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On Women’s Equality Day … Are We There Yet?

Each year, on August 26, we celebrate Women’s Equality Day to pay tribute to those brave suffragists, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul and Ida B. Wells Barnett, who led the struggle for American women to win the most critical tool of democracy — the right to vote.

TEZOZOMOC SPEAKS

Southwestern College still rumbling over the changes at the college, professors and union mighty upset about their perks being taken away.

A Stereotypical Article about Stereotypes Contributing to Stereotypes. What’s the point?

I’m writing an article on stereotypes about White people. I’m hoping TIME magazine might publish it.
 A Latino professor recently went to Puerto Rico, where there are hardly any White people, and the island residents all came back with the same stereotypical sentiments about this group.

A Waterfront that Works For All

What happened to the vision? A grand public gateway consisting of a continuous 10-acre park and gathering place at the foot of Broadway was promised to San Diegans in the Port of San Diego’s Master Plan (PMP). Now we have the old “bait and switch.”

A Window Into State spending

Readers of this column may do a double take to see CALPIRG and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association advocating an identical position. But when it comes to government transparency, we are surely reading off the same sheet of music.
 There is little debate that confidence in California government is at a historic low. But even though a budget resolution has been reached, a big challenge for Sacramento in the months ahead will be to restore the trust that has been squandered.

Sotomayor, Race and the Legacy of José Martí

— José Martí

Corazon Aquino, Freedom Fighter

Former Philippines President Corazon (Heart) Aquino died the other day. She not only was the first woman President of the Philippines she was a good President. She was as important to the world as she was to Filipinos.

Get ready, Barbara Coe is after the children again

In 1994, Barbara Coe from Orange County, California got her 15 minutes of national attention as the founder of California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR). She was a co writer and promoter of the now infamous California Prop.187. According to Coe, “We are suffering robbery, rape and murder of law-abiding citizens at the hands of illegal barbarians, who are cutting off heads and appendages of blind, white, disabled gringos.” Her activities earned Coe and the CCIR Hate Group status from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The “Grapes of Wrath” Today

I have never watched the movie “Grapes of Wrath” from beginning to end. I ran across it this afternoon and watched some of it.

America’s racism runs deeper than a Philly pool

When a suburban Philadelphia swim club kicked out a group of black and Latino kids on June 29 because of their skin color, the incident generated much outrage throughout the country.
 But it would be a mistake to think that such incidents and attitudes are a rare exception.

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