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OBSERVATIONS FROM

SOUTHERN MEXICO

 

     On June 14, 2006, the government of Ulises Ruiz

moved against the people of Oaxaca in ...

 

   ...PART 1: ATTACK

   ...PART 2: REPRESION

      ...PART 3: SKETCHES OF THE CONFLICT

   ...PART 4: THE GUELAGUETZA AT WAR - 2007

 

NEW! 

THE COMMON FRONT - THE GOOD YEARS

     In 1992, the Common Front Against AIDS was founded as a non-governmental organization of artists, educators, doctors and concerned individuals, with the motto, "Education, Prevention and Support" ...

             ...PART ONE:  THE FIRST ENCOUNTER

             ...PART TWO:  THE EARLY ADVENTURES

             ...PART THREE:  THE MOTHER LANGUAGES

             ...PART FOUR:  THE NATIONAL CONVENTION

             ...PART FIVE:  THE STATE-WIDE MEETING

         

 

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THE COMMON FRONT - THE FINAL THREATS

     When the Common Front Against AIDS began to criticise the government-run AIDS clinic, COESIDA, for its lack of complete attention to AIDS patients in the state, high placed public officials moved to ...

             ...PART ONE:  THE BACKGROUND OF THE CONFLICT

             ...PART TWO:  THE SURVEY OF PATIENTS

             ...PART THREE:  GOING TOO FAR

             ...PART FOUR:  AN UNHAPPY CONCLUSION

 

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We all owe an enormous debt of gratitude to

    CINDY SHEEHAN for telling it like it is! 

 

       "You are not the country that I love ..."

 

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SUSAN SONTAG, AN HOMAGE

     I never met Susan Sontag in New York, though we traveled and worked in some of the same areas, of art, theater and photography.  I didn't consider ...

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THOSE DARN INTREPIDS

or ... How a Dozen Drag Queens

Reconquered the Jungles of Tehuantepec

     The truck was late.  Well, of course the truck is late, or rather the truck is NOT late, after all it's only 30 minutes late and this is Juchitán and ...

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FELIPE, A LIFE

     I am of course the best dog in the world, the whole world, ask anybody.  In fact, make that the history of the world, the best dog in the history of the world. ...

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THE DAY THE LITTLE GIRL GOT HER LEG

CAUGHT IN THE DRAIN

       A work of fiction ...

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