THE WORLD GROWS CHAOTIC, humankind too often not heeding lessons, and all around is the feeling we must do something about everything. Walls spring up, oil spills out, violence creeps in and how is an engaged activist to keep centered in the face of all of it?
ARIZONA GOVERNOR JAN BREWER is desperately swinging back at the national boycotts and global condemnation demanding a repeal of Arizona’s SB 1070 (“Pro-Racial Profiling Law”). Last week, she commissioned a snarky frog-puppet video skit that promotes the widely condemned law by responding to all critics with an admonition to read the bill or shut up about it. This week News With Nezua—in the form of Zip and Zoe, puppet friends with their own Puppet Theater—responds.
WITH THE REPUBLICANS OPPOSING EVERYTHING except war, torture, and the upward redistribution of wealth; the Democrats addicted to capitulation and impotence, and the immigration advocacy groups in disarray, it is the children who shall lead the way.
THE PASSING OF ARIZONA’S SB 1070 stirs up an already simmering pot of cultural conflict, just as a steady beat of enforcement rhetoric and punitive fearful talk about Mexicans lends itself to increased tension and eventually, violence. Democratic politicians and advocacy groups don’t help matters, even as they pose as champions. It’s you and me and community. We simply cannot depend on anything or anyone else.
BACK FROM MIAMI AND LITTLE HAITI, where I attended an international symposium on Immigration Coverage in Media and met a host of fantastic people as well as experienced numerous interesting, challenging, exciting, and enlightening moments.
WE OWE ARIZONA OUR THANKS for passing a series of persecutory laws over time that finally culminate in today’s cultural crisis. Boycotts, civil disobedience, and righteous outrage are sweeping the country as this self-proclaimed nation of immigrants is engaged in a fight over its heart and soul.
LA MARCHA on May Day in Salem, Oregon, where we showed up and made joyous noise to call for the repeal of SB 1070, protest racial profiling, and show support for immigration reform.
A LOTERIA STYLED TRIBUTE to the man who spearheaded the hostile and persecutory racist vibe spreading further and deeper over the state of Arizona every day: Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
YOUR EVER-EXUBERANT HOST discusses the headlines this week in Latino-Centric and Immigration headlines: Supposed advocates scamming immigrants; the SCOTUS decides immigrants deserve justice; talk on the ICE quota leak; the fragile fate of El Museo Alameda, and más, más, más.
FEATURING the immigration march and rally in Washington DC on Sunday, March 21, 2010.
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?
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.
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?
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?
IF YOU CAN STAND THE FUN, sit yaself back and enjoy this Arpaio-Only edition of News With Nezua!
House of Nezua
the XOLAGRAFIK theater!
