Two years ago in my voting district, there was an act of popular autonomy. Someone in a meeting stood up and proposed Sergio as the delegate. They had previously asked him and he had agreed. Immediately a host of hands rose in support.
Read MoreInsults will rain down on me when I make public what I think about Mothers Day and everything that has to do with it.
Read MoreCats —these beautiful, elegant, athletic and acrobatic creatures— cannot be tamed like other animals. They cannot be possessed; they coexist with you, and they possess spaces within the home that are their spaces, which they actively claim.
Read MoreI’m glad that in the middle of Moore’s masterful and amusing demonstration of today’s disastrous capitalist crisis (comparing it to the good times in which his parents lived), Moore inserted sequences on alternatives to the current bourgeois system.
Read MoreI believe in signs and good beginnings of the week. I also believe in people who I hardly know but who tell me their stories without inhibition and allow me to see what they’ve learned from life.
Read MoreA Venezuelan friend, who unfortunately lives far from Caracas, sent me a cell phone that she didn’t use; she told me it was so I don’t keep walking around like a soldier without a rifle. (27 photos)
Read MoreHavana and Juarez have something in common. In each city, several of their citizens have found a peculiar way to broadcast the complexities of the news.
Read MoreThis May Day I had the opportunity to march alongside the working class of Argentina to protest against the payment of the foreign debt and for increased wages and more jobs. The turnout was massive. The working class exhibited its internationalist character in uniting across the board against world capital.
Read MoreI found out about an unusual cinema-related event from a friend, but I didn’t imagine the whole creative charge would explode in just 60 seconds.
“Cinema in 60,” is a small-format exhibit that forces us to question the pretensions of feature and medium-length films, and which comes with all the creativity involved in producing on a shoe string.
Read MoreLast Friday morning I happened to be riding in a car where the driver was listening to “Making Radio”, the morning program of a national Cuban radio station. The program’s commentator had selected the theme of the Internet for his broadcasting message.
He was saying that despite all the hype received by that cybernetic network of networks as a supposedly democratic space for free expression, there are significant topics that the net distorts.
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