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House votes to allow travel, trade with Cuba

August 8, 2002

Those who have been fighting for 40 years to end the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba scored a stunning victory in the House of Representatives late last month. On July 23 the House approved a series...

Nightmare on the border

August 8, 2002

LAWRENCE, Massachusetts – When Nicole Ayala, of Killeen, Texas, decided to take her mother-in-law on a day trip to Mexico, she had no idea that she would be insulted or made to feel “as if I...

Apartheid in the Holy Land

August 8, 2002

In our struggle against apartheid, the great supporters were Jewish people. They almost instinctively had to be on the side of the disenfranchised, of the voiceless ones, fighting injustice, oppression and evil. I have continued to...

Government officials blink: Humanitarian donations for Cuba cross the border

August 8, 2002

The 13th Friendshipment of humanitarian aid to the people of Cuba crossed the Rio Grande River into Reynosa, Mexico, on July 18. The caravan of 15 buses, trucks and ambulances then headed for Tampico where the...

Sharon threatens Israeli peace activists

August 8, 2002

In an attempt to intimidate opposition to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asked Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein to investigate whether activists of the Israeli peace organization, Gush...