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On Haiti

Monday, January 18th, 2010

ON HAITI: Thoughts, Memories, Links.

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Nezua Named Recipient of Narco News Scholarship

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

TODAY, I understand I have a responsibility to employ each and every power and talent and means I possess in confronting, exposing, and righting the injustices in our world. Opportunities that help me reach this goal bring me profound happiness.

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MCSO Police: “I Am Up Here!!! You Are Down There!!!”

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

JOE ARPAIO’S RENEGADE LAW OUTFIT thinks itself on a mission to rid the state of Latinos. Every day the case grows stronger that law means nothing to these cops and that the community is under siege. Here are a couple videos that demonstrate them violating a friend’s civil rights.

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After the Carnival

Monday, August 17th, 2009

HOME FROM PITTSBURGH, after another multi-day, exhausting, energy-packed, hotel and airport stuffed trip has come to a close. Here I sit with memories of Chicken Santorini, Hula hoops, elevator assaults, dirty rivers, high priced liquor…and what did you expect?

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Hard Times Come Home

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

FOR A SHORT, SUNNY, MOMENT when talk this year turned toward recession (and even while documenting signs of it in my own area), I hoped I might be insulated from the effects. At least to the extent that I could continue my way of living: writing and doing artwork for money and having enough time in all of that to stay sane. I thought to myself that my clientele is an upper-middle class, well-educated, tech-savvy group and that people always need art and website graphics for their business, even in a recession. Even as business began to drop off, I reasoned that it was fine.

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Growing up Around and Through the Empire’s Ruins

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

I NURTURE A SUDDEN AND UNREASONABLE HOPE that we can institute behavior incompatible with the larger and more destructive behaviors of our culture as well as cast off the illusion that makes so many give up before they might have a chance to start.

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Nezua Named Commonweal Institute Fellow

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

THAT SOUND YOU HEAR is the moan of the Newspaper industry as readers abandon the pulpy, stinking ship in droves. This is, in part, why the blogosphere has taken off and some troublemaker like myself can gain such a platform. (Well, that and my secret salsa!)

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Concrete and Glory: The Atlanta Awards Expo Story!

Monday, June 8th, 2009

HOME FROM ATLANTA and unspinning my tales, so please cozy up to the emerald-hot rails. Oh, what? You heard me speak in Atlanta on blogging and New Media? And now aren’t sure how to reconcile some of what I said with how I’m running this little copper-wired circus? Well, then let me briefly and concretely interruptus.

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NAM Expo: First Day in Atlanta

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

AS IS ALWAYS THE CASE with my “on the road” blogging, this will be brief and likely devoid of linkage or fine tuning or formatting I would prefer because I am typing this on my iPhone. But coming out here to accept an award for what we have done with the Sanctuary is huge to me. And worth it. That’s today.

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Goin’ to Georgia for Sanctuary

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

OF THE SANCTUARY, the latest developments, and Nezua’s flight to Atlanta to receive on the group’s behalf an award for Blogging in Ethnic Media. Also, news of our Luis Ramirez piece being printed, and an appeal for good vibes, Xanax, and spare change.

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Nezua Does New Media Tour ‘09 [Pt. 1, NCLR Annual Conference]

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

IN 2009, I will be traveling to a few different events and speaking on panels or presenting/appearing in one way or another. The second event scheduled, though first to be announced, is a panel on New Media at the Annual NCLR Conference in Chicago in late July.

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Weekly Immigration Wire [VIDEO]: A Cry for Change from Coast to Coast

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

HERE IS THIS WEEK’S VIDEO complement to the TMC blog I wrote Thursday. Articles covered include the many actions being taken across the nation as people demand movement on this issue. Also, I speak on why we need immigration reform and now. There will be a YouTube version, but from now on there will be a window of time after I post videos on the XOLAGRAFIK site.

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Some Bruises Fade (Still Flowers Bloom)

Monday, January 26th, 2009

WE ALL LOOK TO THE NEW SEASON of politics with hope and with relief and many of us, joy. But as much as we want to simply admire the new bloom and leaf and ray of sun, let us remember (and Never Forget) that you do not plant a garden in active rot if you want a healthy harvest.

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Weekly Immigration Wire [VIDEO]: Trapped Behind a Mesh of Broken Law

Friday, January 16th, 2009

HERE IS A SHORT VIDEO I put together for The Media Consortium, highlighting issues like the DREAM Act, the new TV show Homeland Security USA, and Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s latest swipe at any visible legal protections for today’s undocumented population.

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The XOLAGRAFIK Diaries, Episode Dos ["The Nezuabot Would Know']

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

EPISODE DOS of this new vloglicious conversation wherein Nezua finishes talking about the changes which see us into 2009 here at The Unapologetic Mexican blog. Much delicious coffee went into the making of this video, and probably should be sipped while watching. It wouldn’t hurt.