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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Oct 12, 2009
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By Roy Cook:
On each October 13, Tribal people observe others celebrating Columbus Day. What do we celebrate/observe? In 1492 Columbus’ ships appeared off the coast of San Salvador. The Taino Indians greeted Columbus with unimaginable hospitality. Columbus reported to his queen: “So...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Jun 23, 2009
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HEART TO HEART
With Betty Ann Blaine
Dear Reader, It took 144 years since the abolition of slavery in 1865 for the United States to issue a formal apology. I'm not sure if the saying "Better late than never" is apropos, considering the length of time it took for that government to say...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: May 26, 2009
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Reflections of Fidel
(Taken from CubaDebate)
FIVE days ago I read a press report stating that Ban Ki-moon is to appoint Bill Clinton as his special envoy for Haiti.
According to the report, Clinton accompanied the secretary general on a two-day official visit to Haiti...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: May 7, 2009
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Reflections of Fidel
(Taken from CubaDebate)
OUR world is not only threatened by cyclical economic crises that are steadily becoming more serious and frequent. Unemployment, ruin and fabulous losses of goods and wealth are the inseparable companions of the blind laws of...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: May 3, 2009
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REFLECTIONS BY COMRADE FIDEL
Tomorrow is International Workers Day.
Karl Marx made a call for unity: "Workers of All Countries, Unite," although many poor people were not proleterian. Lenin called more broadly still for the peasants and colonized peoples to struggle united under the...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Feb 18, 2009
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POINTE-A-PITRE, Guadeloupe (AFP): A general strike crippling Guadeloupe and Martinique has exposed racial and class divides on the French Caribbean islands where a white elite wields power over a majority descended from African slaves.
Protesters on Monday stepped up their nearly month-long...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Jan 15, 2009
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A UNESCO agreement calls on culture ministers to promote the abolition of slavery every August 23 • France and the international community urged to honor the date in this 2009 full of significant anniversaries
Gabriel Molina
• THE 205th anniversary of the emancipation of Haiti...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Dec 24, 2008
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By Mark Steel, Independent UK:
One of the the strange twists about modern science is that it sometimes gets used by the utterly irrational, who claim they've found scientific proof to back up their bonkers theories.
So you get creationists who announce that they've found geological...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Sep 3, 2008
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Reflections of Fidel:
IT is not an overstatement. This is the general expression of many compatriots. It was the impression of the Revolutionary Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Alvaro Lopez Miera, an experienced soldier, when he saw the twisted steel towers, the shattered houses...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Aug 8, 2008
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Freedom:
By KARAN MINNIS, Guardian Lifestyles Reporter -
Nassau, Bahamas:
Freedom is intended by God for all human beings says Christ Church Cathedral Dean and Rector, Reverend Patrick Adderley, as Bahamians celebrate 174 years of emancipation from slavery.
Explaining that the most...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Jun 7, 2008
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Reflections of Fidel:
IT would be dishonest of me to remain silent after hearing the speech Obama delivered on the afternoon of May 23 at the Cuban American National Foundation created by Ronald Reagan. I listened to his speech, as I did McCain’s and Bush’s. I feel no resentment towards...... [view]
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