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Che Guevara. Should a Chicano Care?

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

DOES CHE GUEVARA DESERVE TO BE AN ICON for Xicanos, Xicanas, Latinas, Latinos? Only if we remember where the struggle lies and what it is about, at heart.

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SB 1070 and LULAC: Is the Fix In?

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

AN INTRIGUING VIDEO into the very-possibly rigged election for president of LULAC and what might be the motivations behind that….

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ISRAEL, Ideology of Trauma

Monday, May 31st, 2010

MANY AMERICANS OF JEWISH DESCENT find themselves torn in two by the tyrannical and cruel actions Israel levels upon the Palestinians. Perversely, for these people, it is not so much rampant Anti-Semitism that causes us shame at our roots, but the actions of the Israel state. I am one.

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Miami Debriefing; The Intersections of Race, Class, Journalism, Activism, Croissants, and Immigration.

Monday, May 10th, 2010

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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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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On Haiti

Monday, January 18th, 2010

ON HAITI: Thoughts, Memories, Links.

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The Three Amigos Play A Brand New Theater

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

THERE IS A LARGER PICTURE undeniably drawing itself in clotty bright blood across the imaginary maplines of this world. There is a cause and effect of which the US is ignorant, as is México, as is Canada. That is giving them the benefit of the doubt. One could assume far worse.

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Your TV Wants You Dead

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

A PROBLEM IN TODAY’S DIALOGUE is a blatant abuse of pronouns. WE don’t use them as WE should. Words as cloaks, words as shields, words as masks—Television language on full blast from the mouths of well-paid shillers, in-absentia killers, supergroomed elitists faker pill-popper death makers.

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What You Hath Wrought and With Vitriol Sought

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

SOMETHING MUST CHANGE. When US citizens already suffering from a terrible loss are attacked by other citizens en masse, and for nothing more than having Spanish names, it makes me feel like the past has reared up; days of Civil Rights era struggle, days of anti-Greaser hate, days of Los Vatos Locos and the dangerous fabled Pachuco. La Lucha Sigue.

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Your Papers, Señorita?

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

A DEPARTMENT LIKE ICE has no conscience, of course. Just directives (like “make 400,000 arrests this year”) and a great concern for its public image. If that’s the case, however, I can’t imagine why they’d think chilling out on train platforms and plucking young Latinas out of the crowd would go over well.

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Bad Apples in a Decaying Orchard

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

WHEN CONSIDERING THE MURDER OF BRISENIA FLORES, it does not help us find any valuable truth or approach any larger societal problem to isolate the event and wall it off from the larger context of anti-immigrant and thus anti-Latino hate and hostility in this nation. We have a larger problem on our hands.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Women Central to Immigration Story

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

THE CELEBRATED STORIES of early American pioneers, explorers, and immigrants typically center around men of fortitude and bravery. Depictions of modern-day migrants remain male-centric, and this cultural lens is the default in most cases. But women play a central and overlooked role in today’s immigration story.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Enforcement Agenda Creates Aura of Criminality

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

The Latin@ community has had ample reason to hope that President Obama would take on immigration reform in a humane manner. While he is undeniably centrist in his political approach and has long been fond of language stressing punitive solutions to the immigration issue, he has also said that “America is changing and we can’t be threatened by it.” But enforcement policies are becoming a threat, not only to immigrants, but the country at large.

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Happy Mother’s Day! Feliz dia de la Madre!

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

LIKE THE EARTH, like the waters, like the sky…like Mama Nature herself who loves us down to our bones, and even when we’re bad, or wrong, or all alone. Where would we be in this world without our mothers?

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The Battle of East and West

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

THIS FIGHT PROMISES to be a blaze of energy and talent. Phillipine hero Manny Pacquiao, 13 year veteran with fists of true fury is coming off of his huge win over Oscar de la Hoya to fight Ricky Hatton, UK’s fierce warrior in Las Vegas, USA.