31 de Marzo, 2008

Cesar Chavez Day?

¡FELIZ CUMPLEANOS, Señor Chavez! Or...Salud! It's been a while since you've been gone. Your work and deeds and purpose and name carry on. As farmworkers and laborers across America continue to struggle for fair treatment and fair wages, we find strength in what Cesar Chavez accomplished so many years...

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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 1:37 PM.  | | (4)

30 de Marzo, 2008

US Court Overturns Mumia Abu-Jamal's Death Sentence

On Thursday, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the death sentence of the imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther, Mumia Abu-Jamal, while upholding his conviction and rejected his call for a new trial. A three-judge panel ruled that Abu-Jamal, who has been on death row for twenty-six years,...

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 XP's writing fuses an intense level of research with an instinctive feel for the zeitgeist and a sense of empathy that combines to produce commentary that is, in the literal meaning of the word, unique. This (unique) entry posted at 2:10 PM.   | | (1)

Occupational Hazard

I'M NOT HERE to be an unwavering bullhorn for Obama. That is utterly boring. And yes, I don't think there's any contest between him and Senator Clinton, as far as who could get more done. Or who would be more uplifting as a President in a few senses. Or...

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Protest the NAACP

That old adage about speaking truth to power means doing so even when that power is an ally. For more than a week black bloggers have circulated a digital letter that calls for action against the NAACP and Al Sharpton’s National Action Network for the alarming and wrong choice they’ve...

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 If you're looking, you'll find Carmen D. walking the digital frontier of American race relations over at her blog All About Race. She fantasizes about a great big honest, brave, discordant conversation about race in which everybody participates. This contribution to that awakening was offered at exactly 6:10 AM.   | | (16)

Obama Opens Office in Eugene

RIDING THE WAVE of his recent appearance(s) in Oregon, the Obama campaign opens a local office. DOWNTOWN EUGENE - More than one hundred people showed up Saturday morning for the grand opening Obama's new office located at 1280 Willamette Street in Downtown Eugene. "I'm here this morning to support...

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The Invaders Press On

IF WE STEP BACK a moment from our ethnocentric surety and simply think out what it might mean to be INVADED by another nation, no not simply bombed once and let be to work our economy and feelings of unity and national safety out as we all have (supposedly)...

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28 de Marzo, 2008

Obama in Eugene Pt. 1 [MTV vlog 3-28-08]

OBAMA IN OREGON (PT. 1) is the name of the new video shot and edited by yours truly, Oregon's Official MTV Choose or Lose Street Team 08 Citizen Journalist, and just as the title foreshadows, there will be two more parts to this tryptych of political goodness. Clicking the...

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27 de Marzo, 2008

Is Avoidance the Answer?

THESE DAYS, there is a sure way to have me laugh at writing and declare it devoid of intelligent method, and that is to employ cute little hatenames for Obama supporters. I mean, come on. Is "Obama supporters" really so hard to type? Does it actually hurt to not sling...

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Brown Barbie Power!

SOMEONE CALL BUCHANAN BARBIE!!! Because judging by a trip to the local Big Lots! store, the white Barbie Doll population is being overrun by teeming hordes of darkie dolls!!!! It was actually pretty cool to see. Things have changed a lot since the days I played with Barbies. Wait,...

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26 de Marzo, 2008

Medium Rare

I HAD WANTED in some way to remember Lt. Ehren Watada, as this anniversary of the Iraq Invasion passed us. Remember him? Yeah. Mad respect for this cat. But the media has drowned out that story, it's slipped away, they lost it...we've moved on to Jeremiah Wright and other...

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25 de Marzo, 2008

Vigil (to End the War) - [MTV Vid 3-25-08]

ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of the Iraq Invasion, MoveOn held vigils all over the country at the same time. This video commemorates and captures the public vigil held in Eugene, Oregon to call for an end to the Iraq Occupation. The latest video for my MTV Citizen Journalist gig....

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Your Papers, Fraulein.

sombrero tip to Eric Lerner, via kai Dear friends, The Rapid Response Network has had its first successful response to a raid. Thursday night, at 6 PM, a woman called the hotline from her home in Elizabeth, saying that ICE agents were outside, demanding to be let in. The RRN...

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24 de Marzo, 2008

Playing the Dumbass Card

Do these people even listen to themselves? They are like a cartoon that thinks it will win an Oscar for Best Drama any minute. But still good for a laugh now and then. On the March 24 edition of Fox News' The Live Desk, during a panel discussion of New...

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Shining, Gleaming, Streaming, Flaxen, Waxen

ANYWAY, I'm feeling burnt out on some of these conversations. Political swattings and virtual angers. Maybe this is a place to which I keep returning. So I guess I must enjoy it on some level. How perverse. But I do need to step back, I'm getting too stirred up...

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1 Million + 4,000 [Killed]

OKAY, maybe it's five hundred thousand. Maybe only two hundred thousand Iraqis are dead. Whatever, I don't personally feel 4,000 Americans' lives—ones who chose to make the military their business—are somehow more worth my sorrow than the same, or ten or one hundred times that many Iraqi lives. And...

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Bethesda and Oaxaca [The White Lens 8.5]

AND NOW A STEAMING MUG OF COFFEE and a big wave from Nezua and all others in la casa—and by the way, big thanks to my weekend warriors, those that showed up and bloggedeth, adding their stones to the scale, daring to brave a hungry and discerning readership that...

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22 de Marzo, 2008

The McCain Girls

I'M NOT SURE what inspired this video or what the hell it is supposed to achieve other than making me laugh out loud for over two minutes. If you only see one YouTube video this month, make it this one....

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Obama Comes to Oregon

SAW OBAMA last night at "The Pit," as it's known here in Oregon. Eugene residents are very proud of their sports, it's a big sports town (check into the history of Nike in Eugene, while you're at it), and the arena where Obama spoke is a famed site for...

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The Speech — Dual Consciousness on the Presidential Stage

At its core, Tuesday's speech amounted to a groundbreaking big-stage exposition of dual consciousness that I regard as the most sophisticated and important piece of mainstream political oratory and speech-writing of my adult life. No, it did not entirely satisfy me as an anti-racist. The speech contained several elements that...

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 Let the record reflect that Kai Chang has exploded this Szechuan Peppercorn of Whup-ass on your mental palate at 10:39 AM.  | | (8)

I was in the room when....

I was in the room when... a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic...

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 rafael is a student, a writer, a blogger, a podcaster and above all else a dreamer. This post sent into the airwaves at 7:52 AM.  | | (8)

21 de Marzo, 2008

Happy Friday, Baby.

SOME SMOOOVE VOCALS to take ya into this sunny (at least where I am) Friday afternoon. Hoy less Flamenco, y más Bachata! Just feels right. Aventura with La Boda (The Wedding). Reminds me of Westchester, I used to play this album on my iPod Mini while I rode the...

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Richardson Endorses Obama for President

EVEN AFTER Chilling with Bill. Ouch!...

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La Misma Luna [The Same Moon]

MAYBE AS MORE PEOPLE who are concerned with the inhumanity shown to migrants and the deeply-entrenched iniquities in place that perpetuate the harm being done to raza, to families, and to the economy and well-being of our nation as well as Mexico's get into positions of media making, the heavily...

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The Drunken Dealer

I HONESTLY AM BAFFLED by the phrase used again and again by certain "liberal left wing" bloggers as of late. "Race card." As if just spitting out the phrase somehow destroys a person's points. If anything can be called "Pulling the Race Card"—i.e., using a fiction-based argument that relies...

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20 de Marzo, 2008

McCain in the Membrane

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What Would the Decider Say?

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Rulers Know the Rules

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19 de Marzo, 2008

Tazing Eugene [MTV vlog 3-19-08]

MY LATEST vid for MTV Citizen Journalist Land is introduced here, and viewable here....

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A Good Friend Would Say Something

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90 orbits

GOODBYE to Arthur C. Clarke one of the Sci-Fi names I read devoutly during younger years, along with Asimov, Le Guin, Bradbury, Heinlen, and some others. British-born science fiction guru, Arthur C. Clarke, died at a hospital in Sri Lanka on Wednesday, his aide Rohan de Silva told AFP....

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Liveblogging My Recollections and Musings to the Obama Speech

19:47 ...going from wbush, who sneerhunches talksdown to ya as if you are a stupid child to an intelligent and groundbreaking speech by obama on the nuances of the human condition and american history and racial tensions...it's a beautiful sort of whiplash, if nothing else...wow...you mean i don't have...

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18 de Marzo, 2008

onyxrainbackbeat

MOST DAYS you are at peace with the knowledge that a moss-deep part of you is inextricably wed to the American 1980s. For a moment it is painful to contemplate, but then you turn up the UTFO and just shake it all out of your mind. Remember those lawndarts!...

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Bush Derangement Syndrome Survivor

BUSH talks and I hear nothing. I scan his quoted words and I feel nothing, think nothing. Blur over, dispel out of hand. Clayman, plasticman, crazyman, smallman. Figurehead sickman. Maniac thief. Badtime gagtime. Puppetuptime. These are the Bush years, this was a sad time. Wartime. Decider smirking uglytime. Lame...

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A More Perfect Union - Barack Obama Speech

TEXT AND VIDEO of Barack Obama's speech on race and America and this election, behind the cut....

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257,000

EVEN IF you are for another Clinton presidency (that is to say you are a ShrillHillShill vs. an Obamatonatronic in this year's DeathMatchSuperCelebrity American MegaIdol PrezFight), doesn't this scare you? I don't know. It seems to say a lot. The GOP-orcs are on the march, and it seems they have...

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Horses in the Klieglight

But if I could ask a question of the media figures who are regularly calling for Obama to reject Wright today, who urged Clinton to reject Geraldine Ferraro the day before and who demanded Obama reject Louis Farrakhan earlier last week, it would be this: what would satisfy you? What...

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17 de Marzo, 2008

¡Que Vivan Los San Patricios!

THIS IS NOT the first time in history that those with power looking only toward their own profit margin have unwittingly led their hand to disastrous effects on larger populations' basic ability to live; it is not the first time that indifference to the hunger of la gente has...

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Hillary Clinton, Victim-Warrior Extraordinaire.

I am throwing the "kitchen sink" at my opponent, but dammit, I want him to stop being mean to me while I do it! I'm very strong and being picked on by everyone! Obama is an inexperienced possibly Muslim man made of nothing more than a speech, but I...

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16 de Marzo, 2008

Nezua Gets Good Ink [Register Guard writeup]

WELL, as I told you before, the local paper did a writeup on yours truly, and though I carry the sting from reporters with agendas to this day (after a couple disappointing lessons that came my way via interviews I gave in the past on various things), I was...

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La Molina and the Tale of Naked Dave

NAKED DAVE IS DEAD. And if you know nothing of La Molina and the tale of Naked Dave, then even the name "Naked Dave" may mean nothing to you. For while the obit for the creator of the Rocketeer character tells us a few things about Dave Stevens, it...

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With Support Like That

SO TELL ME. How does having a black man who supports Obama coming on SNL and calling Tiny Fey "bitch" in response to her statement "bitch is the new black" (he responded "black is the new president, bitch") "support Obama"? Hmm? Because I can't imagine the Clinton team being...

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The Perks of Being in D.C.

Met with some congressional staffers Friday and took the opportunity to ask about the SAVE Act, which the GOP is itching to get pushed through the House for a vote to create a wedge issue for the election campaign. Pro-migrant bloggers have been concerned that the enforcement-only campaign would be...

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 Man Eegee dons his serape of wit over at Latino Político where he searches tirelessly for a succulent, flowering saguaro that will embrace him for a siesta en paz. This post officially looked up to the sun at 7:05 AM.  | | (1)

15 de Marzo, 2008

Jill Scott [The Real Thing]

THIS WOMAN! Wow. Beauty! Power! Soul and talent and rhythm through the roof. Also check out her tune Hate on Me, from the same album. Great stuff....

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Saludos desde Tucson*

Baja Arizona is in the house! Where Gadsden is more than an obscure footnote and the air wafts with the scent of steaming hot tortillas on the placa. Unfortunately, Nezua has horded all the rain up in the top-left corner of this chunk of tierra so the creosote forests haven't...

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14 de Marzo, 2008

Enrique Morente [Sueña la Alhambra]

HAPPY Flamenco Friday! IT IS TRUE that his daughter is, perhaps, more enjoyable to watch perform. But they are both masters of Flamenco, and I find a dose of either stirs the soul wonderfully. Enrique on the pipes, Tomatito on the fine, fine guitarra....

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13 de Marzo, 2008

whtmlk and the hardcoldtruth

MOST INSANEST Comment of The Year. That's right. It's only March, so you have nine full months to beat this. You may need the headstart. THE HARD COLD TRUTH THAT WE AS A NATION MUST FACE IS BLACKS ARE VOTING OBAMA AT 90% THESE FIGURES ARE A STRONG INDICATION THAT...

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Four Days in the Hole

A STORY that makes you cringe. And really, only the tiniest sampling of how inhumanely those inside the "justice" system can be treated every day. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A woman being held as an illegal immigrant spent four days forgotten in an isolated holding cell at a courthouse with...

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Thru the Plexiglass

PUT TOGETHER by a friend, Will Coley, and some of his friends. Here's a funny video (though its a humor held together by too many unfortunate truths) they made on the archaic and inefficient patchwork that is our current system of Immigration law....

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12 de Marzo, 2008

The Lester Street Murders

BUSY working mad hours on an overdue MTV video called "Tazing Eugene," so no time for pretty grafiks or wordification, but I did promise to post on this issue, and I don't want to let any more time go by while I wait for a better moment to direct your...

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Unapologetic Bandit@s

ESTA FIN DE SEMANA, this weekend, begins a new phase of The Unapologetic Mexican blog. 87% of participating readers indicated that they wuz down wit tha guest blogando, and so it shall begin! Come around Saturday and Sunday, and weekends thereafter, and you will sample the best game of...

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11 de Marzo, 2008

Lucky Boy

An Obama aide has struck back at the Clinton campaign over comments made last week by Geraldine Ferraro, calling them “outrageous and offensive.” Susan Rice, a senior adviser to Mr. Obama, was responding to Ms. Ferraro’s remarks on MSNBC Tuesday morning. Ms. Ferraro told a Los Angeles newspaper that the...

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Faceless Females, Pt. 473

PERHAPS I'M BEING oversensitive to notice different media treatment of white women and brown women (and here, I mean "brown-skinned" and not just "brown" metaphorically) while walking through the women's underwear section of a store (not a usual pastime, no), and I know we've come a long way in that...

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10 de Marzo, 2008

A Robust Economy of Hate

NEW YORK (AP) — Anti-immigrant sentiment is fueling nationwide increases in the number of hate groups and the number of hate crimes targeting Latinos, a watchdog group said Monday. The Southern Poverty Law Center, in a report titled "The Year in Hate," said it counted 888 hate groups in its...

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Fair N Balanced® Pt. 37

THE MASS MEDIA makes sure we are kept safe and aware of the dangers that threaten. A woman who parked her car at a shopping center in the Egger Highlands neighborhood of San Diego was carjacked about 2:10 p.m. Sunday, police said. The 57-year-old woman had parked her vehicle in...

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