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Los Begas Bound! And Other Bits.

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

I’M LEEEEAVING ON A JETPLANE! I don’t know when…oh. Actually, I’ll be back in three days.

News With Nezua | Semantic Games Do Not Make Change

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

SEMANTIC GAMES DO NOT MAKE CHANGE. What a person stands for, acts for, works toward, and feeds is what and who they are. Given the dodging games and general misunderstanding of the terms Racism and Racist, are there clearer ways to assess and describe what harm someone is aiding, or what justice they are fighting for? Yes.

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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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Happy May Day 2010!

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

IT’S MAY DAY 2010! We take to the streets to support the fair treatment of all, to share strength, and to reject SB 1070 and all similar attacks on our communities. Also, happy birthday to UMX!

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Alex Sanchez Freed!

Monday, February 15th, 2010

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

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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 2010 Rodolfo ‘Corky’ Gonzales Symposium

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

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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A Different Direction

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

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.

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Weekly Diaspora: Weekly Diaspora: Does Coakley’s Loss Spell Trouble for Immigration Reform?

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

PROFESSIONAL PUNDITS AND DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS are in a frenzy over what Martha Coakley’s senate seat loss to Republican Scott Brown might mean for American politics!

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Weekly Diaspora: Haitian Diaspora Spans Borders

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

ON TUESDAY, THE WORST EARTHQUAKE IN 200 years struck just off the coast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Bringing “catastrophic destruction” to the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, the disaster has spurred relief efforts worldwide.

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Weekly Diaspora: Real Immigration Reform in 2010

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

IS IT EVER ‘THE RIGHT TIME’ to pass immigration reform and a path to legalization? The short answer? Yes. Our national economic situation dictates that we are smart about the resources available to us all. And it remains a moral imperative to always apply or adjust our laws to protect the most vulnerable of us.

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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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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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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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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.