31 de Agosto, 2007

Chingazo for your Buck

MORE NUMBERS that will tumble down into the fragile fissures of the Nativist heart and wreak havoc by means of brown foreshadowing. By 2010, Latinos in the United States will have a cumulative purchasing power bigger than the economies of Canada or Mexico, the president of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber...

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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 9:48 AM.  | | (9)

Carnival of Education, Radical School Edition

BLACKAMAZON lays down a beautiful guide/post/linkfest/philosophy with her Carnival of Education-Radical School Edition. A must-read. And read again. Forget saviors We need teachers. We need them from the places we have never thought to have gotten them before We need scarred forearms, split tongues, bowed heads, nappy roots, and...

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Home of the Cage, Land of the Dog Box

PERHAPS one day I will feel vindicated for the absolute madness that threatens to corrode my thinking process at each moment I dare to think about what our nation is doing to others in our names. While many people seem somewhat sane and copasetic as they discuss our crimes...

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Don't Scare Them Into Health, Fool Them Into Consumerism.

In an attempt to raise the nation's historically low rate of breast-feeding, federal health officials commissioned an attention-grabbing advertising campaign a few years ago to convince mothers that their babies faced real health risks if they did not breast-feed. It featured striking photos of insulin syringes and asthma inhalers...

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Freedom on the Berzerker

WE SLAUGHTER THEM OVER THERE so that we can fill our tanks over here. Oh, and this is only like Vietnam in that we need to stay longer, spend more money, kill more civilians. So...we're doing good! A US Marine was ordered to execute a room full of Iraqi...

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29 de Agosto, 2007

Pulling a Jose Padilla on the Kid

ROB SANTANA AWOKE TERRIFIED. He'd had that dream again, the one where silver wires ran under his shirt and into his pants, connecting to electrodes attached to his limbs and torso. Adults armed with surveillance cameras and remote-control activators watched his every move. One press of a button, and there...

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28 de Agosto, 2007

Happy Slaves Are Building Fences

The case of Elvira Arellano is symptomatic of the kinds of obstacles we face when trying to enforce immigration laws in the United States. Like other "essays" clinging to the web like lichen these days, this particular ugly growth waves a reasonable cluster of verbiage your way, an introductory phrase...

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Those Who Play in Glass Houses

I'M A BAD documentary filmmaker! I was caught up in a chaotic email list brawl and la novia told me that a car had just crashed through the piano store down the block. Sure enough, when I finally extricated myself from that volley of emails, I saw for myself....

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27 de Agosto, 2007

ACLU Challenges Prison-Like Conditions at Hutto Detention Center

From aclu.org: On August 27, the ACLU announced a landmark settlement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that greatly improves conditions for immigrant children and their families in the T. Don Hutto detention center in Taylor, Texas. The settlement was the result of lawsuits brought earlier this year on...

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Cause and Effect

Undocumented immigrants are starting to leave Arizona because of the new employer-sanctions law. The state's strong economy has been a magnet for illegal immigrants for years. But a growing number are pulling up stakes out of fear they will be jobless come Jan. 1, when the law takes effect. The...

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Dreams for Jose, and All of Us

IF WE WANT Mexican immigrants to be "productive members of society," rather than just denounce them, or even just to hope for them, then we need to help them where we can. Just as if we want our garden to be more bountiful, we need to step out and water...

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Apocolyptic Mel the Jew-Ranter and the Return of the Firm, Firm, Wagon

MEL Gibson is firmly back on the wagon after his controversial drink-driving arrest last year, a Californian court was told yesterday. The actor-director has been attending compulsory Alcoholics Anonymous meetings up to five times a week. An anti-Semitic rant during his arrest last July made headlines around the world....

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How to Commit Republican Suicide, Pt. 734

SOME SENSIBLE WORDS for the Republicans today. Of course, to have hope in their hearing such words, one would have to possess the view that the Republicans are currently motivated by "sense." And as the article points out, it seems all they really care to reach for these days is...

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Atenco, Oaxaca, Chiapas

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Gonzo is Gone

FINALLY, the "nation's first Latino attorney general" resigns. Another rat leaving the ship, and I've got to think that between Rove and Gonzales splitting, and really quite early in the second term of the administration, some heavy shit must be about to go down. War with Iran? Investigations? Subpeonas...

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26 de Agosto, 2007

The Character of the Region

or Blood in the Quill, Still. MANASSAS, Va. -- Ines Olivia Martinez wonders if her family will be denied medical care. Even her mentally disabled 13-year-old son has been anxiously pointing out police cars amid fears of a local crackdown on illegal immigrants. Resolutions to deny a potentially wide range...

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Una luz dentro de la Sombra

EARLY TUESDAY there will be a full lunar eclipse. Tuesday morning, Aug. 28 brings us the second total lunar eclipse of 2007. Those living in the Western Hemisphere and eastern Asia will be able to partake in at least some of this sky show. The very best viewing region...

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25 de Agosto, 2007

Bill Richardson Remembers he's Latino

I DON'T MEAN to rib our dear Governor Richardson, but vato, you comin' out late at the gate! LAS VEGAS -- Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson started a Hispanic outreach program Thursday to try to raise his profile with a voting bloc critical to his campaign. 'Because my name is...

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Elvira Brings the Fight to México

ELVIRA WON'T REST, and though she was prevented by men with guns from showing up in D.C. to step to what she felt was unjust persecution and law, she now speaks her peace to the government of Mexico. I have a feeling this mujer is determined to confront the...

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24 de Agosto, 2007

Vitruvian Muertos

PART OF AN ONGOING Artivism project between me and mi amigo Jerry at vigilarte.net. See below the cut for the full skelemonty....

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Una Historia Hipocrítica

Are you tired of waiting to pay for your groceries while Illegal Aliens pay with food stamps and then go outside and get in a $40,000 car? Are you tired of paying taxes when Illegal Aliens pay NONE! Are you tired of reading that another Illegal Alien was arrested...

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Here Comes el Sol

BUENOS DIAS, and welcome to another beautiful day. Song by Daniel Valdez...

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23 de Agosto, 2007

Elvira Protest Tomorrow (Fri) in San Fran

FROM OUR SECRET SOURCE on la calle: There is a protest of Elvira's deportation in front of San Francisco's homeland security/I.C.E. office (630 Sansome Street) at noon tomorrow (friday)....

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Irrovelent

KARL ROVE said something the other day. Somewhere, someone listened with rapt attention. A moment of silence for that unfortunate soul....

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Univ of Tejas to Join Hands Across el Rio

FOLLOWING UP on Hands Across El Rio: BROWNSVILLE, August 21- The University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College is going to play a major role in Hands Across el Rio, the grassroots protest against the federal government's plan to build a border wall. Hands Across el Rio officially launches Aug....

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I Want You to Think About Your Clothing

ATLANTA - Baggy pants that show boxer shorts or thongs would be illegal under a proposed amendment to Atlanta's indecency laws. The amendment, sponsored by city councilman C.T. Martin, states that sagging pants are an "epidemic" that is becoming a 'major concern' around the country. 'Little children see it and...

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Caucusoidus Rex [Nez Crashes YearlyKos Pt. 7]

RACE MAY NOT exist, but what do exist are the thoughts and value systems and histories of all the peoples of this land. And therein are told many stories. And stories are still being told. The celebrated and well-distributed and well-known stories are not the entire truth. They are not the only stories, and if they are the only stories we are reading and speaking, then we spread falsehood. If those formats and framings and hierarchies of reference are the only legends we pass down, then we pass down ignorance.

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The Unauthorized President and His Undocumented Legacy

ONCE AGAIN, Dubya represents lies, empty rhetoric, and ultimately and overwhelmingly: "hypocrisy." If President Bush is serious about getting tough on U.S. employers who hire illegal aliens, he can start with his own administration, which employs thousands of unauthorized workers, says the top Republican on the House immigration subcommittee. A...

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MTV News Opportunity for Bloggers/Vloggers

"Calling all citizen journalists, visionaries, bloggers and vloggers!" MTV's Choose or Lose is looking for aspiring journalists to cover the 2008 election via written stories, vlogs and photos. As part of a collaboration with The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Knight News Challenge, MTV News is...

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22 de Agosto, 2007

Clearly, Ten Aryans Isn't That Much Brainpower!

ROGERS -- The distributor of a whites-only newspaper called The Aryan Alternative said Thursday he plans to continue delivering the newspaper in Benton County, despite objections from neighbors and the Rogers Police Department. 'We don't pretend to be objective, and we don't pretend to be a newspaper for all...

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ICE Raid on Smithfield Foods Slaughterhouse

From seiu.org, listserv News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEIU Condemns NC Smithfield Raid Promise of America Sullied by Thug-Like Attacks WASHINGTON, DC--Eliseo Medina, Executive Vice President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement today regarding an ICE raid of a Smithfield Foods pork slaughterhouse in Bladen...

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Chris Simcox on Hardball

Join Chris Simcox Tonight on Hardball with Chris Matthews Debating NJ Murders and Immigration 6501 Greenway Parkway Suite 103-640 Scottsdale, AZ 85254 :: Phone (520) 829-3112 Join Chris Simcox Tonight 8/22/2007 on Hardball This MINUTEMAN ALERT is a special message from the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps: Chris will be debating...

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21 de Agosto, 2007

World Without Us

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MESSAGE: He (Wants You to Think He) Cares.

MONTEBELLO, Quebec (AP) - President Bush, at a North American summit on Tuesday, offered U.S. assistance and expressed his concern for the citizens of Mexico and elsewhere whose lives were affected by Hurricane Dean. 'We stand ready to help,' said Bush, standing alongside Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime...

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Hands Across el Rio

ACTIVIST Jay J. Johnson Castro, Sr., at BorderAmbassadors.com is heading up an amazing effort called "Hands Across el Rio," in which humans on both side of the ugly, artificial border at the Paso del Norte bridge in downtown El Paso, Texas-Juarez will form a human chain, holding hands, even across...

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¡Cámara, Luces, Acción!

FOR ALL HISPANIC FILMMAKERS: ORLANDO - Orlando [FL} will have a new Hispanic film festival on its calendar this October, if all goes according to plan. [...] The festival is being organized by Phoenix-area photographer and filmmaker James Schoepflin, who has helped organize horror-film festivals in that city. Filmmakers with...

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Whites Have More Fun?

ROD STEWART WAS RIGHT! TWO UNLIKELY PARTNERS--THE YOUTH-TARGETING MTV and decades-old Associated Press--offered results Monday on a joint seven-month study looking to gain insight into the psychographics of today's 13- to-24-year-olds, and specifically trying to determine 'what makes them happy.' [...] [R]esearch showed that non-Hispanic whites are happier than blacks...

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Los Angelenos Represent!

CITIZENS SPEAK UP LOUDLY on the need to impeach the criminals in our midst....

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20 de Agosto, 2007

Hurricane Dean Approaches Yucatan

DEAN APPROACHES MEXICO: CANCUN, Mexico (CNN) -- Hurricane Dean burgeoned into a Category 5 storm -- capable of inflicting catastrophic damage when it makes landfall early Tuesday. [...] A Category 5 storm is the most extreme level on the Saffir-Simpson scale, the standard measurement for hurricanes. Such hurricanes can...

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19 de Agosto, 2007

Elvira and Saul Arrested

THEY HAVE ARRESTED arrested Elvira and Saul Arellano. Of course. The government knew it was dangerous to let her become a Cause for Human Rights or anything like that. Better to chop her down before she got too far. It's not as if they weren't hearing all this "Rosa...

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Ulises Ruiz Ortiz Unwelcome in Nueva York

Immigrants are the number one resource exported from the rest of the Americas to the USA.

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One Peaceful Planet

I GET MORE EXCITED by the thought of living not in fear of terrorists, but by the thought of a People who don't make decisions based on terror but on hope....

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18 de Agosto, 2007

Laptop Revolutionary [Nez Crashes YearlyKos Pt. 6]

EVEN WITH THE TITLE you sense my smirk and my tongue-in-cheek approach to the Great New Progressive Movement Convention, don't you? Well don't you, vato? So...qué? Did you think you were flying Anderson Cooper out to Chitown? Hmm? But I will do my best to separate my experience from...

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Temporary Disorder

OKAY for some reason I decided to do the biggest upgrade Movable Type has offered since I can remember, and begin it at night, shortly before I THOUGHT I'd be going to bed. Anyway, I'm up too late, my templates suddenly are riddled with obsoleted code, comments are not showing...

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17 de Agosto, 2007

Ulises Ruiz Ortiz to Visit USA

DEVELOPING NEWS from elenemigocomun.net (email list): La Jornada and the State of Guanajuato confirm that Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) and Juan Manuel Oliva Ramírez, the Governor of Guanajuato, are visiting Mexican Consulates in Chicago today (August 17th), New York City tomorrow (August 18th) and Dallas on Saturday (August 19th). Locations...

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Teaching Children Important Truths

WHILE they play! Fantastic! Buy some for a child near you! After all...it wasn't so long ago when children were learning something different about color:...

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Don't Forget to Serenade!

OKAY, so the director and or shooter of this amateur vid doesn't know about The 180º Rule, which keeps audiences comfortable and not confused about the space they are in when viewing two characters in dialogue, but aside from fundamental filmmaking rules such as this, this has got to be...

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Hand of Bush Continues Killing the Brown

NEW ORLEANS—A crime wave is intensifying in this city already beset by a flagging recovery from Hurricane Katrina, and Hispanic immigrants helping to rebuild are common targets, according to police and to statistics released Thursday. Despite an infusion of money and manpower into the justice system, the number of...

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First North American New Humanist Forum

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 13, 2007, from newhumanistforum.org: "We are opposed to the Security and Prosperity Partnership Summit" New York - President Bush, Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada and Mexico's President Felipe Calderon will hold a major trilateral summit meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) in Montebello,...

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Promoting Education for Indigenous Girls in Mexico

Summary: This project seeks to create a model that promotes the right to primary education with a gender perspective in an indigenous community school in Mexico. How You Can Help: $20 - Will buy stationery to carry out all the activities. $50 - Will train 6 teachers in themes such...

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Earthquake in Peru Claims Over 500 Lives

AND DESTROYS over ten thousand homes. Rescuers have been working through the night trying to find survivors of the devastating earthquake that hit Peru's central coast. They were given hope when a man was pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed church in the town of Pisco, more than...

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16 de Agosto, 2007

Before Your Child Steps Into the Warzone:

WHAT A WORLD we make. Over there, and over here, too. A bulletproof backpack is being sold to parents in the US to protect their children against another Columbine-type attack. —Bulletproof Backpack For US Schools, sky.com Bulletproof backpacks. What can I really add to that? The saddest part is...

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Elvira and Saúl Leave Church to Pray for Change

MANY OF US have kept Elvira and Saúl in our hearts, somewhere still in our minds. The brave Elvira now leaves the sanctuary of the church to try and make a change for herself and so many others who need it, in the face of the danger that has...

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15 de Agosto, 2007

Calm Decapitations

Immigration Orange has a specific example of what we often take for granted in general, but should not—those dark deeds that corporations do to get us our Juicy Fresh Daily. It has to do with Chiquita Banana and their financing paramilitaries in Colombia. "'It's one of the first –...

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Death by ICE

THE ICY BEAT MARCHES ON: Three detainees died within weeks of one another while in federal immigration custody, adding to a toll of more than 60 who perished in recent years and fueling complaints of medical maltreatment from civil rights advocates. The dead were a pregnant Mexican woman who...

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14 de Agosto, 2007

Pocho en la Ciudad [Nez Crashes YearlyKos Pt. 5]

AND SO WE PICK UP THE TALE of Nezua at YearlyKos at the Quad; at 525 South State Street in Chicago. The first night and I see a pattern begin that later repeats: me at home whilst others do the night life thing. But I've known for a while that...

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Proud Patron Saint of Street Vendors: Alejandra!

HERE'S THE STORY of Alejandra Barrios Richard, a great-grandmother, a tough fighter, and someone you want on your side when things go down: MEXICO CITY -- Fight your way through parts of downtown Mexico City and you'll understand why Mayor Marcelo Ebrard wants to clean up this town. Street...

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Recuerdas. Cockroaches Are Immortal.

ALL I'M SAYING is that bro, you can't carry your little boomstick everywhere you go. So it better be your mouth and mind you hide when you are in the public square. Because I personally find you far worse than "illegal." I find you despicable. And unworthy of any...

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USA to Help Mexico Spy on Citizens?

SINCE THE USA IS DOING SO WELL with its spying, its "War on Drugs," its budget, and all matters Terror and Habeas Corpus, she is going to trot on down Mexico way to spread the...success: MEXICO CITY, Aug. 13 — Mexico and the United States are holding intensive talks...

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Of Guerrilla Love, and Things Not Written

JUST SO IT IS UNDERSTOOD, while I am finding the emergences of old patterns even in new places diconcerting, and while I do feel the pain of seeing the splinters as the blogosphere re-disconnects or asserts its differences in approach, and while the comedown from Ykos settles upon us...

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13 de Agosto, 2007

Nadie Es Ilegal

AND WHILE SOME HUMANS FILL THEIR MOUTHS with talk of illegal beings and walls and borders and try to paint fear into our minds with visions of thugs and guns and crime and dark lepers sprinting across the tundra to swipe our sparkling slaughterhouse and fieldworker jobs and Shrinking Majorities—some...

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Too Much Diversity?

Here's something else you diversity-minded social engineering types should chew on: unless something is done (soon) about your mad dash toward diversity via importing more & more refugees into the city (to ultimately end up on welfare), the city is going to run out of money to pay their collective...

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My Story, My Place, My Pace

AND HERE'S A SHORT NOTE to anyone who has, in any way, attempted to adjust (or who plans to attempt to adjust) the rate at which I write my YearlyKos tale or put together my film on same: SHUT UP. And I mean that very nicely. Picture me with...

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A Rotten Fruit (Finally) Drops From the Vine

BYE BYE, YOU FAILURE. You reached for the sun, and now look at you. Rolling away in a cloud of dusty shadow. As if you could remove your stink entirely. I wonder what threshing machines Turd Blossom hears in the distance?...

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12 de Agosto, 2007

A Culture of Firewater

SOME KILLERS REPEAT THIER METHODS. Substance abuse increases among recent Hispanic immigrants as they replace their traditional cultural beliefs with those of white Americans, according to new research presented today by Oregon State University assistant professor Scott Akins at the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting in New York. The study...

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Cop Targeting Raza Busted

A former Cedartown police officer, apparently seeing Hispanic drivers as an easy target for getting extra cash, was sentenced Friday in federal court to more than two years in prison. He must repay each of his victims $2,300. [...] The stories the victims [told] — all of them Hispanic...

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Who Fired the Starting Gun While I Was Sleeping?

On Thursday, the Sentinel ran a big story, complete with several circle graphs, on how the area's racial balance is rapidly shifting. Excuse me, I must have been in a coma or something, but when did humankind evolve into four races? I know it was a long time ago, but...

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Security Threat [Nez Crashes YearlyKos Pt. 4]

WHERE WAS I? Right, at the Quad with the Quad Squad. Got in on Wednesday night, and people were Funky Buddha-ing without me because I stepped into a train tunnel in Chitown hoping to save myself some cash. That's right. I blew into the Windy City and looked at...

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Nez Takes Issue with Comment #132

IN RESPONSE to the article "In A Three Minute Monologue, Matthews Gushes Over Bush’s ‘Great Neo-Conservative Mind’": [COMMENT#] 132.I hate to tell you that I told you so, but ….. I TOLD YOU SO! The MSM is backing Hill’reh, and insofar as supporting Bush and the Iraq War hurts...

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10 de Agosto, 2007

The Big One...Any Moment Now...

THEY'RE DIGGING THIS GEM out again. It even makes me nostalgic to worry about this earthquake. This fear—that Califas will be devastated by the Big One that will tear her apart by the San Andreas Fault—was actually scrawled into my baby book in my mother's handwriting. That, along with...

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Intel Slave Ship Ad

YOU JUST IMAGINE that certain things are understood to be uncool. "Dead issue" as some say, or "done deal." And you will always be amazed that these "understood" things are not understood by all. This is a detail from a recent Intel ad. Seems they had the um, decency,...

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Indig Nation [Nez Crashes YearlyKos Pt. 3]

I AM TRYING TO TAKE MY TIME with this YearlyKos tale and do it the right way. It's a fine line. On one hand, I have my pace. On the other hand, I don't want to give too much up, so that there is something left for the actual...

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9 de Agosto, 2007

Sorry, Citizen. You looked so...Mexican?

REMEMBER PEDRO GUZMAN? The (developmentally disabled) Mexican American that ICE wrongfully deported to Mexico, while claiming no wrongdoing? He's finally back home. Though a bit worse for the wear. A U.S. citizen who had been in the custody of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department before he disappeared in...

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Don't dream; Act.

Jose is a friend of mine, and I met him at YearlyKos. He will come into the story later. We both were members of the Chicago 17, and he was one of three Mexicanos Americanos, us being himself, myself, and Matt O. Jose's situation is very different than both...

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Cold as ICE

Grenier said state and federal authorities will investigate the death that occurred in ICE custody, but she could not say which agencies would be involved. Officials from the Rhode Island State Police and the state attorney general's office said yesterday that they were not investigating Araujo's death because "Who...

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Nez Crashes YearlyKos Pt. 2

AND SO I LANDED SAFELY and once again, all my drastic plane fears were unfounded. It's not just that I get frightened when I fly now, I get sure that this is the last time I'll fly. I develop a faulty sense of impending doom, and everything takes on...

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8 de Agosto, 2007

Nez Crashes YearlyKos Pt. 1

AND SO IT WAS DECIDED, and really, I decided at the moment, in the moment, while Kid Oakland--a cat I never met or read before--spoke to me one evening and jumped down right in the middle of a beer I was sipping with his generous offer, and it was at...

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5 de Agosto, 2007

Where the music's playing

Back at la casa, and I need to rest. Más palabras pronto. Still utterly exhausted and half-unpacked. What a trip! I think I finally get some good rest, although I can't even imagine processing anything serious today. Quizas mañana seré justo en la cabeza. Until then....

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4 de Agosto, 2007

Leaving Chicago

OKAY, back in the Quad. Going to eat lunch, go outside, catch some sound from the el train, and then pack up all my stuff. Thanks to my FedExing amig@s for their help. You know who you are, and you know the help you have given. I'm not going to...

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Quickie

& IT IS REALLY UNFORTUNATE that my last crucial meeting, that of the Chicago 17 just sort of kicking it and wrapping up, is happening at the same time that the Minutemen are having a "protest" outside the Mexican consulate here in Chicago. (Thanks to amigo XP for tipping me...

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3 de Agosto, 2007

Hellcat Senior

ONCE UPON A TIME I was a wildman staying up half the night doing crazy deeds. But lately I feel like an old man. I watch some people here, going out every night to drink and have fun with people and think "Damn, you are taking it easy, old...

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2 de Agosto, 2007

Radiate and Fade Away

I PLANNED ON POSTING A FEW STILLS from today, from the Latino Caucus, from the Press conference that Moulitsas held, from McCormick Hall, but it seems my digital still camera broke while in my bag (wheeee, but oh well, it was old, and a gift anyway), and of all...

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1 de Agosto, 2007

Minneapolis Bridge Has Fallen Down...

THIS IS NOT going to make me relax at all on those long, scary drives over bridges. And of course, we know that disasters are all about me. Seriously, this is very messed up. Isn't there some kind of thing in place where people like...inspect these things? Damn. And...

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Nez Lands in Chi-town

MADE IT TO CHI-TOWN. Lost/Had Stolen my lovely new digital voice recorder as soon as I made it into the airport. But all else is well. Took me all day to get here. Appreciate the comments and emails I got. Exhausted. Reply later when I have energy. At like 3...

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The Fear-O-Port

DONE WITH THE FIRST SECURITY CHECK where the airport called a flag on my bag, but surprise, suprise, it wasn't the one I thought. Not that I cared. They can go through all of it, I just don't want my stuff trashed. The funny part is that they yanked...

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On a Jet Plane, Pt 718

OKAY. I think I'm all packed. Here we go. Leave the ground at 9:30, hoping to end up in Chi-town at 6:17 tonight. Nos vemos, be seein' you cats on el otro lado. update: if you are in chicago or are going to be or want me to have...

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