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On Haiti

Monday, January 18th, 2010
On Haiti

ON HAITI: Thoughts, Memories, Links.

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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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Simple Division

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

THE TELESCREENS WORK ONLY IN ONE DIRECTION. The conversations are filtered, edited, neutered for your own protection. Even when we discuss such pivotal and worldshaking events as this economic malfunction we are rarely talking without misdirection. So much dialogue spat out in the service of maintaining so much division. It’s time to look to the building blocks of these quaking towers and reconfigure the entire equation.

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Nurturing Truth, Sowing Justice

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

FROM THE ASHES OF THE LA RIOTS arose a lush, 14-acre community garden. The largest of its kind in the United States. Now, bulldozers threaten its future. If everyone told YOU to just give up…would you?

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¡Oye! I Contain Muxtitudes!

Monday, November 24th, 2008

A CRUCIAL COMPONENT to undoing misogyny and sexism is revealing to men that we are sold an illusion. The “man” they would have us be is an unnatural and dangerous one. It is a fanged, bereaved, lie. It is the shifting shape of oppression with a wolfskin slung over its eyes. It is a shroud.

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¡Oye! I Contain Muxtitudes!

Monday, November 24th, 2008

A CRUCIAL COMPONENT to undoing misogyny and sexism is revealing to men that we are sold an illusion. The “man” they would have us be is an unnatural and dangerous one. It is a fanged, bereaved, lie. It is the shifting shape of oppression with a wolfskin slung over its eyes. It is a shroud.

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Carne Blogsada Sábado Roundup

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

¡BIENVENIDOS! And welcome to our Carne Blogsada Sábado Roundup wherein I feature brief commentary and links on a few news topics that may be important to Latin@s y los otros and some choice links harvested from the fruitful and fertile blogsoil of El Blogarrio. Enjoy!

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Flying the Pinche Skies

Monday, September 1st, 2008

I AM IN ” AIRPLANE MODE” which means no signals are being sent out, but I can write a draft of this post and post it when we hit the ground. It is 9:43 am. I am not on the intended flight, but have been moved to a different series of flights, given one extra [...]

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Change in the Weather

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

HURRICANE GUSTAV bears down and threatens more destruction to the gulf coast. Here are some links to take action and stay informed. If you follow them you should find all you need. Meanwhile, stay safe, help anyone you can, and be well.

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FDA Issues Deadly Corrido Alert

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

However you look at it, it’s becoming clear that growing our own food will soon be a necessary component of health and safety. As the food economy is repeatedly hatcheted by a fumbling and stumbling FDA; as plants, slaughterhouses, and restaurants are hit hard due to ICE raids, food preparation and cleanliness is suffering, supply is suffering and at times drying up, and most importantly, our food is simply longer viable in many important ways.

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Dolly Comes to Town

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

From the AP: Rain started to fall along the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Dolly closed in on towns straddling the Texas-Mexico border, packing 85 mph winds that could strengthen when it hits land later Wednesday. The Category 1 hurricane was expected to dump up to 15 inches of rain, threatening flooding that could breach levees in the heavily populated Rio Grande valley.

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Mexico relaxes penalties on undocumented

Monday, July 21st, 2008

I wonder how many people really think that the so-called “immigration problem” really has to do with inadequate amounts of walls and weaponry strung across one part of this land? Or that the crux is simply Mexico’s economy? People are embarking on long, amazingly ambitious and dangerous sojourns, and from further away than Mexico.

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The Amazing Show Begins

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I’VE LOVED THE DAWN FOR YEARS because I like being alone with the planet when the sun rises. I like beginning before the street does, before the noise does, before the thoughts in my mind cramp and clutter in clusters and shooting diagonals and bubbling up antagonals, before the exhaust fills the air and my lungs and dulls the day into evening.