This is the year.

I'm trying to figure out how to write about my feelings right now - and more than that, what to do about the incredible injustice that keeps occurring in the Middle East - and is now reaching Europe's shores. This is a global humanitarian crisis. It is heartbreaking like others. In their home countries, innocent people are stuck between two parties with no respect for human life. As they desperately try to escape, they are being denied any level of dignity. I can't understand how people can ignore the humanity and suffering and desperation and respond as they are with ignorance, silence, and violence.  But past pain, I also feel anger again tonight.  I am angry because the West, now grappling with this "sudden" crisis, is not blameless in the violence in Syria, and the instability throughout the region. It has been many of our own actions that have led to the instability and nearly continuous violence now plaguing the majority of the Middle East. Euro...

Since last Sunday, 40 students took the bold action and decided to use their bodies to block the operation of business at Harvard University. I took that action because I think my school could do so much more to address injustice in this world. Because I think that its complicity and silence in fact endorses and supports incredibly exploitative practices. And because I see the importance of taking steps and organizing wherever you are to address the problem that exist in society. This week of action in the name of moral investments was incredibly powerful. We showed the power students could have – shutting down administrative business, attracting over 1500 people to protest, and lighting that sense of injustice in many people who will hopefully continue to take action. As I transition out of full-time organizing and into my final month of school – I want to encapsulate the personal impact all of this organizing has had on me. The power I feel, surrounded b...