TODAY, I understand I have a responsibility to employ each and every power and talent and means I possess in confronting, exposing, and righting the injustices in our world. Opportunities that help me reach this goal bring me profound happiness.
AN ACTIVIST SEEKING TO BRING a little balance to the Tea Party conversation infiltrates an event, gets the podium and enlists the utterly clueless crowd in a chant to send European immigrants back to where they came from.
SENDING LOU DOBBS OFF with all the respect he has earned.
IT IS A POSITIVE SIGN FOR U.S. SOCIETY when the White House moves to address the needs of the exploited, and the dreaming, and the hungry. It is a negative sign for our society when we are not allowed to approach such actions without assuring everyone that someone’s gonna have to pay—and it will be the least powerful or culpable.
COURAGE COMES IN MANY DIFFERENT FORMS. For Esmeralda, a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico, who faced horrific circumstances in immigration detention, it came in the form of seeking justice.
A RIVAL UNION has accused the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) of pressuring workers to vote for SEIU over The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) and using coercive and illegal means. NUHW has filed charges.
AFTER 30 YEARS, commentator Lou Dobbs—infamous for his tirades against undocumented immigrants—has left CNN.
AFTER THIRTY YEARS, Lou Dobbs is pushed off CNN. “Strong winds of change have begun buffeting this country,” he says on his last night, “affecting all of us.” Adios, Lou.
VETERAN’S DAY. It means many things to many people, and all that can shift in a minute depending on which side of the sand you are on. But the quality in a human that causes them to sacrifice for other humans is an enduring, memorable, and crucial one.
THE UNITED STATES IS SHAMEFULLY the last nation to keep laws in place that deny the possibility of parole from Juveniles sentenced to life in prison. Today, the Supreme Court begins hearing argument on two cases that could change our laws and bring them into accord with the rest of the modern world.
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GETTING BACK TO OUR RITUALS, here’s your Weekly Vinyl Reminda, just like that same old used ta be….Can you name this timeless musician performing a classic tune recorded 38 years ago?
DO NOT IMAGINE THE SPECK of infection in thine own eye is living in this blood of mine.
A GREAT OPPORTUNITY for Latina/o high school students who want to develop their leadership skills and give back to la comunidad.
Remembering Marcelo Lucero, killed in Patchogue not long ago. For being a “Beaner.”
MEXICO is instituting an “Open Arms” policy; if you want to be there and be part of things, then they want you, too.
House of Nezua
the XOLAGRAFIK theater!
