IT IS AS IF WE GET COMFORTABLE and forget our own histories. The tales of struggle and dreaming and working and persecution—is this not America? Are these not our stories? Would we throw our own past into prison?
THE NEW YEAR RUSHES UPON US with momentum born of crisis and necessity. In every direction one looks, change is needed—and not cosmetic alteration, but deep, structural repair. The issue of immigration is no exception.
OVER HERE, you have people working together to overcome changes that scare just about everyone. And over there, people are taking advantage of the fear that often accompanies these changes. In this season of giving and love and familia, may you and yours be surrounded by those who fight with and for you.
HATE DOES NOT EMERGE FROM A VACUUM. Nor could it thrive there, we might add. Just as many hands are required to bring about positive change in our culture, so are many energies and voices required to propagate negativity on a large scale. There is no doubt that a battle rages and that the heart of this nation is at stake.
ANNOUNCING one more way and place in which I will be engaging the everthreshing tentacles of the Internets in order to help get a grip on some humane talk on immigration and migrants and families and communities of migrants and the nation we make up. A brief history of UMX, and a new phase of the online efforts.
House of Nezua
the XOLAGRAFIK theater!
