60 years after the defeat of fascism: Downfall a difficult movie
My best friends didn’t want to see any movies highlighting Nazis, so I went off alone to watch Downfall at one of our art theaters. It wasn’t an easy decision for me to go.
Texas morality vs. mental illness
May is recognized across our nation as Mental Health Awareness Month. For those of us struggling with mental illness, it is our opportunity to speak out against the stigma and discrimination based on misconceptions that we encounter daily.
Celebrating unity, struggle and vision
This is abridged from an April 15 speech accepting the Eleanor Roosevelt Award from the Connecticut National Organization for Women. Click here for Spanish text
College students also left behind
As the price of college tuition increases dramatically, it is more and more difficult for the average student to afford a college education. Millions of students each year begin their college life with the assistance of financial aid.
A Marxist perspective on religion today
Among the “wedge” issues with which the ultra-right attempts to divide the working class are the questions of (1) rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, including marriage or civil unions, access to benefits and health care, and (2) rights of women, including availability of birth control, the right to choose an abortion, and full and equal participation in economic and social life.
EDITORIAL: Scapegoats for Bush
For two years, decent people have agonized over the photo of Iraqi prisoners piled naked in an interrogation room at Abu Ghraib prison, leering American soldiers posing beside them. Another shows an American soldier leading a naked detainee on a dog leash.
EDITORIAL: Two anniversaries
On May 8 and 9, 1945, the world celebrated the victory in Europe of the Allies — the U.S., Britain and the USSR — over the forces of Hitler fascism that first destroyed democracy in Germany and then overran and terrorized country after country on the continent.
Hiroshima mayor calls for nuclear weapons ban
Tadatoshi Akiba, mayor of Hiroshima, Japan, and president of Mayors for Peace, addressed a standing room crowd of over 350 at DePaul University here April 27.
Obesity no time, money for nutritious meals
I can still see my mother walking up Palmetto Street, shopping bags in hand. Fresh green leafy things peaking out and over the sides.
