So it has been ages since there was an update on this page. But was not for nothing. Our page Editor has been traversing the globe on her way to meeting the dear people that form the core of her roots. Her Kenyan born grandmothers and her dad (In his grave).

But don't keep off, the invisible neighbours will be here even after we are gone. For the invisibility and anonymity that many of us exist through is not going away next week. Many people that are in same sex relationship...s struggle to go through a life where their sexual identity has to be kept "invisible" for them to have a shot at normal existence. After Martin Luther King's "dream" over 50 years ago, black people often have to work twice as hard in society to be acknowledged as equal to their counterparts in the workplace, After Mahathma Gandhi's quest for equality through a silent disobidience in India, many men and women of Indian origin still end up slaves of the society that denigrates their culture unless they "conform". In a not so "invisible" way, a lot of caucasian men and women have to go through society from less priviledged backgrounds but are forced to bear the brunt of responsibility for the unequalness that we have in society. That by the colour of their skins they lose the right to acknowledge the every day struggle they have in life, every food stamp they may have to line up for just to have a meal for the day. The hispanic neighbour who has to justify that he did not jump across the fence to be in America and that multi-generational hispanic American who has to explain at every occasion that she is originally from America. The arab american who has to go through life with a target on him or her to prove his/her innocence because of his/her religion and/or race irregardless of his/her personal beliefs and world view. The Asian-American who has to explain that he/she did not have a perfect score in GMAT/SATs despite the stereotype.

Ebola Emergency Response:
Know of someone with experience working on Ebola in West Africa? (Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia). We are looking for someone who can write to the following topics this week:

Health Communications
Infection Control...
Border Screening
Emergency Operations
Epidemiology