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La Raza Youth Leadership Program

Friday, November 6th, 2009

A GREAT OPPORTUNITY for Latina/o high school students who want to develop their leadership skills and give back to la comunidad.

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Remembering Marcelo One Year Later

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Remembering Marcelo Lucero, killed in Patchogue not long ago. For being a “Beaner.”

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Happy Dia De Los Muertos!

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

THESE ARE THE DAYS in which we gather all our family together again, when we leave a path open, and a way for those who have moved on from the material plane, and yet who will never leave our hearts.

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And We Grow Fat Upon The Fruits of Their Labor

Friday, October 30th, 2009

THERE IS A HIDDEN COST to our delicious food. There is a hidden cost to Capitalism. There are vulnerable people suffering, and for their trouble, they are demonized.

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15-YEAR-OLD LATINO HONOR STUDENT SERVING THREE LIFE SENTENCES FOR CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT “There is no crueler tyranny than that which is exercised under cover of law, and with the colors of justice.” —U.S. v. Jannottie, 673 F.2d 578, 614 (3d Cir. 1982)

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The Times, They Be Cambiando

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

SO YESTERDAY AND TODAY have been the SCOTUS hearings on Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court. I have no doubt that she’ll shatter the small stereotype some of these ailing senators like Scat-mouth Sessions hold in their brittle minds, and it may hurt. I also have no doubt she will rock the process in general, and we shall see her on the Supreme Court before long.

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The Lovestruck Locust Leeches Onward

Friday, June 26th, 2009

THE WEINER FAMILY makes its monies from selling hate to the masses; hate pointed and aimed at immigrants, queers, Obama, liberals, and a host of others. It’s a savage and soulless way to make a living—especially when at the same time you are raking in cash from the same people you abuse thus.

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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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Joe Arpaio: A Racist With A Gun on A Mission to Shatter Families

Friday, June 19th, 2009

WELCOME TO ANOTHER SORDID CHAPTER in the Sherrif Joe Arpaio Freak Show. I know my regulars are all too aware of this sad, aging, dinocreptastic remnant of an era screeching into our past and not gracefully and with guns—but if you are not, here is a treat for you, a YouTube vid dealing with his latest daring act of wackery.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Climate of Anti-Immigrant Hate Yields Violence

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

WHEN A GOVERNMENT build walls to stave off fears, it is, ironically, reinforcing that same emotion of fear. When hostile and punitive legislation is enacted, fear of the Other is mixed with aggression. When a fearful and aggressively rigid mindset is applied to social fluctuations that require flexibility and change, the result is a drastic increase of that negative energy.

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Ten Days for Neck-Noosed Dragging

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

WE TALK HERE OFTEN about the climate of hate against Latin@s fomented by a confluence of factors from the detention industry to right wing radio to pandering (or racist politicians) to the efforts of hate groups like VDARE and FAIR….

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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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Flores por Brisenia

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

A CLASS ACT, these anti-immigrant Minuteman types. Whether it’s being thieves and deceiving those they raise money from, or kicking down doors and shooting little girls and their families, Minutemen brigades are hard at work defending their diseased sense of reality from the world.

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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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The Luis Ramirez Murder: A Logical Step in the Process of Establishing a Subhuman Class

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

THREE THINGS immediately shock the conscious soul upon learning about the murder of Luis Ramirez. The simple manner in which he died is the first of those. His death was a gruesome and violent one, and inarguably racially motivated. And yet, that is not the most horrific part of the killing.