A HATE CRIME is made possible by many actors, not just one ugly mind and hand. You have the actual perpetrator of the act, the immediate culture that encourages and approves of this behavior, the legislation that provides a moral/legal underpinning for certain views, and those who craft the legislation. All will soon be held accountable.
TOO MANY in the USA cannot help but be poisoned by our toxic MSM and its festering monologue. It is a media that cares not for humans, but instead for profits and fitting in with the power flow. Let’s be reasonable: almost 100,000 hungry children wandering and lost cannot be helped by laser-equipped fences and fancy phrases.
AS HISTORY IN THE USA pointedly picks favorites, leaving some of us out of the books and movies and stories and truths, it is very important for raza to continue to tell our own stories through art, poetry, song, and performance. This is one of the reasons that arte is so integral to nuestra cultura.
IT IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH and time to take a bit of time to focus on a struggle that is waged every day, in every city, in every town with very real consequences for our entire world, and yet is alloted hardly the finances and attention and energy that the battle requires. After all, helping the world become a place that loves mujeres as much as they provide love for our world is a lifelong job—and all of our jobs.
Please join FirstFriends/IRATE (the Interfaith Refugee Action Team - Elizabeth), People’s Organization for Progress, the New Sanctuary Movement, NJ Immigration Policy Network, the Haiti Solidarity Network of the Northeast and Pax Christi NJ at 1:30 pm on Sunday, October 12th as we march with the flags of the nation to honor our immigrant heritage and protest the treatment of immigrants held at the Elizabeth Detention Center.
WHILE OUR ORIGINAL INTENT was to present a meaningful side-by-side comparison of both Senator Obama’s and Senator McCain’s answers to our survey in order to better inform voters, Senator McCain’s unwillingness to answer questions or go on the record with his positions on the specific details covered in the questionnaire has made this impossible.
PRESS RELEASE: After 20 years of archeao-astronomical research, Alberto Hagar-González has deciphered “keys’ hidden for thousands of years in thegeometrical patterns of the Mayan pyramids and the steles and glyphs of Yucatan, Mexico. Saturday, September 13th he will give a free talk at Southwest College, Little Theatre in Los Angeles starting at 11 AM.
MEMBERS OF RECREATE ‘68, The Troops Out Now Coalition, Unconventional Action, and the People’s Law Collective give a Press Conference informing the public of the previous day’s actions and abuse perpetrated by the Police, as well as the Denver Police Department’s refusal to honor the lawful permit held by Recreate ‘68.
AT A TIME when our communities are under siege with unduly harsh immigration enforcement measures, our young people are dropping out of high school and getting pregnant at higher rates, the schools that predominantly service our children are in a state of decline, healthcare is out of financial reach and racial profiling across the country is at its worst, we deserve more than empty political promises by a campaign that says it wants the Latino vote but doesn’t want to give our issues the time of day.
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