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New Orleans
September 16, 2005Everybody knew that it could happen The likelihood was clear The future was coming And now it’s here They had to fix the levees Because otherwise they’d break On one side was the city Above it...
Read moreAugust Wilson: A tribute before dying
September 16, 2005We search for various media to give real voice to who we are, who we really are deep within our souls as part of a dominated and exploited class, as a people still suffering the depth...
Read moreA victory for the Cuban 5
September 16, 2005A three-judge appeals panel in Atlanta has granted a new trial to the five Cuban nationals imprisoned in a government frame-up seven years ago. The five — Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, Gerardo Hernández, Ramon Labañino and...
Read moreRace, class and Katrina
September 16, 2005Refugees flee to a country outside of their own and are afforded the kindness of strangers in a foreign land. African American leaders are making a point of emphasizing that those people left starving and dying...
Read moreRally for locked-out boilermakers
September 16, 2005Over 1,000 workers and their families rallied in Meredosia in western Illinois on Labor Day in solidarity with 150 members of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Local 484. The workers, who manufacture glue, resin and adhesives,...
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