25 de Junio, 2007

Transitions

DOING A LOT of packing, chilling with Lil 'Nita, moving. Not really much reading of blogs or news, just no time. Hope all is well, and you people are getting a good amount of wind and sun. See you in a few....

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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 8:48 AM.  | | (12)

24 de Junio, 2007

Lil 'Nita Jams Out

SINCE LIL NITA CANNOT REACH across 88 keys, she runs up and down the length of the keyboard to hit her solos. Here's a short vid of her accompanying a Tracy Chapman tune while others do the packing (and filming). She was going for a minute or two, but stopped...

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23 de Junio, 2007

The Ghost at Our Table

A NEEDED ANGLE in today's immigration talk. Fresno farmer David Mas Masumot brings a farmer's point of view. His is a humane voice, and offers a sane and kind perspective, as well as a frightening look into how farmers like himself will be forced to change to cope with a...

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Tension of the Bubble

PACKING. Exhausted. This is the tension of the bubble. Eating at odd hours and not enough. Soon to push through. She is working every day and since that leaves me with the baby all the time, I have once more come to appreciate even ten minutes alone. I think...

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Uncle Same

THE TIDE OF SANGRE MEXICAN@ just won't stop flowing into the Excited States of America. Aging white men in suits are hard up for solutions and are forced to invent weird ideas to try and plug SOME kind of hole in the punctured and leaking census demographic that Bill O'reilly...

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22 de Junio, 2007

Madmen Speak to Cameras

Gen Pace said "our enemy is going to want to impact the psyche here in the United States with regard to the number of significant incidents that they're able to pull off and the total numbers of the casualties that they will produce". [...] "if you try to define...

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Chertoff Responds to Kerry, Spares Yaderlin Jiminez

THE CHEESE-EATING FRANCO earns his honorary zapata-stache today for coming to the aid of an ILLEEEEEGUL. (I know that the Jiminez's are from the Dominican Republic! But you can't expect me to give up an opportunity to put a sombrero on Kerry!) Even though the only news articles out...

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Mexican Supreme Court to Investigate Oaxaca Oppression

THE CITY WHERE JUSTICE CANNOT SLEEP: The Supreme Court of Mexico has decided to appoint a commission to investigate serious violations of human rights which occurred in Oaxaca between May 2006 and January of 2007. Those violations included the attack on sleeping protesters on June 14, 2006 and the...

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Poor Poconos Plastic Plant!

HERE WE GO AGAIN. Another ICE raid. But this time, the story has been somewhat edited, and the roles recast. In today's hair-raising episode, the Dirty Mescans collude with an anonymous but evil Temp Employment Agency (as well as with Dirty Invaders from Indonesia, Malaysia and Ecuador) in an effort...

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Un Puño de Tierra - Antonio Aguilar Presente!

Mexican mariachi singer and actor Antonio Aguilar, who recorded more than 150 albums and began his acting career during Mexico's "Golden Era" of cinema, was buried on Thursday at his family's ranch in the northern state of Zacatecas. Aguilar died late Tuesday at the age of 88 after a...

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21 de Junio, 2007

The Deadly Sugar Plum [Support the Truth 3]

I HOPE ALL YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN who have ever thought about joining the United States military are keeping a good eye on how you will be thought of and treated by the government even when you give them your life. Perhaps to those from other countries who long to...

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Disposable Heroes

DISPOSABLE HEROES, the title of a song I used to love, is an apt name for the young men and women we insist die for the United States' wars of imperialism and aggression. June 17, 2007 — The U.S. military's announcement this weekend that it recovered the ID cards of...

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David Rivas Morales Beat to Death by Crowd

NOWHERE IN THIS ARTICLE is David Rivas Morales' ethnicity mentioned, so it must not be Mexican American, and even if so, that surely did not come into play in this mob beat-down and murder near the border of Texas and Mexico. It's just one more case of a car bumping...

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20 de Junio, 2007

First Day of the New Lease

WE DID IT. We're in. No more of the old hell. We've moved on to the next level. Signed the lease. Got the keys....

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The 20th Day of the Last Month

IT'S FUNNY, I had a long post almost completed. But almost all at once, every ounce of willingness to be effusive and expressive has fled. So let me be brief: 1. going to meet with a landlady maybe later. seven pm. we'll see if she liked our refs. if...

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19 de Junio, 2007

Robert from SCF on Trial Today in LA

REMEMBER THE SOUTH CENTRAL FARM? If you live in or near LA, you can continue the support today. Trial for South Central Farm Supporter Today Distribute Widely... Please come out this Tuesday, June 19th at 8:30am and show your support for Robert who is the last and only person...

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Escaping the Frame

A NOTE ON THEORY. I wrote, before, on how I was feeling tired of the dynamic that seems to have taken over some blog discourse. The reign of Theory—as in Privilege vs. Not-Privilege, "Internet Race Theory" as I jokingly called it, or Feminist theory, or whatever it happens to be....

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18 de Junio, 2007

Is That an IED in Your Pocket, or...

CERTAINLY ONE DEFINITION of "sexing up the news":...

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La Nación es de Quien lo Trabaja

THE NATION BELONGS TO THOSE WHO WORK IT. Or "Narco News Calls out the Left Blogosphere for Being Absent on a Core American Issue That Will Be Carried Forth by A New Valiant Sector: Today's American Immigrants." Hmmm. Sounds a bit familiar for some reason. Have you somehow missed...

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17 de Junio, 2007

Venice is Where This Began [Open Thread]

THIS WILL BE AN OPEN THREAD, a new features for sundays. I figure this will be an easier commitment to maintain than my Sunday Skillet Blogging (sorry Sylvia!). A little grafix work from me, and your fine Hearts and Minds. (Isn't it wild that a phrase like "hearts and...

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16 de Junio, 2007

A Welcome Visitor

STRANGELY, UNEXPECTEDLY, grace has visited the home and just when I was sure things would crack up from stress here, things are different. Rudy and GF came back, but are staying out in the trailer. There is no loud music in the morning, and the house is considerably less crammed....

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The Lazy Mexicans, Pt. 4437.02

THE JOBS MEXICANS steal from us. Employees worked closely together in frigid temperatures wielding sharp knives, many without protective gear, investigators and former workers say. Some workers, they say, stood in pools of water without boots near submerged electrical cords. Many were forced to work up to 18 hours a...

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The Apologetic UnMexican(a)

THIS IS SAD. I’ve got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out. My grandfather was the only Mexican at his college, the only Hispanic person at work and the only one at the all-white country club. He tried to forget his Mexican...

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Prioritizing Acquisitions

I wish I could chalk up our national inability to grasp that it’s a good thing to know more than one language to the simple fact of geography—we’re bigger than any European country, so linguistic diversity seems less compelling. But it’s more than that, and Schwarzenegger’s attitude here points...

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Oaxaca Anniversary - Solidaridad con Sección 22

AT AROUND FIVE in the morning on Thursday, June 14th, 2007 hundreds of fireworks cracked the quiet dawn and burst in the sky above Oaxaca City, Mexico. Though the streets remained still, people began waking up and movement chants could be heard coming from the windows of houses. “If...

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Envidia - Internalized Oppression Pt. 07

A man stumbles upon a fisherman who is gathering crabs and placing them in a bucket with no lid. When the passerby asks the fisherman whether he is concerned that the crabs might climb out of the bucket and crawl away, the fisherman replies that there is no need...

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Selling Satan Souls for Sweet Sensimilia

A proposed pro-marijuana conference to be held in the US-administered Northern Mariana Islands has led to a bizarre row among local legislators. [...] "We welcome anybody who wants to hold a conference here, whether it be to discuss marijuana or not," government spokesman Charles Reyes said Thursday. "We want to...

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15 de Junio, 2007

Pick you up at eleven?

THIS IS ACTUALLY a great song, but due to the camcorder dynamics of the whole thing, well. IT'S LIKE YOU'RE ACTUALLY THERE! And...I don't mean that in a metaphorical fashion. The beat is crazy. I was buggin out to it on my iTunes, and then I shot off to YouTube...

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The King of Powder Blue Irony

THE KING of irony....

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Mujeres de Colores, Women Superheroes

opening reception saturday - June 30, 6 pm - 9 pm Mujeres de Colores, Women Superheroes SPARC is honored to present the work of Salt Lake City Utah artist Kim Martinez to the Los Angeles community for the first time. The exhibition will feature a series of paintings on...

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Gilliard, Brittney, and the General

I FEEL THAT SOME PEEPS are waiting for me to take a side on this issue. It seems the thing to do. Or maybe I just feel obligated, due to my affiliation with Jesus' General, being a guest poster at his blog and all. Regardless, I don't want to...

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Day Fifteen of the Last Month

SO, TODAY IS THE DAY that the "family" returns. It's been so sweet having the house to ourselves. I can't even tell you. The first half day was spent on decompression, and my nerves are slowly ramping up again. I've been very busy but happy in these four days....

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A Mighty Makeup Job

OH, I KNOW I RISK people saying "Why do you hate Angelina Jolie?" Or perhaps, "Why don't you pick on a man who has used brown makeup to play a part?" (If you find me one a bit more recent than Touch of Evil, I will gladly put it,...

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We Don't Need No Stinkin' Passports!

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A PASSPORT, you now have until 2009 to travel down México way with a bit less of a problem. WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee on Thursday voted to put off until mid-2009 passport requirements for U.S. travelers entering the United...

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Investigator of Brad Will's Death Shot Twice

IF THERE WAS EVER ANY DOUBT in my mind that Brad Will was shot as part of nefarious agendas designed to silence truth, that doubt is now completely gone. Misael Sánchez Sarmiento, the Oaxaca-based Tiempo reporter who was investigating the shooting, has now been shot himself. MEXICO: Oaxaca journalist...

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14 de Junio, 2007

Have You Seen My Pet (Issue)?

OH NEAT, Matt Stoller of MyDD.com suddenly has a reason to care about Mexican Americans and their Pet Issues! I've been having a running conversation with my good friend Rick Jacobs of the Courage Campaign, who's involved in a progressive immigrant rights group called Dreams Across America. This coalition group...

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Memories of a Mexican American

SOME THINGS YOU REMEMBER when someone you have been living with reminds you, through someone else, not to "take their things" when you move out are: a) You gave ten animated disney movies to their daughter that you had in your movie collection for 17 years—because you thought it would...

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Enjoy Your Fruit Cup, Melting Pot

MORE ON THE PORTLAND RAID: This morning, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided the Fresh Del Monte Produce fruit and vegetable processing plant in Portland following a criminal investigation. Over 165 workers were caught up in the raid. About 30 have been released on humanitarian grounds. While we are...

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13 de Junio, 2007

La Migra Stink Up Portland Oregon

NOT SO FAR FROM NEZUA, the long war continues: PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal agents on Tuesday raided the offices of a Portland food processing plant suspected of employing hundreds of illegal workers who used Social Security numbers that belonged to other people or were made up. More than 165...

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Reminders From You

THIS IS WHY my readers rock:...

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Memorial Mass for Tony Salazar

A Memorial Mass will be held for Antonio (Tony) Salazar, President of Salazar Communications, and Publisher and Editor of Teleguia Spanish language magazine. Friday, July 6, 2007, at 5:30 pm, at St. Augustine Catholic Cathedral, 543- West Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan (269) 345-5147. Mr. Salazar passed away on Monday,...

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12 de Junio, 2007

La Locura y La Luna

SOMEWHERE IN THE VIRTUAL SKY hangs a swollen pixel-bloated moon. And I am hearing howling. A haywire current of energy is being communicated through the blogosphere, and petty fights, jealousy, whisper campaigns, and shit-stirrers are running rampant in their clown clothes. Blogs are shutting down left and right and...

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Day Twelve of the Last Month

FIRST THINGS FIRST: Rudy and family are gone for four days. They took a vacation to the beach or something, driving down to the coast. Of course myself and mi novia were not invited. But I won't pretend I'm either shocked or hurt. Because I know what the deal...

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I Am Not Angry [Spoken]

SOMEWHERE IN THE PAST comment threads is a request for me to read the poems I write here at times (was it Arcturus?) I have not got to the rest of what I've written here, and I plan to, in time. But for now, here is the poem I just...

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I Am Not Angry

hey there, mister angry said the small voice inside my phone a good friend surprising me with a happy accusation i'm not angry i said feeling like stammering but somehow speaking softly instead she asked me laughing if i had a "Napolean Complex" from growing up small and i felt...

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11 de Junio, 2007

The Path is Always Sound [Nexus III]

YES, I think that's it. Lately I feel that too much of my reading list has become a conglomeration of somewhat-haughty and overly-academic divisions. And I'm not interested in that. I'm very much still interested in all the things I write about. And I am very much interested in...

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10 de Junio, 2007

Where is the Kindness? [Let's Have Nexus II]

ARE WE BACKING OURSELVES into a trap? With our surety and righteousness and protection? If A has been oppressed/hurt/abused by B's type of people, and because of this we all agree that A owes B no explanation or education on why or how they experience life and need to be...

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The Man Who Feels Is Not A Man At All

AND HERE IS WHAT AWAITS the man who tries to speak honestly in YouTube comment threads. It's a little funny, and sad. I include it because it is an extreme version of exactly what I've faced all my life, being expressive and "sensitive," and verbal, and well...human. Something men are...

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June 10 and I'm Half Gone

BUT ONLY A THIRD OF THE WAY through June. At this point, discussions and activities in the blogworld have begun to fade, to jerkily retract, I don't have as much time between the baby and my work and trying to keep my little family together in the face of...

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Beef Recall

A WARNING to those who eat meat: So we have two major ground-beef recalls in progress. Both, they tell us, for e. coli contamination. One got a reasonably big, non-hysterical but thorough, coverage on the Saturday evening (NBC anyway) news. That’s this one, which covers a great whacking lot of...

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CDC Health Advisory

MY MOTHER is the director of public health for the county she works in, and she has passed on this official CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) advisory to me. If the area concerns you or any loved ones, you can download the entire pdf here. CDC Health Advisory...

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9 de Junio, 2007

Ten The Most May Be

THE MOST CLEVER SPAM COMMENT I have had the pleasure to delete, as of yet:...

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Now Ya Sunni, Now Ya Don't!

The American soldiers in Amiriyah have allied themselves with dozens of Sunni militiamen who call themselves the Baghdad Patriots -- a group that American soldiers believe includes insurgents who have attacked them in the past -- in an attempt to drive out al-Qaeda in Iraq. The Americans have granted these...

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If You Don't Like My Fire...

THIS ONE ALWAYS MAKES ME SMILE so wide. Damn happy-ass tumbadora player. It's infectious, love. Ben Harper (and friend): Burn One Down....

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Historical Invasionism

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8 de Junio, 2007

Let's get it straight!

I AM NOT BEHOLDEN to write about what you think I should write about in my own blog! So stop telling me that I can't tell you what to write about, dammit! This is my blog and if I want to write that, I can!...

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7 de Junio, 2007

Nezua Reveals (Finally) the Mexican Cock.

OKAY, OKAY, OKAY! Enough. I give up. Clearly, judging by my site statistics, there is a huge amount of people who visit The Unapologetic Mexican for nothing more than to gaze upon "Mexican Cock." Well, I'm tired of fighting this tireless horde. I hope this puts an end to...

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Invalid

...when clicking "Okay" is the only choice given....

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Captain, I'm Crestfallen.

OWNING THIS BLOG and checking the stats has brought to my attention how terribly inadequate this nation is at spelling the word "apology."...

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6 de Junio, 2007

Eyes of a Different Size

"JIM, it seems to be learning. Speaking to itself... [long pause]...almost as if self-correcting. [my emphasis] I get the distinct impression that these..."seizures," as you put it earlier—that these "seizures" are but violent waves of realization, or revelation, as countless disparate cells transport a massive flux of data. Only...

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ALIENCHOLO: The Cosmos is Your Barrio

HERE'S A MOMENT between working and cleaning and sleeping and playing and even stressing. The little one is napping, and it's a moment so precious that I fear to commit to doing anything but sit and breathe. Because soon, the little one shall rise (O yes she shall), and...

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5 de Junio, 2007

The (ALL NEW) War on Anger

IT OCCURS TO ME that we may not be going deep enough with our War on Terror. I was thinking, yesterday, as I waited for the man ahead of me in line to finish sighing and giving nasty looks at the woman in front of us (who was taking,...

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3 de Junio, 2007

Americans Raised by ALIENZ???

BETTER LISTEN FOR STRANGE CODED LANGUAGE sent back to the mother ship! Those ALIENZ can show up anywhere. Even in the heart of your Commerce Engine. Indeed, the presence of illegal immigrants may actually be increasing overall employment, and at little cost to wages, suggested Robert J. LaLonde, a professor...

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And So it Grows

IMAGES gleaned from the garden....

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2 de Junio, 2007

Steve Gilliard Has Moved On.

BLOGGER STEVE GILLIARD has died, after a long and arduous illness. A moment of tribute for a man about whom I've heard many sincere words of praise. Steve Gilliard, ¡Presente!...

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Day Two of the Last Month

BIENVENIDOS A JUNIO, we are now at day two of our "Month of Challenge," and when I say this, I do not refer to my challenge in coming up with a certain amount of funds in three and a half weeks or so...nothing so material (material and important, don't...

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Notes from a Death Star Stowaway

DEAR ALEJO, I'M LOSING MY MIND and once again I write you from this glossy cubicle because I don't know how they do it. I don't know how they all stay sane in this place. You go mad if you shut off the Sound Box because nobody talks about...

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1 de Junio, 2007

Well-Ironed Suits Required in the House of Death

PERHAPS YOU REMEMBER the House of Death saga? The secret and bloody fingers dipped south of the border by the USA? The ones that reach all the way to top of the DOJ? The Narcosphere has got some tasty docs on hand, as well as more backstory and links...

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¡Tony Salazar Presente!

AS YOU MAY REMEMBER, yesterday I posted on the passing of Tony Salazar, an old-school Chicano (cat knew mi papá!), one of los soldados who paved the way for us younger generations of xicanos and xicanas with such pasión y corazón y lucha, with El Chicano Movimiento. The esteemed...

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Keyboard Broken

THAT'S THE NEWS for the day! I'm on another computer for the moment. My wi-fi keyboard went crazy and died yesterday afternoon. To all who need to know, I am not working on any graphics work nor will there be blogging until I get over to the Mac store...

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