Issue: 362
February 11, 2010
Commentary
Disaster Relief with Human Rights for Haiti – Dantò’s Note
Guest Commentator
1. Haiti needs emergency humanitarian aid ” rescue, recovery, relief and rebuilding, not military occupation. The occupation of the Toussaint Louverture international airport and other Haitian national spaces by foreign militaries, especially by the US/UN, Canada and France, must end and these areas be returned to the control of the people of Haiti. Instead of…
1. Haiti needs emergency humanitarian aid " rescue, recovery, relief and rebuilding, not military occupation. The occupation of the Toussaint Louverture international airport and other Haitian…
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Commentary
Haiti: Still Starving – Justice Watch
Columnist
Note: Bill just returned from Haiti. You can walk down many of the streets of Port au Prince and see absolutely no evidence that the world community has helped Haiti. Twenty three days after the earthquake jolted Haiti and killed over 200,000 people, as many as a million people have still not received any international…
Note: Bill just returned from Haiti. You can walk down many of the streets of Port au Prince and see absolutely no evidence that the world…
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Commentary
The Government Provides More Union Jobs Than Private Sector
Columnist
Probably no one ever has expressed such contempt for something that he was about to become the head of as the 40th president of the United States. Although the drumbeat of anti-government sentiment has rolled across the land for a few hundred years, emanating from the power centers of commerce and politics, Reagan knocked a…
Probably no one ever has expressed such contempt for something that he was about to become the head of as the 40th president of the United…
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Commentary
Tea Party: Lessons in Obstructionist Politics
Columnist
The frustrated fringe elements of the Republican and Independent voter electorate gathered in Nashville, Tennessee this past weekend to vent about the first year of the Obama administration. They named the convention the “Tea Party,” a spin on the Boston Tea Party of 1767, where the British American colonists rioted over the stamp tax put…
The frustrated fringe elements of the Republican and Independent voter electorate gathered in Nashville, Tennessee this past weekend to vent about the first year of the…
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Commentary
Education and Economic Independence
Columnist
In this present era of economic and educational onslaught against the African Community in America, it is important that we understand that the rise of the African Centered Education Movement should be linked to our quest for economic independence. We must free the “African mind” through African Centered Educational activities so that we might better…
In this present era of economic and educational onslaught against the African Community in America, it is important that we understand that the rise of the…
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Guest Commentary
The Struggle For Worker Rights and Empowerment: Key to Building People’s Democracy!
Guest Commentator
Thank you for inviting the Black Workers For Justice to participate in this 30th Anniversary Commemoration of the Greensboro Massacre and the Communist Workers Party 5 (CWP 5). In our struggles for justice and a better society and world, the struggle against racism must be given high priority. Whatever their tactical mistakes; and we all…
Thank you for inviting the Black Workers For Justice to participate in this 30th Anniversary Commemoration of the Greensboro Massacre and the Communist Workers Party 5…
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Art
Quote to Ponder: “You keep making bad moves, you’re going to get checkmated…” – Eugene Brown
Guest Commentator
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