February 1994        No. 38

After NAFTA: North and South Need a New Beginning 2
  by Arnoldo Garcia

Mexico: The Storm Before the Storm 5
  by Elizabeth Martinez


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Black Agenda 2000   6
  by Clarence Lusane

Is Our Struggle Against Each Other? -- African and Latino
Youth Summit   15

Toni Morrison: Our Saving Grace    16
  by Barbara Christian

African American and Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Communities:
Waking Up To Common Ground    17
  by Kenya Briggs

It Happens     20
  by Linda Burnham

Brazil: A View from the Diaspora   21
  by Mabie Settlage



Venezuela-your  title    23
  by Daniel Hellinger

Hard Losses: Larry West, Bill Eisman, Darrell Ringer   25

A Collage of Poems  26
  by Ronnie Burk

Bookwatch: 27
  The Power of Poetry, by Sesshu Foster

Season of the Weird:     29
  Guns-R-Us, by Tim Patterson

Letters:  29
  comments on "Reconstructing the Left" by Brad Jones, Lloyd
W. Lehman, Carl Shames, Louis Proyect, Joyce Stoller and
Mitchel Cohen

     Cover: Fannie Lou Hamer, 1965