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Remembering Tomás Rivera

THE LATINO COMMUNITY commemorates the 30th anniversary of Tomás Rivera’s appointment as rector, celebrates and the honor of being the first Latino/Hispanic to lead a university in the United States. We also mark the 25th year since his death.

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Bellingham Raid Focus Results in Drastically Different Outcome

THE NATIVIST LOBBY HAS INSINUATED ITSELF into the media dialogue on immigration to all our detriment. They create a false boogeyman of danger and parasitism, and promote the impression that the only response is a harsh, punitive one doled out in cuffs or a cell. The results of the February Bellingham raids are in, and put the lie to this screech of extremist thought.

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Isabella of the Long Underwater Penis

ISABELLA ROSSELINI’S ‘GREEN PORNO’ may be receiving a bit of ridicule by cutesy-boy commentators, but who here doesn’t want to see the talented actress dress from head to toe in a Barnacle costum and grow a long penis that reaches across the scene as she narrates the event?

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The Common Elements of Oppressions

THE COMMON ELEMENTS OF OPPRESSION is a piece written by Suzanne Pharr, and should be required reading for all activists and media influencers and bloggers or anyone else who deals with society on a level more involved than waving to a few people on the way to the mailbox.