the women's liberation movement has rejected traditional family. For us, the family has been a source of unity and our major defense against the oppr… - Elizabeth Martínez

One of the most striking facts about the 1990s is the high level of female leadership and participation. For anyone who remembers the sexism of the 1960s and 1970s movements, today's young women in action are a joy to see.

ours is an age of intensified empire-building in which no war is unthinkable.

being denied the right to speak Spanish is an old form of racism that has plagued Latinos for decades. To speak Spanish represents defense of one's culture in a Eurocentric, racist nation that doesn't want to remember that Spanish-not English-was the common language in much of the Southwest for 250 years.