31 de Mayo, 2007

Show Them the (Whitewashed) Liberty Door

A FANTASTIC POST from Laurafern, about her experience married to un migrante mexicano, and some realizations and fears and hopes she's having about life in America. The sad truth is that Fermin’s attitude reflected on things I wouldn’t have believed, that my pro-immigrant views are not the mainstream, that...

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 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 12:41 PM.  | | (6)

CRIMEWATCH (Fair and Balanced!)

ANYBODY WHO READS THIS PAGE regularly needs no further introduction to the following news item, nor any analysis of what it means to yours truly. A mob of 20 to 30 white teenagers beat and threw stones at two Latino men in an unprovoked attack at a park south of...

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30 de Mayo, 2007

Tony Salazar Leaves This World

I REALLY WANT TO POST THIS, but am crazy-busy with graphic design work (and grateful to have it), so formatting and commentary will be minimal, but message is important. Dear Friends: It is with sadness that I inform you that Tony Salazar passed away yesterday morning in San Francisco....

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Letters for the Bizarro Hole

THE KEY TO SUCCESS and happiness in the USA? Apparently, it's an easy formula. Assimilate, stop calling yourself a "Mexican American," open your eyes to how evil the Democrats are, and vote Republican! Ay. This letter is gross (not to mention condescending, fullofit, and transparent) in so many ways...

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I'M RICH, MATE!

HOLY CRAP, the God of capital letters and sweepstakes has informed me that I've won the "AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY"!!! Wow! Moreover, it seems I've done this three times today, already! I've half a mind to just hang out in my junkmail folder all day with this sort of fortune. Damn....

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Corporate Czars and the Beet Field Peon

AND WHILE WE ARE DISCUSSING the validity of "law," the morality of the "force" that fuels these laws, the agents who prosper from our swallowing them whole, and the hypocrisy therein that cannot withstand close inspection, I offer this:...

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29 de Mayo, 2007

The Mysterious Case of The Ungrateful Natives

SPEAKING OF CONNECTING THE DOTS, The Glennstitution digs in under the skin. It's about time we began using such awareness in the larger spheres of political commentary. About time we all began calling things what they really are. In general, human beings do not appreciate it when foreign armies...

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Choke on the Rainbow.

DEAR COMMENTER AT 71.146.149.242, You said: [...] Not real fond of the criminal turds flooding into my once beautiful country, raping, murdering and stealing everything not bolted down either. When we reach the tipping point that the stupid collectivist Democrats will be the ones that will lash out the...

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The Media Excuses Itself, Part 814

QUESTION: Why is it when you turn on the TV, click on a news Web site or pick up a newspaper, the only Latinos you ever see or hear about are criminals, illegal immigrants or half-clothed female singers with dyed blond hair? ANSWER 1) There is no agenda to demonize...

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A Lot of Electoral Votes

FINALLY, someone in the MSM compares America's historic land grab in Mexico with her current oil grab in Iraq. Wars of aggression trumped up on lies and greed. It's a clear comparison, and I've been making it for a while. But what does the New York Sun come up...

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28 de Mayo, 2007

187 Reasons Promo Site

THIS IS MY OLD MAN'S promotional site for his new book 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border. So far, it is just a temp splash page for the book, but I'm doing a lot more work on it. Doubling up the column, toolbar on top, blog, pages, banana...

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WoC Fundraiser for Allied Media Conference

FROM BFP: As you all may know, Women of Color Blog (brownfemipower.com) is currently directing readers and supporters to the blogs (and pay pal buttons) of some really great feminists of color media makers. These amazing women are raising money so that they can attend the Allied Media Conference...

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Nezua Limón's Tome of Tequila Etiquette: Rule 71

Page 27, Rule 71: SHOULD THE MOMENT ARRIVE in your Tequila-enhanced conversations in which you find yourself loudly proclaiming "I AM CALM! I'M AS CALM AS A RIVER FLOWING DOWN TEMPLE STEPS, MAN!" it is best to simply excuse yourself politely, apologize to your host for referring to his...

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Skinless

SO HEADLINING IN THE ALL-NEW CHRONICLES OF NEZUA is the fact that "The Skinhead" won't be coming home this weekend after all. Now, I know it's a bit dehumanizing to call a man "The Skinhead," and I don't call him that in my everyday life. It's really only how...

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27 de Mayo, 2007

The All-New Chronicles of Nezua

THIS BLOG NOW TAKES A TURN and becomes a chronicle of Nezua's trek through the adventurous interstate Summer of 2007. Bound to remain fully rooted in the dramatic and ridiculous and philosophical and overzealous, yet perhaps to include a bit of journally type jottings, mundania from daily trottings, worrisome...

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26 de Mayo, 2007

¿Donde Va?

IT'S A GOOD TEN MINUTES I sit and watch the planks of wood that are my fence warm with the rising of the sun. The green mustard tufts of treetop recede to the towering fold of hill on the horizon—its a horizon lapping just at the edge of town,...

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25 de Mayo, 2007

How To Not Make Excuses

THIS CAT makes me look like a sloth, lately. ...although my own cat makes me look like a sloth, lately, so that's not saying much. I must get out more. Got to. Anyway, enjoy your weekend, vat@s. I know I've been light on posting. Earning tortillas, you know? I'll...

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Real Life

I REMEMBER WHEN studying film for my second degree, there were some who were taken with the purity of Documentary, of cinema verite; the TRUTH in capturing Real Life. Our fundamentals professors broke us of that idea when they taught us that even choosing film stock was an editing...

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24 de Mayo, 2007

blackbird gasoline

IT IS A MOMENT DRENCHED in foreshadowing. I feel it immediately upon me, as if the wind has quieted down for this very reason. The sun is floating behind my back, staring as if lost in thought. Overhead, the hot blue is sliced into odd rectangles of sky. Telephone...

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In Memory of Mrs. Nueces

I'M NOT SURE why it matters at this point...but the brief consideration, or appearance of respect for past treaties is—though quaint—a sweet one. HARLINGEN, Texas -- A planned, much-debated fence along the U.S.-Mexico border designed to keep illegal immigrants from crossing the Rio Grande river could skew the border and...

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23 de Mayo, 2007

Aliens Vs. Senators

THE DAILY SHOW. When I first saw a clip of them testing out the Mexican humor (and it was with Gonzales) it felt off to me, I posted on it (Seedy Gonzales and such, sorry no time for linkness). But I thought this clip was good, realigns the humor against...

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A Cage of Many Purposes

OKAY, this has got to end. My blood is boiling and I am afraid to even hear the whole truth. Listen, I know I shouldn't be surprised that there are now allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in the concentration camp known as Hutto. That doesn't mean I'm not...

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22 de Mayo, 2007

Five Damn Good Blogs

OKAY, STILL NO TIME to really finish any posts that require time and an editing mind. But I have a slight break between jobs (like an hour or two?) so let me answer the tag from Migra Matters about Five Damn Good Blogs or something like that. I really can't...

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21 de Mayo, 2007

Sunday Skillet Blogging #5

BEFORE I GO back to my webgrafikky world, I better post this a day late, before a certain law student loses her patience with my running on extreme Mexicano time! For your viewing pleasure, Sunday Skillet Blogging número cinco! (Now with high-rez close-up shot, over 18 and hungry patrons...

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Lull for your life

BRIEF LULL in the usual ongoing stream of words. I do have a couple posts building up here and there. Right now very busy on web design junk. One job overlapping another. I'll tell you one thing, though. Go away for a day or so and you realize the...

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20 de Mayo, 2007

Bedhead

I HAVE MUCHO TRABAJO I'm doing today, getting ready to prepare latinalista.net for the exciting launch tomorrow of the new look and functions of Marisa's blog. But I didn't want to leave you with nothing today. So meanwhile, please enjoy this hella good black and white short from the early...

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19 de Mayo, 2007

Anchor Around Her Own Neck

CAN WE, as honest and intelligent people, really ignore the disturbing contradiction existing in the Malkin? It's been said before and I'll say it again: What's up with the Anchor Baby raging eternally against immigrants entering the country, sometimes in the same way as she did? Michelle: is it...

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Excursions

IT'S JUST ME AND LIL 'NITA for usually about a quarter to a third of a day, and sometimes, all day. She's a lot of fun to watch as she begins to find the many pieces of the world, as she assigns meaning to them, as she responds emotionally...

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18 de Mayo, 2007

You Can Do It, Mamá

I'VE HEARD IT SAID THAT the Democratic party is the "Mommy party" and the Republican party is the "drunken psychotic Daddy party." So okay. Offered for your consideration: If "Daddy" has turned out to be an unreliable and arrogant idiot who talks a lot of shit about Living the...

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From Freedom to Fascism

FOR YOUR FRIDAY or Saturday night movie watching. If it interests you (and if you haven't seen it, of course), and you have time, I do recommend it. I originally wrote a long intro, but I've deleted it. I don't even want to do that. I'll leave all the punch...

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El Cumbanchero (and Other Precious Stringed Singles)

FRIDAY NIGHT and los niñ@s are SMOKIN'!...

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Fiebre Primaveral

THE SUN IS RISING STRONG and it looks to be a beautiful day. Already the light strikes sideways the wooden shingles, plating each one with a polished bronze. There won't be much if any posting today. I will return soon. Accept my wishes that you have a joy-filled and...

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17 de Mayo, 2007

Truth Conspires to Start Tiny Fires

OH, HELL just when those grassy knoll people started getting quiet. This is only going to stir things up. In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to...

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Bush League

IF BUSH STATES HIMSELF that the terrorists who struck us on 9/11 are "trying to get us to withdraw from the world," please tell me how this syncs with his vehement denial that America's bases in other countries and our interference in their affairs is "to blame" for those...

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Immigration Reform Deal Struck

A DEAL first negotiated by Senators Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz) has been has been accepted and agreed upon by a "bipartisan group" of senators. The deal attempts a broad reworking of America's immigration laws. In the details available so far, preference for attaining a green...

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Yearning to Breathe Free

OAKLAND AND SAN FRAN pull a Lady Liberty!: Oakland officials are reaffirming their city will remain a "city of refuge." Voting unanimously Tuesday night, the City Council adopted a resolution that forbids city employees or police officers from participating in immigration raids. The measure also broadens Oakland's 1986 "City...

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La Migra, Asparagus Killers

I WRITE OFTEN, and have recently, about this self-defeating dynamic America sees fit to practice in regard to brown immigrants from south of the "Border." And deeper yet, this...utterly disgusting and strange notion that America has nurtured in one form or another since the days of her Jamestown aspirations—this civilized/savage...

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Updates on Site

THIS IS A NOTICE simply to let you know that certain "reference" pages on The Unapologetic Mexican have been updated in significant ways. • Copyright Credit Essentially, I require consent for derivative use of my work now. Note to bloggers and anyone quoting or blockquoting: nothing changes. This notice is...

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16 de Mayo, 2007

Gravel Gives the Straight Dope

OUR MAN GRAVEL, kickin' out some more groovalicious gems: When asked whether he believed marijuana should be available next to beer in liquor stores, Gravel replied, "Go get yourself a fifth of scotch or a fifth of gin and chug-a-lug it down and you'll find you lose your senses...

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Las Flores de la Ciudad

OKAY, the day is beginning to cool. I think I'm done with code for the day, you? I was going to suggest we crawl out onto the roof and finish this bottle of red, you know. Turn up that old Dylan groove, let To Ramona drift out over the...

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Defector From the Killer Robot Forces

I SHOW YOU, NOW, one of the most original, and heartfelt posts I've seen from el otro lado—that is, the other side of the white-brown thing—that talks about the White Lens, or the Haunted Land—or other things I've framed and named for my own landscape, but that we all...

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Elvira and Saul Need Help - Stay of Deportation

A CALL TO ACTION to residents of Califas, from a friend and activist LaVerdad regarding Elvira Arellano and her son Saul. If you live in California, please join with us on this. With this effort I do think we can make a difference—a huge difference—to this family, and also...

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Quetzal at Centro

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Copwatch Benefit Concert - Santa Ana

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Kings of Our Time

YOLANDA KING—a heart filled with love—has left the building. She will be remembered well. The King Center in Atlanta - set up to preserve the legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King - says his oldest child, Yolanda Denise King, has died. Steve Klein, a spokesman for...

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15 de Mayo, 2007

Fall well

MAY JERRY FALWELL never meet a god so cruel as that which he had envisioned. On the other hand....who am I to spare him his due? May he get what's coming to him. Whatever the hell that is....

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Choppin' Off the Nose

LATINA LISTA talks about some of the first signs of how Ordinance 2903, passed Saturday in Farmer's Branch, Texas—and the first of its kind in the state—will affect similar communities: With the passage over the weekend of Ordinance 2903 that starting May 22 will fine landlords $500 a day for...

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The Caveman Underneath the Makeup

I DO NOT HAVE TV programming, only a DVD player and a VCR, so I don't know if The George Lopez Show was funny or if it was terrible, or somewhere in between. I know it lasted five years. But it seems that ABC has made up its mind...

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14 de Mayo, 2007

Citizenship Application Workshop

PLEASE see below the cut for information on a Citizenship Application Workshop on May 19, 2007 in Orange, CA....

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Chican@ Art Mag #3 [Junio Release]

OKAY! A friend and reader reminded me that I have neglected to follow up on the Chican@ Art Mag dillio. (I also know I owe you a couple other posts on other issues I've mentioned). So without delving deeply into what a monster this maw of a blog is...

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The Moral of a Truncated Tale

SOME DANGEROUS LESSONS ARE LEARNED when you pretend history starts with a specific land-grab. For instance, if you pretend that history begins once the bulk of the indigenous of (North) America were decimated, corralled, and had their land taken, you can apply the definition of genocide to the "melting-pot"...

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Del Diario - Entrada #051407 [(Re)introduction]

From the Del Diario Series, entrada #051407:...

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13 de Mayo, 2007

Hasta Los Huesos

A SWEET SHORT to take us into our Sunday evening. "Until the Bones" would be the literal translation, but "Down to the Bones" is the more accurate (Usually called "Down to the Bone"). A short claymation by animator/director [español] René Castillo. It would be reductive to position this flick as...

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Carnival of Radical Action

FOR THOSE who like to write, think, protest, organize, or otherwise get your grassroots radical carnival action on: Announcing: The Carnival of Radical Action Most of us are organizers or activists in our real lives. Or at the very least, we think about it an awful lot and wish we...

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For You, Mamá.

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Delegate Cero, the United Others, and The New Porn

MARCOS speaks of his new (erotic) book, his mask, and the future as he sees it. The subcomandante's specific aim in his current low-key tour of the country is to consolidate the broad and loose collection of marginal left groups known as The Other Campaign. Marcos hopes this rather...

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The Face of Our Collective Conscience

I SAW AN AD for quaker oats this morning and in my oversensitive way, I noticed that two brown girls were tugging on the sleeve of the tall "Quaker" icon-man who was rolling away on a skateboard. Yes, it was surreal. But it got me thinking. It got me thinking...

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12 de Mayo, 2007

God is in the Grip

THE EXISTENCE OF GOD can be definitely proven in the design of a banana, this amazingly insightful video shows us. And let me just say that this short piece has SO many unintentionally hilarious moments and lines I can't even begin to quote. For fun, on your second viewing, keep...

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Para Los Niños. Para Todo el Mundo.

IT IS SABADO (Saturday), and I have three action items for now. There will be more posts today, I have some information on a few things I would like to pass along. Hutto Prison Fer Kids is one, and then I have some info on Chican@ Art Mag, and also...

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11 de Mayo, 2007

We March Again

"NO MATTER HOW HARD YA TRY YOU CAN'T STOP US NOW" goes the Rage Against the Machine song, and it fits just right today. Those types who wished the cops "would have used real bullets" in the recent assault by the LAPD upon marchers in the May 1 May...

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Imperative

RIFFING ON A MEME brought my way by two powerful and intelligent women I answer now What is the great imperative of my life? And it is, simply, to be Free. To remember how to be free. To remember I am free. To help others be free. To re-make...

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Kindergarten Class Pwns the MinuteMensos

FOR OUR FRIDAY You-Tube treat, I give you a stand-off between a sidewalk full of lame Minutemens@s and a playground of young children, whose unflagging cheer of ¡México! ¡México! ¡México! brought tears to my eyes by the time the vid was over. This wasn't really because of the name...

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Alien Expedition 0257u.09

PERHAPS YOU HUNGER for a bit more intelligent commentary on my recent post titled The True Front of Progressivism than that found on certain comment threads. I can't say I blame you. The post generated a bit of conversation, and much of la energía has been fantastic, and sometimes has...

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9 de Mayo, 2007

A Bomb in the Mind [Cosechas Extrañas...5?]

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IN AMERICA is a bomb in the mind, destroying truth by creating holes in our awareness. So let's fill those in just a tiny bit. More than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected for the first time on Tuesday the continuing occupation of their...

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Flexible Mirrors

I'm a "Human" because that's what we call ourselves. We even call all "Humans" Created Equal. If we called ourselves "Mojemba," that would still mean what "Human" does now. Mojemba would still mean "deserving of consideration I feel is mine by right of birth and existence." And I would want...

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8 de Mayo, 2007

Lou Dobbs: Hispanic Journalist?

LOU DOBBS now lifetime member of Hispanic Journalists Association. How...icky. DOBBS: Well, I can tell you this. If we reported it, it’s a fact. STAHL: You can’t tell me that. You did report it. DOBBS: Well no, I just did. STAHL: How can you guarantee that to me? DOBBS:...

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ALLIES is one letter away from ALIENS

ONE MORE METALICIOUS post referencing la unidad, allies, and blogando, and then I'm headed for algunos rayos de luz. I think, anyway, it will be a few days processing the recent post I wrote on us "Lefties" joining together for what I see as today's Civil Rights struggle—bringing humanity...

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7 de Mayo, 2007

no hoods

How, now, the threat over all is the MEXICAN How happy is hate to be given its head how swiftly violence occurs to the reasonable and the people who claim to be kind and humane wear no hoods but in their words are fear and gasoline and flame...

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Moving Forward [Insights Into today's Immigration Issue]

MIAMI, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Discovery Networks U.S. Hispanic Group, a division of the number-one nonfiction media company Discovery Communications, today announced the launch of "Moving Forward: Thought Leaders Share Their Views on Issues Facing U.S. Hispanics," a study available to the public that provides a rich, and timely exploration...

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Oaxaca Earthquake

OAXACA gets shaken up by a 5.1 earthquake. Sounds like it was mild, but of course any earthquake news in Mexico brings up some bad memories....

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The Contagion of Colonial Thought

SOME MIGHT LAUGH at a commercial like this (I did, thanks Kev), and then dismiss it, saying "Good thing we fired Imus don't allow commercials like that on the air anymore! That was the 60s, before we were enlightened, back when racism existed in America." Here is a recent...

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6 de Mayo, 2007

The True Front of Progressivism

SOMETIMES YOU WONDER if blogging is a component of Real Change, done for distraction, provided as a social experience, or is just a game. And of course, it is all these things at different times. In their better moments, blogs can affect people and their views profoundly, just as a...

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5 de Mayo, 2007

Flags and What They Mean

A WORD to anyone who doesn't understand it immediately: When you see brown people waving Mexican flags in the May Day marches? You are seeing a Chicano/Chicana (Mexican American, YES a citizen) show support for the land that birthed their blood. You are seeing a strong fist in the...

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Homeland Insecurity: Psychological Migra

MORE on the continuing double bind that today's Mexican Americans face. Appeal to us for our spending dollars, appeal to us for our votes while you exploit immigrants for the cheap labor and knowing they won't appeal to anyone when abused, use excessive police force both on the everyday...

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Short Reach for the Peach

According to the new NEWSWEEK Poll, the public’s approval of Bush has sunk to 28 percent, an all-time low for this president in our poll, and a point lower than Gallup recorded for his father at Bush Sr.’s nadir. The last president to be this unpopular was Jimmy Carter...

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¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO! Happy Corona day! Happy Ragtag Guerrillas Cream the Imperialist Invader Day! ¡Feliz La Victoria de la Batalla de Pueblo Dia! Cinco de Mayo celebrates the spirit of independence, although of course it is not Mexico's Independence day. (Amigo XP has a good historical rundown.) Many...

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4 de Mayo, 2007

People Like You and Me

FOR TONIGHT'S YOUTUBE installment, I have no choice but to return to this song. I know many of us have heard it before, but it refuses to be silent. Thank you for participating. Do not be hesitant. Do not resist. The drums are quiet liberating. Worthy of your sweat....

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Aliens

ALIENS they say pointing toward an imaginary fungal faultline perhaps riven across the glossy belly of a taco-shaped space ship on the horizon perhaps propped up by 4,437 spindly legs and most definitely painted with a black, curling mustachio somewhere somewhat shattered in the land of colonial hangover and vague...

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Ahora

THANK YOU to all who wrote or commented. I do appreciate the lift, and encouragement. I wasn't really expecting it, nor meaning to imply I would "give up." Sometimes you just need to stop and smell the moss. You did, actually, make me want to post sooner. Don't know if...

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The New N****** in Town

Illegals is the 21st century version of 'nigger'. That is what I hear when the term is thrown at undocumented families. Just like nigger was (and still is, although less overtly) the soundtrack to the murder and oppression of black folks, 'illegals' is the political theatrical score for the...

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3 de Mayo, 2007

Regroup

I look around and it seems it's okay with most, what happened in L.A. I am stunned. And between the vile comments I've seen and the justifications, the othering of Mexicans, and the silence of good people, I honestly feel a bit ill. I'm maybe gonna take a tiny...

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The Right of Peaceful Assembly. Gone.

THERE IS NO RIGHT TO PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY IN AMERICA. There were signs earlier, it's true. But now it can be said to be official. File this along with what you read on blogs about habeas corpus and wiretapping, this latest display of contempt for our rights: here is a...

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2 de Mayo, 2007

Scaredy-Cats With Bullets and Bats

SOME OF MY BLOGMIGOS have written some good posts on la chota, and how the fear brigade brought their rubber sadism to peaceful May Day rallies. Am I surprised? Nah. Do I have any feelings over it. Yeh. I do. Do I have any words of my own on...

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I'm A Winner!

Finally, The HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) Prize awarded weekly to the loudest and most inconsequential feminist (type) drivel the SC&A jury can find, goes to The Unapologetic Mexican, who wrote For the Good of All: Us -Iraq Must Fail. —The Wednesday Weekly Whacky Award Goes To, sigcarlfred.blogspot.com "Feminist type...

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Unrelated Quotes, Part 6.

What the hell is going on? About six weeks ago, I went to CostCo and found the store flooded with Mexicans - most of whom didn't speak English - even the kids, 8 years old, running around the aisles out of control didn't speak English. ... Now yesterday there...

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Concretized Fear

WHEN HAS A BORDER WALL done anything but harm? Berlin, Israel, Baghdad, China, America. These fences, walls, borders, assaults upon the flow and migration of water, humans, and animals. These politically-inspired prisons we erect. Concrete, barbed wire, sensors, radar, aerial drones. We confess our lack of understanding, loss of...

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Cusp

THERE IS MUCH TALK, whispering in the wind, fables unfolding, legends colliding; hints of a big change coming for us all. El Sexto Sol is one, the Rapture is another, Global Warming change is another, as is the The New American Century—I am not endorsing any of these in...

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For the Good of All: US-Iraq Must Fail

AND THE IRAQ OCCUPATION BE DRIVEN OUT and the attempt to sow seeds from the American invasion collapse—in an incontestable and dramatic fashion. As it is doing. While every statement from the Right or the Left presupposes the idea that Of Course I Hope it Succeeds, I must disagree...

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1 de Mayo, 2007

Government and Society and Person

I WANT to thank all the people who emailed me a response to my sociological society/gov't-type questions. I'm going to chew on these and do some thinking for myself, and a bit more reading, probably. I may reply, and ask a follow-up question (which you are free to answer...

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The Job-Stealing Aliens Have Landed!

THIS VID is snackylicious, and just like I'ma do with your job, I ripped it offa nuestra amigo, XP. You ought to read his whole post, because its heavy duty. But meanwhile, here's some comic relief to take us out; an illuminating video from the Onion that spotlights the harsh...

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No Más Silencio

THE SAD PART about so much violence and human harm done all over the world is that it is but a reaction to a reaction. If the world would listen to all of its inhabitants, and flow with the changes that these voices require, there would be a world of...

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Black and Brown. Together. Then, and now.

LET THE BROWN AND THE BLACK come together in solidarity. Let us not be torn apart by those who would pit us against each other in order to maintain the dominant power structure. It is a trick, and a lie, and if we feed into it, we oppress each...

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Red Carnations and Water Cannons

TURKISH POLICE celebrate May Day 2007, commemorating the 1977 murder of 34 Turkish protestors by police in a unique fashion: ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Turkish police charged into crowds of leftist protesters marking the anniversary of a deadly May Day rally in Istanbul on Tuesday, spraying tear gas and...

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It's A Community Thing.

SOLIDARIDAD. Even in Milwaukee, USA. RACINE — Roughly a dozen local businesses — from Taqueria Gran Morelos and Las Palmas to Alicia Villa Realty and the Dollar Store — won’t open for business today. [...] Approximately 200 Racine Unified high school students and 200-300 family members will board about 10...

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Stronger Than Police

REPRESENT, Oaxaca! Show us how it is done. Beauty and hope fills my heart! Admiration for the unfettered human spirit, hope for all of us. More like this! At approximately 5pm today in Oaxaca City, Radio Universidad was re- occupied by APPO sympathizers and students from different departments of...

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May Day 2007

¡HAPPY MAY DAY! And Happy First Blog Anniversary to The Unapologetic Mexican! To celebrate this double cocoa-dip of scrumptiliousness and powa, I am reposting this video made by yours truly, and set to Ben Harper's tune Oppression. Crank it up!...

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