Does anybody remember "Anybody but Bush" (or "Anyone-but-Bush)? As we ramp up into the next election cycle, many are beginning to rally around the "Anybody-but-a Republican" flag, and as we do so amidst an epic mix of multiple and intertwined and uncharted crises, some of us...

Liberty turned 125 years last week. The Statue of Liberty, that is. The celebrations of the anniversary of the iconic statue symbolizing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, we should all take at least a moment to reflect on the state of citizenship and freedom -and unfreedom-in the United States.

While President Obama was telling the small crowd at a $7500-a-plate fundraiser in San Francisco that "Change is possible," Pooda Miller was across the bay trying to get her plate back from the Oakland Police Department. "They came, pulled out rifles, shot us up with tear gas and took all...

Last Sunday, during a speech made at the dedication of the monument honoring the Reverend Martin Luther King, President Obama declared, in King-like cadences, that the slain civil rights leader "stirred our conscience."

The president, who is desperately trying to win back Latino votes lost since 2008, went on...

Our Berlin Wall is breaking. The furious waves of protesters in the ongoing Occupy Wall Street mobilizations have cracked the dark marble and teflon walls protecting the Dictator of our age: Big Corporations

While baffled Tea Partyers, Democrat-leaning progressives and most of the media ignored, ridiculed and then

In response to the unprecedented actions of immigrant rights groups in cities across the country, officials in the Obama Administration announced changes to administrative policies that will give 300,000 people currently in deportation proceedings the right to a hearing before an immigration judge. Nothing more. More than a...

As President Obama spoke from the U.S.-Mexico border at El Paso yesterday, DREAM Act student Julieta Garibay wondered about another border -- the one that stands between Obama and his re-election bid.

"How are we going to keep our dignity while voting for this man who is hurting our community...

Back in the late '70s and '80s, when most white people didn't feel safe in predominantly Latino neighborhoods like San Francisco's Mission district (or inner cities, for that matter), summer started with Cinco de Mayo. Tiny, hyper-local street fairs where Mexican restaurants, crowds of happy, loud brown people and lamb...

It all feels intensely familiar, like the days of open conflict between El Salvador's people and its government. Angry students marching, covering their coffee-colored faces with bandanas or masks as they file through the streets. Giant effigies of U.S. presidents and Uncle Sam next to huge, colorful banners demanding "Alto...

SAN SALVADOR -- After strolling past tanks, M-16-wielding soldiers and U.S.-trained snipers lining España Avenue, President Obama was greeted by the subdued smile of the Archbishop of San Salvador, Monseñor José Luis Escobar Alas. Alas served as the guide leading the president to his ultimate destination in the storied Catedral...

SAN SALVADOR -- Hours before President Obama was set to land in their country, Salvadorans were listening and reading -- and weighing -- each statement he made before his historic arrival. From the crowded, tin-roofed shantytowns of Soyapango -- one of the most densely populated areas in the...

Like her friend Gabby Giffords and like her former colleague, the late Judge Roll, Isabel Garcia has known the hatred that can kill. Garcia, a Pima County public defender and outspoken immigrant rights activist, was shocked and moved by Saturday's shooting near the Safeway on Tucson's plam tree and mesquite-studded...

Reyna Martinez Osorio Orizaba stands regally on the third-floor balcony of Reyna's Bar, the pub and brothel that she spent her adult life building, and points to the new paradise rising out of Cancun's shrinking jungle and former ejidos (communal lands). "That's the Mayan Paradise housing project," says Osorio, a...

Two separate, but intertwining trends -- the intense political activism of country's nearly 50 million Latinos and the historic fight to keep the internet as it is: free, flat and open-are fundamentally altering the meaning of freedom in the United States.

This intimate link between the internet future and the...

History teaches that victory has been achieved when the letter and spirit of a conflict are united in the resolution of that conflict. In the case of yesterday's injunction against SB-1070, Arizona's highly conflictive racial profiling law, the letter of the law was, at best, partially and temporarily halted, not...

Leonardo Boff's elegant white beard and wavy white hair make him look like classical depictions of God(s) in ancient and early modern art. And as a Catholic priest, he would appear to be both benefactor and bulwark of what's often called "western civilization." But when you ask the world-renowned catholic...

TIQUIPAYA, BOLIVIA -- Bolivian President Evo Morales seems testier today than when he told me during a 2007 interview, "For 500 years, we have had patience."

The urgency felt by Morales and the more than 15,000 people from 150 nations attending the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the...

As I watched the sad eyes of Lou Dobbs last night while he bade an abrupt farewell to his long career at CNN, I shed the tears that he apparently couldn't. I cried in part because, regardless of the Basta Dobbs campaign's -- and my own -- constitutional differences...

Conflicting reports about a bullet that hit the top of Lou Dobbs' house in Sussex, New Jersey, are raising new and serious questions about the credibility of Lou Dobbs, CNN and its President, Jon Klein. Reports in the New York Post and here on the Huffington Post...

Today, in 18 cities across the country, participants in the BastaDobbs.com campaign held public events calling on CNN to fire Lou Dobbs, including the one I led in New York City outside of CNN's headquarters. As we made our case on the street below, the producers of Lou Dobbs'...