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Racial Justice Begins When Police Departments Reflect the Communities They Serve
By Sunita Sohrabji/Ethnic Media Service Contributing Editor Los Angeles – Even as U.S. crime rates drop to historic lows, residents of low-income neighborhoods continue to be over-policed and victimized by law enforcement, concluded panelists at a Sept. 4 briefing. Crime in the U.S. peaked in the early 1990s, but has fallen 51 percent from 1993 […]
Champagne: Culturally Fair, Truthful Education Could End Racism
By Marivir R. Montebon New York City – A former mayor of the South Toms River said that an enlightened and multi-culturally fair education may be able to erase the discriminatory attitudes and racism in the US. Lawyer Joseph Makhandal Champagne Jr. who is also an Ambassador for Peace of the UPF spoke before students and alumni of the […]
Charlottesville Chaos: Filipino Women Speak Against Racism, Sexism in the US
By Marivir R. Montebon New York City – Mindful of the racial chaos in Charlottesville that claimed the lives of three people, the Consul General of New York Maria Theresa De Vega called on to Filipinos in the East Coast to keep calm and respect human rights at all times. At the ConGen Hour on […]
Awesome Women Speak on Social Issues
OSM! has compiled eloquent quotes from the women who have been featured in the magazine since its inception in 2012. The eloquence of their words come from the heart, shaped and tempered by experience. Society needs to listen to them, if only to make the world so much better. On racism Racial discrimination is […]
Memoirs: Life is a Struggle, But We Choose Our Battles
By Wally Linder The one thread running through all of these experiences is the inspirational role and leadership potential of young people. Editor’s Note: Wally Linder is a respected labor leader in New York whose life of struggle is best expressed in his dedication to the rights of working people, he being a […]
Review: How the U.S. Economy Was Built on Slavery
By Timothy Sheard Hard Ball Press publisher and National Writer’s Union – New York chapter chairperson Tim Sheard reviews a book by Edward Baptist titled The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. We republish this timely, important piece of written work from the Labor Notes. Sheard writes: This […]
The War Has Not ‘Come Home’
By Seelai Karzai New York City Have we contracted a prolonged cultural amnesia? Kabul. Fallujah. Gaza. Tehran. Why don’t these places incite the same fear in the American public of police militarization, brutality, and state violence as Ferguson? War does not belong anywhere, in any state, in any city, against any people. In light of […]
WWII Veteran Honored in Biggest Gala in the US
By Marivir R. Montebon New York City In 2011, WWII veteran Felino Punsalan was accorded a Lifetime Achievement Award during the 6th Annual People’s Ball of the Washington, DC-based Migrant Heritage Commission for his effort to have the USAFFE veterans under Gen. Douglas McArthur fully recognized by the US government. In May this year, he […]
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