances." -Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican, NC |
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GET RID OF 3 EQUAL BRANCHES OF GOV'T FOR EXECUTIVE PRESIDENCY?
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English as a Second Language:
From 'Memoirs of a Geisha' to Gwen Stefani's Harujuku Girls, Asians get lost in translation
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Ishii, Village Voice |
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Cantonese is Losing It's Voice
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Those Weird College Ads
If you like our football team, you'll
love our chem labs filled with Asian students. - Mike DeBonis,
Slate |
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"Remember, a thirty-five-year-old American's brain and IQ is the
same as a 10-year-old Indian's brain. Americans are dumb, just
accept it." - Chetan Bhagat |
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Salmon Rushdie on Multiculturalism
"No society, no matter how
tolerant, can expect to thrive if its citizens don’t prize what
their citizenship means — if, when asked what they stand for as
Frenchmen, as Indians, as Britons, they cannot give clear replies." |
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Charles Wang: Donor
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P.H. Tuan: Architect |
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CARE
Buy a Tent Donations
https://donate.care.org/05/170620230000/? |
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Humanity First is building shelters;
$1000 houses 10 people;
First snow collapsed many flimsy non-winterized
tents
http://www.humanityfirst.org/HumanityFirst/
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International Red Cross / Red Crescent
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UNICEF Health Kits
http://www.unicefusa.org/site/c.duLRI8O0H/
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Children_in_Peril__Feature_Stories__
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