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Bodies and Souls

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

WALLS IN THE MIND, WALLS IN THE DESERT. Ritual and roles. Bodies and souls. You can contain another’s with a show of force, but it will be at the cost of imprisoning your own.

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Arizona Loses Illusions and Blows Own Cover

Friday, April 30th, 2010

ARIZONA, the State of Denial, has spun into a legislative carnival of lunacy with the latest ethnic cleansing maneuver. Teachers with accents will be barred from teaching English, and Chicano Studies linked to terrorism/revolution and banned from schools.

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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 National Sport of Criminalizing Dissent

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

IN WHICH NEZUA IS TURNED AWAY from the Canadian border after a long anticipatory bus ride to visit a friend in Vancouver.

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The Weekly Undocument: Kafka’s Cops On the Watch

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

THE ECONOMY FALTERS and desperate denizens of a sizable nation tack to the right, back away from the light, throw coins at half-crock cops to purchase stronger locks, to erect more dank dim holes in which to imprison the vulnerable soul….

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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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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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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.