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05.17.13 ♥ 14
Cuba Celebrates Int'l Day against Homophobia

Havana, May 17 (Prensa Latina) Cuba is celebrating the International Day against Homophobia today with events around the country, where the sixth annual symposium against that discriminatory conduct is part of the activities scheduled for the month of May.

Mariela Castro, director of the National Sexual Education Center, stressed that there is political willingness in Cuba to defend the sexual rights of all citizens.

“We are working to change consciousness and legitimize those rights. Laws do not guarantee human rights on their own; they must be backed by political will, but above all by a transformation in social consciousness,” she said.

Community panels, marches, theatrical plays, and cultural galas celebrating respect for diversity are platforms that help bring people closer to that reality, which touches everyone, whether in the neighborhood or within their own family.

It was on this date that the General Assembly of the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and other Health Problems.

Cuba Celebrates Int'l Day against Homophobia

05.17.13 ♥ 40
Zoom Bronx, NY: Rebel Diaz Art Collective Hip Hop Showcase, 5/11 This Saturday May 11th at The RDACBX Temp Space - The BMHC Lab…. 7-11pm- Ñ Dont Stop! Hip Hop Showcase with a special Latin American flava! Performing Live! Daniel Majesty Sanchez Johnnito Cienfuegos The Sargonites Brigada Bolivariana and Mauro…DJ Illanoiz on the 1s and 2s….1303 Luis Nine Blvd 2/5 Train to Freeman….

Bronx, NY: Rebel Diaz Art Collective Hip Hop Showcase, 5/11

This Saturday May 11th at The RDACBX Temp Space - The BMHC Lab…. 
7-11pm- Ñ Dont Stop! Hip Hop Showcase with a special Latin American flava! Performing Live! Daniel Majesty Sanchez Johnnito Cienfuegos The Sargonites Brigada Bolivariana and Mauro…DJ Illanoiz on the 1s and 2s….
1303 Luis Nine Blvd 2/5 Train to Freeman….

05.08.13 ♥ 3

Cuba, the ‘Terrorist’ Island

By Kaloian Santos Cabrera

Several informative websites have reported this as THE NEWS today: ‘The U.S. government has no plans to remove Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, officials said on Wednesday.’ It gives me a good laugh to share some pictures I’ve taken throughout this ‘terrorist’ island.

It also brings to mind the words of the philosopher and singer Carlos Puebla in his song, ‘Yankee Go Home’: 

The English that I have is very scarce

English is a ‘mister’ and ‘hello.’

But I understand people when they say:

‘Yankee Go Home!!’

They say it in Manila and in Korea,

Panama, Turkey and Japan

The cry is the same everywhere:

‘Yankee Go Home!’

05.03.13 ♥ 39

May Day 2013 - Manila, Philippines

Photos by Ivan Phell T. Enrile

05.02.13 ♥ 17

May Day 2013 - Manila, Philippines

Symbolic battle and burning of the Aquino/Obama effigy, May 1, 2013.

Photos by Ivan Phell T. Enrile

05.02.13 ♥ 79
Zoom New York City - Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz book launch On May 3, 2013, from 7pm-9pm, the first ever collection of writings by former Black Panther and political prisoner Russell “Maroon” Shoatz – entitled “Maroon the Implacable” — will be officially released at New York’s DiMenna Center.Shoatz, who has spent close to 30 years in solitary confinement in the state of Pennsylvania, is an important symbol in the growing movement against the long-standing practice of solitary, which amounts to unconstitutional torture under international human rights law. His case, under review by the United Nations, will come under local scrutiny on April 8, when his Pittsburgh-based legal team presents the state of Pennsylvania with a Demand Letter, giving the Department of Corrections authorities 30 days to move Shoatz into general population, or face litigation for violating Shoatz’ constitutional rights. The NYC launch of his anthology, which has been described by poet and Black liberation activist/scholar Amiri Baraka as “that very funky instruction manual on how to make revolution against imperialist America”, comes at the end of a national speaking tour by Shoatz’ daughter and a 30-day pressure campaign to win his release into the general prison population.The evening will feature an all-star lineup of artists and thinkers, coming together to build a unified national movement to end torture and solitary confinement. 

New York City - Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz book launch

On May 3, 2013, from 7pm-9pm, the first ever collection of writings by former Black Panther and political prisoner Russell “Maroon” Shoatz – entitled “Maroon the Implacable” — will be officially released at New York’s DiMenna Center.

Shoatz, who has spent close to 30 years in solitary confinement in the state of Pennsylvania, is an important symbol in the growing movement against the long-standing practice of solitary, which amounts to unconstitutional torture under international human rights law. 

His case, under review by the United Nations, will come under local scrutiny on April 8, when his Pittsburgh-based legal team presents the state of Pennsylvania with a Demand Letter, giving the Department of Corrections authorities 30 days to move Shoatz into general population, or face litigation for violating Shoatz’ constitutional rights. 

The NYC launch of his anthology, which has been described by poet and Black liberation activist/scholar Amiri Baraka as “that very funky instruction manual on how to make revolution against imperialist America”, comes at the end of a national speaking tour by Shoatz’ daughter and a 30-day pressure campaign to win his release into the general prison population.

The evening will feature an all-star lineup of artists and thinkers, coming together to build a unified national movement to end torture and solitary confinement. 

05.02.13 ♥ 15

May Day Marked in People’s Korea

Pyongyang, May 1 (KCNA) — May Day was significantly marked in the DPRK on Wednesday.

Parks, pleasure grounds, industrial establishments and cooperative farms were in a festive mood with colorful art performances and sports and amusement games.

Artists of the Phibada Art Troupe gave a performance at the plaza of the Arch of Triumph and the National Folk Art Troupe at the Taesongsan Pleasure Ground. Put on the stages were mixed quartet “Our Leader Loved by People” and male duet “Peace Is Guaranteed by Our Arms”. The performers sang high praises of the undying feats of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

Acrobats of the National Circus put on the stage acrobatics at the Mangyongdae Amusement Park. Builders of the capital city spent the holiday, playing sports games at Kim Il Sung Stadium.

The workers of the Huichon Power Station, the Pyongyang and Pukchang thermal power complexes, those of the Kangson Steel Complex, Songjin Steel Complex, the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex and the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex, coal miners in Anju and other working people in the fields of light industry and agriculture across the country added to the atmosphere of the holiday with sports and amusement games.

Intellectuals of the State Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Agricultural Science, the Academy of Medical Science and other scientific research field across the country significantly marked the May Day

05.02.13 ♥ 11

May Day 2013 - New York City

Rebel Diaz performs at Union Square rally, May 1, 2013.

Photos by redguard

05.02.13 ♥ 11
Zoom May Day 2013 - China Swimmers prepared to plunge into China’s Yangtze river as part of the May Day celebrations. They held a flag depicting the country’s late leader, Mao Zedong, who they credit with playing a key role in the liberation of the working class in China.

May Day 2013 - China

Swimmers prepared to plunge into China’s Yangtze river as part of the May Day celebrations. They held a flag depicting the country’s late leader, Mao Zedong, who they credit with playing a key role in the liberation of the working class in China.

05.01.13 ♥ 18