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Las Evas
Las Malinches
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…más que eso no hace falta
…más que ellas no importan
los nombres cambian
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es aquella vieja historia
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We live only two generations after racial segregation laws were outlawed in this country. We are only a few more generations removed from chattel slavery. Racial and gender disparities still abound in nearly every aspect of our society. Yet the Supreme Court took up a case this past summer to test the constitutionality of affirmative action in higher education admissions.

To Huu was Viet Nam’s most famous revolutionary poet, who for decades inspired the Vietnamese people with literary and political leadership. Huu was born as Nguyen Kim Thanh in the cultural capital of Viet Nam in 1920 and joined the Communist Party of Indochina at seventeen year of age in 1937. He was jailed for his anti-colonial and revolutionary activities from 1939 until 1942 when he escaped from French prison.

Back in the year 2000, many things were different. September 11 had not occurred yet. The planet was not embroiled at that time in a far reaching “war on terror.�? The economy, while it was slowing down, had not sunk as low as it has now. The list of differences goes on and on, so much so that it almost seems like it was a different world.

Young Communists Organizing on the Front Lines

It’s no secret that George W. Bush’s environmental record is less that perfect. His actions show that he not only fails to place the environment among his top priorities, but that he profits from his environmentally unfriendly policies by receiving donations and benefits from offending corporations.

"Something's wrong." That is the only possible conclusion we can make when we think about recent events. We organized mass rallies, neighborhood and school vigils, speak outs, and cultural events, the largest student strike in our country's history, and we proved that the majority of youth in this country opposed Bush's war plans.

A debate is raging throughout the broad movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights: Is the U.S. government’s “War on Terror,�? including the war on Iraq, an issue that the LGBT movement should address?

The U.S. invasion of Iraq is wrong and must be condemned. Unfortunately, the large American peace movement could not stop the war in Iraq. We must understand that our movement prevented this war as long as we could and this itself is a victory. We know this war is only a manifestation of an ultra-right political agenda formulated by the Bush administration...

I became interested in Cuba when I started reading more books and watching less TV. It was in a magazine that I first saw an article about the US/Cuba Exchange project. I finally decided to talk to the coordinator of the project. At first, I thought I was just going on a vacation, but I was interested because I really wanted to go to Cuba.

The bulldozer that ran over and killed Rachel Corrie was a D9 Caterpillar made in America and paid for by part of the 5 billion dollars of tax money the U.S. gives to Israel each year as ‘aid.’ She was a 23-year-old college student from Washington state.
Rachel died trying to prevent the demolition of the home of Samir Nasrallah – trying to protect one small piece of land in the poorest city in one of the most devastated places in the world: Palestine.

On October 26, 2001 only 45 days after the attacks of Sept. 11, Congress passed a 342-page document titled the United States of America Patriot Act (USAPA). Understand family; this joint is a longstanding law enforcement wish list that had been rejected several times before by Congress with names that sounded like “The Surveillance Act�? during Reagan and papa Bush’s years in office.

What’s going on when radio show hosts go on a rampage smashing the Dixie Chicks? How about when federal agents harass family members of Michael Farenti’s band “Spearhead�?? Or when the famous Picasso painting “Guernica�? is covered at the United Nations when Colin Powell spoke? What’s up with MTV releasing a statement that they would not air videos because of their political content?

Hip-hop was born in New York but if you talk to most young people in São Paulo, Brazil they’ll tell you that they feel like it belongs to them.

Affirmative action policies that have provided for people of color and women greater access, though imperfectly, to higher education and many government programs have long been considered one of the most meaningful accomplishments of the civil rights movement.