Book Review: Brave Hearts – Rebel Spirits: A Spiritual Activists Handbook by Brook Shelby Biggs
This book is a collection of 33 short biographies about the lives and actions of people who are deeply committed in changing the world...It includes spiritual activists who fight hard on issues from gay rights, environment, peace workers, child advocacy and land reformers...This book profiles members of the Communist Party – USA.
Castro: Terrorism, Poverty, and Debt are Top Issues for Third World
Every day, we are fed the rhetorical discourse of free trade, but the taxes which the United States applies to imports from the Third World are twenty times steeper than those applied to imports from developed countries. Every year, rich countries spend 300 billion dollars to subsidize agricultural productions which muscle South countries out of the market, while hypocritically talking about free trade
Argentina Presses the Falklands/Malvinas Dispute
Sovereignty talks between Britain and Argentina were instituted in 1964 by the UN Committee for Decolonization and were haltingly underway when forty Argentine scrap metal workmen were sent by their foreman to the South Georgia islands on March 19, 1982 to dismantle a defunct whaling station. They landed without permission of the British Antarctic Survey base at Grytviken, raised the Argentine flag, sang their national anthem and refused to leave
Chris Cox and the SEC: Holding Hands with Big Business
President Bush nominated Rep. Chris Cox (R-CA) for the top job at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As a member of Congress, Cox has a long record of undermining protections for working families, retirees and their pension funds at nearly every opportunity.
PBS: Why the Republicans Hate Elmo
Perhaps it is because the little cuddly monster is red. Maybe they fear his ideology of letters, imaginary friends, and childish creativity. The decade-long war the Republicans have waged against Elmo and his friends at Sesame Street and other PBS shows that inhabit the imaginations of millions of children may be nearing its end.
The Patriot Act: Violating Civil Liberties is an American Tradition
Clearly, the government’s efforts to limit civil liberties during wartime are a long-standing tradition. But so is the willingness of the American people to allow it. Hopefully, current discussions regarding the Patriot Act will encourage the public to respond differently this time.
Capitalism has Failed the Youth, Socialism in our Lifetime! : Young Communist League (South Africa)
The needs and interests of the youth of our country have been compromised by the dominant capitalist economy, and thus, compromising the gains that the ANC-led government have ushered for the past 11 years...Although the gallantry and [bravery] of the youth of 1976 laid a basis for a new wave of popular and mass protest against the Apartheid government, and actually brought it to its knees, those actions are at ... risk
Historical Interpretation:Haymarket Square, May 4,1886, “Revised” - History, Revision, and Evidence
It was in honor of the Haymarket Martyrs that labor and socialist representatives at a conference in 1889, the 100th anniversary of the French revolution, planned international demonstrations for the eight-hour day and labor’s rights for May 1, 1890, the historical beginning of May Day as the labor and socialist movement day of global solidarity.
Cuban President for a Just and Equitable World Order
'Our countries are included for exploitation but excluded from development.,' Castro denounced in his message to the Doha Summit, which is calling for larger South-South trade exchange and integration.
Gold Star Families for Peace: Relatives of Dead US Soldiers Slam Bush over Iraq War
The GSFP is made up of members of American families who have lost their loved ones in Iraq and it is headed by a mother -Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, California- whose son Army Specialist Casey Austin Sheehan was killed last year in Sadr City, Baghdad
