Issue: 230
May 17, 2007
Commentary
Keeping It Real: Leonard Peltier – A Time For Justice And The Rejection Of Genocide
Guest Commentator
Notwithstanding the unspeakable atrocities of the African holocaust, slavery, lynchings, and ongoing disenfranchisement of Black people in America, perhaps no other people have suffered such despicably horrible and repugnant exploitation, degradation and genocide as have our indigenous native “Indian” brothers and sisters at the hands of the conquering Europeans, who subsequently formed the deceitful, land…
Notwithstanding the unspeakable atrocities of the African holocaust, slavery, lynchings, and ongoing disenfranchisement of Black people in America, perhaps no other people have suffered such despicably…
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Commentary
Single-Payer Healthcare: No Human Being is Illegal – The “Undocumented” Must Have Healthcare Too
The historic and newly reenergized movement for an improved and expanded Medicare for all residents in the United States and its Territories and the current volcanic eruption for full human rights for people who enter the United States without permission, seeking work, have crossed paths at a fault line called white supremacy and institutional racism.…
The historic and newly reenergized movement for an improved and expanded Medicare for all residents in the United States and its Territories and the current volcanic…
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Commentary
Between The Lines: Face-Off The Millender-McDonald Seat Face-Off – More Than Politics As Usual
Columnist
The Southern California Black community sits on edge, as an emerging face off ensues for who will succeed the late Congresswoman, Juanita Millender McDonald, in California’s 37th Congressional District. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has set a special election date of August 21st, 2007. Several candidates have emerged, the highly respected, highly funded Latino State Senator, Jenny…
The Southern California Black community sits on edge, as an emerging face off ensues for who will succeed the late Congresswoman, Juanita Millender McDonald, in California’s…
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Guest Commentary
A Patient’s Right to “No”
Guest Commentator
What would you do if you had to make a life and death decision in eight minutes, in a field in which you had no education, training or experience? According to Dr. Jerome Groopman, noted oncologist and chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston, “In today’s medical environment, the clinic…
What would you do if you had to make a life and death decision in eight minutes, in a field in which you had no education,…
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