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31 de Octubre, 2007

Because Red is the Color that my Baby Wore...


AND WHAT'S MORE, it's true.... Recent events in the United States have moved us to action. Violence against women is sadly, not a new phenomenon in our country or in the world, however, in the last year women of color have experienced brutal forms of violence, torture, rape and...

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30 de Octubre, 2007

Another One Bytes the Dust


LIZA, amiga and soldadera para la causa, needs our help! Computer down! Computer down!...

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29 de Octubre, 2007

Decide the Tagline


DECIDE FOR GOOOOOD N ALL who holds sway over these here five pernts! Voting closed! See last update below. Take the pollFree Poll by Blog Flux Ahem. Regarding this post, I'd like to draw on the experience of ustedes. Unlike in some other elections, your vote really does count (unless...

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The Important Parts


FOR inspiration. Have a great time today. I mean that....

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¡Viva Presidenta Cristina!


ARGENTINA HAS ELECTED its first woman President. BUENOS AIRES — First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner appeared to win a sweeping victory Sunday to become Argentina's first elected female president, according to exit polls and early official results. [...] Fernandez vowed to reach out to all her compatriots 'without rancor,...

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In This Rank Water is Rot


from an email Dear Friends, Just three weeks ago many of us traveled out to Potrero to support them in their efforts to keep Blackwater from building a training facility in their community. The first fire we heard about last Sunday, was as you know, the Harris fire which started...

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American Bullets, Mexican Blood


MANY PEOPLE, when arguing me and trying to convince me of how evil and ugly and degraded Mexico is, like to minus part of the equation from their awareness. Talk about crime in Tijuana, but don't talk about the culture of criminality that a border creates with its unnatural...

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28 de Octubre, 2007

MECHA Claims Responsibilty for Wildfires? [update]


WTF? update: Not the real site, despite the stolen logo....

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Ojos Para Volar


THREE FOTOS today celebrating the arte of Graciela Iturbide and the beauty of la Mujer....

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Ex-Concert Pianist Murdered by Federal Kindness


THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. It's not just a bar in Liberty, NY. It's supposedly what you and I are entitled to by the government. Isn't that sweet? Isn't it so understanding of the human condition? Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to live with...

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27 de Octubre, 2007

An Era Passes: Goodbye to Aryans


PERHAPS IT'S A RED LETTER DAY for The Unapologetic Mexican blog,and perhaps it's not. Perhaps it's only a rust letter day. Or better yet, an emerald letter day! I don't know. I leave that in your hands. Buy a marker set and a calender and steer the ship of...

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Urgent Help Needed


from an email, please forward URGENT HELP NEEDED I just received word that requests for supplies for fire victims (especially food, water, & clothing) are growing throughout the county as the amount of donations has dropped off significantly. Hundreds of people who were too afraid or unable to evacuate earlier...

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Racism in a time of Need


REPORTS ARE COMING IN from San Diego that paint a picture of racism and anti-migrant sentiment on the part of la chota, sadly, in the midst of what should be a time where we are concerned with human lives and health. Can't say I'm a bit surprised. But I am...

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NY Times Insinuates SD Fires Are Migrant Ploy for More Work


THREE QUOTES from a nytimes.com article on the Califas Wildfires. They occur in this order, not right next to one another: Some people have speculated, including on the Web, that immigrants might have set some of the fires, as has occurred with campfires lighted in fields. Yes. And Some People...

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Dark, Sweet, Destructive, Seductive


I REMEMBER READING the old National Geographic magazines that my family carried around in boxes wherever we moved. These were old mags, from the 40s on. I remember those Coca-Cola ads, they said "The Pause That Refreshes." Those were the days, I guess, when advertising was a bit less...

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26 de Octubre, 2007

Terrorist Attack on Mexican Consulate in NYC


OF COURSE it isn't being billed as such. More like...the interesting finding of some archaic and nonthreatening grenade-like "remnants" in the midst of what seems to be the aftermath of "at least one explosion." Dig the title of the article. "NYC Police Probe Explosion at Mexico's Consulate; Devices Found"....

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Mexican Firefighters Come to the Aid of US


HERE IS A STORY I am sure you will see trumpeted across all the front pages of the major English-language US news sites, ahem: TIJUANA, Mexico: About 60 Mexican firefighters crossed the border to help fight the California wildfires — then returned home as a separate blaze roared up...

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Teen Jailed for Bad Reading Tastes


AND TO SEND A MESSAGE. Remember the case I posted on, where a teenager (turns out he was 17) was arrested for owning a copy of The Anarchist's Cookbook? Well, it turns out that while the judge claims the kid is "not radicalised" nor a "politicised Islamist," hizzoner felt...

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25 de Octubre, 2007

Los Incendios


SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL memories I have of the state in which I was born and lived for a few years of my youth are in San Diego. And while I've been hearing dire predictions of disasters such as the coast "breaking off and falling into the ocean"...

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Oil Rig Accident in the Gulf of Mexico


MORE VIOLENCE centered around petroleum. This time it's not in Iraq. Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The collision of a Petroleos Mexicanos oil rig and a floating platform during a storm this week was the deadliest offshore accident in the Gulf of Mexico in 43 years, with at least 18...

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Rudy Wants


JOSH MARSHALL, at Talking Points Memo, discusses Rudy Giuilani and zeroes in on the fashion of fascism: My point of comparison would be Benito Mussolini. You've got the extreme hostility to civil liberites [sic] and the foreign policy adventurism. But I'm not thinking so much of the harder and sinister...

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24 de Octubre, 2007

The Green, Green, Benzene Scene, Take 2


AS YOU KNOW, in turning in the video for MTV's vlogger competition, I had rushed like a madman to meet (what I thought was) the original deadline—as it had been (at least to me), unclear. That's the day I tried to do three crews' worth of work in 19...

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Dream on


DREAM ACT fails to pass. (52-44 as mariachi mama and my email lists tell me)....

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23 de Octubre, 2007

OBAMA CAUGHT FONDLING SELF


HERE, Barack Obama takes a moment to send a secret signal to his terrorist buddies using the "I cup my package for thee" salute and delivered during the National Anthem!!!1!!11!!1!! Luckily, ABC news corp. caught it on tape, and the respectable Raw Story is patriotic enough to host the...

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News Groups Seek Truth of Jena


SHINE THE LIGHT on the Mychal Bell case. Let us see what's going on, if what's going on is Just. The Associated Press on Monday joined more than two dozen other organizations, including newspapers, television networks and network affiliates, in filing a court petition that challenges a judge's decision...

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22 de Octubre, 2007

Califas Burning


I TAKE IT PERSONALLY when Califas burns. And this is out of control. Esperando all my west coast amig@s are cool. Wrote a few of you. Ain't heard back. Hang tight. Or move it! Whatever's necessary. Get in touch....

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A Thread I Will Follow


COULD BE WORSE for a video taken from mental shotlist to production to post to sound to scoring in a total of about 24 hours. 19 of those were today, editing and doing a very, very, very rudimentary sound design and scoring attempt. I've been at this since about six...

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21 de Octubre, 2007

FYI


DEEP IN THE MIX today. No email open, no browser. If anyone needs to contact me, please do so by phone. And please only do so if it absolutely cannot wait a day. Gracias. Enjoy!...

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20 de Octubre, 2007

Del Diario, Entrada #102007 [Una Taza de Café, Por Favor]


From the Del Diario Series, entrada #102007:...

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Last notes


YESTERDAY was the day of the funeral of my last living grandfather. I couldn't afford the cross-country plane trip on two days notice. So I didn't get to talk with my family about him, go over memories, or close the scene in any formal way. I'm sort of disappointed...

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19 de Octubre, 2007

Yearning to Breathe Free


IF YOU'VE BEEN FOLLOWING this blog or many others in the "brown blogosphere," (and eventually the mainstream blogosphere, although we were originally told this was one of our "pet issues") you know the names HUTTO and you know the name RAYMONDVILLE and you understand that these are detention centers,...

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17 de Octubre, 2007

Massaging the Vaginal-American Demographic?


LEAVE IT TO fox "news" to bring Hillary-Sliming to a new level of crass. Sorry for the title pun. I tried reallllly hard to resist. At least I didn't risk an icon. UPDATE: I did. But I covered up most of the nasty parts. UPDATE DOS: not FOX. Tucker...

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In Search of the Blue Agave


OH, is dear México allowed to keep anything for herself? Impregnated with Frankencorn, her children reviled at every turn, and all the while her treasures are still being stolen! Even the tiny sapphire parts. MEXICO CITY — Mexican tequila makers are battling a surge of knockoffs as distillers worldwide...

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An Article About Crime in Mexico??????


IF YOU GET AN EMAIL from a Nigerian requesting help because he was robbed in Mexico, don't trash it! It may actually not be spam. Lagos, Oct 17 (Xinhua) Nigerian men's soccer team was robbed after their match in Mexico, reported Nigerian newspaper Vanguard here Wednesday. The national team...

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Sniffing After the "Hispanic Market" Pt. 8995


AT&T WANTS A PIECE of the vaunted Hispanic Market: Wireless [wiretapping, sneaking, government-colluding] giant, AT&T Inc., revealed earlier this week that it is cutting its rates on calls to Mexico, allowing American cell phone users to call Mexican landlines for as little as $0.05 per minute on the AT&T...

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Norman Mailer Hospitalized


NORMAN MAILER in the hospital. Ex-wife Carol Mailer says "He's not in very good shape." Prominent US writer and journalist Norman Mailer has been hospitalized here with acute respiratory problems. —Raw Story...

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Mi Familia [7] - Art Lives Through Me


THERE HAVE BEEN VERY FEW MEN in my life, few men who were kind, few men who were kind and steady and there for me during the early years. My grandfather on my mother's side (the "white" side) was one of these men. I talk of the other man...

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16 de Octubre, 2007

Get Dusty Foot or Drown Trying


JUST A REMINDER that your commute could be a lot worse: CORTÉS, Cuba — Cubans are migrating to the United States in the greatest numbers in over a decade, and for most of them the new way to get north is first to head west — to Mexico —...

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15 de Octubre, 2007

(My) War Hero


I'D LIKE TO TAKE one small moment to remember the ongoing struggle of the soldier I personally respect most in this war, Lt. Ehren Watada. In a video press conference announcing his refusal to deploy to Iraq, Watada noted, 'Although I have tried to resign out of protest, I...

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There's Death in the Passing Lane [The White Lens IIX]


WHEN I MET THE WOMAN who is now mi novia, I told her about my mexican ethnicity as if it were a religion I could choose to practice—or not. As if it were something I didn't have to be. And I guess that's exactly how I felt for so...

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14 de Octubre, 2007

Citizen Orange Now With Extra Pulp!


KYLE'S new blog, Citizen Orange, the sequel to Immigration Orange, is now fully operational. Blogroll that bad boy, hook up those feeds, go chill in the one of the hippest new virtual sanctuary sites for migrantes and allies and general orange-lovers around town. Me, sigh, I've got other work to...

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Unrelated Quotes, Pt. 42 [BadApple Remix]


Notes: Between 1200 and 1450, roughly, a period of general decline set in. A dozen cities of Northern Yucatán were dominated by Mayapán. People no longer self-sustaining, but increasingly dependent on tribute. "Parasitic dependence." We see rise of mercenaries. "The new rulers established a strongly-centralized regime maintained by Mexican mercenaries,...

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13 de Octubre, 2007

Pomona Art Show, Armando Cepeda


AN ART SHOW by vato Armando Cepeda, going on in Pomona, Califas if you're in the area. I pass this goodie along. Dear Friends and Family, I am happy to invite everyone to see my newest artwork entitled: "Venganzen Cabrones." It will debut this Saturday at dA Gallery in...

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Maybe we need more Gore on TV


AL GORE wins the Nobel Peace Prize! Felicidades, Mista Gore. You shame that tiny man who bumped you out of line for la casa blanca yet again by working hard and seeing far, and being rewarded for it—rather than having everything from ideology to office stolen for you or handed...

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La Luna y La Luz




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12 de Octubre, 2007

Mychal Bell's Probation Rescinded, Bell Jailed


MYCHAL BELL has been sent to Juvie, probation rescinded, judge saying that he violated it, but nobody is saying how. (CNN) -- A black Louisiana teenager at the center of the racially charged "Jena 6" case was ordered Thursday to spend 18 months in a juvenile facility, after a...

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11 de Octubre, 2007

Out of Site, man.


SOME NEW DESIGNS I've been working on. I've actually been very busy for weeks on end. And I am finally putting a cluster of jobs behind me, which is very good. I let myself get a little too overbooked there....

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K and K


LET US send a large wave of good thought and energy and divine cosmic goodies (if we collect or have access to those) for our friends Kety E. and Kyle dF., both soldad@s en la lucha, both big hitters and important to the game, both involved in very humane ways...

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10 de Octubre, 2007

Whatever Happened to Spitballs?


ANOTHER SCHOOL SHOOTING: A 14-year-old gunman opened fire at a high school in Cleveland, Ohio Wednesday, shooting at least four people, authorities said. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said four people were shot in the incident, the latest in a recent string of high-profile shootings, but would not confirm media...

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Sides


I HAVE A FRIEND, he's ten, twelve, maybe even fifteen years younger than me. He is a hardcore "Democrat," though he grew up in a Republican family, and used to be a Republican. Now he has switched sides and is all about the Dems. When I bring up NAFTA,...

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9 de Octubre, 2007

Finalist - MTV Choose or Lose '08


WELL, if you've been following my MTV adventure, I finished the phone interview this morning (which I accidentally set up for 07:30, forgetting MTV's HQ are in NYC) and that seemed enjoyable, so I imagine it went well. Or maybe that good feeling is leftover warm fuzzies from the...

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They Remain Nervous


ONCE IT SEEMED OUTRAGEOUS that our own government was colluding with telecom companies to spy on citizens and datamine our daily business in secret. Seems we've pretty much become used to it. Sort of how you don't feel the blows anymore, after enough land on you. As the debate over...

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A Remembering


I OFTEN WRITE OF "THE HAUNTED LAND," referring to a reckoning that has never happened, referring to the exploitation and abuse that paved the way for all our American lives today, referring to the myriad wounds and unhealed injury and wrongs not redressed in our constant retelling of history, referring...

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Theater of Gold


THE SKY, RIGHT NOW. Amazing. I can only guess this will be an incredible day....

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