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July 19, 2008
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Peru: Workers, peasants mount general strike
Somalia: U.S. complicit in humanitarian disaster
Saudi Arabia: Domestic workers abused, exploited
Britain, Ireland: Unions protest Israeli crimes
Japan: Guests pressure G8 host
Panama: A measure of justice but more is needed
Panama: A measure of justice but more is needed
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Karl Marx once noted, “The rate of profit is the motive power of capitalist production. Things are produced only as long as they can be produced with a profit.” Does this apply to food?
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After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the United States had the chance to do something good and right, Barack Obama said in a major Iraq policy speech this week. But a failure of leadership and ideas on the part of the Bush administration led us down the wrong path.
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Speaking out for Nader
Best take on Obama
How loathsome
Note of thanks
Don’t forget
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A fruitful way to understand the fanatical efforts of America’s right wing is to realize that they want to turn back the clock and the calendar. Their efforts are clearest within the Texas Education Agency, where crazy scandals are epidemic.
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As I left the theater after watching “The Visitor” I started thinking about all the things we have lost in the last eight years. Loss of civil liberties and justice are a couple of the main casualties that have been delivered to the working class behind the veil of the “war on terror.” This movie highlights the human victims of the terrorism that has been used against all of us.
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My son, where are you that I can’t find you.
I’ve searched for you in gullies.
On pathways, in rivers and in oceans,
And in all the different places
Where I’m told that “there are bodies.”
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SAN DIEGO – El amplio margen de apoyo, según los sondeos, que tiene Barack Obama entre los hispanos comparado con él de John McCain fue reflejado en sus discursos ante los 5.000 participantes en la conferencia anual del Concilio Nacional de La Raza que se celebró aquí julio 11 a 15.
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Una de las consignas principales de las gigantescas marchas por los derechos de los inmigrantes y en pos de una justa reforma integral migratoria fue, “Hoy marchamos, mañana votamos”. Hoy bajo el lema de “Mi voto, Mi futuro: Millones por el Sueño Americano”, la Alianza Somos América trabajará para hacer la primera consigna realidad inscribiendo como votantes a medio millón de inmigrantes latinos y asiáticos para que puedan votar en las elecciones venideras presidenciales en noviembre.
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