Hiram Crespo
This Black Friday, a boycott was called against that All-American sweatshop Walmart, fueled by a decades-long litany of complaints by workers unable to earn a [more…]
Puerto Rico became a US territory in 1898 as a result of the Spanish-American War. Its islands (Borinquen, Vieques, Culebra, Mona and several others) sit [more…]
The presidential debate is a BIPARTISAN, CORPORATE-FUNDED PRIVATE media event that reaches people through CORPORATE-OWNED media. If you’ll remember, Ralph Nader --who happens to be [more…]
Last week at Northeastern Illinois University we were visited by the Caravan for Peace, a collective of thousands of Mexican mothers, siblings, fathers and other [more…]
I was just reading the article The Greed of Private Prisons written by Brian Magee for the American Humanist, and the image that came to my mind was [more…]
The Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin, so close to my hometown of Chicago, troubles me for many reasons. I'm saddened to understand that in 2012 [more…]
When we grow up we want to be Icelanders! - one of the slogans of the Spanish M-15 Movement
Iceland is one of the most [more…]
Candles are magical, but light bulbs have a magic that candles don't have. One never sees a cartoon with a candle symbolizing a person having [more…]
During the 1940's, India was being exploited by its colonial overlord, Britain, and was fed up. Tired of being servants in their own land, they [more…]
Married gay couples face a fiscal double standard in America: they pay more taxes than married straight couples and oftentimes a survivor only gets a [more…]
For years we've said that 2012 was going to be a great paradigm shift, but every day we see stranger things happening. Zombie folklore used [more…]
I will be writing a series of articles on money and religion. The first one I'm offering deals with the nature of money and how [more…]
