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This is a brief step back to the meta: a look at webby aspects of the campaign.
Abhi lives in North Dakota. He reminisced recently that the 2004 Democratic National Convention inspired him to create Sepia Mutiny , a South Asian American group blog. This is part of the email he wrote back in 2004 to other South Asian bloggers to float the idea (hat tip to volunteer curator Roshan Abraham ):
This past week with the Democratic Convention in the news, and all the talk of the bloggers that have been invited and how much power they seem to have, it got me thinking how there is no widely read news/issues/discussion/politics/random musings source target for South Asian Americans on the web. […]
I was thinking “what if” all the most widely read South Asian American bloggers joined forces somehow and created a superblog […] This could be the definitive source for South Asian issues / news / opinion / culture / entertainment etc.
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Announcements From: sampan.org Post Date: 2008-11-07 17:31:05
AACA launches new website The Asian American Civic Association , publisher of the Sampan, has officially rolled out its new web site called a oeCommunicating at Work.a The web site features audio and video and ...... more
I wanted to send a BIG THANK YOU to the Mr. Hyphen committee as well as Hyphen magazine for giving us the opportunity to have a platform to celebrate the Asian American male! It was truly an eye opening experience not only for me but for the SOLD OUT crowd that filled the OACC to gather, acknowledge and celebrate what it means to be Asian American, to share our common bond and the messages of our respective nonprofit organizations!
The pictures speak for themselves as the six contestants spoke... more
In _Immigrant Acts_, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialized economic and political foundations of the nation. Lowe discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included in the workplaces and markets of the U.S. nation- state, yet, through exclusion laws and bars from citizenship, have been distanced from the terrain of national culture. Lowe argues that a national memory haunts the conception of Asian... more
Red Mango: Yul Kwons secret frozen yogurt addiction
By: Asian Eats , Oct 10, 2008
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AsianWeek Red Mango: Yul Kwon?s secret frozen yogurt addiction
PALO ALTO, Calif. Dont let Yul Kwon s impeccable abs fool you. After winning Survivor: Cook Islands , Kwon often stuffed himself with bulk quantities of junk food from Costco. At one point, he had gained almost 40 pou... more
In a landmark election that will go down the history books as a first whatever its outcome will be, Republican presidential candidate McCain has found support among Asian Americans, despite the fact that Democratic candidate Obama has a background similar to theirs. Filipino Tove Ann Purificacion of Vallejo supports McCain due to his and his running mate’s pro-life stance as one of the main factors in her support and lauds the former prisoner of war’s military service. It appears that v... more
Sixty-seven percent of Asian Americans who are citizens are considered likely voters, with Indians just above the norm (68 percent), following Japanese (81 percent), Koreans (73 percent) and Filipinos (70 percent), and ahead of Chinese (62 percent).... more
Textbook that devotes 15 pages to Obama’s ‘life of service’ and further cites the 2004 Democratic National Convention as an example of good literature.
World Net Daily:
The mother of an 8th-grader in Wisconsin is blasting school officials over their use of a textbook lauding Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s “change” theme and highlighting his 2004 Democratic National Convention as an example of good literature.
The mother, whose na... more
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Three people arrested in downtown Denver during the Democratic National Convention went on trial Monday in Denver County Court on a municipal violation of obstructing a passageway.
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Chicago 10 - PBS - A Review This week the PBS show Independent Lens showed the uniquely entertaining Chicago 10. I always thought it was 7 but I was wrong. The film include 8th defendant Bobby Seale and the 2 defense lawyers William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass. The documentary included actual footage from the 1968 Democratic Convention along with an animated re-enactment of the courtroom scenes. The voices in the animated sequences are played by Hank Azaria (Abby Hoffman), Mark Ruffal... more
Flobots back tonight From: providencedailydose.com Post Date: 2008-10-28 12:46:00
The Flobots are back in town tonight, with their Providence-inspired alt-hippity-hop. They’re at Lupo’s, backing up Matisyahu, on whom we’ll reserve comment. Here’s Jerzyk’s Phoenix story about them and his coverage of the Flobots at the Democratic Convention,
And here’s the video for their second single, Rise:
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Amy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Manassas, Va.
Barack Obama made a final closing argument Monday night at the last rally of his twenty-two-month candidacy.
?The change we seek will not just come from government alone, it?s going to have to come from each of us,? Obama told the crowd of over 90,000. ?Each of us has a role to play.?
He used his standard stump speech but also reflected on the campaign he?s run. ?Our campaign hasn?t been perfect,? he said. ?But we?ve go... more
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Here’s another perspective on technology and Campaign 08. Scott Chacon is a Bay Area computer programmer with an abiding interest in “open source politics” — which he defines as “the idea that openness and transparency through technology can improve our political system.” He put that idea to the test in his own 2006 bid for a Congressional seat; he didn’t win, but he learned some things.
In this 2008 campaign, Chaco... more
Farewell, Fair Tax From: feeds.feedburner.com Post Date: 2008-03-05 16:19:50
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This picture by trialkat was taken at a Fair Tax rally in Jacksonville, FL, where Mike Huckabee played his bass. The boy is holding a dollar bill autographed by Huckabee, and the photo seemed a fitting adieu to the candidate, who, after last night’s primaries, conceded the GOP nomination to John McCain. This leaves all hopes of abolishing the IRS in the hands of Ron Paul .
It also saddles Ron Paul with responsibility for the evolution/creation debate... more
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John McCain clinched the Republican nomination last night, but the buzz belonged to Hillary Clinton for winning Ohio, Texas, and Rhode Island.
Ohio blogger The Critic explains the vote he cast for Clinton yesterday:
Today I was up by six thirty, dressed by six forty, and out the door to vote in the Ohio Democratic Primaries. The sidewalks were so slick from the freezing rain, that I walked in the street. Our polling place w... more
A Vermonter and self-described “housewife and homeschooling mom” had this to say last night after watching the Vermont primary results on TV:
On the Channel 17 exit interviews, when asked what comment she would write on her ballot for her elected officials, if she could, one woman said, “I would tell them to get out of Iraq and try to do something with the economy.”
Funny, it is the exact opposite for me. I would tell them to get out of the economy and try to do something ... more
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