2009 December | UMX | El Machete

The Weekly Diaspora: The Myth of Us Vs. Them

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

As we usher the last decade into the realm of memory, it’s time to stop viewing immigration reform as an Us vs. Them issue.

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News With Nezua | Goodbye 2009!

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Seeing the year out with tradition, art, hope, and a connection across time and space.

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Weekly Diaspora: ICE Perpetuating Human Rights Abuses

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

YET ONE MORE UGLY PIECE OF EVIDENCE that the Department of Homeland Security’s ICE unit is a mutation from the terror-iffic Bush years that continues to eat away at the integrity of our national soul.

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¡Feliz Festivus!

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

I WISH JOY and Happiness and peace to all my compas—or at the very least a moment of respite from the grueling grind that can be life, liberty and the pursuit of a few dollars in this here world. Feliz!

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News With Nezua | The White Professional Anti-Racist

Monday, December 21st, 2009

IN THIS ERA of shifting cultural demographics and a shrinking white population, some heroes are gettin’ paid to be the Enlightened Whites. Unfortunately, too often this means repeating oppressive power structures but under the guise of altruism.

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Juan Felipe Herrera Awarded PEN/Beyond Margins Award for Latest Work

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

JUAN FELIPE HERRERA, celebrated and prolific Chicano poet, has been awarded the PEN/Beyond Margins award for his latest work, Half of the World in Light.

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Weekly Diaspora: CIR ASAP the First Step to Reform

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

ON TUESDAY, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) introduced the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act of 2009 (CIR-ASAP). Rep. Gutierrez said that the bill represents “the final push for comprehensive immigration reform.”

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News With Nezua | The Chaos Cell Known as Maricopa County Law

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

JOE ARPAIO is back in the news for being a class A sadist and creep as well as vindictively wielding the power of his office to attack those who dare question his methods. That, and a lot more in this extra meaty version of News With Nezua.

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Crooked Cops Can Collude to Cover a Killing…

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

NOBODY WAS IN DOUBT, and that’s the kind of town it is. A town where even the police collude to hide the murder of Mexicans, because it might besmirch the reputations of high school football stars if people knew they were cold blooded murderers. But truth has a way of prying open even the tightest of locked doors.

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Rep. Gutierrez Introduces CIR ASAP Immigration Bill

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

TODAY, Representative Gutierrez introduced the CIR ASAP Reform Immigration bill. What are the particulars of the bill right now? This, and notes on the media teleconference call Monday that SEIU held, announcing Gutierrez’ bill.

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Weekly Diaspora: Unemployment Feeding Anti-Immigrant Sentiment

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

THE NATION’S 10% UNEMPLOYMENT RATE is feeding anti-immigrant sentiment. Laws aimed at immigrants are ultimately divisive, and giving in to a fear that expresses itself as punishment of the vulnerable is a weak and poor human response to stress.

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News With Nezua | Avenida Almasol

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

INTRODUCING Naco and Nico! And a new cartoon called Avenida Almasol, which takes place in a ‘hood where magical thoughts, connections, and adventures are always around the bend.

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EVO-lution!

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

INDIGENOUS LEADER AND MAN OF THE PEOPLE, Evo Morales sweeps to victory again. It is a huge win for people power, for people-oriented politics, and the indigenous, as well.

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Borderlands, Breathing

Friday, December 4th, 2009

THE ‘BORDERLANDS’ is not a dead place. Nature thrives in the areas some are quick to intrude upon and wreak havoc in the form of fear-fashioned fences.

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