Germai Medhanie April 21, 2008 at 10:09 am
# No Comment YetAs an immigrant, I would like to share my thoughts with voters in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and North Carolina about political pundits’ strategies. They seem to operate like arrogant cooks who lost their way while trying to deliver the best dish. Arrogant cooks tend to add more ingredients to the cooking that already went wrong. They [...]
Germai Medhanie February 3, 2008 at 4:47 pm
# No Comment YetAs an immigrant, leftist, and feminist man, I am trying to understand what is going on in this historic primary election within the Democratic Party. Here, for the first time, either a Black or a woman will be the democratic nominee for the highest office in the United States. It is historic but these two people [...]
Germai Medhanie October 30, 2007 at 2:07 pm
# No Comment YetUnionizing used to be a viable strategy for U.S. workers. Workers would prefer to form a union. Those workers who formed unions indeed benefited. But in today’s global economy, corporations don’t stay around when they don’t get their way. They leave the workers on edge; they breed insecurity andfear that they may leave at any [...]
Germai Medhanie August 6, 2007 at 12:35 pm
# One CommentBy Germai Medhanie
Common Ground High School students are engaged in learning about the value of healthy living and sustainable agricultural practices by making their hands dirty. The New Haven Ecology Project, which created the school, centers education around the basic issue of food. Most of the students at the Common Ground High are minorities, people [...]
Germai Medhanie July 23, 2007 at 10:51 am
# No Comment YetAround Christmas time 1979, I had my first job in the United States. I was happy to have a job but it was also the most depressing time in my life. When I had flown in from Khartoum, Sudan, on July 26th, I had been dreaming about the freedom and fun I would have in [...]
Germai Medhanie July 20, 2007 at 3:42 pm
# One CommentThis is a story about finding my voice as an immigrant writer. To write this story, I have to expose my problems with writing. Of course, this is hard because we are not taught to admit our weakness. But when our inner voice wants to write, we have no choice, but [...]