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3 de Febrero, 2007
Palestinian Family Released from Hutto
Categorized under Migra | Tags: Hope, Hutto, migra
I'VE TALKED ABOUT the DHS/Swift/Hutto/Labor-busting raids that landed many Mexican families and their children in the Hutto Residential Prison or whatever cute nickname it's going by today. Many peeps in these parts of the cybergeography have been following these events. It was very emotional watching it all go down. Mostly we've waited, sometimes kept our hands busy or spread the word; sometimes demonstrated, and sometimes when it was too heartbreaking, we may have chosen to laugh, bitterly. There have been so many people affected, and even more unknowns. It is by no means over.
According to various news sources, as well as our always-attentive-to-the-issue Latina Lista, the first family has been released. It's the Palestinian family that's been in the news before. It's a start, feels like a direction at least. Gives some hope. I imagine on the inside of such places, it's easy to feel that nobody cares and time is just dragged-out misery. Maybe this will give to those families, and especially all the niñ@s, some hope with which they can whittle down their hours away from freedom.
A moment for good energy to those swept up in the maw of the clanging, ever clenching Murkan Dream Machine. Thanks to those keeping up with this story, spreading the word, being loud about it.




Comentarios (7)
Rafael dijo:
Fear mongering asshat Glen beck has some nice choice words for the "camps", camps that he likes because he as a White Man(tm) will never have to face the like. That is unless the Islamofacist or the CommiePinkoLibs take over.
I wish I knew where to find a copy of his Headline news show (audio) so that I can put it up on my podcast. Rat Bastard!
Palabras por Rafael spat forth on el 3 de Febrero, 2007 at 03:24 PM
Rafael dijo:
This is what media darlink Glen "Asshat" Beck had to say about the new wave of Concentration Camps:
What a guy!
Palabras por Rafael spat forth on el 3 de Febrero, 2007 at 03:35 PM
brownfemipower dijo:
grrrrrrrrrrrr. I've about had it with this bullshit. Why does every person in the world have to take responsibility for shit that the u.s. government does even have to *dream* about taking responsibility for?
When will the u.s. government take responsibility for the fact that they are on this land illegally? When will they take responsibility for the fact that they have destroyed the livelihoods of almost every poor person of color in the freaking world? When will they have to take responsibility for the fact that when you destroy a persons house and make them choose between feeding their kids or making a payment to your piggy self--eventually, after a while, a person is going to say "fuck you" and choose to feed their kids?
Palabras por brownfemipower spat forth on el 4 de Febrero, 2007 at 01:12 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
i hear you bfp. we're never having the true, difficult conversations in the halls of power. lots of smoke, pipe, blur. the fatcats get wasted on power and the rest suffer the liver damage.
and thanks for the info, raf. thanks for the yapping meatpuppet propaganda. sheesh. what a guy, indeed. "guy." loose use of a word if i ever heard one....
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 4 de Febrero, 2007 at 02:05 PM
mikefromtexas dijo:
Brief bio: I grew up in the Magnolia neighborhood of Houston TX. I played Little League baseball at 'Mexican' park. Didn't know until a few years later it was actually Hidalgo Park(saw it on a map one day). I was the ONLY white kid there, only white kid who went swimming at De Zavala Park on most days. After HS I lived in Brownsville for about 5 years and now reside in Corpus Christi. I can say from my own personal experience, what I know in my heart, that the most insidious thing people like Glenn Beck, Rush, Lou Dobbs and the rest of their ilk do is dehumanize the people they despise. They see and say criminal, illegal, etc...I see HUMAN BEINGS trying for a better life. I urge everyone reading this to take the time to hand write a POLITE letter to all the advertisers on CNN, include a few of your most objectionable qoutes, and tell them you refuse to have one penny of your hard earned dollars going into the pockets of bigots and hate mongers like Beck, make a copy and deliver it to the manager of your local Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. One letter won't make a difference, a million letters and a drop in sales might.
Palabras por mikefromtexas spat forth on el 4 de Febrero, 2007 at 05:57 PM
Rafael dijo:
On that note MikefromTexas:
Spocko over at Spocko's Brain (just Google it) has been doing a bang up job of showing local.national advertisers what their dollars buy over at KSFO out in the West Coast. He really but the fear of money a few second tier talk-hate radio host.
Palabras por Rafael spat forth on el 4 de Febrero, 2007 at 07:15 PM
Rafael dijo:
BTW, I was looking for the audio of the transcript, something to put up on my podcast, but could not find any. Plus I just found out that I was violating all kinds of copyrights laws by the music I was using on my show. If someone knows of some podcast safe music (or would like their music on the show). Please email me at ralfast@gmail.com.
Palabras por Rafael spat forth on el 4 de Febrero, 2007 at 07:17 PM