Month April 2005

Al-Awda: Third International Convention in Los AngelesEmpowering the Palestine Right to Return MovementFri-Sun, April 15-17UCLA Campus, Los Angeles Confirmed and invited speakers include a representative from Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in Lebanon, representatives from Addameer Prisoner Solidarity Group in Ramallah,…

It happened too much and in too many places for it to be mere isolated instances of rogue priests.In my view, it’s systemic. Something is rotten to the core.  Sex-abuse scandals have taken their toll on the Catholic Church from…

Johnnie Johnson, the pianist who gave Chuck Berry his first break and who Berry wrote ‘Johnnie B. Goode’ about, has died at age 80. One of Berry’s best-known songs, “Johnny B. Goode,” was written as a salute to Johnson, whose…

The federal government indicted 15 current and former New York Stock Exchange traders Tuesday for allegedly cheating investors, and penalized the exchange itself for failing to crack down on the alleged wrongdoing. Pigs at the trough.