Cultural Work in the Philippine National Democratic Movement
by Julian Jaravata and Michael Tayag, ’13 From May 18 to May 20, activists from throughout the country travelled to Chicago to attend the 4th congress of BAYAN-USA, the 2nd congress of Gabriela-USA,...
View ArticleRevolutionary Art: “Call Me Human”
by Lyla Johnston, ’12 Listen to her poem here: “Call Me Human” from birth we etch these lines engrave them in your mind by the rockets red glare the bombs bursting mid air the war it begins to make the...
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The United States is the greatest threat to its own national security
by Kristian Davis Bailey, ’14 This post originally published at Kristian’s personal website, “With a ‘K.’” After yesterday’s presidential debate on foreign policy, can we talk about how the United...
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Student activism, Stanford STAND, and a brief intro into the conflict in...
by Caity Monroe, M.A. student in the African Studies program This op-ed is by no means a complete account of the recent conflict in eastern Congo, but is instead intended to engage the Stanford campus...
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Inappropriate Appropriations: An Interview With Adrienne Keene, ’07
by Annie Graham, ’14 Adrienne Keene is an ‘07 Stanford graduate who visited Muwekma-Tah-Ruk to speak on Monday night. Currently in her third year at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she used...
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White Fetish
by Janani Balasubramanian, ’12 A failing of the word ‘activism’ is its designation of certain activities as political engagement and the rest of our lives as some other floaty and apolitical space. In...
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On the Merit of Blurred Lines
by Surabhi Nirkhe, ’13 I am tired of discourse that divides brown from white, the oppressed from the oppressors, students of color from white students, and the underprivileged from the privileged....
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Gandhi the Activist, Gandhi the Pacifist
by Anand Venkatkrishnan, ’10 The recent flurry of articles and subsequent commentary on this and other sites about Stanford and South Asia, India and Israel, casteism and nationalism, disrespect and...
View ArticleWhy We Fight
by Maria Victoria Diaz-Gonzalez Colonialism hides in our signatures. When we commit our names to paper, we write the surnames of our colonizers. We don’t write the names of those who suffered for us....
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