On July 6, the "Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba" bus was parked on Cedar St. Amigos de Cuba (Friends of Cuba), Santa Cruz County, USA spoke with many people about the "Cuban Five" and the US embargo on Cuba. It was a beautiful Wednesday afternoon, and lots of people were out and about at Santa Cruz's weekly farmer's market.

If things continue, as the Ghost of Christmas Future may have predicted in an updated rendition of Dickens, the "third world" will have Democracy just like ours and we will have Poverty just like theirs.
CAFTA Must Be Defeated.

"At the center of the Portland controversy was the City Council's insistence that renewal of the JTTF be contingent upon the FBI granting the Mayor and City Attorney security clearances equal to those given Portland police assigned to the task force...
While the first JTTF dates back to 1980, the FBI's website indicates that the "number of task forces has nearly doubled since September 11, 2001," and nationwide, they now number sixty six...
Since 1981, however, Oregon law has barred police-INS collaboration and police surveillance in the absence of evidence of criminal activity."

Constitutional Democracy as a Protection against Internal Hostilities