A note from Stan Raines
In yesterday’s Chicago Tribune, Kathy Pollitt reports the latest subtrefuge from the Bush administration to undermine and limit women’s reproductive health choices. The first is a bizarre rule that would require pro-choice organizations would be required to hire folks with diametrically opposed beliefs. A second rule change would redefine contraception of [...]

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An announcement from the Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center

El Second Weensday

Presents

“La Sombra de Valerio Longoria: Bruno Zuniga”

Who: Bruno Zuniga accompanied by Chuy Castillo

When: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 @ 7:30 p.m.

Where: 225 E. Stenger St., Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center, San Benito, Texas

Cost: $5.00
Dr. Ramon de Leon [...]

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A poem by Thomas Thornburg from Munseetown

When Milly and Mandy and Maggie play
On the steps of the great gray building
Lions look with stony eyes.
Under their mange of saxon verbs
They have seen Main flat as the veldt lies,
Have seen it malled, bonzaied, riddled,
They stare toward the suburbs.
The juicer clutching his Irish Rose
(As Mandy and Milly and [...]

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