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Roy Beck, head of the anti-immigration group Numbers USA, has been circulating a slick video. Over 1.8 million viewers have seen its frightening picture of the U.S. overwhelmed by immigrants. But beneath the surface is a mix of inaccuracies and misdirection. The facts don’t support Beck.

In a move that could ultimately affect all U.S. ports, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — together the country’s biggest port complex — earlier this month announced proposals to slash air pollution from the trucks that ply their harbors by over 80 percent within five years.

“Not since Bush v. Gore has the Supreme Court made such a political decision, or one that so completely distorts and disregards the U.S. Constitution,” National Organization for Women (NOW) President Kim Gandy declared, responding to the high court’s April 18 ruling upholding bans on a vaguely defined type of late-term abortion.

Mental health care advocates and medical experts say the April 16 shooting deaths of 32 students and faculty members at Virginia Tech, followed by the suicide of the student who did the killing, raise larger questions about the nation’s broken mental health system.

Las pérdidas devastadoras aquí y en el extranjero están motivando un creciente número de legislaturas de los diferentes estados unirse al debate en pos de poner fin a la guerra en Irak.

Después de gran presión de parte de líderes latinos bajo la Campaña Defendemos el Honor, la cadena pública de televisión Public Broadcasting System (PBS) planea incluir la experiencia de los soldados latinos en el nuevo documental sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial que produce Ken Burns.

“¿Qué tipo de sociedad somos que cualquier cosa es aceptable hoy?” – C. Vivian Stringer, entrenadora del equipo femenino de baloncesto Scarlet Knights de la Universidad de Rutgers.

As editor of this page, I searched the Internet for insightful commentary on the Duke lacrosse players case. Sad to say, such comments have been all too few. Most seized the opportunity to throw sand in our eyes, to downplay the racism, sexism and class privilege that poison our society.

The crude racist/sexist remarks of radio talk show host Don Imus have ignited a firestorm of anti-racist protest from people of all races and nationalities all over the country.

Like the rest of America, our hearts go out to the Virginia Tech students, faculty, staff, their families and the whole community. During such times of mourning many people look for life lessons so that another tragedy like this might be prevented.