What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we've been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today.

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.

I don't want to wear what every other women wears. I won't be dictated to.

I have friends of mine who have died of AIDS and many of those friends...did not tell me until the very end...because they felt that there was a stigma, a taboo, attached to it...now we have more women infected with HIV/AIDS, many of those women were infected by their husbands who did not tell them