30 de Abril, 2008

UMX State of the Tortilla

IT'S BEEN PRETTY QUIET here, overall. You know what I mean. Less posts, less text, easy topics. (Aside from "anal bleaching," I suppose.) That's because I'm actually closing in on this massive knot of work that has been bottlenecking my peace of mind and daily schedules. It's always a...

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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 11:30 AM.  | | (10)

29 de Abril, 2008

The Wrong Stuff?

HMMM. At this point, I'd like to go listen to Wright's speech interview in full. Interesting. Not that I have the time at this very moment, but clearly I'll have to do that soon....

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A Proper Context

MEXCELLENT. AUSTIN, Texas — The School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin is offering an online course for working journalists on how to incorporate the voices and views of their communities' Latinos into their reporting. The four-week course, "Covering the Latino Community," will teach journalists across Texas...

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Home of the Brave, Sweatshop of the Free

TAKE the power back. This is unacceptable. The eight University of Montana students who stormed Main Hall earlier this month, staged a sit-in protest in the campus president's office, and were arrested for disorderly conduct and trespassing will get a lesson in consequences from UM administrators on Tuesday. Charles Couture,...

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The Wright Stuff?

HERE'S THE FUNNY THING: since Wright went on TV...actually, since only a day ago, I've personally seen two people begin searching for a connection to, more or less, the kind of church he speaks of and represents. Anecdotal sure. But it's just one day. Give it time. It's like...

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Reminder for Oregon

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28 de Abril, 2008

Blue-collar Bitter Gun Owning Harley Riding Voters

sombrero tip to yliza...

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Fear Builds Walls, Hope Builds Pigs

HA HAAAA CHARADE YOU ARE... Man, I love that song! Haven't played it in years, don't even think I have it anymore. That was in the cassette era, and I've lost all my music casettes. I saw Floyd in '88, NJ. (Maybe it was '89.) I think it was the...

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So Much for Lucidity and Political Abstinence.

I SWEAR! There really was one lovely shining moment when I just didn't care anymore. Ah well. I excuse it by remembering I never follow football or basketball or anything. Politics is boxing without the sweat and shiny shorts. And we do know how I love to watch boxing....

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When Blackness Approaches Power

THE CONTINUED hypocritical attacks on Jeremiah Wright and Obama's name are disgustingly racist. Period. And the more I hear of this Pastor vato, the more I like him. Speaking the National Press Club in Washington on Monday, [Pastor Jeremiah] Wright called the recent criticism surrounding his sermons "an attack on...

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27 de Abril, 2008

How Hillary Can Still Win

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26 de Abril, 2008

Cherry Blossoms and Skye

IT HAS ALMOST BEEN A MONTH since Skye Budnick went missing. She traveled to Japan on the 2nd of April. A 21-year-old female college student from the United States has been missing since arriving in Hokkaido on April 2, her mother and sister said Tuesday, asking Japanese people to come...

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Tus Mensajes [Around the Riverbend]

FROM THE MAIL: Do you know anything of the blogger of Baghdad Burning? She was at http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com. I have seen that some of her story has been made into books and plays - yet when her family became refugees, they have disappeared since last Oct. Just thought maybe we were...

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25 de Abril, 2008

Can Hillary Resolve her Near Complete Alienation of the Black Community?

BRIEF QUESTION. The Intranix is alight with declarations that Obama has a problem with X or Y type of voter and he better solve this problem. Maybe. Or maybe they'd mostly go for him when it's months later and down to Obama the Democratic nominee vs. McCain the Republican...

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Del Toro Teams Up With Jackson

OOOOH. Now that is an interesting idea. Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who produced "Pan's Labyrinth," will direct two big-budget films based on J.R.R Tolkien's book "The Hobbit," the Hollywood studios involved said Thursday. After months of media speculation, New Line and MGM studios confirmed del Toro, 43, would...

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Nezua Cured of Political Inebriation!

AWESOME! I'm finally freed from the grip of this primary. I just felt it drain away from me all at once. Overload and system dump. I no longer care who wins, I no longer am emotionally invested, I no longer have hope that either one will really represent any...

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Somos Guerra

THIS is why the USA = WAR and will always be so as long as it remains recognizably the entity it is. (via truthout) Read and remember that as consumers, we too, are footsoldiers in this long and increasingly unrestrained war. Perhaps at times unknowingly, and at the whim...

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Flamenco Friday, the Polish Edition

HOY I bring you our occasional dose of Flamenco but this time played and danced by Poles! As we know, Flamenco originated in Andalucia, Spain through the blending of cultures—Moors, Jews, Gypsies, and Spaniards, so it seems to make sense to continue the blend. Here is Tangos Rompeserones by...

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Fick Die Polizei

NOT THAT I'M EXACTLY SURPRISED that la chota got off after emptying clips into unarmed black youth, but I needed to pop in to link to this post today in honor of Sean Bell. Three detectives were acquitted of all charges Friday in the 50-shot killing of an unarmed groom-to-be...

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It's a Jungle Down There

OH MY GOD let it all stop! Can't we just be happy for Amanda Marcotte? I don't know. I know I, for one, was thrilled to read that she chose the KGB bar for the reading and celebration of her new book! We all remember that KGB is a...

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Oregon Latinos for Obama

A coalition of Latino community leaders in Oregon has thrown its support behind Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Ramon Ramirez, the president of PCUN, the state's largest farmworker union, made the announcement Wednesday, citing Obama's commitment to improving the lives of farmworkers and Latino families in...

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24 de Abril, 2008

The Civic Reawakening of a New Generation

With the central mission of the Institute of Politics being to engage and inspire young Americans in the memory of John F. Kennedy and his legacy, we are particularly pleased that the underlying shifts in civic participation that we noted in 2002 are not a one-time phenomenon but instead represent...

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Time to Lift the Rug (Again)

When I say my thinking has traveled an arc with Clinton, dont take it the wrong way. I still do not think she is going to be, our should be, our president. But I have grown more sympathetic to her as a person, through the course of my recording...

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23 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [pt. 3]

HILLARY CLINTON IN EUGENE [3] continues our HRC four-part series, which features the Senator's appearance at Oregon's South Eugene High School Gymnasium. You've read the comments of Tapper and Suarez and myself and probably many others, regarding this very appearance. If you're one of the chosen ones, you've even...

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22 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [pt. 2]

HILLARY CLINTON IN EUGENE [2] continues our HRC four-part series, which features the Senator's rally/town-hall appearance at Eugene, Oregon's South Eugene High School Gymnasium. You've read the comments of Tapper and Suarez and myself and probably many others, regarding this very appearance. If you're one of the chosen ones,...

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A Strange Spring and The New Stories

YOU MAY REMEMBER that not too long ago I put together a short vid called "Strange Winters" for my MTV gig. The premise was simply a comment on the unusual weather patterns visiting the area I live in now, West Oregon and specifically, the Eugene area. The day before...

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21 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [MTV Vlog Apr21]

HILLARY CLINTON IN EUGENE [1] begins our HRC three-part series, which will feature the Senator's rally/town-hall appearance at Eugene, Oregon's South Eugene High School Gymnasium. You've read Tapper and Suarez and myself and many others comment on this very appearance*. Now, witness all the small town high school political...

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Will Disinform for Cash

PARRY'S RIGHT, and he's been saying it for years. (And so have others.) The entrenched, trusted, mainstream media is useless, by and large. Despite the peppering of good journalists out there, and the occasional flare-up of integrity in the big picture, the Fourth Column has buckled and been injected with...

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I Was For Praising McCain Before I Was Against It

"I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he made in 2002." —Hillary Clinton, March 2008 "We need a nominee that will take on John McCain, not cheer on John McCain." —Hillary Clinton, April 2008 HRC...

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Ruben Salazar Remembered

RUBEN SALAZAR, a respected Mexican American journalist whose face and voice became important to El Movimiento in the 70s will be posthumously recognized on a stamp. Salazar was shot and killed while covering the National Chicano Moratorium March, which was organized by the Mexican American community mostly to protest...

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19 de Abril, 2008

In Memory of Aimé Césaire

On Thursday, 17 April, the Martinique poet, activist, politician, and post-colonial theorist Aimé Fernand David Césaire died. Césaire was a central figure in what can be considered the French version of the Harlem Renaissance. While in school at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he helped found L'Étudiant Noir (The Black Student), a...

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 Kevin, when not battling the evil forces of academia, wiles his time away writing about truth, justice, and the American way at A Slant Truth. He most definitely doesn't have a comic book fetish, but he does seek to redefine those terms to mean something more humane. He also wants to make you dance. This post created at 10:44 AM.   | | (7)

Peace. Passover. Freedom. Justice.

I'VE SPOKEN of my great grandmother on my mother's side, the "white" side of my family. But again, the idea of "white" is so disturbing to me because it means just that. A fading away. Of roots and affiliations and history and family story. All for the idea of...

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18 de Abril, 2008

Sueños Rotos [Broken Dreams]

THE BORDER is a tearstained sieve that traps pain and violence and visits it upon the weakest and poorest in our economy and society. It is a valve that shunts cash one way, and blood the other. Until it is torn down and a more modern, humane, holistic, and...

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17 de Abril, 2008

Open Threadito

O, IF ONLY blogging paid me enough to spend the hours writing here I'd love to. It does not. And yet, there are so many things to talk about between us, and that help inform in such important ways. Burger King, for one thing, who sees "no legal way"...

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16 de Abril, 2008

The Thieving Weave, Pt. 2 (A Word Exercise)

Content. Appropriation. Stealing. Sneaking. Singular. Donning. Denying. Sourcing. Sharing. Linking. Remembering. Tradition. Ritual. Connection. Family. Community. Passing on. Passing down. Reaching up. Looking over. Looking away. Looking down. Locking out. Lopping off. Island. Hoard. Individual. Fear. Get. Grab. Gather. Gulp. Gorge. Gasp. Gold. Sky. Ground. Roots. Round. Circle. Join....

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The Chinook

THE CHINOOK SALMON are disappearing from the Pacific coast. With numbers of chinook salmon at historic lows, and fishing likely to be outlawed from California to Washington to protect the remaining fish, a new scientific study paints an even harsher picture of the future of wild chinook salmon. The study,...

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15 de Abril, 2008

King Rat the Corpse Rancher

I SAID I'D WRITE ON TORTURE today, as the Gross W. MoronTerror has recently admitted—using his typical "YGAFPWT"* methodology of confronting accusations of his violating the social contract—that he has signed off on the torturing of humans. A brief comment to mark yet one more slimy, sleazy, slipped notch...

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14 de Abril, 2008

Luna Turns Two

YESTERDAY was my youngest hija's birthday. She turned two. Some (birthday and otherwise) pics behind the cut....

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The Thieving Weave

TWO TOPICS have stuck out in my reading over the last day or two of words now Internexically stored in this crystallized pixelized box o' societal memoria. Appropriation and Torture. We will leave torture for tomorrow's dawn, and for this post I will write on Appropriation, Plagiarism, Intellectual Theft, Society,...

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13 de Abril, 2008

In Solidarity: Global Day for Darfur

Today is the blogging Global Day for Darfur, as organized by Danielle at Modern Musings. There are 25 bloggers participating today, so head over to Modern Musings for a list of participants and please read what they have to say. The mission of this blogging day is to Educate, Motivate,...

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In Solidarity: Global Day for Darfur

I feel so much anger, sadness and frustration around the issue of genocide in Darfur that it's been hard to create a post that's more motivating than damning. But as I see it, I don't have the right to be sad about the genocide in Darfur really. Women raped with...

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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 7:05 AM.   | | (11)

12 de Abril, 2008

Let's Do This

Nezua and crew have graciously invited me to guest post here at the UMX blog. I figure that before I bust up in here with all sorts of shenanigans and hijinks I should introduce myself. Hey, Y'all! I'm Kevin. That was easy, but I suppose doesn't really say much, now...

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Neil Boortz Makes A Lousy Human

Via our friends at Media Matters, here is the latest example of U.S.-born American™ Exceptionalism and Bigotry that usually goes unchecked. On the April 10 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Neal Boortz asserted, "I would make a lousy Mexican." Engineer and "sidekick" Royal Marshall asked Boortz: "Why is...

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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 10:54 AM.  | | (3)

9 de Abril, 2008

Welcome to the Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

A FAVORITE ARTIST, Ben Harper, says "Welcome to the Cruel World." And on days when I wake up and am unfortunate enough to hear these putos yank their jaws sideways about the Iraq Travesty of Harm and Destruction and United States Greed, I think to myself "Welcome to the Mad...

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8 de Abril, 2008

A Hunger for Truth (And Tomato): Shooting the Obama Trilogy

I PROMISED YA I would relate my arduous tale of shooting the Obama event here in Eugene (Parts 1 and 2, 3 still to come), and so I now point you to a lengthy and well-illustrated blog wherein I relate the story of A Hunger for Truth (and Tomato):...

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Bill Past Due

SO I'VE BEEN THINKING after reading a few irate writers who imply that there is some kind of contagious framing out in the aether that unfairly paints Hillary Clinton as a liar. Some of these people say this persistent test she must pass is a special Clinton rule, or is...

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Clinton Isn't Completely Lying

SO THE CLINTON story about her telling the insurance story is both not true...and true. The aunt of a young pregnant woman who died after a hospital told her she needed to pay $100 up front for care said in an interview on Monday that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton...

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7 de Abril, 2008

Obama in Oregon, Part 2

OBAMA IN OREGON (PT. 2) continues our trilogy of Obama-in-Oregonity as promised last week! Peep through the Lens O' Nez and once again, enter "The Pit" in Eugene, Oregon—which is really not as gruesome as the name might sound, but instead a rather invigorating and some might even venture,...

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6 de Abril, 2008

Skye Lynn Budnick [Please Help My Sister is Missing ]

PLEASE READ. Especially if you are in Japan, or know someone there. A friend's sister, known to be suicidal with ideas about taking her own life in Japan has bought a one-way ticket there and the family is overwrought. Thank you....

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Talking about race... with non-allies

In February, I sent out a MySpace bulletin after spending an hour perusing a new blog. I was completely amused by the blog. I wanted to share the gospel of white people and drafted a quick bulletin listing some of the things on the list. Many were things/people I also...

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 cindylu is a middle child and blogs 'cause she needs more attention. She loves mangos, the dodgers and chicanos with goatees. great moments in chicano history #1 graphic by rio yañez. cindylu posted this at 2:36 PM.  | | (7)

Absolut Reconquista Ad: Oh please let Absolut Reparations be next!

Here’s the Absolut ad that first appeared in Mexico: It depicts the border between Mexico and the United States prior to the February 2, 1848 signing of The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo following Mexico's loss of the Mexican American War. The terms of that Treaty were changed by the United...

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5 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon

COVERED THE HILLARY CLINTON campaign stop in Eugene yesterday, at the South Eugene High School. While there was a smattering across a few demographics (there were young people, too), it seemed to my eye to be mostly white women, and older people. (You can't judge by who is behind HRC...

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Keys to la Cocina

DUE TO CERTAIN MALICIOUS comments and spamnocentric email bombings upon the blog, I often turn on moderation. I know it's a pain. And for whatever reason, none of the plugins for marking Trusted Commenters seem to work here. If you would like me (or my trusty XOLAGRAFIK admin asst, M)...

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Word

JUST so it's clear. Whenever you write "disenfranchise" I get hungry for junk food and start daydreaming. I know it's not right. But there it is. Just ends the article like a dinner bell....

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4 de Abril, 2008

A Community Garden [Let's Have Nexus 6]

AND THE ANSWER for the human race and our oldest friend, the Planet Earth, is the re-centering the collective emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual health of human beings—no, we must take it further, to plant/environmental and animal (including human) health rather than this gross heirarchical defect that takes the...

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Remembering Mister King

A MOMENT OF SILENCE to honor the man whose spirit and dream and work can never be jailed or shot down and yet lives on today. Martin Luther King, Jr. Salud. And thank you for the example. And the words. And the work. My MTV Citizen Journalist video titled Because...

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Hillary Clinton Releases Oregon Campaign Schedule

HILLARY CLINTON has released her schedule for Oregon with one day to spare. (Senator Obama gave but two days notice). She will be speaking in Portland and Eugene. (Senator Obama spoke in Salem, Portland, and Eugene.) Senator Clinton will be stopping in Eugene tomorrow to speak at two high...

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Ashes and Snow and Water and Soul

NOW THIS is some beautiful and interesting photography. Photo from the exhibit titled Ashes and Snow. Some soul-soothing imagery for your Friday. Enjoy the weekend, amig@s!...

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3 de Abril, 2008

Tavern of Terror

WHEN THE PHONE RINGS AT THREE AM, chances are it's an old buddy, drunk and in a noisy bar. Either way, I sure hope it's not important. Because I'm pretty sure my voicemail is going to play president with that call. Vote Voicemail '08!...

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Drowning in Wisdom

ONE THING I've noticed in my short lifespan is that if you wait long enough, not only does everything seem to come back into style in one form or another, but it seems we get tired of conventional and sometimes "bedrock" wisdom and decide it's 180º wrong after long...

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2 de Abril, 2008

Raging Bill

SOMEONE'S SMOOTH VENEER is popping off like pine panel in a bonfire. "It was one of the worst political meetings I have ever attended," one superdelegate said. According to those at the meeting, Clinton - who flew in from Chicago with bags under his eyes - was classic old Bill...

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They Break Laws to Make Laws

OH, but we're not really surprised, are we? WASHINGTON — The Bush administration will use its authority to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations in an effort to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest U.S. border by the end of this year, federal officials said...

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