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Americanos

This is a visual reminder as a way to help you think next time you say the word Americans in reference to USA citizens.
These are the Americas. Therefore everyone who live here from South to North and North to South are Americans.

This… is only a part of America.

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Remembering Padre Camilo Torres

 

Father Camilo Torres Restrepo (born in Bogotá, Colombia on 3 February 1929 – died in Santander on 15 February 1966) was a Colombian Roman Catholic priest, a predecessor of theLiberation Theology and a member of the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group. During his life, he tried to reconcile revolutionary Marxism with Catholicism, or vice-versa.
Torres was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1954, but continued to study for some years at the Pontifical Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium. When he returned to Colombia, he [...]

Vocabulary for a New World: Organic Intellectual

As theorized by Gramsci, an Organic intellectual, unlike a traditional intellectual, is a bourgeoisie scholar who cultivates strong roots in his/her community, working to maintain links with local issues and struggles that connect to the people and their experiences. While traditional intellectuals imagine themselves as an autonomous group with an historical presence above and separate from political [...]

With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope [...]

Remembering Mev Puleo, Witness of Solidarity

“What does it means to be a Christian- a follower of the way of Jesus- in a world of contradictions and conflicts? What does it means to be on the way of Jesus when I view the worlds poverty from an air-conditioned tour bus?”

Mev Puleo (1963-1996), an American photojournalist and young Catholic who actively confronted [...]

Snapping the strings - chains of oppression re-visited

Whenever a movement happens and whites happen to dominate it, that means purposeful, intentional exclusion of others — every time! It couldn’t be that minorities simply weren’t interested, could it? No! We know that those racist bigots — erm, I mean our brothers and sisters in Christ — are out there, burning crosses in their [...]

Managing politics in favor of trans-national markets

‘It is not just that governments can no longer “manage” their national economies, to survive in office they must increasingly “manage” national politics in such a ways as to adapt them to the pressures of trans-national market forces’.
- Colin Leys

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From Symbol to Substance

Cornel West on Obama as President-Elect.
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Pilgrimage to the voting both/ Worshipping the Empire

We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustees under God of the civilization of the world… God has marked us as his chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world… he has made us adept in government that we administer governments among savage and senile people.
- Albert [...]

¡Hasta Siempre Comandante!

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love
- Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Seguiremos adelante
como junto a ti seguimos
y con Fidel te decimos:
!Hasta siempre, Comandante!

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