NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND BARS! Dolores Huerta is my all-time personal hero. I had the privilege to meet this wonderful woman and shake her hand a few years back in Laredo, Texas. Thank you for bringing this timely interview with a great lady on an issue of paramount importance to your readership. In her footsteps and perhaps, today, beside her, a number of us are organizing to fight the cause of imprisoned immigrant children. "Free the Children" is a loosely knit, but highly motivated grassroots group of volunteers who are working to bring attention to the wrongful incarceration of children at …
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I’m finding nuggets of truth in everyone’s posts. There’s more than enough blame to spread far and wide. Socialism and Marxism are both doomed to failure. And, yes capitalism needs and feeds off the poor. Unions give the poor collective power to offset the power and greed of the corporate/political alliance. The key, it seems to me, is to create and maintain a dynamic tension between opposing groups to maintain equilibrium. When this balance is achieved, the corporations make money and the workers enjoy a fair measure of security and well being as well as the opportunity for upward mobility. When …
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Hey! Fellow Posters, I just have to compliment everyone’s written and intellectual abilities. I’m totally impressed with the talent that’s been drawn to this forum. However, it’s not lost on me that all the time and energy that’s been expended in this discussion could have been used to strike a blow against some of the horrendous conditions that exist right here in the USA. Please consider putting your intellect, writing abilities, computer skills, and spare time to work helping the downtrodden in every city, town, and hamlet in America. Consider the Private Prison Industry; rail against the privatization of water. Fight …
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