New Orleans, DC, New York on Juneteenth 2008

From the U.S. Gulf Coast post-Katrina to Somalia, Iraq, Darfur, Zimbabwe, and South Sudan, today is Juneteenth, folks. Black Americans still have our eyes on freedom, and nowadays, all over the world, many more people do, too. Today, 19 June, the New Orleans, Louisiana City Council has the chance to vote to approve an independent police monitoring board. We hope they do. Today in Washington, the U.S. House of Representatives has yet another chance to just say No to rolling over and rubber-stamp approving another $165-billion for the devastation and white-collar corruption in Iraq. To do so would send a much-deserved message to a lame-duck White House about something called 'checks-and-balances' which allegedly exist in the U.S. system of government. And, finally, at the U.N. in New York, U.S. Secretary of State Condolezza Rice herself has chosen to preside over the Security Council's historic debate on sexual violence in conflict. There's plenty more happening (and already occurred) all over the world, but these are just three events we wanted to share with you on this historic day we call Juneteenth. A luta continua. The struggle continues.