The US goverment murders children at its borders (tags)
The US policy surronding the borders wall being built along the US-Mexican border murdered a 14 year old girl and thousands of others.
Important Burma Human Rights Film Screens in LA March 27th (tags)
IMPORTANT FILM ON BURMA---L.A. is lucky to have the film coming to our town! This riveting story of courage and sacrifice chronicles the personal and political journeys of ERI’s groundbreaking lawsuit against Unocal for human rights abuses in Burma . Join the protagonists of the documentary, ERI’s Ka Hsaw Wa and Katie Redford, for an evening of film and conversation in Santa Monica at the Monica Theatre
Criticize Israel? You're an Anti-Semite! (tags)
How can we have a real discussion about Mideast peace if speaking honestly about Israel is out of bounds? Publish something sharply critical of Israeli government policies and you'll find out. If you're lucky, you'll merely discover that you've been uninvited to some dinner parties. If you're less lucky, you'll be the subject of an all-out attack by neoconservative pundits and accused of rabid anti-Semitism.
Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution (tags)
When I was very young, I remember my family taking my uncle to Logan International Airport in Boston. One side of the Sumner Tunnel had been blocked to traffic due to security situations, because Fidel Castro was due to be passing through at any moment. This was the very day that he made his famous speech at Harvard University.
Wes Clark answers our SOA concerns! (tags)
“We don't know how lucky we are here - A major candidate is willing to listen to what we say and, if he won't do EVERYTHING we want, he'll at least do what's possible - and even give us the credit where credit is due. Other candidates would not have even bothered to answer. Wes Clark has acknowledged our SOA concerns, and that's more than any of the major candidates have. Indeed, all the other major candidates are happy to ignore our concerns and leave the SOA as it is - without even reforming it.”
ARTS IN ACTION - SPOKEN WORD (tags)
At the Grand Opening of the ARTS IN ACTION Center, I was lucky to catch the dynamic Spoken Word performance of Jerry Quickly.
An Ode to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (tags)
a poem on Dr King's day