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Diversity makes us stronger: "BEIJING (AP) -- Henry Cejudo, the 21-year-old wrestling prodigy who had wrestled in only one world-level senior tournament before Beijing, has won the Olympic gold medal in men's freestyle 55-kilogram wrestling." More

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Short term memory is what we all suffer from. More than three months after the raids in Postville some of us are starting to forget the devastation and struggles of a small community in Iowa. Read More


Many hospitals are taking it upon themselves to deport seriously injured or ill immigrants because nursing homes won’t accept them without insurance. Link is to a long new York times article containing photos and video.

Edwin Okong’o’s Blog

Submitted by Brenda González on August 1, 2008 - 12:53pm.

The Philadelphia New Routes project, "Media partnerships for community engagement in Southeast Asian health," was highlighted at a national conference in San Francisco, CA. The session, held on 7/24/2008, was entitled, "Increasing the Voice of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders through Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and Community-Based Participatory Programs (CBPP)." This was part of a 3-day meeting, The Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Cancer Survivorship Conference: Dispelling Myths, Reducing Disparities & Providing Hope (APIA Health Forum and API National Cancer Survivors Network). Read More


Some of the thousands of Liberians living in New York appear to have brought some of their country’s volatile politics with them. New York Region. Read More


This item from Andrea Lee at the San Francisco immigrant rights advocacy organization Mujeres Unidas y Activas:

"The National Domestic Workers’ Allliance from CASA Maryland had an important victory – Montgomery County passed their Household Workers’ Bill of Rights!!! Read More


Emory's faculty and staff newspaper, Emory Report, highlighted HEARMe and Project Coordinator Hussien Mohamed in the latest issue! Read all about it at http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/2008/July/July7/HEARme.htm Read More


From the editors at Alternet comes a report of the many immigrants fighting California fires as day laborers.

 

California's ablaze with fires spreading along the coast and threatening a dozen towns.

Unlike municipal firefighters, who earn a fair wage and are represented by unions, the fire crews that battle these fires are seasonal workers. Read More


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