Opinion
Editorial: Time for a change on Cuba
January 9, 2009Among the new opportunities that the election of a new president and Congress brings us is to end once and for all the vicious U.S. economic blockade and travel ban imposed on Cuba nearly 50 years...
Read moreEditorial: Peoples business cant wait
January 9, 2009President-elect Obama’s now oft-repeated refrain that “the people’s business can’t wait” is becoming more obvious every day. The crashing of overloaded electronic unemployment filing systems in many parts of the country underlines again the urgency of...
Read moreYou read it here first: predictions for 2009
January 9, 2009When analog TV broadcast ends Feb. 17 all hell will break lose. The biggest stimulus package in U.S. history ... Campaigns for a restoration of full employment ... The Internet will spew democracy far beyond capitalism’s...
Read moreThere is plenty of hope for progress if we struggle as a people
January 8, 2009Originally published on LatinoLA, Jan. 7, The change in the White House and Congress is significant, important victories can be won Just imagine if John McCain and Sara Palin had been elected.
Read moreBlues: Oxygen for working people
January 7, 2009I went to see Cadillac Records with two of my movie buddies on the night after opening in Houston. This great movie is an exceptional attempt to portray the genius of African-American music.
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