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  • Generations: “So That They Never Will”

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    Eleven years ago today, terrorists shattered America’s sense of safety. Generations who did not remember Pearl Harbor suddenly knew the shock of an attack on U.S. soil.

    Brothers, fathers, cousins, wives, and daughters were lost. And more sisters, mothers, husbands and sons would give their lives in the years that followed [...]

    From Babalú Blog at September 11, 2012, 11:22am in Cuba
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  • Hostage Alan Gross in peril, now in a military hospital

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    Alan Gross in prison, visited by an American rabbi

    Wife of American jailed in Cuba says she fears he won’t survive ordeal

    By Associated Press, via the Washington Post. Updated: Tuesday, September 11, 10:20 AM

    HAVANA — The wife of imprisoned American Alan Gross said Tuesday she has returned from a [...]

    From Babalú Blog at September 11, 2012, 10:37am in Cuba
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  • Leading dissident risks her life once more

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    Cuban dissident Marta Beatriz Roque leads hunger strike
    September 10, 2012 From EFE via Fox News Lateeeen-oh

    Cuban dissident Marta Beatriz Roque on Monday began a hunger strike along with 12 other opposition members to demand that the authorities put an end to their excesses over recent months.

    The 67-year-old Roque [...]

    From Babalú Blog at September 11, 2012, 10:26am in Cuba
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  • If he were alive, Che would be celebrating this day

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    It grieves me when yet another store puts out what they deem trendy. It always amazes me that trendy involves the face of a mass-murdering psychopath. In the case of Che Guevarra, it's always some hipster idea of revolution.

    I imagine that had he lived, he would be celebrating the destruction [...]

    From Babalú Blog at September 11, 2012, 10:09am in Cuba
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  • September 11, 2001

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    I remember. I'll never forget.

    ABC News Live: United Airlines Flight 175, seconds before crashing in to the South Tower

    In memoriam.

    Gordon McCannel Aamoth. Edelmiro (Ed) Abad. Maria Rose Abad. Andrew Anthony Abate. Vincent Abate. Laurence Christopher Abel. William F. Abrahamson. Richard Anthony Aceto. Erica Van Acker. Heinrich B. Ackermann.' [...]

    From Babalú Blog at September 11, 2012, 7:00am in Cuba
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  • Eyes That See the Sight Not There

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    I have a good friend…no, a great friend, who was born and raised in New York City.

    He’s one of these guys who can live anywhere in the US, but still calls himself a New Yorker; it’s like the Hudson River runs through his blood.

    He hangs his hat in Pennsylvania these [...]

    From Babalú Blog at September 11, 2012, 1:26am in Cuba
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  • Between Barack and a Hard Place

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    Chicago teachers demanding better wages than what Chicago taxpayers make.

    More than twenty-five thousand teachers and support staff are on strike in Chicago, impacting nearly 400,000 children.

    The issue?

    A demand by the teachers for a 16% pay increase over the next four years.

    The problem?

    Chicago's School Board is projecting a $3 billion dollar' [...]

    From Babalú Blog at September 11, 2012, 12:47am in Cuba
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