Quezon City, the Philippines. November 30, 2011 was the day Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes were the first Filipino Americans and the first labor union leaders to be added to the Wall of Martyrs at the Bantayog Center in Quezon City, near Manila. That morning, Silme’s 84-year-old mother, Ade Domingo, seemed a bit distracted. She [...]
The revolution WILL be on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. In 1970, when the late Gil Scott-Heron first recorded his poem, “The Revolution Will Not be Televised,” he could not have imagined how media technology would change. By the time he died earlier this year, Scott-Heron knew that digital technology had already changed how information is [...]
You’ve seen the signs. You’ve heard the supporters – and their opponents. The facts are scary enough without the fiction and that’s why there is such a strong push to pass national health care reform this year. The facts: runaway private health insurance costs, denial of coverage because of pre-existing conditions and the high unemployment [...]
