House votes to allow travel, trade with Cuba
Those who have been fighting for 40 years to end the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba scored a stunning victory in the House of Representatives late last month.
Nightmare on the border
LAWRENCE, Massachusetts – When Nicole Ayala, of Killeen, Texas, decided to take her mother-in-law on a day trip to Mexico, she had no idea that she would be insulted or made to feel “as if I was a criminal” upon returning to the United States through the border crossing at Del Rio, Texas. Ayala, who has lived in the U.S. for the last 25 of her 26 years and served in the U.S. Army for five years, had left her green card at home.
Apartheid in the Holy Land
In our struggle against apartheid, the great supporters were Jewish people. They almost instinctively had to be on the side of the disenfranchised, of the voiceless ones, fighting injustice, oppression and evil. I have continued to feel strongly with the Jews. I am a patron of a Holocaust center in South Africa. I believe Israel has a right to secure borders.
Government officials blink: Humanitarian donations for Cuba cross the border
The 13th Friendshipment of humanitarian aid to the people of Cuba crossed the Rio Grande River into Reynosa, Mexico, on July 18. The caravan of 15 buses, trucks and ambulances then headed for Tampico where the mostly medical supplies would be loaded into a ship bound for Cuba. The vehicles had come from every part of the United States, and the 80 participants going on to Cuba included 13 people from Canada and Europe.
Sharon threatens Israeli peace activists
In an attempt to intimidate opposition to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asked Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein to investigate whether activists of the Israeli peace organization, Gush Shalom, have broken any laws by monitoring the actions of Israeli army officers in the occupied territories.
Turning back the nuclear danger
The following is a greeting to the 2002 World Conference against A & H Bombs, held Aug. 2-9 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, from the National Committee of the Communist Party USA. The Communist Party USA sends its warmest solidarity greetings to the 2002 World Conference against A & H Bombs, and wishes the conference the greatest success.
The Latino vote: Getting stronger
MIAMI – “Speaking Spanish at campaign stops, advertising in the Spanish media ... it’s not enough,” complained Raul Yzaguierre, president of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), on July 24, at the annual conference of that organization being held at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
Texas election effort started
DALLAS, Texas – North Texans aren’t waiting for Labor Day to work on the November elections. Student and community coalitions are laying their plans for voter registration drives beginning in August. The Dallas AFL-CIO began making yard signs for labor-endorsed candidates on July 10. By the beginning of August, they had already put almost 30,000 signs together.
Dick Cheney, Vice President in hiding
Commentary Vice President Dick Cheney has spent most of the past year in hiding, ostensibly from terrorists, but increasingly it seems obvious that it is Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the public he fears. And for good reason: Cheney’s business behavior could serve as a textbook case for what’s wrong with the way corporate CEOs have come to play the game of business – and have been able to influence the administration of President George W. Bush.
Quality public education is the only solution
The African-American community has long promoted the virtue of acquiring a good education. We are warned to never forget that during slavery Black people were denied an education, and it was illegal to teach a slave how to read. As is true of the working class in general, African Americans, once slavery was abolished, agitated for the extension and relied on the system of public education to provide the avenue through which to attain that which had been previously denied.
