June 2011
10 posts
How to Stop a Deportation, Part 2
I’ve seen deportation campaigns in action from the sidelines before. I’ve actively campaigned for Manolo Lem and Mario this year. I’ve signed petitions for at least a dozen cases and made phone calls for about half a dozen cases. Yet, seeing this deportation campaign fold out before my eyes is a wholly new experience.
Firstly, I had never associated this with real people...
How to Stop a Deportation, Part 1
The very first project I was assigned to upon my arrival in Los Angeles was a deportation case of a family. Currently, for privacy and legal reasons, I cannot share specific detail or upload photos, but it has taken up a bulk of my time at the Korean Resource Center. The four members of this family have lived in the area for about twenty years, and like many immigrant families in the same...
Tumblr as a blogging platform for my internship...
Most of the Berea College internship blogs I have read use either a Blogspot or a Wordpress platform. Because this internship is very unique, I feel that Tumblr is the most flexible when it comes to other form of digital media beyond texts. It has the capability of text which perfectly matches other blogging platforms. Most importantly, as the adage goes, a picture can tell thousand words....
