I KNOW, I KNOW, you’ve seen this one at least two times already. I had a browser window open for a while, a few hours, dunno, half the day, and when I refreshed it, the view count jumped from 21,000 to 173,000 roughly. Wow. But I have to post it here for one thing, because [...]
SOMEONE UP IN HERE HAS A BIGOTRY PROBLEM or some kind of creepy fetish that stretches across the entire racial spectrum. Guess who? You might never know.
LASA: The way to manage immigration is not by building a giant wall. The United States should support more equitable economic development in Mexico and Central America. The U.S. must reconsider drug control policies that have not worked and have been part of the problem of political violence. And the U.S. must renew its active support for human rights throughout the region. Unfortunately, in the eyes of many Latin Americans, the USA has come to stand for the support of inequitable regimes.
Immigrant Nation! is the story of the modern immigrant rights movement and the struggle of single mother Elvira Arellano who is struggling against her deportation. It tells how organizations, activists, community leaders and individuals as a whole came together to oppose bill HR4437 and a comprehensive immigration reform for all.
THESE HIERARCHIES ARE SO IMPORTANT. It’s always about who you can bring in to do the work or who you gonna round up to take away from the table. Later when you have a booming economic engine of might, claim America was assembled in America and entirely by white pioneers who had a dream and simply worked hard to make it happen. That way, when things falter, you know who to blame. Others.
THIS MONTH MARKS THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY of Be Bold Be Red, an event held at the end of Octubre (the 30th, this year) to speak out against violence against women (and girls) of color, to show solidarity and support.
COLIN POWELL ON OBAMA: “He has energized a lot of people in America. He has energized a lot of people around the world. And so I think he is worth listening to and seeing what he stands for.” Former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced today that he will be voting for Barack Obama.
JOHN MCCAIN AND SARAH PALIN cannot pretend to be unaware of the world they are living in. They must factor in all the potential violence and fear that lives, still, in the minds and hearts of human beings in today’s world. If a leader cares about society, s/he does not brush by these ghosts casually, nor rouse them if at all possible.
YOU CAN LAY AN ENTIRE TREE down on top of one tiny bubble of air in a lake and you can then drop a mountain on top of that tree, but sooner or later, that one tiny air bubble will rise to the surface of the water. So too, behaves Truth.
JOHN MCCAIN turns out to be right in that Obama is hiding some family affiliations that the world really needs to know about. “Who is Barack Obama?” Obama posits rhetorically, repeating McCain’s ads—and then proceeds to tell us. And then, to smile as he takes John McCain apart piece by violet-hued and gummy-looking piece.
IT IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH and time to take a bit of time to focus on a struggle that is waged every day, in every city, in every town with very real consequences for our entire world, and yet is alloted hardly the finances and attention and energy that the battle requires. After all, helping the world become a place that loves mujeres as much as they provide love for our world is a lifelong job—and all of our jobs.
THE USA SEEMS TO BE A LAND constantly struggling with her own stated precepts and ideals. The so-called “Great Melting Pot” that my teachers told me about in grade school does not brew an easy mix, but one that is constantly bubbling and boiling and in turns hissing and spilling onto the heat.
THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES ARE OVER and unless a fireball comes blazing out of the sky with Osama bin Laden handcuffed to it bearing an oxygen tank to resuscitate the Free Market Philosophy wrapped in a economic surplus-scented plan to win Afghanistan, John McCain’s anger and slurs won’t be enough to yank the Republican brand out of the septic muck in which it has mired itself.
THE TENSION MOUNTS as we approach a historic and final round of debates slated to test the candidates for President of the United States of America. Will John McCain finally make clear to the national audience just how dangerous community organizing is to the health of a Republic such as ours? Will Barack Obama fess up to his secret plan of normalizing cocoaliciousness? Tune in to UMX for a liveblogging extravaganza!
LEO CHAVEZ: Those who foment terror of the “threat” of brown babies are not likely to listen to facts when they have deep-rooted prejudices to express. Among the biggest threats undocumented immigrants pose is that their vulnerability and our scapegoating of them for taking jobs we won’t do allow American citizens to expose themselves as hypocrites.
House of Nezua
the XOLAGRAFIK theater!
