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.
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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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
House of Nezua
the XOLAGRAFIK theater!
