AS WE MOVE CLOSER AND CLOSER to enacting immigration reform, the situation on the ground is evolving as well. Nothing is static for an issue that touches so many people across so many communities. This week’s wire follows up on trends observed last week: holding mainstream media accountable, enforcement tactics, and immigration’s positive effect on the economy.
IN 2009, I will be traveling to a few different events and speaking on panels or presenting/appearing in one way or another. The second event scheduled, though first to be announced, is a panel on New Media at the Annual NCLR Conference in Chicago in late July.
I’VE NOTICED THAT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE are writing How-To guides on using Twitter. They’ve almost got it right. But I think I can help them help others. Just a little bit better.
BRASS, BRASS, BRASS. Which I’m presenting to you in honor of and accordance with the last few days of glorious sun, sun, sun! Here’s a bit of Mariachi just when you were craving it and didn’t even know it.
NO GROUP OF PEOPLE IS “ALL BAD,” por supuesto! But some groups feel the need to defend themselves from the charge. And some would never dream of explaining a damn thing to anyone.
JUST AS A WALL that keeps the poor in place in our own cities and towns and marks the divide where law enforcement begins caring a whole lot more about property and people, so do the borders operate in our world. This entrenched and justified divide is a crime in and of itself. All the rest that follows is fallout.
IT’S NOT DIFFICULT TO FIND A MOVIE that portrays the indigenous of this land as heartless brutal savages. Be the people called Apache or Mayan, be the portryal be by John Wayne or Mel Gibson. We enlist words to mask the truth of history. And then, sometimes, we use art to tear that mask away. This is why Art is considered powerful and dangerous by some.
WE KNEW THAT THERE WOULD BE a faction of people so wed to their own racist thought patterns they would be incapable of dealing with the fact that a non-white person was president of the US. I guess I thought they’d be a bit more honest about it.
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.
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.
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?
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.
THE DIALOGUE ON IMMIGRATION has, historically, been contentious and cyclical. There are times when hysteria peaks, and rational thought struggles to enter the national dialogue. And then, there are moments the truth breaches the surface and shines brightly. This week is one of those moments.
THE WIRES ARE ABLAZE with a coincidence of timing in President Obama’s appointing a “border czar” and the discovery of massive weaponry in the hands of a Mexicana who was photographed by AP cameras looking extremely well-stocked and defiant.
LABOR GIANTS SEIU AND A.F.L.C.I.O have come to an accord on the fight for immigration reform and today proudly told the press of the unified effort, one which will seek, “finally, a principled public dialogue” and one, according to SEIU, that “does justice to our heritage as a nation of immigrants.” Get the link to the Nezua-notated liveblog of the call in this post.
House of Nezua
the XOLAGRAFIK theater!
