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Cuban Adjustment Act: still deadly 40 years later
June 29, 2007For decades the U.S. has used the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act to manipulate Cuban emigration for counterrevolutionary purposes. Its provision that Cubans arriving on U.S. soil gain permanent residency after a year has lured thousands to...
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Mighty Heart is a mighty film
June 29, 2007MovieREVIEW A Mighty Heart Directed by Michael Winterbottom Paramount Vantage, 2007 100 minutes, rated R “A Mighty Heart” is a story about people just trying to get from point A to point B against the backdrop...
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Global health care, Cuban-style
June 29, 2007Movie REVIEW Salud Directed by Connie Field New Paradigms, 2006 93 minutes Against a backdrop of ratcheted-up Bush attacks on Cuba and the devastating contradictions afflicting U.S. health care, the documentary “Salud!” by Medical Education Cooperation...
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The first shot in the war for health care
June 29, 2007Pollsters with their questionnaires were all over the moviegoers waiting in line for the sneak preview of “Sicko” on June 23 in Dallas. They seemed particularly interested in finding out why people were motivated to turn...
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Sicko a powerful mix of humor, pathos
June 29, 2007Michael Moore, the activist author and filmmaker, has given every union member in the United States a great tool of advocacy for our health care agenda with his new movie, “Sicko.” We should return that favor...
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