Its been a while. So time for something new.
A friend turned me on to an article in the NY Times detailing the post-Iraq life of Shaheen Khan, a Pakistani woman who is now paralyzed after a few months as a laundry worker in the Green Zone in Baghdad. KBR, formerly known as Kellogg, [...]

Desi, Economics, Immigration, Palestine, Race, Resistance | 1 Comment »

They come through TV, books, radio, internet, iPods, certain manifesting circumstances, and other various sundries. I wonder what there is about this place that makes it so different than that place. And I wonder why the lives we traverse are not so immediately forgiven that when someone picks up and goes, they are [...]

Economics, Immigration, Politic, Race | No Comments »

Here are the lyrics to Lali Puna’s Crawling by Numbers, a song I just listened to:
You’ll be charged a hundred dollars
if you can’t pay back the debts
Work your soul and work your lifetime
without money you can’t buy
Can’t you see
six feet underground?
Identify the system
Identify the system
Watch your neighbours
and their big dreams
Silent envy on your face
A life [...]

Economics, Music, Politic, Resistance | No Comments »

Here in the ridiculous city of quartz, immigration is always at the center of our modern histories. This is THE City of Immigrants. How do I know this? I once talked to someone who lived in a neighborhood that had Brazilians living side by side with Indians and Pakistanis. There’s no [...]

Economics, Immigration, Politic | 5 Comments »