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...America and lived in Sweden, seen other forms of government in action, has that shaped or impacted your own expectations or ideas of what is possible in Greece? First of all, I think this is an experience that lots of Greeks have. There are lots of Greeks in the diaspora, lots of Greeks in the United States. (See pictures of immigration in Europe...
...opposition to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories, and call on the U.S. government to put more pressure on Israel to freeze settlement expansion and come to the negotiating table. Irish-American community leaders should also reach out to the Israeli, Jewish, Arab, and Palestinian diaspora groups in the U.S. to impart the lessons they learned in the 1990s and bring the parties together...
Young, an associate professor and director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at BC, said she is interested in “how the Civil Rights legacy is being understood and reframed after 9/11” and why the Bush administration chose to link the “overcoming of black oppression” with the “so-called war with freedom and democracy...
...extend their reach overseas, al-Shabab's leaders in Somalia are thought to circle back to the diaspora, looking for those who can be recruited to extremism. The FBI is tracking more than a dozen Somali Americans who disappeared from their homes and are suspected of joining al-Shabab, and in November, 14 Minnesota men with connections to Somalia were charged with offenses like aiding a terrorist organization; four have pleaded guilty. In August, Australian police arrested five men from the Somali community in Melbourne on suspicion of plotting to attack an army barracks outside Sydney. The September call...
Anyone in need of a dose of optimism about Haitians' ability to succeed should look at the Haitian diaspora, Shifter says, "which has proven to be remarkably entrepreneurial and resourceful" in ways it couldn't be under the corrupt, ossified system in their homeland. One of these émigrés is Serge Jean-Louis, a thriving Haitian-American construction contractor in South Florida. "I'm eager to fly back and help rebuild Haiti," he told TIME shortly after the quake. And chances are, he'll surpass Haiti's dismal standards and help rebuild more to the modern specs...