March 1, 2008

A sticker attached to the Baltimore Sun last week announced, “Foreclosed home auction … March 8-11 … Over 500 homes must be sold!”

We salute the history, struggles and achievements of women worldwide that will be celebrated on March 8, International Women’s Day. It’s no surprise that this holiday began in the labor movement.

Great victory in Cyprus

World Puzzler

More on Washington

Satellite shootdown

Musical diplomacy

The Food and Drug Administration announced in January that meat and milk from cloned animals was as safe to eat as that from traditional animals. However, the Agriculture Department asked the cloning industry to prolong the ban on marketing such foods during an expected “transition” period of several months. Steven Sundlof of the FDA said it might be several years before widespread commercialization, since cloned animals need to mature and provide sufficient offspring.

The media has talked a lot about women voters during the course of the Democratic primaries, noting their historic chance to vote for a female nominee, and speculating on their choices.

After a 14-week strike, members of the Writers Guild of America won a significant victory in a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the 80th annual Academy Awards show went on as scheduled Feb. 24.

“Whoever touches this book, touches a man,” wrote the poet Walt Whitman, in his epic book. “Leaves of Grass.” That is how I feel about the poetry book, “A Life in Poems,” by 93-year-old William C. Wright, just out from the Midwestern press Bird Dog Publishing.

(For Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz)

La intercepción de un “satélite de espionaje descompuesto” por un misil del Pentágono provoca preocupaciones en algunos países que lo ven como un intento poco disfrazado por llevar acabo una prueba de un sistema de armas antisatélite. El lanzamiento del misil del Pentágono el jueves de la semana pasada manifiesta al mundo de manera sin precedente que Estados Unidos tiene la capacidad de liquidar a cualquier vehículo espacial lanzado por otras naciones.

SAN ANTONIO, Tejas – Emma Tenayuca nació en San Antonio donde fue una radical de clase obrera en el sector occidental de la ciudad. Su formación política, se debió en cierta medida a la influencia que tuvo a la exposición temprana de frecuentes reuniones y ardientes discursos políticos radicales que tuvieron lugar en la Plaza del Zacate teniendo como base la Gran Depresión y los años tempranos del gobierno revolucionario del vecino país, México.