Kind of back?//Summer update

Back with a new header!
Okay, so at least 2/5 of Letto will be back following the 2-month long hiatus.  I’ve spent the summer writing for Racewire.org, through my internship at the Applied Research Center/Colorlines Magazine, a race-oriented public policy and research organization based in NYC and Oakland.  I’ll append with some of my favorite posts [...]

NYPD, Sean Bell, UCLA – A Taser Round-Up

So it is officially summer. Even though I’m still in Massachusetts spending some extra time at my work-study job at Hampshire College, my heart and mind is in New York City, where I’ll finally move into my new apartment in the neighborhood of Sunset Park (where I grew up, where I will live/work this [...]

In Memory of Dith Pran

 
(Photo from MSNBC)
Time watches slowly…
Almost thirty years after the violence, Khmer Rouge leaders who perpetrated the genocide in Cambodia are quietly being brought to trial. The first formal hearing was held last November, and proceedings will start soon.
About three weeks ago, Cambodian refugee and New York Times photo-journalist Dith Pran passed away after a long [...]

Meditation on Travel

This semester, I’m taking a class at Smith College entitled “Asian American Autobiography: Abroad,” taught by Floyd Chung, resident SC APA hero. The class is a seminar, and for the first time in my college career, I’m in a class with majority Asian/Pacific/American women. I loved how the course de-centered whiteness: whenever I’ve [...]

Dazed+Confused News Round-Up Pt. I

Since the semester is drawing to a close, and I am spending my days and nights hiding in places to do work, my only real connection to the world, campus or actual, has been news. What a privilege, huh?: to be locked up in a room, writing about global migrations and institutional transparency, only to [...]

censorship//inaugural 1st real post

Welcome to the first Letto post! It’s taken me a while to get my act together, but as you can see, we’re ready to roll. Cihan and I have been sifting over the logistics since late December, a hard task over winter break, since WordPress was banned in Turkey. Basically, we would [...]

4PM Negotiations Live NOW

Hi everyone,
So since Michelle Green and Aaron Berman (Dean of Student Services and Dean of Faculty, respectively) could not be present with us today, Mark Spiro, Vice President of Finance and Administration, member of the Cabinet, and member of CHOIR (the Committee at Hampshire on Investment Responsibility), has joined us in the Negotiation Room.
Present Today: [...]

Passwords on Demand Responses

Hi everyone,
For the record, a password has been put on most of the posts from the liveblogging this morning. This morning, SOURCe students at the Cultural Center responded to the demands, and we’d like to keep those responses as confidential as possible. The password has been given to members of SOURCe community; we’ll [...]

Official Press Release for Tomorrow’s Walk-Out

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 30, 2008
RE: Hampshire College walk out protesting the administration’s failure to actively implement anti-Racist policies on-campus. The administration of Hampshire College, a private liberal arts college in western Massachusetts, known for its progressive views in education is being pressed to adopt measures that challenge institutional racism faced by students on campus.Tomorrow [...]

All We Demand is that Hampshire be Actively Anti-Racist…

The following is the writer’s personal opinion about the events/effects of Action Awareness Week, and should in no way be taken as indicative of all the week’s organizers as a whole.

This past week, Hampshire College put on Action Awareness Week, a series of escalating actions and outreach efforts to raise campus consciousness of racism/other oppression [...]