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Updated: Puerto Rican Poet Julia de Burgos on a U.S. Postage Stamp
4:45 pm By Maegan La Mala · literature|Puerto Rico · 4 Comments
30 Aug 2010
According to a press release from the U.S. Postal Service dated 12/09 (don’t know if the reason this is coming to my attention now is the fault of Rican time or USPS time), later this month Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos will have a U.S. postage stamp released in her honor.
With this 26th stamp in the Literary Arts series, the U.S Postal Service honors Julia de Burgos, one of Puerto Rico’s most celebrated poets. The stamp goes on sale in September. A revolutionary writer, thinker, and activist, de Burgos wrote more than 200 poems that probe issues of love, feminism, and political and personal freedom. Her groundbreaking works combine the intimate with the universal. They speak powerfully to women, minorities, the poor, and the dispossessed, urging them to defy constricting social conventions and find their own true selves. The stamp features a portrait of de Burgos created by artist Jody Hewgill.
Bush Wants to Check Your Mail for You
8:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics · 4 Comments
5 Jan 2007
No, President Bush isn’t trying to do you any favors. President Bush wants to invade your privacy. According to an article in yesterday’s New York Daily News, Bush gave himself permission to open people’s mail without a warrant in “emergency situations”.
The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Most of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act deals with mundane reform measures. But it also explicitly reinforced protections of first-class mail from searches without a court’s approval.Yet in his statement Bush said he will “construe” an exception, “which provides for opening of an item of a class of mail otherwise sealed against inspection in a manner consistent … with the need to conduct searches in exigent circumstances.”
Bush cited as examples the need to “protect human life and safety against hazardous materials and the need for physical searches specifically authorized by law for foreign intelligence collection.”
Via / The New York Daily News
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