Below are links to two articles giving different perspectives of what immigration policy will look like under the next administration. I think they are in interesting conversation with each other and wanted to share them on here:

Don't Hold Your Breath on Immigration Reform

Below is a link+post to a blog entry on racialicious.com on the involvement of native communities in the Obama campaign.

This makes me ultra happy ^.^

Diversity in the capital, a goal far off, but slowly in the making.

[from http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=ceca475cc2827e8c6d4f297296577f53&from=rss] 

FILIPINO AMERICAN WINS OHIO CONGRESSIONAL SEAT 

I was ecstatic to wake up after a nap at 8:30p to see on TV that Obama would be our next president. Berkeley students and citizens were taking to the streets on Bancroft and Telegraph amassing in a huge crowd cheering yelling dancing clapping for Obama and the future  of our country. 

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

I know I don't need to remind you all, but let's call/text/e-mail all our friends and family who are registered to VOTE! tomorrow.

Letter to the Man Who Yelled at Me
by Jeannie Choi

Dear Sir,

The article posted below gives interesting insight into why Vietnamese Americans are supporting McCain.

[I first saw this on http://drepoetic.wordpress.com/]

Spoken word artist, Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, speaks on race and the elections:

For the first time in my life I heard a whole 80-minute lecture on Marcus Garvey this Thursday in my political science course on revolutionary change. It was more than two sentences composed of the words “Back to Africa” and “Black is Beautiful,” and not once did I fall asleep like I usually do in this class.

http://www.racewire.org/archives/2008/10/a_dangerous_nexus_o...

I feel that the link above leads to a very prescient article regarding what could be escalating discrimination embodied in hate-related incidents as the election season further progresses.