California lawmakers: Arrest Enron execs
WASHINGTON – A committee of the California State Senate has demanded that Kenneth Lay and other Enron officials be brought to California to stand trial for contempt for refusing to testify before a California Senate Committee investigating “manipulation of the energy market.” For the entire article, click on the headline. To read a press release by Representative John Conyers on Enron, click here. More information is also available at Texans for Public Justice.
At the movies: Coming attractions
For movie lovers, it always seems to be feast or famine. Either there are so many good films to chose from that you might as well sleep in the lobby, or you’re so desperate you’re actually considering seeing Slackers.
Love and sex at the Met
That statement reflects the heart of “Surrealism: Desire Unbound,” a new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, being shown through May 12. The exhibit includes works by Man Ray, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Giacometti and Salvador Dalí, among others. Much of the informative wall-text about the artists quotes Marcel Duchamp.
El cine Latinoamericano en el nuevo siglo President Bushs state of the union bellicosity was excee
Ya en pleno siglo XXI, en estos 2000 que desandan sus marejadas, el cine latinoamericano, como el cine todo, enfrenta los desafíos propios de los nuevos tiempos. Pero todo cine que no sea Hollywood debe asumir retos aun mayores; arrastrar, arrostrar, las leoninas desigualdades en distribución, en ese mercado omnipresente y omnipresente de la otra América que controla y desplaza.
El cine Latinoamericano en el nuevo siglo President Bushs state of the union bellicosity was excee
Ya en pleno siglo XXI, en estos 2000 que desandan sus marejadas, el cine latinoamericano, como el cine todo, enfrenta los desafíos propios de los nuevos tiempos. Pero todo cine que no sea Hollywood debe asumir retos aun mayores; arrastrar, arrostrar, las leoninas desigualdades en distribución, en ese mercado omnipresente y omnipresente de la otra América que controla y desplaza.
Youth and students reject imperialism and war
Libero Della Piana is the national coordinator of the Young Communist League, USA. This is a speech Della Piana delivered at the International Seminar on Terrorism and Imperialism, sponsored by the World Federation of Democratic Youth Dec. 19, 2001 in Athens, Greece.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Cuba
Children scamper quietly between family members in the sky-colored church. Churchgoers dressed in a rainbow of colors sway back and forth on packed wooden pews. Skin tones ranging from sand color to caramel to the color of a strong espresso complete the vivid scene. It’s an image of the world that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., envisioned.
Movie review: Check these out
Dinner Rush/Lakeboat
International Notes
Indian peace coalition backs India-Pakistan peace talks/Israel jails 600 reservists/Greek farmers protest government and European Union farm policies/General strike brings Bangladesh to a halt/Iraqi communists welcome visit by U.N. special envoy
Thousands defy ban and march
Munich was under martial law the first weekend of February on the occasion of the NATO “Security Conference.” Democracy and freedom of speech were abolished. It was planned from the start, to suffocate every kind of protest by bans on demonstrations and meetings, turning back people at the borders, controlling them on streets and in trains, placing the organizers under “preventive” arrest and arresting hundreds of demonstrators. Thousands of policemen tried to carry through a total ban on demonstrations.
