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Boycott Arizona.

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

IF A STATE WANTS TO RETURN TO AN ERA that the rest of the Union decided to move past long ago, then perhaps they ought to be allowed to bootstrap themselves into oblivion.

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SB 1070: The Wet Empanada Version

Monday, April 26th, 2010

WITH ALL THE INTENSITY of SB 1070 being passed, and all the vile spirits unleashed unto the online comment threads, and with all the heartache that witnessing such injustice brings—Stephen Colbert offers us a much-needed laugh and break in the action.

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SB 1070, The Latest Volley in the Long War

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

A SMALL BUT INSISTENT FACTION of this nation’s populace, have today, indeed “taken back the country.” Taken us back to revisit the spirit of our country’s ugliest moments with the passing of Senate Bill 1070 in Arizona.

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The Foolishness of Politicians; The Future of the Progressive; The Fantasies of the Proletariat

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

WE ARE SERENADED and handled by sociopathically-skilled master paraders. The Good Cop/Bad Cop dynamic shuttles us from room to room eliciting the desired confession and appropriate gratitude. Meanwhile, the People dance and still struggle, while the sun turns Glenn Beck’s tears into blood diamonds.

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Indivisible [Thoughts on the Immigration Rally in DC]

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

TO GIVE YOU A PEEK INTO THE IMMIGRATION RALLY that I attended on Sunday in Washington, DC, I’ve embedded a slideshow of the fotos I took. Come time for the next News With Nezua, I’ll have a video for you to watch. I can only hope that I can convey to you some of the energy that was filling the National Mall.

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They Come When the Rain Drums

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

A SPIRIT THAT MOVES AMONG OUR PEOPLE and means to do great harm to many of us cloaks itself in many shapes. An extreme aversion to what is perceived as cultural shifts in the USA hides behind ideas of patriotism or English-fetish and manifests as cruelty.

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From the Mimeograph to La Bloga!

Monday, February 15th, 2010

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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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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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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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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Proclama a los Pueblos de México!

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

“OUR NATION is debating a crisis on par with that which gave birth to the Revolution of Independence, The Reformation wars and the Mexican Revolution. Just as was the case then, this is a long overarching crisis in our economy, politics and culture.”

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Why “6 9 8 6 6″ Matters!

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY GROUPS, activists, and various politicians are gearing up to move immigration reform forward. Meanwhile, xenophobic restrictionist paranoiacs lie about numbers because their turnout is dismal.

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Storm y Luz. Sombra and Sky.

Friday, November 20th, 2009

THIS STORM is unfolding as it will, and we are yet to see how it will end. The electricity feels threatening at times. But here is a chance, now, finally to talk about the things we need to talk about. Which means the chance to make real change.

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A Global Poetic Positioning System

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

ART, ACTIVISM, AND TECHNOLOGY MAESTROS will wield the paintbrushes that splash a poetic hue of dawn over the cracking and flaking façades of injustice that today, stand, smoking, hulking, and hovering over la tierra y nuestra primavera!

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Napolitano and the Three Legged Stool

Friday, November 13th, 2009

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.