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News With Nezua | Surfing the Sinewave

News With Nezua | Surfing the Sinewave

IT’S ABOUT RHYTHM. It’s about flow. It’s about an inner-guided and inspired voice, communication. Expression. Connection. But what is left out when we plug into a current that demands no lull?

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News With Nezua | The Long Walk

News With Nezua | The Long Walk

THE WHITE HOUSE claims it wants “humane enforcement,” and then washes its hands of those hurt or killed in their detention centers. Hate groups are recruiting record numbers of members, Nativist groups are doctoring polls, and amidst the hostility and fakery, four brave undocumented students are walking over a thousand miles to make their case to Washington.

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Your Weekly Vinyl Reminda! [March 07]

Your Weekly Vinyl Reminda! [March 07]

HE’S GOT THAT SHAPESHIFTING VOICE that can squeeze gasoline from a model car; he’s the everchanging pixie, the spider-wrangler from mars, the supragenderous figure who leaps over dividers to swing from the stars…

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News With Nezua | The War on Truth

News With Nezua | The War on Truth

THE WAR ON POVERTY. The War on Drugs. The War on Terrorism. Is it safe to say the USA loves war? Is it more accurate to say the USA is war? Could the nation exist as we know it were we not maintaining a War on Truth every day?

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Your Weekly Vinyl Reminda!

Your Weekly Vinyl Reminda!

TAKING A TRIP back to the days of my youth…this is a happy tune that still makes me feel good when those opening chords begin. Love, disco, and an ode to someone who lifts the heart…and the feet. Do you remember this number?

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News With Nezua | Whoa, Canada!

News With Nezua | Whoa, Canada!

WHY DO REPUBLICANS SUPPORT WHITE-WING TERRORISM? How is Arizona giving police more power to apprehend Latinos than exists anywhere else in the nation right now? And how did your trip to Vancouver go, Nezua?

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News With Nezua | Arpaio Coming Undone

News With Nezua | Arpaio Coming Undone

IF YOU CAN STAND THE FUN, sit yaself back and enjoy this Arpaio-Only edition of News With Nezua!

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Green Winds Blow Through the Temple of Tech

Green Winds Blow Through the Temple of Tech

AS THE WORLD CHANGES, so do the games we play. After all, these are simply other planes where our spirits roam, where our eyes engage, from where our thoughts can grow…

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Alex Sanchez Freed!

Alex Sanchez Freed!

AN EXCLUSIVE VIDEO from Cuéntame featuring the recently freed Alex Sanchez, of Homies Unidos.

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From the Mimeograph to La Bloga!

From the Mimeograph to La Bloga!

THIS MARCH, I’ll be presenting at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity’s Transforming Race Conference. This article provides the backstory for why I began the Unapologetic Mexican blog as well as prefaces my talk at the conference.

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News With Nezua | The Politics of Untruth

News With Nezua | The Politics of Untruth

OBAMA AND THE TIGHTROPE. Zeituni in the cold. Hypocrisy in the land of anthems. The power of youth…ignored. A shout out to Cuéntame, the soothing nature of certain samenesses, and the creeping chill of ICE.

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The 2010 Rodolfo ‘Corky’ Gonzales Symposium

The 2010 Rodolfo ‘Corky’ Gonzales Symposium

WE BELONG TO A PROUD LEGACY. We are tied to this land, we are descended from warriors, and Indian kings, and beautiful traditions y cultura that cannot be washed or stolen away by the dominant culture—though it surely tries…

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Your Weekly Vinyl Reminda! [Feb Six Edish]

Your Weekly Vinyl Reminda! [Feb Six Edish]

A VERY SPECIAL FEBRUARY SIX EDITION of Your Weekly Vinyl Reminda. Full length and with as much heart, soul, and hipshaking, shoulderrolling, chinthrusting jammifunkalicious and historial tastiness possible.

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News With Nezua | The Thirty-Eight Words

News With Nezua | The Thirty-Eight Words

IN HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS, President Obama speaks but “Thirty Eight Words” on Immigration Reform and judging from more than one source in the blogosphere, they weren’t extremely inspiring. Others were happy to hear immigration reform mentioned at all in the SOTU. But combined with the inaction so far on immigration reform, many activists and organizations are feeling daunted.

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A Different Direction

A Different Direction

A DIFFERENT DIRECTION. It’s where we find the path headed home when we are far away from anything safe. It is where we turn when we want to find new ground, higher ground, better ground. It is the very choice that is often obscured from our vision until all the others vanish.