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From Birmingham Alabama to Qana Lebanon It Ain't About Race Healing Wisdom of Mexico Sitting ducks at the superdome Giving Voice Through Art |
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Free Trade Is Harmful in Colombia By Dr. Keith Jennings |
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Why is Cuba Exporting Its Health Care Miracle To The World’s Poor—The offer of medical training is just one way Cuba has reached out to the United States. . . . .When an earthquake struck Pakistan . . . that country’s government warmly welcomed the Cuban medical professionals. And 2,300 came, bringing 32 field hospitals to remote, frigid regions of the Himalayas. There, they set broken bones, treated ailments, and performed operations for a total of 1.7 million patients. The disaster assistance is part of Cuba’s medical aid mission that has extended from Peru to Indonesia, and even included caring for 17,000 children sickened by the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Ukraine. It isn’t only in times of disaster that Cuban health care workers get involved. Some 29,000 Cuban health professionals are now practicing in 69 countries—mostly in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. In Venezuela, about 20,000 of them have enabled President Hugo Chávez to make good on his promise to provide health care to the poor. In the shantytowns around Caracas and the banks of the Amazon, those who organize themselves and find a place for a doctor to practice and live can request a Cuban doctor. Common Dreams |
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EU's lifted sanctions could be turning point for Cuba—On June 19, at a summit in Brussels, the European Union announced that it would lift its diplomatic sanctions against Cuba. The gesture was predominantly symbolic, as the restraints, which had been put in place in 2003, had been temporarily suspended since 2005. The decision came about largely due to Spain's 2005 initiative to normalize its relations with Cuba, despite opposition from several other EU members. While the EU's sanctions only froze development aid and visits to Cuba by high-level European officials, the move to lift them signals a commitment to increased dialogue and openness between the EU and Havana. It will surely have positive effects not just for Cuba but for the EU's currently frosty relationship with Latin America over immigration issues. Perhaps most importantly, it serves as a contrast to the hard-line policy of the United States, which has maintained an unbending trade embargo against Cuba since 1964. Spectrezine |
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An Artistic Journey by Claire Carew |
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Why is Cuba Exporting Its Health Care Miracle To The World’s Poor—The offer of medical training is just one way Cuba has reached out to the United States. . . . .When an earthquake struck Pakistan . . . that country’s government warmly welcomed the Cuban medical professionals. And 2,300 came, bringing 32 field hospitals to remote, frigid regions of the Himalayas. There, they set broken bones, treated ailments, and performed operations for a total of 1.7 million patients. The disaster assistance is part of Cuba’s medical aid mission that has extended from Peru to Indonesia, and even included caring for 17,000 children sickened by the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Ukraine. It isn’t only in times of disaster that Cuban health care workers get involved. Some 29,000 Cuban health professionals are now practicing in 69 countries—mostly in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. In Venezuela, about 20,000 of them have enabled President Hugo Chávez to make good on his promise to provide health care to the poor. In the shantytowns around Caracas and the banks of the Amazon, those who organize themselves and find a place for a doctor to practice and live can request a Cuban doctor. Common Dreams |
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Thousands visit scene of Che's death 40 years ago—Tens of thousands of disciples of the revolutionary leader Che Guevara made the pilgrimage to Ville Grande in the Bolivian jungle yesterday – the spot where he was executed exactly 40 years ago. . . . And in a further mark of the extent to which the revolutionary outlaw has been transformed into an establishment hero in Bolivia, Che's portrait now hangs in the office of President Evo Morales – the country's first indigenous leader. Mr Morales's election, subsequent promises to re-distribute land and oil and gas profits, and his closeness to Venezuela's Hugo Chaves and Cuba's Fidel Castro, have been labelled part of a new brand of Latin American socialism. Che's revolutionary zeal was inspired during his travels around South America as a young man, witnessing first hand the impoverished conditions in which people lived. He joined Castro's revolution in Cuba in 1959 and left six years later with the intention of fomenting further revolution but was shot dead in a operation supported by the CIA. Independent |
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The Wrong Experience—Obama has advocated easing the Bush-imposed ban on Cuban-Americans visiting the island and sending money to their relatives. He makes a broader case for a new Cuba policy, arguing that capitalism, trade and travel will help break the regime's stranglehold on the country and help open things up. Clinton immediately disagreed, firmly supporting the current policy. This places her in the strange position of arguing, in effect, that her husband's Cuba policy was not hard-line enough. But this is really not the best way to understand Clinton's position. In all probability, she actually agrees with Obama's stand. She is just calculating that it would anger Cuban-Americans in Florida and New Jersey. This is the problem with Hillary Clinton. . . . The Clintons' careers have been shaped by the belief that for a Democrat to succeed, he or she had to work within this conservative ideological framework. Otherwise one would be pilloried for being weak on national security, partial to taxes and big government and out of touch with Middle America's social values. CubaWatch |
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(1930-2007) By Fidel Castro Ruz |
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Fidel Castro May Day Speech 2007 It Is Imperative to Have an Energy Revolution / Global News: Politics—Literature & the Arts |
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South American Countries Agree to Found Banco Del Sur—Seven South American countries agreed to establish Banco del Sur, a regional development bank championed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in an effort to expand regional trade and growth with their own resources. Chavez, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the presidents of Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay will inaugurate the bank on Nov. 3, in Caracas according the ``Declaration of Rio de Janeiro'' signed by finance ministry officials of the seven countries today. ``Banco del Sur is the beginning of a new financial architecture for the South,'' said Rodrigo Cabezas, Venezuela's finance minister, in comments to reporters in Rio de Janeiro. ``Our development won't be put at the service of other countries.'' Today's meeting included officials from Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Chavez proposed the bank as part of a drive to counter the influence of the U.S. in Latin America and use oil profits from record high crude prices to finance social and economic development programs. Brazil has resisted efforts to use the bank as an alternative to the International Monetary Fund and is opposed to using bank funds to support currencies. Jeb Blount Bloomberg |
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Claude McKay and Michael Manley Defying the Ideological Clash and Policy Gaps in African Diaspora Relations By Lloyd D. McCarthy |
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Race Struggle is Class Struggle A Review of In-Dependence from Bondage (Lewis) / Manley’s Legacy / Southern Needs |
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JAN CAREW MISSION WITHIN THE MISSION by Eusi Kwayana. Green Winter (1965) / The Third Gift (1981) / Children of the Sun (1980) Fulcrums of Change (1988) / Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England and the Caribbean (1994) / Rape of Paradise (2006) The Guyanese Wanderer: Stories (2007) |
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This useful collection of essays originated as conference papers presented at the College of Charleston in October 1998 [reaches] the interesting, and surprising, conclusion that the Haitian Revolution often mattered more as a disputed symbol than as an actual vehicle of historical change. Abolitionists, planters, slaves, and even German reformers endlessly discussed its meaning and potential ramifications even when they were not directly impacted. Politicians in Colombia and the United States analyzed the revolution not because of its actual significance to their everyday life but as a yardstick by which to measure local political sensibilities. The revolution, in a way, was a postmodernist event that mattered not for its substance but because the way it was portrayed in individual discourses revealed the fears and aspirations of each author. David P. Geggus, ed. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. (2001) Philippe R. Girard, McNeese State University |
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Toussaint Table / Chronology / Boukman and His Comrades / "More Than Just A Man" (Early Years) / The Betrayal, Arrest, & Death
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Free Trade Is Harmful in Colombia By Dr. Keith Jennings |
on the 92nd anniversaryof the first US occupation of Haiti (1915- 1934)
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Never Too Late to Make a U-Turn An Educational Pledge and 15 Questions to Self-Development By Alberto O. Cappas, Poet/Writer |
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Alberto O. Cappas -- Doña Julia Review Cappas Bio Nubian Voices Doña Julia Her Borinquen Haiti in Puerto Rico My Home |
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Haiti Cherie—The director stressed that while the film's plot was fictional, the experiences suffered by the characters were completely realistic."I wanted to show what life is like in the 'bateyes'," Del Punta said, referring to the encampments set up on the outskirts of the sugar plantations where the cane cutters are forced to live. The workers live crowded together in the communal bateyes which usually lack running water, toilets, electricity and cooking facilities, as well as health care services and schools. There are some 400 bateyes scattered across the Dominican Republic. The cane cutters toil for up to 14 hours a day for what human rights organisation Amnesty International has termed "derisory wages" (typically the equivalent of $2.5 a day), while some are paid in vouchers which can only be used at plantation stores. The freedom of workers to leave the bateyes is also often restricted, turning them into virtual prisons that are patrolled by armed guards. A March 2007 report by Amnesty International detailed its long-standing concerns regarding discrimination, racism and xenophobia against Haitian migrants living in the neighbouring Dominican Republic and particularly its bateyes. Italian Film Helps Haitian Plantation Workers Life in Italy |
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Christophe, Pétion & Dessalines Counter Bonaparte 's Invasion of St. Domingo |
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Pediatrician Eliseo Rosario Dreams Like Roberto Clemente Danny Torres Interviews Dr. Eliseo Rosario Clines Reflects on Clemente, Stargell, and the Team of Color |
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In the Castle of My Skin (1953), The Emigrants (1954), Of Age and Innocence (1958), Season of Adventure (1960), and - The Pleasure of Exile (essays, 1960) Conversations II: Western Education and the Caribbean Intellectual (2000) / Black World (March 1973) / Canon Shot and Glass Beads (1974) The History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 (1981) / Natives of My Person (1972) / Water with Berries (1972)
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Elizabeth Nunez emigrated from Trinidad, where she was born, to the United States of America after she completed secondary school. She is presently a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York, where she designed, developed and implemented many of the college's first major academic programs. She received her Ph.D. and Masters degrees in English from New York University, and her B.A. degree in English from Marian College in Wisconsin.
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Filiberto Ojeda Rios & Puerto Rican Sovereignty By Louis Reyes Rivera |
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Indian Question Books: The Columbian Exchange (2003) / Europe and the People without History (1982) / Aristotle and the American Indians (1959) The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology (1982) / The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other (1984) Genesis (1985), Faces and Masks (1987) . Century of the Wind (1988) / The Vision of the Vanquished (1977) Maya Society under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival (1984) Huarochiri: An Andean Society under Inca and Spanish Rule (1984) / Resistance, Rebellion and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World, 18th to 20th Centuries (1987) Riot, Rebellion and Revolution: Rural Social Conflict in Mexico (1988) / Indian & Jesuit A Seventh Century Encounter (1982) Harvest of Violence: The Maya Indians and the Guatemalan Crisis (1988)
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By Greg Palast |
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Jamaican Sources and African American Visions The Art of Bernard Hoyes By Paul Von Blum, J.D. |
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Lasana Sekou in Oxford Poetry Book and Caribbean Encyclopedia By Jacqueline Sample |
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Sekou files: 37 Poems, newest book Salt Reaper Tortured Fragments Visit & Fellowship II Sekou Knighted Nidaa Khoury Haiti 200 |
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African Civilizations in the New World
Caribbean
Freedom: Post Slave Society and Economy
Women
Race and Class
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Rico: Freedom and Power in the Caribbean Praise Song for The Widow The Story of The Jamaican People (Sherlock and Bennett) / Eric. From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492 -1969 (Williams)
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Cuban Photographer Dies
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Open Gate An Anthology of Haitian Creole Poetry (2001) by Paul Laraque and Jack Hirschman |
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Books by Caryl Phillips Crossing the River / The Atlantic Sound / The State of Independence / Cambridge / The European Tribe Extravagant Strangers / The Nature of Blood / A Distant Shore / Final Passage / Dancing in the Dark / Forigners / |
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Poems by Drisana Deborah Jack |
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By John Maxwell Time Longer Than Rope So Poor, So Black! Losing New Orleans Bush in Check |
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John Maxwell Table A Week as Long as the Titanic The Duty of a Leader Giving Genocide a Bad Name The Human Factor The 'Pottery Barn Rules' |
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Hubert Cole. Christophe: King of Haiti. New York: The Viking Press, 1967 |
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Send contributions to: ChickenBones: A Journal / 13219 Kientz Road / Jarratt, VA 23867 -- I became aware of Rudy Lewis’ labor of love a few short months ago during a visit to Kalamu ya Salaam’s e-drum listserv. As soon as I saw the title of the journal I knew it was about Black folks, and the power of the written word. A quick click took me into a journal that’s long on creativity, highlighting well-known, little known, and a little known writers, and commitment to the empowerment of Black folks. I contacted Rudy to ask if he’d consider publishing some of my work. His response was immediate, and a couple of days after I’d forwarded some poems to him—they were part of ChickenBones. What I didn’t know was that this journal has been surviving for the last five years with very little outside financial support. . . If we want journals like this to “thrive” we need to support them with more than our website hits, praise, and submissions for publication consideration. —Peace, Mary E. Weems (January 2007) |
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West Indian Narrative An Introductory Anthology Edited by Kenneth Ramchand / Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five
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Rudy Interviews Herbert Rogers on Cuban Life & Culture
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The Literary Contributions of the French West Indian by Mercer Cook |
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Feminism
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Haiti after the Press Went Home By Thabo Mbeki |
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Books on Africa, the Diaspora & Politics of Exile Timothy Brennan. Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation (1989) Edourad Gissant. Caribbean Doscourse (2004) / Barbara Harlow. Resistance Literature (1987) C.L.R. James. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938) Kent Johnson A Nation of Poets: Writings from the Poetry Workshops of Nicaragua (1985) / Josaphat B. Kubayanda. The Poet's Africa: Africanness in the Poetry of Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire (1990) George Lamming. The Pleasures of Exile (1992) / Dinah Livingston. Poets of the Nicaraguan Revolution (1993) Edward W. Said. Culture and Imperialism (1993) / Ian Isidore Smart. Nicolas Guillen: Popular Poet of the Caribbean (1990) Penny M. Von Eschen. Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-19 (1997) Ngugi wa Thiong'o Writers in Politics: A Re-engagement with Issues of Literature & Society (1997) / |
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In Memory of Professor of Philosophy (Morgan State University) Chair, Department of Philosophy (Howard University) friend and mentor |
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Langston Hughes and the Caribbean Martha Cobb. Harlem, Haiti, and Havana: A comparative critical study of Langston Hughes, Jacques Roumain, Nicolás Guillén. 1979. Faith Berry. Before & Beyond Harlem: Biography of Langston Hughes. 1995. / Onwuchekwa Jemie Langston Hughes: An Introduction to the Poetry (1985) Edward J. Mullen. Langston Hughes in the Hispanic World and Haiti (1971) / Jonathan Scott Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes. 2006 |
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Books by and About C.L.R James Minty Allen (a novel, 1936) / World Revolution, 1917-1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International (1937) / A History of Negro Revolt (1938) The Black Jacobins: A Study of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938; 1963) Beyond a Boundary (1963) / A History of Pan-African Revolt (1995) / Facing-Reality (2006) / C.L.R. James on the Negro Question (1996) / Marxism-Our-Times-Revolutionary-Organization (1999) / State Capitalism & World Revolution (1986) / Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution (1978) A Majestic Innings: Writings on Cricket (2006) / C.L.R.James: A Life (2001) / Beyond Boundaries: C.L.R. James: Theory and Practice (2006) / The Letters of C. L. R. James to Constance Webb, 1939-1948 (2007) / Rethinking Race, Politics and Poetics: C.L.R. James' Critique of Modernity (2007) |
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Black Consciousness Poet—Claude McKay / The Life and Times of Black Poet Claude McKay By Arthur Edgar E. Smith |
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