The Generation A Global Student Forum

By Erica Anjum Samantha Power was in the building. Schoenberg Hall, UCLA, to be exact, on February 23, 2014. Although Ambassador Power is the United States’ permanent representative to the United Nations, she was not there to divulge the secrets of the White House or the UN. She was there as a former journalist. After a roundtable discussion with a ... Read More »

by Amber Murakami-Fester “The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. To accomplish this aim…land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained.” So reads Article 9 of the Japanese constitution, which has prohibited the nation ... Read More »

By Erica Anjum A young woman in Orange County, California, theoretically has access to the same opportunities as a young man; except,  it is still socially acceptable for her not to take advantage of her rights. As the most coveted variety of freedom  is one that is easy to casually reject, in some ways and in some places today, it ... Read More »

    By James Walker – Editor There has been a flurry of activity over the past few months concerning the issue of Internet data gathering, and the over-reach of government spying. From the revelations concerning the domestic NSA-PRISM program, to the seemingly endless chain of embarrassing international debacles stemming from Edward Snowden, the clandestine world of shadowy government data hoarding ... Read More »

by James Walker Editor, The Generation CAIRO – Ahmed Maher, architect of Egypt’s 2008 April 6 Youth movement and Nobel nominated political activist has been on hunger strike for the past two weeks. Maher, who visited the UCLA campus twice in the last year, continues his policy of non-violent resistance from within Torah Prison in the lead up to his ... Read More »

by Amber Murakami-Fester Editor A shipwreck on Oct. 3 off the coast of Lampedusa, a small Italian island in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia, has reinvigorated an increasingly urgent discussion on illegal immigration into Italy and other European countries. Almost 340 of the more than 500 passengers aboard the ship drowned in the accident that occurred a half mile ... Read More »

Erfan Faridmoayer Editor The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has called it “one of the most feared diseases of the twentieth century.” Mainly affecting children under five years of age, Poliovirus can infect the nervous system and cause long-term or permanent paralysis. In extreme cases, it can lead to death by paralysis of lung and heart muscles. President ... Read More »

Photo Credit: Freedom House on Flickr, used under Creative Commons License By: Erika Jahan Tuesday, Oct. 15 was celebrated by Muslims worldwide as Eid al-Adha. The festival is one of the two biggest holidays in the Islamic tradition, embraced by all sects of the religion. Eid al-Adha follows immediately after the annual holy pilgrimage to Mecca and commemorates Abraham’s obedience ... Read More »

By Akbar Khan, Staff Writer. In February of this year, The Generation published a piece on Iranian hip-hop. Feeling discontent with the Iranian regime, some Iranian youth have utilized hip-hop as a means to express disproval over administrative policy and action. With more than a third of the population between the ages of 15 and 29, Iran sustains a large youth ... Read More »