The foster mother of US serviceman Jose Gutierrez is one of those family members that question the value of US citizenship. Gutierrez emigrated from Guatemala to the United States with the aspiration of becoming an architect. But, the hopes and dreams of making it happen were cut short. Gutierrez enlisted in the United States Marine […]
Sick in America? You’re on Your Own
Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), knows what ails the nation’s sick health care system. The AFL-CIO Executive Council member says Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s health proposals don’t even come close to a cure. In this crosspost from Huffington Post, DeMoro dissects McCain’s health care […]
Nepal’s Need for International Support
In 1990, Indian leaders came to Kathmandu and expressed their whole-hearted support to the democratic movement that the Nepali Congress and the United Left Front were planning to launch soon. Indeed, India was encouraging the Nepalis to fight for democracy. Standing in favor of the Nepalis’ democratic movement was their contribution. With this Indian support […]
What to do when you really hate your job?
1. Begin focusing on what you want instead of how much you want to escape. When you find yourself sharing the latest horror story, stop in mid-sentence and say, "What I want to have is…" 2. Create an image that describes you in your job. Are you on a riverbank with no way to get […]
Part 17: El Camino de Santiago
Leaving bad and hoping for good. Finding the way from the alberque out of Ponferada wasn’t any easier than finding the way in. The arrows disappeared almost immediately after leaving the alberque and we were on our own. At one point we were about 1/2 a block behind a girl who was obviously on the […]
Monopolyland: the Fragile Virtual World of Big Business
It’s one thing to suggest that Corporate True Believers are disinclined to live in the real world with the rest of us — but quite another to get such folks to at long last admit that everyone, but everyone, around them is the enemy by Donald Croft Brickner So — we’re not economists. […]