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Ujima & Ujamaa and Muhammad Nassardeen

 

December 28th and 29th are the 3rd and 4th days of Kwanzaa. The themes of these days are Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility) and Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics). On the surface these do not sound like the general feel-good (or feel-bad) sentiments that accompany most holidays. For the record, other days of [...]

Zartusht no-diso

 

Today former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was killed by a suicide attacker in Rawalpindi where she was attending a campaign rally. Bhutto was waving to the crowd from the sunroof of her vehicle after the rally when she was struck down by an [...]

St. Stephen's Day

 

Ocean Boulevard in Santa Monica runs parallel to the shore, and is situated atop a bluff, a good fifty to seventy-five feet above the beach. This time of year, overlooking the waves, the city puts on a display of the scenes of the nativity, sponsored [...]