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Monday, January 18th, 2010

ON HAITI: Thoughts, Memories, Links.

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.

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Virus Brings Swine-Hearted Lobby Into Foreground

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

THE MOMENT that the news of the “Swine Flu” hit the wires, it was easy to predict what the anti-immigrant faction would have to say about it. This particular cadre of caustic and crazed voices are so locked into their views that their contributions are unnecessary in a dialogue that preferences truth.

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Oregon Swine Flu Media Briefing

Monday, April 27th, 2009

OREGON: Public Health officials from the state of Oregon, Portland held a news briefing yesterday to discuss the latest information on the swine flu outbreak, local readiness to respond should the situation elevate and what people can do to keep themselves and others safe.

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The Story of a CAFO Survivor

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

WILL THE SWINE FLU SERVE AS A WAKE UP CALL for the agricultural industry, finally? That a different system is needed? That our current output and mass production rates are an illusion built on dangerous processes? A Wall Street Meltdown of the food supply that teaches us we cannot sustain ourselves with a structure that lacks integrity and tries to compensate with excellent marketing?

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The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

WE KNEW THAT THERE WOULD BE a faction of people so wed to their own racist thought patterns they would be incapable of dealing with the fact that a non-white person was president of the US. I guess I thought they’d be a bit more honest about it.

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Bellingham Raid Focus Results in Drastically Different Outcome

Friday, April 17th, 2009

THE NATIVIST LOBBY HAS INSINUATED ITSELF into the media dialogue on immigration to all our detriment. They create a false boogeyman of danger and parasitism, and promote the impression that the only response is a harsh, punitive one doled out in cuffs or a cell. The results of the February Bellingham raids are in, and put the lie to this screech of extremist thought.