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Where is the struggle for immigration reform going?
August 13, 2009President Obama announced this week that he thinks that immigration reform legislation can be done early next year, 2010. This represents a postponement from the original idea of getting it done this coming fall. Although this disappoints immigration reform activists, it is not the end of the world, and there are many tasks for the struggle to take on. The blame for this legislative situation must be put principally at...
Read moreFor equality, justice and self-determination
September 29, 2007The following statement was made by Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque at the 62nd Session of the UN General Assembly on Sept. 26 in New York City. Mr. President: Never before had the real dangers menacing the human species become so evident; never before had the violations of International Law become so evident, as they increasingly jeopardize international peace and security; never before had inequality and exclusion become so...
Read moreThe fight for water. A fight for human rights
January 07, 2003Water. We see it everywhere. (see related story below) Many of us take water for granted. All we have to do is open a faucet and this life-sustaining liquid just pours out into our glass to quench our thirst. But in many places it is not so simple to get that clean glass of water. Over 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered with water. But, fresh potable water...
Read moreA failing grade: Charter schools and education reform
January 21, 2005Charter schools are a major aspect of the political right wing’s education reform agenda, which also includes vouchers and privatization. Turning failing schools into charter schools is one of the No Child Left Behind law’s sanctions, but in 2003 the first national comparison of reading and math test scores for students in charter schools versus regular public schools showed that charter school students often did worse than their counterparts regardless...
Read moreContinuity and change in Caribbean immigration
July 08, 2005NEW YORK — On June 27 the House of Representatives passed a bill introduced by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) to designate a national “Caribbean American Heritage Month.” “Establishing Caribbean American Heritage Month will celebrate the contributions of millions of Caribbean Americans to the United States since the inception of the country,” Lee said, arguing for the bill. The Caribbean is the source of the U.S.’s earliest and largest Black immigrant...
Read moreLifting the curtain: Immigrant detention centers in U.S. charged with abuse
October 21, 2005A recent Associated Press article sheds light on how human beings are treated when they are detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The AP article reports allegations that as many as six federal Homeland Security deportation agents assaulted and tortured a shackled Nigerian man at the ICE facility in Oklahoma City. ICE officials have denied widespread abuse of detainees. The FBI is investigating. “In a flash, five, maybe...
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“American Exceptionalism”: A foreign policy of delusion
March 09, 2017Today’s humanitarian interventionists have substituted the words “international” and “global” for “imperial.”
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Economic aid and anti-imperialist solidarity: Legacies of the socialist bloc
October 25, 2017Lenin argued you can't fight for socialism and against capitalism without fighting also against imperialism. It's a legacy of the Russian Revolution that still survives.
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“Israel in Egypt”: A Handel oratorio propagandizes for colonialism and war
February 15, 2018The context for this problematic work, subject to pointed discussion on musical, historical, political, theological and territorial grounds, has to be more transparent. Vague references to the generalized global exile and refugee experience simply looks like ignoring the highly localized issues that are sitting right under our noses in the text itself.
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Appeals courts, rather than SCOTUS, often determine workers’ fate
August 31, 2018Federal appeals courts have been doing the bidding for anti-worker President Trump.
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