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Finding hope in Canada’s election, the UN General Assembly and CELAC
The concurrence this week of a federal election in Canada with the spurt of diplomatic action around the United Nations General Assembly reminds me that I value political debate, and that the world needs urgent action on multiple, related issues. What we have in Canada is what Marta Harnecker and others have called “polyarchy”—the alternation […]
Cuba VI – James Baldwin, racism, imperialism and ourselves
In the 2010 interview when Fidel Castro apologized to gay Cubans for his government’s treatment of them in the 1960s, he asked, “Why hate the United States, if it is only a product of history?” At the same time, we need to name what is going on. For the sake of describing the intersections of racism, sexism, […]
Cuba V – Moving forward on LGBTI rights
The commission that is drafting Cuba’s new family law—the “Código de las Familias” that will allow same-sex marriage—is near the end of its work. On Sept. 7, the government announced that the new law will be brought to the National Assembly of People’s Power for approval, and then be put to referendum. A day earlier, […]
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