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The GOP: Leaving No Doubt What They’re About!

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

I’M TRYING TO IMAGINE what the GOP strategy is anymore when it comes to our nation of many peoples….

Proud and Selfish vs. Idealist and Hypocritical

Friday, September 18th, 2009

THE REPUBLICANS USE THEIR RADICAL BASE for fuel. The Democrats marginalize their radical base. The GOP operates on philosophies that can allow for greed and harm to the overall social body. The Democratic party has a much more ideal image…but do they believe in it themselves?

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The Day I Was Almost Human

Friday, July 17th, 2009

ON MY WAY TO THE STORE TODAY, I tried to kill a small bird. Don’t hate! The GOP will set you straight. But let me start at the beginning because the end is tragic. O, If only I possessed the ability to base my feelings on an understanding of the world, instead of being a human zero-sum kneejerk reaction…like Jeff Sessions (R) of Alabama.

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They Beseech The Wise Latina…

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

THEY BESEECH THE WISE LATINA TO SOOTHE THEIR TREMBLING AND WOUNDED EGOS. Like petulant babies they repeatedly, almost to the point of absurdity, demand she confess her irrational temperament. And throughout it all cannot see the irony.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Child of Immigrants Nominated to Supreme Court

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

TUESDAY, President Obama announced Sonia Sotomayor as his pick to replace Supreme Court Justice David Souter. Sotomayor could be the first Latina appointed to the Supreme Court. Predictably, attacks and slurs from the Right are already flying.

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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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Unified Labor Movement Supporting “Rights-Based” Immigration Reform

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

LABOR GIANTS SEIU AND A.F.L.C.I.O have come to an accord on the fight for immigration reform and today proudly told the press of the unified effort, one which will seek, “finally, a principled public dialogue” and one, according to SEIU, that “does justice to our heritage as a nation of immigrants.” Get the link to the Nezua-notated liveblog of the call in this post.

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Fistful of Teabag

Friday, April 10th, 2009

RIGHT WING EXTREMIST THINKERS are imploding. Bomb Shelter Beck cries hot nuclear tears of Armageddon, Hannity has jettisoned Colmes for the like of guest lunatics like Michelle Bachman, and right wing gun nuts are making a run on weaponry for no reason other than that the party that invented pre-emptive war is out of power. Time for some TeaBagging to relieve the stress.

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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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New York Times Rockin’ in 2009

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

THE VERY MADDEST OF PROPZ going out to the New York Times for making Bill O’Reilly suffer a mental twitchfest, and even more importantly, using their bullhorn to shout out some truth about Nativist sleeper cells in our media flow.

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International Human Rights Day

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

THERE ARE GROWING MOVEMENTS to unify and leverage our collective voices and stories and power. You see it in many places, in different shapes. Many are working together for a better day. And then, of course, you have those forces that never tire of trying to divide and harm us…

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The Department of Homeland Hypocrisy [A Tale of Lies & Loss]

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

IS THE USA a nation of cheating the system any way you can, getting paid to lie and be a hypocrite while taking advantage of those in need? Or is this a nation where a day’s work is worth a day’s pay, and a dream strapped with motivation is worth honest regard and reward?

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A Great Rejoicing Across the Land [AAP#8]

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS: I understand why looking at that family and imagining them in the White House makes us imagine we might finally be at home. But I have to resist that feeling. If I pretend that home is something that the state can give me in the form of a good-looking “first family” without stopping its economic, invasive, nativist violence, then I deny us all the home in the making that I believe in today and every day.

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Is Barack Obama the needed bridge between blacks & Latinos? [AAP#6]

Friday, November 14th, 2008

CARMEN D: In 2004, President George Bush garnered 44% of the Latino vote and pundits everywhere declared that “Hispanics” were conservative, and might provide a growing base of support for the Republican party going forward. It was a reasonable hypothesis, I guess…

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Assessing the Secret of Joy [AAP #5]

Friday, November 14th, 2008

ELLE, PHD: I expected to cry if Barack Obama won the election—everyone who knows me expected me to cry. I even had friends who called and said, “Are you crying yet?” Admittedly, I dashed away a few tears, but I didn’t really cry. The joy I felt was overshadowed by worry. And why am I letting it get to me?