IT WAS PAINFUL ENOUGH for the community when the Minuteman Defense League murdered two members of the Flores family. And that was before we knew the FBI could have prevented it.
ANOTHER WORLD IS HERE. This is only a beginning. Change:: The Music presents a collaboration of artists and media makers who have united to present an International, Multicultural, Interdisciplinary, Multimedia Digital Arts Compilation in order to raise funds and awareness for the United States Social Forum in 2010 in Detroit, Michigan.
FUTBÓL: a game for vicious, poor, brown foreign women who only want to stuff something down your squinchy American throat.
THE WORLD CUP BEGINS! Today’s game is between South Africa and Mexico. If you do not have TV, you can stream it live online. Vamos México! Let’s go, Mexico!
TAKING A MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE THE CONTRIBUTIONS AND LIVES of Tam Ngoc Tran and Cinthya Natahlie Felix, a couple of beautiful human beings who recently lost their lives in a car accident.
IN POLITICS, PHRASES ARE HURLED ABOUT with a repetition that becomes a song; a pattern of mouthsounds spelling out a sonic shape with a predictable, recurrent, and lulling rhythm. Mind, you, the message is a lie, but the beat is so on time, that we find our feet stepping along in a shuffling, delusional line.
A TIMELESS TACTIC practiced by the oppressor is to burn the pages of all your history books. To shatter your statues and to destroy your icons of hope and power. Today in Arizona, these age-old methods play out yet again. But they cannot stop us, nor the truth of our peoples.
FROM THE CONFERENCE IN MIAMI, I came away with two different sides of the same, rich, multi-layered story. I’ve written a little bit about one. Added to the other side, the yield is deeper and richer than it would be by looking at either aspect alone.
ALL GUESTS AT THE ZOO and some imagine they are the keepers when they are the caged. They hoot like monkeys and point with rage.
BE THE FIRST OR BETTER YET THE LAST to bid on my new artwork, a Lotería card of El Arpaio. This one and only painting of its kind is now up for auction. All proceeds go toward helping Nezua not be homeless!
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.
A DIFFERENT DIRECTION. It’s where we find the path headed home when we are far away from anything safe. It is where we turn when we want to find new ground, higher ground, better ground. It is the very choice that is often obscured from our vision until all the others vanish.
THIS THANKSGIVING, like every other day, we should keep in mind the agricultural system that brings food to our tables. It is a system of people, after all. Let us give thanks to the low-wage workers, many of them immigrant and refugee, who make it possible to have such feasts.
THIS STORM is unfolding as it will, and we are yet to see how it will end. The electricity feels threatening at times. But here is a chance, now, finally to talk about the things we need to talk about. Which means the chance to make real change.
A RIVAL UNION has accused the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) of pressuring workers to vote for SEIU over The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) and using coercive and illegal means. NUHW has filed charges.
House of Nezua
the XOLAGRAFIK theater!
