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RAFAEL MERINO CORTÉS
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 It was perhaps the first major blow for a candidate in the early presidential race thus far. Strangely, it was self-inflicted. After Senator Biden described his colleague and possible Democratic opponent in a “best-of-breed” fashion, a public outcry ensued. The Delaware Senator may be the first casualty in what promises to be a heated and crowded Presidential run.
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MARINA ORTIZ
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 The privatization of parklands in Randall's Island will cause traffic and ecological problems for the surrounding areas of East Harlem (under whose jurisdiction Randall’s Island lies) and the South Bronx while limiting access to the poor. This is a price too high to pay for "development."
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ARAM AHARONIAN
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 "Make invisible" seems to be the slogan. So no one gets to know what's going on in Latin America, that way they can stigmatize social movements, cover up the most outrageous repression as public safety, forget the millions and millions of excluded people in America, the impoverished.
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PRENSA LATINA
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 The President of Cuba, Fidel Castro, has temporarily ceded his powers of state to his brother and First Vice President, Raúl Castro, due to health issues, including an emergency surgery to stop intestinal bleeding. "Miami streets burst with spontaneous joy," according to the Miami Herald, on thoughts of an impending doom for the 79-year-old leader. |
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JOHN GIBLER
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 In a divided country, divided opinion comes as little surprise and depending on whom one speaks with, the Mexican presidential election was either the cleanest in Mexican history, or victim of the biggest fraud since 1988 when the ruling party staged a bogus computer breakdown to justify turning the election results inside out. |
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NYLJ
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 "We will construct high-tech fences in urban corridors, and build new patrol roads and barriers in rural areas. We'll employ motion sensors, infrared cameras, and unmanned aerial vehicles...Mexico is our neighbor, and our friend." President Bush outlined his perspectives on securing the southern border, the English language and assimilation in hopes to encourage Congress to pass immigration reform. |
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Dr. LUIS BARRIOS
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 The call to boycott did not come from union leaders or from elected officials, it was realized from a community base. For some people this is a serious conflict. But regardless of any divisions or reservations, the convergence of the immigration rights movement and the International Worker’ Day could prove to be a perfect storm for businesses and government alike.
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MIGUEL GUZMÁN
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 Although corralled like cattle, immigrants gave color to the Great White Way as they and their supporters demonstrated against pending immigration legislation. The controlled gathering was frustrating to some but liberating to most. Among the important messages, we were reminded of a time when immigrants spoke English only and Mexicans were known as natives.
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RAFAEL MERINO CORTÉS
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 Above a sea of humanity, banners flapped, placards waved and flags unfurled on Broadway in Downtown Manhattan as more than a hundred thousand people protested against pending immigrant legislation. Politicians were at hand ranting cliché slogans in broken Spanish in hopes to gain votes in upcoming elections. |
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LAURA CARLSON
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 In considering the FBI’s mock terrorist incursion, the North American summit meeting in Cancun and the immigration debates in the US Senate, the masses of immigrants and their supporters fear that the realities of labor in the US, future immigrant flows and poorly designed trade policies may be overlooked in light of overstated security dread. |
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MICHAEL LETTIERI
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 Frontrunner
for Mexico’s Presidential elections (July 2, 2006) Andrés Manuel López
Obrador begins to extend his lead and is now coming to dominate all
political discourse in the country. As his opponents grow desperate,
Mexico prepares for a profound shift in its political landscape.
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JOSHUA HOYT
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 Chicago’s downtown was paralyzed by an immigrant
march estimated at more than 100,000 people. They carried hand-lettered
signs saying: “We are America,” “My Mexican immigrant son died in
Iraq,” “I’m a dishwasher—not a criminal,” and “Don’t deport my
parents.” |
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RAFAEL MERINO CORTÉS
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 If you’ve decided to keep your children home during the transit strike, perhaps you can take the opportunity to teach them about labor history in the United States and throughout the world, from the Chicago Haymarket Affair to the 2005 TWU Local 100 strike. This country was not built on honorable ventures of bravery and gallantry alone. “Illegal” strikes, demonstrations, boycotts, and other forms of protests forged this nation just the same.
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LUCILA HORTA
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 Cuban women make up 45 percent of the nation’s labor force,
and on average, for every 100 hours men work, their female
counterparts work 120 hours, according to a recent study by the
National Statistics Office, a difference that is a result of domestic
and family responsibilities. Although women have made significant advances, machista mentality impedes further progress, some say. |
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CIRCLES ROBINSON
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 "The United
Nations Charter recognizes the right of Cuba to choose its own
political system, it recognizes respect for the principle of equality
among states and it recognizes the right of peoples to
self-determination. Thus, the blockade, the aggressive actions and
pressures on Cuba are attempts at violating our people's right to
exercise its self-determination." |
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BENJAMIN DANGL
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 Students protesting against the killing of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos took over an ROTC building in the Mayagüéz campus of the University of Puerto Rico. Many of the students
were part of the guard placed by the independence movement in front of
Filiberto's house until his family was able to get their things and
close it. |
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JACQUELINE MARIE MESTRE and KAREN JUANITA CARRILLO
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 The killing of Filiberto Ojeda Rios, founder of the
Ejército Popular Boricua-Los Macheteros, may
have re-sparked activities within the islands' independence movement.
But independentistas, as movement organizers are known, are also
claiming that an onslaught of government repression may have also been
re-kindled. |
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NYLJ
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 "We have to organize building by building, block by block, and wake up the sleeping giant -- the power that people have. Nobody elected to office has power. The only way they have power is when the people relinquish their own power..." |
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RAFAEL MERINO CORTÉS
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 City government is squeezing the poor and working-class out of Manhattan, New York, to make room for people and commercial projects with greater tax revenue potential. Can Melissa Mark-Viverito stave off the barbarians at the [Hell]gate?
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SANTIAGO NIEVES
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 "We have to, as a community, be grown up and take responsibility for the issues that our community faces. That's a difficult and uncomfortable place to be, cause you have to look in the mirror." Santiago Nieves talks to Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion about domestic violence, his agenda for the Bronx, and the Mayoral race.
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