This land is your land
Stop to think about where you are for a second: You're reading the paper. You're sitting in a room, maybe in a restaurant or an office - but wherever you are, there are people nearby. And they're not showing you enough respect. Full Story
Farmworkers strike a blow for America
Way to go Immokalee farmworkers. The grassroots Coalition of Immokalee Workers won another major victory this month. This time over a corporate giant bent on crushing them. McDonalds USA finally agreed - after an unfavorable ruling from the Security and Exchange Commission - to help tomato pickers get an additional 1-penny per pound of picked fruit. Full Story
The Inconsistent Señor Newt
Newt Gingrich has some splainin' to do after a recent speech in which he seemed to say Spanish was "the language of living in a ghetto." Can any mentally competent adult with a fifth-grade education truly believe such an idiocy? The language of Cervantes, Borges and 10 winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature? Full Story
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