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First-Time Documentarian Duo Embrace Nepal

5 May 2013 - 9:37pm jeaton

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A typical novice documentarian might start with a local issue for their first big film, but for Augusta Rose and Mary Frances White, it wasn’t enough. It was a story in eastern Nepal on the edges of Mount Everest that caught their eye.

Rose and White, graduates of Fitchburg State University in 2012, spent the majority of March out of the country and filming their debut documentary, Embracing Nepal, based around Dr. Adiel Tel-Oren’s efforts to further education for Nepali children.

Rose, a self-taught photographer and videographer, was eager to embark on the journey.

A Unicorn of Color Mourns the Day After the Boston Marathon

5 May 2013 - 9:35pm Anonymous

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The day after the Boston Marathon
my newsfeed is full of red and pink equal signs
next to posts from national press about the bombing.
In a way, these are
the same love:
government-sponsored ways
of expressing our empathy.

Boston is a rallying point for independence.
The marathon is a rallying point for independence.
Tragedy is a rallying point for the state
to exploit its people's fears.

Two men are stopped
at Logan Airport
for speaking Arabic on a plane.

Boston Love

5 May 2013 - 9:30pm Anonymous

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The randomness of the streets laid out as they grew, organically, in this Neighborhood City. Home of the Midnight Ride; small enough to bike anywhere; the Walkable City. And first in North America: the T, where every language is spoken, and which originally had Rapid in it’s name--until a rider sued on the grounds that it was not fast enough to be billed as Rapid, and the name was changed to avoid legal culpability: only in Boston.

NOS4A2: A Review

5 May 2013 - 9:22pm Anonymous

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Like father, like son, some people say. Joe Hill is Stephen King’s son and the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. As a matter of fact, this apple is even sweeter if you like your books tinged with tales of horror and love. Joe Hill slips you quickly into his world like slipping a noose around your neck while you’re eating a lollipop. Then, before you know it, the rope is tight and your feet are off the floor.

What Color Is Terror?

5 May 2013 - 9:19pm Anonymous

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Watching professional broadcast journalists attempt to compete with social media hobbyists for any nugget of information during last week’s manhunt for suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, many us felt a familiar dread. We know, either intuitively, through direct experience or via professional training, that media have a collective power to help diffuse or fuel the fear and tension that so often triggers racial violence in this country.

Terror, Torture, and Resistance

5 May 2013 - 9:14pm Joshua Eaton

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When I heard about the Boston Marathon bombings, I’d just finished reading Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel’s harrowing op-ed in the New York Times. Moqbel has been on hunger strike since February to protest his indefinite imprisonment, without trial, at the United States’ detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

According to the U.S. military, ninety-nine other men are currently on hunger strike with him. Of those, twenty, including Moqbel, are being force-fed daily—an act the U.N. Human Rights Commission considers a form of torture. Five are hospitalized.

Brian Christopher: The Aftermath of Celebrity

5 May 2013 - 9:08pm Anonymous

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When Brian Christopher walked into the New England Center for Homeless Veterans in early December 2010, he had only one thought on his mind: making himself whole again. The then 49-year-old Navy veteran, who had long struggled with emotional issues as well as alcoholism, had sought out the shelter in order to heal and finally face the problems that had been plaguing him for years.

LGBT Undocumented Immigrants

5 May 2013 - 9:07pm Anonymous

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On Monday, April 15, ten South Floridian activists gathered for a press conference in front of Senator Mark Rubio’s (R-Fla.) office to ask him to consider LGBT concerns in the immigration reform package set to release the next day. The protest included representatives of the grassroots group GetEQUAL and members of the Florida Immigration Coalition, Students Working for Equal Rights, and the Dream Defenders, according to The Miami Herald.

Old, Female, and Homeless

5 May 2013 - 9:05pm Anonymous

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The doors of the Mission Neighborhood Health Center in San Francisco don’t open until 7 a.m., but on the Saturday morning I was there, a dozen or so people were already lined up by 5:30 a.m.. The group included a middle-aged white man who had lost his job managing a high-end restaurant and a black man wearing a crisp security guard blazer because he had to be at work by noon.

Learning English and U.S. Culture Through Service and Social Justice Education

5 May 2013 - 9:00pm Anonymous

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Foreign students who come to the United States for college often need to improve their English skills and learn more about U.S. culture. Julie Miller’s students are doing just that. They learn through service, as they venture beyond their Northeastern University classroom to volunteer at several sites around Boston. The academic course, entitled “Global Experience,” is a social justice, service-learning class for international students, offered through The American Classroom program within The College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University.

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