Recently the rapper Jay-Z released a track called “Open Letter” to answer the critics of him and his partner Beyoncé’s one-week excursion to Cuba for their fifth wedding anniversary. The track is a spare 2-and-a-half minute retort produced by Swizz Beats and Timbaland. It’s a laid-back, head-nodding type of production, reminiscent of the mid-to-late 1990s, [...]
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The recent trip to Cuba by Jay-Z and Beyonce in proper context
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Larry Hales April 15, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Protest demands justice for Ramarley Graham
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Larry Hales February 6, 2013 » Add the first comment.
New York — On Feb. 2, one year after Ramarley Graham was shot to death in his bathroom in front of his 6-year-old brother and his grandmother, hundreds of Bronx residents and supporters from throughout the New York metropolitan area rallied with the family of Ramarley and marched to the 47th Precinct, where Richard Haste, the [...]
La tragedia de Sandy Hook
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Larry Hales January 2, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Las armas no son su verdadero origen Traducción de Ricardo Garcia Pérez, revisado por MO. A la mayoría de las personas les resulta inconcebible que haya alguien capaz de hacer daño a un niño de forma deliberada. En realidad, la mayoría experimentaría idéntica reacción ante la cruel desconsideración de poner en peligro la vida de [...]
Sandy Hook tragedy: Its roots go deeper than guns
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Larry Hales December 19, 2012 » Add the second comment.
Most people find it unconscionable that anyone would deliberately harm a child. In fact, most would have the same reaction to callous disregard that puts a young life in danger’s way. So when news of the recent shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., began to spread, it is of little doubt that [...]
Organize for people’s power
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Larry Hales December 7, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Excerpts from the Nov. 17 talk given by Larry Hales, WW contributing editor and People’s Power Assemblies Movement organizer, at the Workers World Party Nov. 17-18 conference in New York. As we talk about the perspective and the importance of People’s Power, we can go back to 2006 and the most recent and dynamic [...]
Lo que hay detrás de la masacre de Colorado
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Larry Hales August 1, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Los grandes medios de comunicación siguen sin formular la pregunta más importante que cabría plantearse tras la reciente masacre de Colorado: ¿Qué hay en las condiciones sociales de Estados Unidos que fomenta estas terribles tragedias? En la noche del 19 de julio, los espectadores que acudieron a una sala de cine en Aurora (Colorado, Estados [...]
Behind Colorado massacre
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Larry Hales July 24, 2012 » Add more comments.
The most important question raised by the latest massacre in Colorado remains unasked by the corporate media: What is it about social conditions in the United States that promotes these terrible tragedies? Late on the evening of July 19, theatergoers in Aurora, Colo., sat down to watch an “event” film — the kind whose opening [...]
