Prominent Scientist Loses Berkeley Homes After Prolonged Battle With City
 

Prominent Scientist Loses Berkeley Homes After Prolonged Battle With City

New America Media/India-West, News Report, Sunita Sohrabji and Viji Sundaram, Posted: May 02, 2012

The achievements of a Bangladeshi American scientist meant nothing in an Alameda County, Calif., courtroom where he lost ownership of two houses that became blighted.

 

Human Trafficking a Growing Global Scourge

 

New America Media / SF Public Press, News Feature, Andrew Lam, Posted: Feb 24, 2012

Human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal business in the world, though its victims remain hidden from view.

 

U.S. Visas Aid Trafficking Victims, At Their Peril

 

SF Public Press, News Report, Ambika Kandasamy, Posted: Feb 22, 2012

Chance for permanent residency, access to federal benefits hinge on cooperating with law enforcement.

 

Bay Area Agencies Improvise Tactics to Battle Human Trafficking

 

SF Public Press, News Report, Jason Winshell, Posted: Feb 17, 2012

Across California, local agencies have been left to scramble for limited resources and improvise strategies to fight human trafficking.

 

How Lakireddy Case Spurred California Sex Trafficking Laws

 

New America Media/SF Public Press, News Feature, Viji Sundaram, Posted: Feb 16, 2012

A look back at the 10-year-old Berkeley sex trafficking case that changed the conversation around trafficking in California.

 

The Future of Old Age in America

 

Unsilent Generation, Commentary, James Ridgeway, Posted: Jan 03, 2012

Bipartisan attacks on Social Security and Medicare mark an American turning point—away from compassion for elders to imagining them as “greedy geezers”?

 

Coming Out Twice

 

New America Media / Salon.com, First Person, Prumsodun Ok, Posted: Dec 30, 2011

A young Cambodian from Long Beach finds solace in his father, who accepts him as gay.

 

It's Easier to Be Gay Than Undocumented

 

New America Media / Salon.com, First Person, Raul Rodriguez, Posted: Dec 29, 2011

For one young man from the Bay Area, there is less comfort in being undocumented than there is in being gay.

 

Fearing Rejection, Gay Latino Teen Found Acceptance

 

New America Media / Salon.com, First Person, Andrés Garcia, Posted: Dec 28, 2011

Growing up gay in a Catholic, Latino household in rural California, Andrés just assumed his father would reject him. He was wrong.

 

Coming Out: How I Lost Myself at Church and Found Myself in a Jail Cell

 

New America Media / Salon.com, First Person, Jean Melesaine, Posted: Dec 27, 2011

For a young Samoan from San Jose, coming to terms with her homosexuality was complicated by culture, family and religion.

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