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29 de Septiembre, 2007

We All Live in Jena


I KNOW THAT SEPT 20 was celebrated as a National Action Day for the Jena 6, but I just got this on a list I'm on, and it sounds pretty exciting. (I made the icon, and of course, anyone is free to take it and use it in the spirit...

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Tus Mensajes [Sandra la Mexicana]


FROM THE MAIL: Hola, me llamo Sandra soy mexicana, y solo queria decirte que me gusta muchisimo tu blog, eres una persona muy inteligente y muchas de las veces concuerdo contigo al 100%, a pesar que tengo muchisimo tiempo viviendo en USA se me hace todavia muy dificil escribir en...

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Hillarious Clinton and the Air Raid Siren


CLEARLY, someone has recently advised Hillary Clinton that she was coming across as too dour, to grim, too "shrill," perhaps, and too heavy. So, true to the Rovian/GOP handbook, she is changing the packaging (her reactions), while the content continues to veer into the most grim and cynical terrain...

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28 de Septiembre, 2007

Hope Your Hoofburger is ICE cold


Reno, Nevada - Federal agents raided 11 McDonald's restaurants in northern Nevada and made dozens of arrests Thursday as part of an investigation into illegal immigration. Agents for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made at least 56 arrests in Reno, Sparks and Fernley after raids at the restaurants and...

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How Ya Like Your Freedom® Now?


BAGHDAD, September 28 — At least seven young men were killed in an attack late Thursday that witnesses say was launched by an American military helicopter in a suburb outside Baghdad. The young men, the witnesses said, were playing a traditional Ramadan game at the time of the attack....

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Salud, Trabajadora.


IN ALL THE ABSTRACT talk of Millions of Migrants, or shadowy fear-driven agitprop about Mexicans Leaping Fences, we not only forget that the USA is NOT under seige, she is not being Overrun By Mexicans (not to mention that many different peoples from the south come here to work...

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Somos América


RIVERSIDE, N.J., Sept. 25 — A little more than a year ago, the Township Committee in this faded factory town became the first municipality in New Jersey to enact legislation penalizing anyone who employed or rented to an illegal immigrant. Within months, hundreds, if not thousands, of recent immigrants from...

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George Washington, Terrorist


The classic definition of terrorism is violence directed against civilians to make a political point. The term shouldn't be applied to an indigenous population fighting an irregular war against a foreign occupying army, since that would have made everyone from George Washington to the French Resistance to the Afghanis confronting...

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Mychal Bell Freed on Bail


MYCHAL BELL, of the Jena 6, has been freed on bail. JENA, La. (AP) - A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate prompted a massive civil rights protest here walked out of a courthouse Thursday after a judge ordered him freed. Mychal Bell's release...

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Seven Minutes of Sunshine from Lorna Dee


I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, but in wading through all the hectic energy of "news" as presented by the media, I often need deep draughts of beauty. Lorna Dee Cervantes is one of my favorite poets, and a good place to fill up tu copa. Here is her poem...

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27 de Septiembre, 2007

The Latino Challenge to Black America


EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON is a widely-read author and political analyst, perhaps if nowhere else, you've seen him on Huffington Post. While I can't say I always agree with his take, what I do respect is that he employs a reflex in his writing that seeks to find the truth...

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What Does Bravery Look Like?


IT LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE THIS: A clampdown on the media by Burma's military government, which has banned gatherings of five people or more and imposed a night-time curfew, makes following the exact course of the protests difficult. It is known that several thousand monks and opposition activists moved away...

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The Conspiracy Against The People


THE DUSK IS UPON US and moving too quickly for the status quo to do a damn thing, so while I have not endorsed anyone (for what that is worth), I have NO time for politicians who see international policy the same as Bush does or the GOP does;...

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26 de Septiembre, 2007

In Which We Find Out What We Already Knew


OVER TIME, I HAVE NOTICED from checking out news sources in Español vs. English that politicians and media pundits often take gross and blatant advantage of the fact that so many US citizens cannot read/speak anything other than English, as in YEAH, AMERICA NUMBER ONE! ENGLISH ONLY!!!!! WOOOO! USE...

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25 de Septiembre, 2007

Enjoy the Moderation!


TO THE SILLY DIMWIT who in the last day or so has spent way too much time composing long, nasty comments on my site: Go find a hobby, bro! You are not going to waylay intelligent conversation here with your unsophisticated hostility any longer. I mean, Im flattered that...

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Begin With Beauty


LET'S START with some beauty. The buzzing hive of "news" and negativity will always be there for us. That's what I'm talking about. Buenos dias!...

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24 de Septiembre, 2007

A Safer and More Humane New York


GOOD NEWS from New York: THE NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION Press Statement For Immediate Release, September 21, 2007 Contact: Norman Eng, 212-627-2227 x235 New Driver’s License Policy Is a Win for All New Yorkers Statement of Chung-Wha Hong, executive director of The New York Immigration Coalition: New York State’s new...

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BREAKING: Black People are Capable of Mannered Meals!


OUR FAVORITE MENTALLY-CHALLENGED bigot has a major revelation: 'Discussing his recent dinner with Rev. Al Sharpton at the Harlem restaurant Sylvia’s, Bill O’Reilly reported that he “couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it...

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Lying in Wait


I THINK I'VE TOLD YOU about my bone spur. (Great pickup line, by the way.) A bone spur is a fragment of bone outgrowth in an odd place, or a calcium growth on a bone. And I have one on my left fingertip, or rather the corner...that is, it is...

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Snore.


SO HILLARY CLINTON begins to hint more and more that the Iraq Occupation won't be ended under her (hypothetical) watch—ooooh, but WAIT she says "When I'm president," instead of "if," and doesn't let herself get interrupted, and just like that, all the pundits are falling all over themselves. Even David...

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Attack Their Greatest Strength Pt. 68459


THE GOP IS TERRIFIED of Obama's charisma. They can't take it away from him, so now they are dragging Rove's filthy playbook back up out of the toilet (Turn Thy Enemy's Greatest Sstrength Into a Perceived Deficit), as well as tapping into some pretty tired stereotyping of blacks as mentally-inferior,...

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23 de Septiembre, 2007

Del Diario, Entrada #092307 [Perspective of the B Minor]


From the Del Diario Series, entrada #092307:...

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A Fruit That Poisons All of Us


A reminder of why brandishing a noose is an act of violence in and of itself, is not something we can write off as a "prank", of why I don't personally mind so much if you get your ass beat when you bring one into play as an implied...

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Nuestro Sueños - Our Dreams


YOU'VE READ A POST here and there on this blog about the D.R.E.A.M Act, usually as related to my friend Jose. Those posts referred to the California DREAM act, but there is a Federal DREAM Act, too. The Federal DREAM Act does not offer instate tuition in any form,...

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It's a New Day Now


A WHITE MAN with a shaved skull stands on a stage in Germany...and sings one of my long-time favoritos canciones! The Beauty of Gray, by Live. Take with three cups of morning sun and a imbibe with a full heart. Mp3 ¡Que Viva la Raza Cosmica!...

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Like a Long Awaited Dawn


For 5 years the NDN community has been telling a simple but important story - that the very rapid growth of the Hispanic community was creating a very new and powerful dynamic in the American electorate. In our new report, Hispanics Rising [pdf], NDN reviews the emerging politics of...

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22 de Septiembre, 2007

Save The World. One Blog Award at a Time.


CLEARLY, MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY political issue today is me winning a blog award. So please. Drop that petition, get up from tending that child, forget that empassioned speech you were going to give on the steps of the capital building and vote for your favorite Unapologetic Mexicano. Hey! When's...

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Here Comes the Story of the Hurricane. Again.


OF COURSE I'M NOT OFFERING a perfect parallel. But I am saying...how far have we really come? It's so sad that there's even still a need for the great uprising that is coming from the black community right now—online and off. But to take another view, it sure is beautiful...

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Download the Sky


AS PROMISED, here are wallpaper downloads of shots taken while flying from coast to coast on my trip to (or from) NYC. They appear in lieu of any posts this morning, as it took me well over two hours to do this, and I wasn't really expecting that. Haven't...

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21 de Septiembre, 2007

Straight From the Ass's Mouth


THIS IS TOO HILARIOUS not to share. Enjoy your Friday, cabrones! [Note: it helps to understand some basic Spanish.] sombrero tip to XP...

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Nooseless People


I DON'T EVEN KNOW what to say about this: ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana (CNN) -- A Louisiana city that hosted many of the "Jena 6" protesters Thursday became the site of a racially charged incident of its own. Authorities in Alexandria, less than 40 miles southwest of Jena, arrested two people...

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We're In This Together.


Statement of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement "Racism is real in America. The case of six black Louisiana teenagers receiving unequal justice because of the color of their skin has shocked this nation and has given rise to a new movement. Unfortunately, this blatant injustice is an all too familiar...

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Stand and be Counted. Or Cower and be Condemned.


I KNOW I DIDN'T GO INTO IT, but I don't go into many things that a well-informed and reasonably sane person staying current on the News would understand all by themselves. I don't like to bog down my blog (Blog-bog, must add this word) with unwieldy explanations that insult the...

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20 de Septiembre, 2007

Chota Kill Woman in Wheelchair, and I'm Not Shocked.


SOMEONE HAS GOT TO TAKE those Tasers away from cops. It seems they just don't know how to use them. Now, granted: a person (in general) who makes it their career to be a weapon-wielding authority figure is bound to be operating with some issues. I'd venture a guess...

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Petraeus Remix (Khaki Thaki Blogistan Version)


UNLESS YOU PROVE OTHERWISE I have no choice but to propose (and conclude) that it was HERE, at The Unapologetic Mexican, that Petraeus was named "Betray Us" first! I remember a few days to a week after I made that post, Olbermann said it and got harangued by the...

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The Good (Ungreen) Samaritan


THROUGH MEANS OF DETAINMENT CENTERS, media spew, racist and self-serving politicians, teargas parades, threat, and disproportionate, indiscriminate, and inappropriate fixation, many in the USA mean to drive Mexican migrants into hiding, into poverty, into fear-filled lives, into hurt, and into a hell that no Lady Liberty would dare to...

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Nezua Skywalker


TAKING A BREAK from both the reactionary news cycle and my long, hard work hours, I bring you the Nezua Skywalker series. Just some shots I promised you when I got back from the NYC trip. Just some shots that really make you think twice about these ideas we have,...

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19 de Septiembre, 2007

Hellcat Redux


IT'S FUNNY. Since I flew out for the Chicago Voices project, and realized I didn't have the stuffing to go out on the town each and every night, like I used to as a teenager (and into my 20s no doubt), I've been using the word "Hellcat." For myself....

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Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights


NEW SITE on stories, resources and info on "immigrant integration." Click pic for link. The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights is putting together a new site to concentrate sotries, resources and info on immigrant integration - www.immigrantintegration.org. They are looking for other good websites or stories on...

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The Answer to All Our Problems


...IS CLEARLY Tom Tancredo and his platform of racist blame! Tancredo said the more he studies the issue, the more it seems that many of the nation's problems can be blamed on Hispanics crossing into the United States from Mexico. Health care costs? Blame the burden of paying for...

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18 de Septiembre, 2007

The GOP Hates Your Brown [Black, etc] Ass


DON'T EVEN IMAGINE the question is up in the air. It is not up in the air. I am not saying every Republican is racist. But the GOP as an organization—how they operate, what fears they dig up, what innuendoes their ads use, the framing their preferred TV networks are...

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Liliana and her Son


"THE MOVEMENT FOR THE ILLEGALS TO GO HOME," the anti-migrant protestor says, and I am not sure, but am assuming she doesn't refer to the illegal invasion of Iraq? Or does she? What could be more illegal than killing or aiding in the death of a million people in a...

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17 de Septiembre, 2007

Gentle Loving Monsters


NORMALLY I don't even want to know about this type of thing, let along focus attention on it...but this is just...I don't even know what to say about this. DETROIT -- A U.S. Justice Department official has been arrested on suspicion of traveling to Detroit over the weekend to...

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Cheese That Thinks it is Stone


FUNNY HOW LIFE CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND. Once, I lived as if I weren't afraid to die. And by that I mean many things. Like taking heaps of untested things into my body that could do just about anything, like saying "live fast, die young" when I was fourteen...

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16 de Septiembre, 2007

Sunday Skillet Blogging 6




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México's Dia de la Independencia


THIS IS THE DAY TO SHOUT and let that Mexican@ pride ring out. The revolution that drove the Spaniards and colonial rule from Mexico was long (ten years), and bloody, and complicated, many factions of the people having different agendas and levels of participation and reward. (As Marcos has...

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A Tiny Bit of Justice for a Boy from Jena


Judges rule teen should not have been tried as adult in racially tinged case. Jena, Louisiana - A state appeals court Friday tossed out the aggravated battery conviction that could have sent a black teenager to prison for 15 years in last year's beating of a white classmate in the...

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15 de Septiembre, 2007

Harbinger of Mediocrity. Prophet of Flatulent Futures. Shill and Sham and Propped-Up Half-Man.


NOW I KNOW by now so many of us hold such great and deep and far-reaching and sincere contempt, NAY revulsion (and rightly so) for the man now holing up in la Casa Blanca that we have phrases like "Bush Derangement" and "Bush Bashing," and with these phrases even...

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14 de Septiembre, 2007

UN Backs Indigenous Rights


The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a non-binding declaration upholding the human, land and resources rights of the world's 370 million indigenous people, brushing off opposition from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. The vote in the assembly was 143 in favor and four against. Eleven...

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La Fiesta Latina 2007


IT'S TIME AGAIN for the local La Fiesta Latina, celebration, and this time Lil 'Nita is big enough to come along, and enjoy herself! I cannot believe that it's been a year already. Wow. Anyway, I want to bring the new videocamera, but I'm afraid with so many Mexicans,...

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The Felix Flytrap


I MUST SAY...it is funny...and actually, still a bit unexpected, when someone gets furious that I claim to be "SMARTER THAN TEN ARYANS!," and takes it personally. To tell you the truth, I never thought when I made that grafik, over a year ago, that anyone would identify with...

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And You Shall Know Him By The Ease With Which He Misleads




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13 de Septiembre, 2007

Back in the Good Ole O.R.


AS IT TURNS OUT, I cannot blog on much that went on at the Immigration Strategy Meeting. My packet of materials is half drafts that cannot be disseminated (lest they "fall into the wrong hands"), and the cat who invited me to the panel I spoke on (and who funneled...

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