Every Sunday, after attending mass at the Santa Rita Church, roughly 40 women, some dressed in pants and sneakers and others wearing skirts but always in solidarity white and carrying gladiolas, slowly walk up Havana’s Fifth Avenue amid shouts of “Libertad!” These are no ordinary women, for they are the “Damas de Blanco,” the “Ladies in White,” founded by the late Castro oppositionist, Laura Pollán (February 13, 1948 – October 14, 2011).
Category Archives: SOCIO-POLITICS
World AIDS Day, Dec.1 | Zero Deaths NOT Zero Funding – Millions of Lives in the Balance
The AIDS epidemic is far from over, but with a sustained commitment to comprehensive treatment, prevention and care services, it is still possible in our lifetime to create an AIDS-Free Generation.
Dark Market: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You [Book Review]
If you’ve been paying attention to, and supporting, the Occupy Movement going on worldwide (and you should be – what they do affects pretty much everybody), then this book will give you both chills and a vindicated feeling.
THE ECONOMIST HOSTS 3RD ANNUAL WORLD IN 2012 FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK CITY FEATURING ALEC BALDWIN, GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, MOBY AND MORE
New York, NY–The Economist will hold its World In 2012 Festival in New York City in early December. The festival celebrates the 26th edition of The Economist’s successful The World in…publication, which contains a collection of predictions and trends for the year ahead. The two-day event begins on December 1st with a gala dinner at The Angel Orensanz Foundation For The Arts and is followed by a day of discussion and debate on December 3rd at Cooper Union. Alec Baldwin, George Stephanopoulos, Moby and many other notable figures in politics, business, sports, arts and more will participate in the festival.
“Sister Wives” Changing America’s Views on Polygamy One Episode at a Time
Sister Wives premiered on TLC in 2010. It showcased the lives of the Brown family residing as a polygamist household. Kody Brown is married legally to Meri, his first wife. After Meri, Kody proceeded to have a spiritual marriage with three other women. These marriages are not recognized by the government of the United States but are recognized through their practiced religion as fundamentalist Mormons. Although Kody is not legally married to all four women, as soon as the show premiered the family went, and still is, under investigation for bigamy.
Transplants, Accents and Dialects
I became aware of how my accent was still a very big part of who I am when my daughter was in Elementary School. She had just turned 8. Reading was never a problem because I read to her when she was in my womb and from the moment she was born. However, she had a problem enunciating ‘th’ in words…