Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 8, 2009, 9:11 pm
I finally broke my silence and spoke out in the media against the repressive Fijian regime. And now I probably cannot come back home. Who would want to go back to Fiji in this state? People are not t...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 8, 2009, 3:31 am
The House of Representatives passed H.R. 3962 (Affordable Health Care for America Act) known here as a bailout for private insurance companies, in what is lauded as a victory for Obama and health care...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 7, 2009, 8:04 pm
Media Bias on Fort Hood Tragedy This isn’t particularly surprising. American civil liberties get massacred during such crises. Instead of calling Major Hasan an ‘alleged’ shooter t...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 5, 2009, 10:00 am
They raided the law society in Fiji, sacked the judiciary, put journalists in jail, punched and deported academics. I have a BA in Political Science, an MA in International Relations, currently a law ...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 4, 2009, 6:45 pm
Dear Illegal PM of my country, I hope this email gets to you or gets published in a medium that can reach you. Unfortunately, you seem to have isolated yourself from the press instead of using it to ...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 4, 2009, 6:23 pm
Now illegal Prime Minister of Fiji, Voreqe ‘Coupster’ Bainimarama has totally pissed me off with his detention expulsion of leading academic Dr. Brij Lal from the Fiji Islands. An Austral...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 4, 2009, 3:02 pm
There is an outpouring of sympathy and empathy in my email box today regarding the loss of marriage equality in Maine last night. This is what I officially thought about losing Question 1. My radical...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 3, 2009, 1:34 am
An index of my immigration blogs for Change.org last month 9500 Liberty: 9-11 Not the Same as 7-11 Waiting for Change One Step Closer to Lifting the HIV+ Travel Ban Showdown: Gavin Newsom vs. Sanc...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 1, 2009, 10:45 am
The latest press freedom index rankings released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has Fiji plunging 73 places to 152 after a crackdown on the media by Fijian dictator Frank Bainimarama. No criticis...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Oct 31, 2009, 2:13 am
“Fiji is my home. I love Idaho but my heart will always be home in Ca’audrove.” -Hosanna Kabakoro This story about a 16-year old Fijian-American teenager winning a beauty contest i...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Oct 15, 2009, 9:22 pm
Commodore Bainimarama’s speech to the UN General Assembly last month: Fiji has suffered more than 20 years of mismanagement, corruption, and nepotism. Our infrastructure, our judicial system, a...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Oct 14, 2009, 5:44 pm
Alright, so I promised some changes and here they are - I took a job as a blogger at Change.org for their Immigration cause so it is likely that all my immigration blogging would go there, primarily....
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Oct 13, 2009, 4:30 pm
To quote him, ‘the worst is yet to come.’ I am not a doomsayer but Immanuel Wallerstein is a much respected economist, credited for World Systems Theory. I would usually stray away from pr...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Oct 13, 2009, 3:09 am
After my more serious message at Change.org Immigration today, lets have some fun with this ‘illegal alien’ bloke. In no particular order, seriously Columbus, you had huge navigating prob...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Oct 10, 2009, 3:10 am
Fantastic cover shot from The Advocate referring to how Obama has let down queers.  He certainly owes the LGBT community much more than he has delivered thus far. But he is telling us to ‘wait&...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Oct 7, 2009, 3:13 am
Given that Juan Gomez–an undocumented student from Florida–is studying at Georgetown University, I found this bit of their law school application quite fascinating: It’s the only law school out...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Sep 29, 2009, 4:52 pm
This is why we need full-time volunteer graphic designers. I am pretty good, but my creativity is limited by subject. Working with closeted and straight suits gets really boring. I finished Travel ...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Sep 18, 2009, 10:30 pm
Ingredients: Punjab ka sarson ke khet, dialogues on India-Pakistan friendship, folk dance, estranged parents, sprinkles of NRI flavor, boy-meets-girl, pursuit of dreams, tie up lose ends, and all̵...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Sep 18, 2009, 10:47 am
Here is the polling question and results: As you may know there will be one question on the ballot this November in Maine addressing the issue of same-sex unions. In part it will read “Do you w...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Sep 12, 2009, 8:31 pm
A recent State of the Nation 2009 CNN-IBN survey revealed quite a homophobic India. As many as 73% Indians feel homosexuality should be considered illegal while 83% felt that homosexuality is not part...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Sep 11, 2009, 7:12 pm
This is the last I will post on the topic. The POTUS denigrated both immigrants and women in this country within the space of 40 seconds, and most Americans are more concerned over two words from a r...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Sep 11, 2009, 3:11 pm
Congressperson Joe ‘You Lie’ Wilson was hard hit this week while the POTUS effectively got away with snubbing women and undocumented immigrants in his health care speech. But even after his re-el...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Sep 9, 2009, 9:26 pm
Crossposted at S4FC and The Sanctuary It is sad that all our social networks and media blitzes are about how disrespectful Congressperson Joe Wilson was rather than how centrist and inappropriate Bar...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Sep 6, 2009, 10:15 am
I am working hard to for the relaunch of Travel for Change in record time. We don’t have the time to get someone to build a proper template so it would be Travel for Change 2.0 beta. Functionali...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Sep 4, 2009, 6:53 pm
Sometime today it was hard to avoid the #uknowhowiknowurgay trend on twitter. It’s full of filthy, vile and stereotypical comments about LGBT folks and often nothing in particular. @thelinster ...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Sep 4, 2009, 1:22 pm
I am not referring to the Priyanka Chopra starrer where she makes a new Guinness World Record for the number of characters she plays in the movie. But the movie certainly brings up some unanswered qu...
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Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Sep 3, 2009, 1:30 pm
Given all the travel I have done in the past few months, I decided to stay put for a while and actually contribute to something else for a change. So I have taken a short-term post as New Media Direct...
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