Pirate Television: Why Socialism? Why Now?
With Kshama Sawant who was recently elected Seattle City Councilwoman from the Socialist Alternative Party.
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HAVANA -- An estimated 600,000 residents of Cuba's capital marched through Revolution Square on May Day morning in an "expression of support for our revolution and our historic leaders," according to top trade unionist Ulises Guilarte De Nacimiento.
Millions more paraded in other cities across the island.
Cuba's president, Raul Castro, attends a May Day parade in Havana May 1, 2014.
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A cheerful-looking President Raul Castro, shielded from the sun by a wide-brimmed straw hat, waved to marchers and chatted with the other top Cuban leaders gathered on the stage.
As usual, the only speaker of the day was the head of the Trade Union Confederation. Guilarte briefly rallied marchers in support of "sustainable socialism," denounced the U.S. economic embargo against the island and voiced backing for Latin American integration, particularly support for the besieged Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro.
The newly appointed labor chief, Guilarte is much younger and has more experience in the economic reforms being unrolled by the government than his predecessors.
He was previously Communist Party leader in the province where the new economic zone and deep-water port of Mariel is located and where the first non-agricultural cooperatives were established. Mariel is one of the locations to which Cuba hopes to attract foreign investment as it seeks the resources needed to boost faltering economic growth.
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MUNICH (AP) Soon after Nazi Germany's defeat in 1945, there was talk in Munich about building an education center that would document the city's critical role in Adolf Hitler's climb to power. Berlin and some other cities built similar facilities over the years. But the idea languished in Munich, the city Hitler himself called the "Capital of the (Nazi) Movement."
Munich officials decided in 2001 to go ahead with it, and Bavaria's parliament signed on as well. Discussions were marred by disagreements over concepts for exhibits, financing, and even what to call it. But it's finally under construction and scheduled to open April 30, 2015, the 70th anniversary of American troops' liberation of this city from Nazi rule.
In English, it will be called the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism.
The cube-shaped structure is being erected on a site laden with dark symbolism: an empty lot where the Brown House, the Nazis' headquarters, once stood. The area surrounding the Brown House was a Nazi showcase. Buildings in the area housed the party bureaucracy. The vast square located there called the Koenigsplatz was turned into a site for mass rallies. The area during Hitler's rule was crawling with Nazi bureaucrats, storm troopers and SS men.
The new building will stand in stark contrast to architectural designs favored by Hitler. It will be modernist in style a white cube rising from the former site of Nazi power. By going from floor to floor, visitors will be able to examine each step along Munich's role in Hitler's rise to power. The permanent exhibit will also examine Germans' difficulties in dealing with the Nazi past since 1945.
Included in the plans are research stations, a library, lectures, panel discussions, conferences, and tours.
City officials expect more than 140,000 visitors a year. Exhibits will be in German and English.
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Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism: http://www.ns-dokumentationszentrum-muenchen.de/centre
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April 30, 2014|11:55 am
The panel for the American Enterprise Institute event "For the least of these: A biblical answer to poverty," held in Washington, DC on Tuesday, April 29, 2014. From left to right: Art Lindsey, vice president of theological initiatives at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics; Anne Bradley, vice president of economic initiatives at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics; Peter Greer, president and CEO of HOPE International; and Jay Richards, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute.
WASHINGTON A panel of experts on economics and theology who have recently come together to author a book on poverty believe that anti-poverty efforts need a biblical answer, but the Bible does not teach socialism.
Various experts brought together by the American Enterprise Institute presented their views on combatting poverty Tuesday afternoon at an event titled "For the least of these: A biblical answer to poverty."
The panel, which was cosponsored by the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics, was comprised of some of the authors involved in a book of the same name released by WestBow Press last February.
Art Lindsey, vice president of theological initiatives at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics, was part of the panel and one of the editors of the book.
Lindsey told The Christian Post that he saw the book as part of his "lifelong passion and calling" to "write biblical theological truth" regarding "personal and public life."
Lindsey also told CP that he "came from a more left-oriented perspective, sort of Jim Wallis and Sojourners and Ron Sider."
"I still appreciate much of what they taught me, but I think probably the great turning point was reading Michael Novak's book Spirit of Democratic Capitalismand other things that sort of opened my eyes that there was more to the story than what I've been told," said Lindsey.
In his remarks before those gathered at the AEI facility and in his comments to CP, Lindsey stressed his belief that "there is a lot in the biblical framework that's been misunderstood by people in the church."
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Employment Equity Laws, Feminism and Socialism: Robert Vaughan vs. Megan Walker
On May 3, 1995 - during an Ontario provincial election - Board of Education Trustee Robert Vaughan and London city councillor Megan Walker were panelists on ...
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