January 2012
6 posts
Do unto others...sometimes?
So I won’t lie. I basically have no real knowledge of what’s been going on in the GOP primaries for the past few months. I’m not even sure if I can name all of the candidates, or if I know who’s still in and who’s still out. But yesterday I saw a videoclip which really freaked me out. Not because of something one of the candidates said, but because of the...
“Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of...”
– Cesare Pavese, Italian author
Feliz Último Año Nuevo
gentequeviene:
Por Regi Rivas
“Dios está en todas partes, pero convénzanse que está más cerca de los pobres que...”
– Leonardo Boff, Brazilian Liberation Theologian. “God is everywhere, but be convinced that he is closer to the poor than to the rich. In this he resembles lice, which are closer to the poor than to the rich.”
El cacique taíno
Excerpt from “Memories of Fire” by Eduardo Galeano
1511
Yara
Hatuey
In these islands, many are those who choose their death, hanging themselves or drinking poison together with their children. The invaders cannot avoid this revenge, but they know how to explain it: the Indians, so savage that they think everything belongs to all, Oviedo will say, are people who by nature are lazy...