Our organization, the Free Burma Campaign, South Africa, is made up of exile Burmese activists in South Africa, along with native South African civil rights and former anti-apartheid activists.

The earth will find a new way to have a balance and nature will survive, but the question is what will be the impact on humanity? In other words, we are doing this to ourselves, and if we want to improve life for ourselves, we’d better change the way we operate.

It was rather curious, that when Mr. Bush met with then Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, he expressed surprise that there were Black people in Brazil.

Religious conflict, interlocking with economic and political disputes, vastly intensified their destructiveness. That was what led me to start working on this book, which came late in my career.

All three nationalist movements in Bosnia and Herzegovina have practiced the same politics of ethnic cleansing during the war, although not with quite the same results. That is the basic reason why we think that this process of the court has been needless and politically harmful.

This book is unusual, you might almost call it an orphan, in that it was originally intended to accompany a television documentary project on the Reconstruction period. That was one of the reasons we started out saying there needs to be a strong visual component.

I look at Central America in the 1980’s as a testing ground for the coalition that stands behind George W. Bush. It was a place that brought together these different constituencies that stand behind the Bush doctrine, the pre-emptive warfare doctrine. Neo-conservatives, free marketeers, the Christian right and militarists: Central America was a place where they could run wild.

Right after 9/11 we saw a round up of people of Arab and Muslim descent, more than 1,200 people locked up with no charges. Many of them were abused and even tortured. Racial profiling and anti-immigrant bashing whipped up the frenzy in Congress for keeping immigrants out.

I remember a great many family stories. I remember my mother's brother Danny coming to stay with us as he was out of work. I remember living with another family in a little apartment – Lucy and Lon up from Appalachia where the pigeons cooed right outside the window by my crib.

One of the points of the book is that migration is a community process. It’s not an individual process. Whole communities participate in it, but migration also creates communities.

If we’re to say that we have a gay movement that has any meaning, that is not just a bunch of self-satisfied bourgeois gays who send checks to organizations promoting gay marriage but instead are really engaged with the global human project of gay liberation, then our national gay groups have to devote some resources to educating and organizing around these issues of gay oppression in other countries.

Everyone agrees that the people who planned the attacks on September 11th 2001 ought to be brought to justice. But how should this be done, and who are these people really, asked Hussein Ibish, Executive Director of the Foundation for Arab-American Leadership.

As a socialist, I favor university intellectuals finding a way to relate to working people, especially rank-and-file labor organizations. At the least, intellectuals might be involved in community organizations – but as learners as much as teachers.

Union members are preparing to journey to San Diego for the 2006 Pride at Work (PAW) convention. Scheduled to begin September 7th, the national convention of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trasngendered (LGBT) constituency affiliate of the AFL-CIO is titled "No Turning Back in 2006."

Editor’s Note: Eric Foner teaches US history at Columbia University in New York. He is the co-author with Joshua Brown of Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction and author of numerous books including Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877.

I’ve worked at the Chrysler plant here in St. Louis for almost 42 years. It has about 3,500 UAW members. I currently hold the position of shop chair of UAW Local 110, and have been involved in the community for most of those 42 years.

Displacement, dispossession is the essence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel’s policy of demolishing Palestinian homes is part of this plan of displacement.

...It will take some enormous negative revelations of information, facts regarding Giuliani’s actual leadership for the conventional wisdom to be altered about his “heroic” role that day.

Leonardo Padura Fuentes is the internationally acclaimed author of several novels including the “Havana Quartet”, a series of detective novels featuring Havana police Inspector Mario Conde. The latest installment in that series is Havana Red.

José Saramago was born in Portugal in 1922. He is the author of 10 books, including The Double, The Cave, Blindness, and All the Names. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.