Day May 17, 2005

Posada Carriles in custody!

From our comrades-in-the-struggle blog,  Lefti on the News Talk about results! Hundreds of thousands of Cubans march, and hours later Luis Posada Carriles is taken into custody (no, I don’t really think there was cause and effect, but the efforts…

Thought for the day

Democracy is not something that you believe in, or something that you hang your hat on. It’s something that you do, you participate. Without participation, democracy crumbles and fails. If you participate, you win, and the future is yours. —…

D.C. press conference demands Posada be extradited

Posada Carriles, an ultra-right Cuban exile who has been on the CIA payroll, is wanted in Venezuela for bombing a Cuban airliner and killing 73 people. The Bushies want to grant him asylum, making a hypocritical mockery of their “war on terror.”…

Darn

Immigration May Split GOP. “Immigration policy threatens to shatter the Republican governing coalition,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Because its implications for the nation’s economy, security and its social fabric pit Republican constituencies against one another, the issue could imperil…