The American Dream has become a nightmare...and we need to wake up.
Remembering Brisenia. Skewering the "News" outlets that ignore her.
The tricks and trade of powerful entities.
FEATURING the Netroots Nation 2010 Immigration Checkpoint mock ICE action.
A group of friends and myself staged a mock immigration checkpoint where we racially profiled European immigrants and their descendants, and required them to show papers that proved they had a right to trespass on native land. Some were puzzled, many laughed, and a couple were furious. What made the difference in these reactions?
THE NATIONAL MOOD AROUND IMMIGRATION grows darker, as the government neglects to champion the vulnerable undocumented population. Racists and White Supremacists show no such hesitance to engage the issue, and the ground is defaulted to them by a lack of legislative action as politicians worry about elections and polls and have forgotten their own humanity. Highlighted this week: The Utah Hit-list.
I’M LEEEEAVING ON A JETPLANE! I don’t know when…oh. Actually, I’ll be back in three days.
As an age of nationalized narcissism comes to an end in the USA, the illusion of hyper-abundance meets the limits of physical reality. To protect the illusion, those in power gird their stance, the government grows more fearful, and the police state more powerful. Actions that benefit the people, weaken our dependence upon the state and/or strengthen communal bonds are made illegal. Given this trend, will all righteous acts one day be illegal ones?
When powerful entities like politicians, oil corporations, cops and banksters break the law, they are rewarded or overlooked. When less empowered entities like the poor, minorities, or the undocumented break the law in order to thrive in an unjust system, the powers that be “make an example of them” so that the law can be “respected.” Critiquing this hypocrisy as well as others on Obama’s recent speech on immigration.
FOR THOSE WHO CRY OVER ‘LOSING THEIR COUNTRY,’ here is a simple way to take it back!
SEMANTIC GAMES DO NOT MAKE CHANGE. What a person stands for, acts for, works toward, and feeds is what and who they are. Given the dodging games and general misunderstanding of the terms Racism and Racist, are there clearer ways to assess and describe what harm someone is aiding, or what justice they are fighting for? Yes.
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.
THE LONG WAR. The Longest War the USA has been engaged in is not with Afghanistan. It is with Truth. It is against Truth. It is the war for White Supremacy, and it takes many shapes over time and yet never owns up to its own name: War. Waged by other means.
IN ARIZONA, DO WE NOW SEE a sad mutation of our once-beautiful América? Or do the scales fall from our eyes to reveal the true, gleeful, unabashed visage of a beast on which we ride?
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!
THE WORLD GROWS CHAOTIC, humankind too often not heeding lessons, and all around is the feeling we must do something about everything. Walls spring up, oil spills out, violence creeps in and how is an engaged activist to keep centered in the face of all of it?
DOES THE SUPREME COURT RULING ON MIRANDA really matter, in the street? Do cops actually stop questioning you once you invoke your “right to remain silent”?
ARIZONA GOVERNOR JAN BREWER is desperately swinging back at the national boycotts and global condemnation demanding a repeal of Arizona’s SB 1070 (“Pro-Racial Profiling Law”). Last week, she commissioned a snarky frog-puppet video skit that promotes the widely condemned law by responding to all critics with an admonition to read the bill or shut up about it. This week News With Nezua—in the form of Zip and Zoe, puppet friends with their own Puppet Theater—responds.
House of Nezua
the XOLAGRAFIK theater!
