In Photos: Occupy Irvine
The occupy movement reached Irvine this October. Nadia Afredi, a UCLA student, shares her photos from the protest.
Growing up Muslim post 9/11: Lies our Media Told Us
The most challenging experience was having to listen to all of the fear-mongering rhetoric from the media that permeated the education system. When I was 11, I argued with my class (including my teacher) that it would be wrong to invade Iraq claiming that there were no weapons of mass destruction.
Hidden brutality in Iraq
It has been seven long years since the United States first invaded Iraq as part of the so-called Global War on Terror and it is the occupation’s continued duration that has caused it to recede somewhere into the fringes of American consciousness. Indeed, it is not at all uncommon for people to forget – if…