Cuban medical officials announced on Tuesday that leading Cuban dissident and political prisoner, Orlando Zapata, died in a Havana hospital after 85 days of hunger strike. Sadly, Zapata Tamyo had been protesting prison conditions. Orlando Zapata was 42 years old and had being jailed since 2003 with a group of about 75 people. The human [...]
It is hard to be the one who is purposefully left out, to be excluded, to feel “less than” others, and relegated to some second tier of human citizenship. Americans get righteously – and rightly – upset about such things and lesbian and gay Americans – and our many and diverse friends – are very pissed off.
Too often in our societies, which value more what people have than what people are, money can get people to be complacent to corruption, and even crimes for the sake of profit and greed. Deposed foreign leaders, formers dictators and even mass murderers end up quite often in safe heavens such as Europe or America, [...]
Let’s not pretend ignorance here: the so-called pro-life movement is not pro-life. It is anti-life. It is against women’s reproductive rights, it is against the life of the mother if complications threaten her survival, and it is against the life of underage girls who are pregnant due to incest, or the life of any woman who is the victim of rape.
It’s getting very difficult for conservative posers to hide the monumental hole that their supply side shovels dug and the unbelievable ascent of our progressive climb out of their economic nosedive. This data set is the Mona Lisa of before and after graphs on the recovery effort.
