December 14, 2008
PATRICK FARRELL/Miami Herald via McClatchy-TribuneJudith Saintilus, 9, holds a worn-down knife she was using to search the mountainside Nov. 21 for beans in Baie d'Orange, Haiti. In the past month, international aid workers and doctors have airlifted 46 children on the brink of death from this south...
go to article »December 4, 2008
Governor Palin displays the same blind spot to suffering that goes into providing for Westerner's pampered consumerism. In the same vein, most Americans are not aware that Christopher Columbus never set foot on American soil. He spent most of his time in this hemisphere in the Caribbean participati...
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I learned today that the Walmart employee killed on "Black" Friday was 34 year old Haitian immigrant Jdimytai Damour. People are saying that consumerism killed Mr. Damour. I believe that greed, violence and indifferent callousness killed him. There is a distressing lack of respect for human life in ...
go to article »November 16, 2008
Two American moments, which one will we extend and sustain?"I know the America on the left. I am so glad to meet the America on the right.I will never forget November 4, 2008." – Ezili Dantòby Marguerite "Ezili Dantò" LaurentHaitian PerspectivesNovember 5, 2008I grew up with the picture on the l...
go to article »November 15, 2008
Ralph Nader in effect called Barack Obama an "Uncle Tom". Nader said that it was Obama's choice so far to be an Uncle Tom to the giant corporations. Ralph was a bad boy. He should apologize immediately.But if he doesn't, so what? It's Ralph's thing to "rage against the machine." He's an activist gad...
go to article »October 28, 2008
Jocelyn Voltaire of Queens, New York lost her oldest son in Iraq. An auction is scheduled for today October 17 to sell her foreclosed home. Activist and bloggers are trying to save her home. Jocelyn Voltaire had a mortgage of $800 a month before she fell victim to predatory lenders. Her mortgage jum...
go to article »October 24, 2008
A pre- 850 billion bailout analysis of the American economic system written in February 2007 makes the point that we will change nothing unless we "change the way money works in our personal lives, our communities, and our world." The author Carolyn Baker credits Catherine Austin Fitts as the one pe...
go to article »October 22, 2008
Colin Powell endorsed Senator Barack Obama on Sunday. All but a few are impressed by this "Powellful" endorsement. Some even see the endorsement has a "redemption" for Powell; in light of WMD lies at the UN in the prelude to the Iraq "war".Revulsion and bitterness comes close to expressing my feelin...
go to article »October 20, 2008
Another great video to encourage the hip-hop generation to vote. Here is a description from the video's YouTube page --"Vote for Hope" was written by M.C. Yogi and produced by Robin Livingston. The "Vote for Hope" video was created at Ursa Minor Arts and Media in San Rafael, CA with chief animator ...
go to article »October 19, 2008
In post-debate analysis of the finances of Joe the Plumber--it turns out Joe the Plumber's hypothetical small business will not pay more taxes with Obama's economic plan. Joe is not falling for that. His feeling: show me the money. Wall Street meltdown be damned, Joe the Plumber is his own man, he w...
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