24 de Junio, 2008

The Aroma of Justice

Categorized under Acción , Blogando , Historia , Juegos , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: African Americans, Amigos and Amigas, Blacks, blogs, DNCC08, Feminism, George Carlin, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Power to the People, Protest, RNC

AMIGA CARMEN talks about how some pissed off Hillary supporters are stewing and planning on disrupting the Democratic National Convention and of understanding their anger...but not their cause. George Carlin talks about how most of Feminism's concerns don't involve women of color. Nezua is remembering when he was pissed...

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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 8:31 AM.
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20 de Junio, 2008

Brutal Questions (MTV Vlog June 20, 2008)

Categorized under Acción , Artivism , Terrorizing la Gente , Violencia | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Ian Van Ornum, MTV, Police Brutality, Taser

UPDATE: Viacom has insisted that I edit this video to remove all YouTube references. The new version is here. Of course I disagree with the edit. The Eugene Police Deputy Auditor is still accepting citizen input. This video was a call for that input. Without being able to point people...

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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 12:24 PM.
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20 de Mayo, 2008

Last Day for Oregon to Vote in Primary!

Categorized under Acción , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Eugene, Oregon, The Petroleum Wars, Voting

AS OREGON'S OFFICIAL MTV Street Team Rep. and all-around virtual dawn street crier, it falls upon me now to type out this message—OREGON: TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to take your ballot and get thee to an official drop! Drive and be counted! Don't let Nader get elected due...

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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 5:47 AM.
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1 de Mayo, 2008

Carne Asada is Not a Crime!

Categorized under Acción , Comida , Cultura , Raza , día festivo | Tags: Califas, May Day, Tacos

OYE, lovers of Carne Asada and other related deliciousness! The Great Endangered Taco Truck is not just an issue in Jefferson Parish, New Orleans! As la buena gente at saveourtacotrucks.org/ reminds us, Carne Asada is Not a Crime! As mentioned in The Los Angeles Times, to celebrate this year’s...

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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 8:37 AM.
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30 de Abril, 2008

UMX State of the Tortilla

Categorized under Acción , Arte , Blogando , Foto , Raza | Tags: Blackwater, blogs, Califas, Guadalupe, Harvard, historia, Power to the People, tortillas

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.
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17 de Abril, 2008

Open Threadito

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Latin America , Oaxaca , Violencia | Tags: Burger King, Chevron, Democrats, Ecuador, Farming, Mexico, misogyny, Oaxaca, Power to the People, Radio

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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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 6:00 AM.
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15 de Abril, 2008

King Rat the Corpse Rancher

Categorized under Acción , Closing in on Bush , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: bush, putos, Torture, War Crimes

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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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 5:09 AM.
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12 de Abril, 2008

Neil Boortz Makes A Lousy Human

Categorized under Acción , Man Eegee | Tags:

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.
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6 de Abril, 2008

Skye Lynn Budnick [Please Help My Sister is Missing ]

Categorized under Acción | Tags: Amigos and Amigas, Missing Persons, Street Team 08

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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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 4:36 PM.
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30 de Marzo, 2008

Protest the NAACP

Categorized under Acción , Carmen D. , Resistencia | Tags:

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. 
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25 de Marzo, 2008

Your Papers, Fraulein.

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos | Tags: ALIENZ, español, ICE, Immigration, migra, Rapid Response Network, Redadas

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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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 8:10 AM.
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16 de Marzo, 2008

The Perks of Being in D.C.

Categorized under Acción , Blogando , Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Man Eegee | Tags: blogs, borders, Immigration, SAVE act

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.
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25 de Febrero, 2008

Cute Sea Lion Begs for Votes

Categorized under Acción , Planeta | Tags: Environment, Pacific Marine Mammal Center

THERE ARE MANY POSTS I almost make, many I mean to make, and a few that I actually say I will make, but don't get around to. One of the latter category was when a friend of mine (one I made when I first visited Oregon in 2002-ish, let's...

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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 7:06 AM.
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9 de Febrero, 2008

94,000 Humans Don't Count

Categorized under Acción , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Califas, Power to the People, Voting

I AM SURPRISED, in all honesty, that this is not linked in more places. In my opinion, people who believe in the Democratic process (and I'm not even sure how much I do, anymore, especially given events like this which seem to happen over and over) would be incensed...

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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 5:07 AM.
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7 de Febrero, 2008

Tornados

Categorized under Acción , Planeta , Violencia | Tags: Environment

HUNDREDS INJURED and at this time, 55 dead. Tornados in Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, and Mississippi have taken the lives and homes of many. ATKINS, Ark. — Residents in five Southern states rose Wednesday to widespread clusters of destruction caused by an unusually ferocious winter tornado system. At least...

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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 4:49 AM.
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19 de Diciembre, 2007

Christmas for a Wounded, Pretty Bird

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos | Tags: Hope, Olbermann, Power to the People, Pretty Bird Woman House

YOU MAY RECALL, I posted a request for Olbermann last week or so, passing on the wish/hope/dream that one person in the Native American comunidad expressed for a greater level of exposure of their particular need. That need was that a home be bought, a refuge home for Native...

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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 5:22 AM.
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9 de Diciembre, 2007

The Story of Stuff

Categorized under Acción , Artivism , Ciencia , Planeta | Tags: Annie Leonard, Consumption, Environment, Film, Mother Nature, Outsourcing, Pollution

THIS 20 MINUTE SHORT is fantastic. It will make you cry, it will make you sick, well, hell. It's just a great time. For the whole familia. Seriosly, important message and education on the many hidden costs of material consumption, delivered by an eco-hero in a fun, dreadful, animated...

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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 1:20 PM.
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Pretty Bird Woman House

Categorized under Acción , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , Indígena | Tags: indigenous, Olbermann, Pretty Bird Woman House, The Haunted Land, Violence Against Women

OLBERMANN, I already know you read me, dawg. Stop LYIN'. And we all know you are down with tha populace, and have been a beacon of hope to many of the voiceless. You have put that pretty mug in front of the camera and scoffed forth many important statements...

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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 10:47 AM.
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15 de Noviembre, 2007

D.C. March Against Hate Crime

Categorized under Acción | Tags: al sharpton, Change, Jena 6, Power to the People, racism

With hate crimes and noose hangings on the rise across the country, we must have the federal government protect us from local hate and bigotry. From Mychal Bell in Jena, Louisiana, to Sean Bell in New York, it is time for the federal government to intervene, and you can...

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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 2:02 PM.
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6 de Noviembre, 2007

Tragedy and Hope en México

Categorized under Acción , Planeta | Tags: Chiapas, Floods, hope, Mexico, Power to the People, Tobasco, Villahermosa

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AFP) — At least 16 people were missing and feared dead Tuesday after a mudslide struck a village in flood-hit southern Mexico, amid reports of rampant looting. Heavy rain over the past days triggered a "severe" landslide that sent part of a hill in the southern state...

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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 6:35 AM.
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5 de Noviembre, 2007

Kucinich Takes Giant Step Toward Healing the USA

Categorized under Acción , Closing in on Bush , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Change, hope, Impeachment Pie, Justicia, Kucinich

IT'S TIME TO IMPEACH CHENEY By Congressman Dennis Kucinich, special to www.ImpeachCheney.org As a member of Congress, I have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution and the laws of our nation, and I have pledged to represent the views of my constituents and of all Americans. That’s why I...

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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 3:56 PM.
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31 de Octubre, 2007

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

Categorized under Acción , Corazón , Violencia | Tags: Que Viva Las Mujeres, Soul of the World

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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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 8:13 AM.
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27 de Octubre, 2007

Urgent Help Needed

Categorized under Acción | Tags: Power to the People, Wildfires

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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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 12:28 PM.
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19 de Octubre, 2007

Yearning to Breathe Free

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Raza | Tags: borders, Hutto, ICE, Mexicans, migra, Police State, Power to the People, Raymondville

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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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 7:53 AM.
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29 de Septiembre, 2007

We All Live in Jena

Categorized under Acción , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: Blacks, Latino, Mos Def, music, Police Brutality, Power to the People, Race, racism, The Haunted Land, White Supremacy

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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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 11:24 AM.
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23 de Septiembre, 2007

A Fruit That Poisons All of Us

Categorized under Acción , Música | Tags: Billie Holiday, Jena 6, racism, White Supremacy, YouTube

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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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 9:14 AM.
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Nuestro Sueños - Our Dreams

Categorized under Acción , Frontera | Tags: Change, Hope, The Dream Act

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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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 8:04 AM.
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27 de Agosto, 2007

Dreams for Jose, and All of Us

Categorized under Acción , Política Estados Unidos , Raza | Tags: Change, Hope

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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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 10:30 AM.
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21 de Agosto, 2007

Hands Across el Rio

Categorized under Acción , Corazón | Tags: borders, Change, Hope

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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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 7:27 AM.
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16 de Agosto, 2007

Elvira and Saúl Leave Church to Pray for Change

Categorized under Acción , Corazón | Tags: BOYCOTT, Change, Hope, migra, Power to the People, Protest, Que Viva Las Mujeres, Sanctuary Cities

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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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 8:34 AM.
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15 de Agosto, 2007

Calm Decapitations

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Latin America , Violencia | Tags: BOYCOTT, Chiquita, Corporations

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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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 1:55 PM.
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30 de Julio, 2007

Botulism Cases Spread (Castleberry)

Categorized under Acción | Tags: Castleberry, Public Health

PUBLIC HEALTH WARNING. Not optional for US citizens who eat canned meat products (chili and who knows what else I can't imagine). Read, please. Regarding botulism cases spreading across country. Labels to check in your pantry. Castleberry....

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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 6:02 PM.
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24 de Julio, 2007

How to Punish the Good

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Parenting | Tags: derechos de mujeres, putos, Que Viva Las Mujeres

FROM AMIGA BLACKAMAZON: Human rights defender at risk Nigerian, Human Rights Defender and founder of The International Centre for reproductive health and Sexual rights (INCRESE) in Niger State, Dorothy Aken’Ova has been ostracised and intimidated by family and community because of the work she does. Social activists and Frontline HRD...

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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 11:32 AM.
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20 de Julio, 2007

The Pricking of My Thumbs

Categorized under Acción | Tags: Hope, Police State, Power to the People, September 11

Roberts pointed out that it's old-line Republicans like himself, former Reagan associate deputy attorney general Bruce Fein, and Pat Buchanan who are the diehards in warning of the danger. 'It's so obvious to people like us who have long been associated in the corridors of power,' he said. 'There's no...

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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 2:15 PM.
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18 de Julio, 2007

July 18: International Day of Action Against Repression in Mexico

Categorized under Acción | Tags: EZLN, Mexicans, Mexico, Power to the People

IF YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF a member of La Otra Campana—the Other Campaign—or if you are a Mexican American who feels a strong tie to Mexico or la gente in Mexico, or just a human being who feels solidarity with the people suffering oppression in Oaxaca, please read on. As...

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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 7:24 AM.
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19 de Junio, 2007

Robert from SCF on Trial Today in LA

Categorized under Acción | Tags: Farming, SCF

REMEMBER THE SOUTH CENTRAL FARM? If you live in or near LA, you can continue the support today. Trial for South Central Farm Supporter Today Distribute Widely... Please come out this Tuesday, June 19th at 8:30am and show your support for Robert who is the last and only person...

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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 11:16 AM.
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10 de Junio, 2007

Beef Recall

Categorized under Acción | Tags: Public Health

A WARNING to those who eat meat: So we have two major ground-beef recalls in progress. Both, they tell us, for e. coli contamination. One got a reasonably big, non-hysterical but thorough, coverage on the Saturday evening (NBC anyway) news. That’s this one, which covers a great whacking lot of...

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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 8:52 AM.
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CDC Health Advisory

Categorized under Acción | Tags: Public Health

MY MOTHER is the director of public health for the county she works in, and she has passed on this official CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) advisory to me. If the area concerns you or any loved ones, you can download the entire pdf here. CDC Health Advisory...

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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 8:30 AM.
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16 de Mayo, 2007

Elvira and Saul Need Help - Stay of Deportation

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Migra | Tags: Elvira Arellano, migra

A CALL TO ACTION to residents of Califas, from a friend and activist LaVerdad regarding Elvira Arellano and her son Saul. If you live in California, please join with us on this. With this effort I do think we can make a difference—a huge difference—to this family, and also...

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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 10:37 AM.
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14 de Mayo, 2007

Citizenship Application Workshop

Categorized under Acción , Frontera | Tags: borders, Green Card, Mexicans

PLEASE see below the cut for information on a Citizenship Application Workshop on May 19, 2007 in Orange, CA....

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12 de Mayo, 2007

Para Los Niños. Para Todo el Mundo.

Categorized under Acción , Blogando | Tags: activism, blogs, brown pride, Children, Hate Groups, Hope, indigenous, Minutemen, Soul of the World

IT IS SABADO (Saturday), and I have three action items for now. There will be more posts today, I have some information on a few things I would like to pass along. Hutto Prison Fer Kids is one, and then I have some info on Chican@ Art Mag, and also...

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26 de Abril, 2007

Indian Killer Day

Categorized under Acción , Cultura , Raza , día festivo | Tags: Columbus, indigenous

As many of you know, this is the 100th anniversary of the designation of Columbus Day as a state holiday in Colorado, the birthplace of the Columbus Day holiday. Also, as many of you might know, several of us from TCD/AIM have been working with State Senator Suzanne Williams...

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19 de Abril, 2007

Searching for Michael Patrick Vaughn

Categorized under Acción | Tags: Missing Persons

FOR THOSE ON THE WEST COAST, please keep your ears and eyes open for a black male named Michael Patrick Vaughn. I don't know if he goes by any nicknames aside from Mike, but please see below the cut for a picture and contact information. He is the brother...

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27 de Marzo, 2007

Defend The Honor - Call to Action

Categorized under Acción , Historia , Raza | Tags: historia, Latino, Power to the People

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING the story of Ken Burns' and his omission of Latinos from his newest documentary on WWII, The War—here is a call to action sent out today from Gus Chavez: Representatives of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus meet with PBS President Paula Kerger today Tuesday,...

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23 de Marzo, 2007

To Some, Hate is a Game

Categorized under Acción , Medios , Migra , Raza | Tags: borders, indigenous, Mexicans, racism

THE LINE BLURS between "Illegal Immigrant" and "Hispanic" because those who hate need no reason nor well-defined boundary for their hate. In fact, the nature of hate inherently resists as much. All that is needed are thinly-veiled justifications and mainstreamed channels through which the haters can ooze their spiritual...

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21 de Marzo, 2007

Cooking The History Book [Ken Burns' Anti-Latino Agenda]

Categorized under Acción , Guerra , Hipnotismo , Historia , Raza | Tags: historia, hypocrisy, Mexicans, Mexico, Power to the People, The Haunted Land

WHEN I SPEAK OF THE LONG WAR on Mexico, I imagine there is a faction of people who sigh and chalk it up to the fiery and verbose drama of a Xicano activist or some such thing. But what I speak of, specifically, is a long and concerted effort...

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17 de Marzo, 2007

Please Help the Stranded Bedford Immigrant Children

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Migra , Raza | Tags: activism, borders, Child Abuse, Hope, Mexicans, migra, Soul of the World

FROM THE MIRA COALITION: There are between 150 and 200 niños (children) separated from their parents as a result of the March 6, 2007 Immigration and Customs Enforcement's raid on workers at a defense contractor in New Bedford, Massachusetts. MIRA members, staff, allies, families, neighbors and friends are doing...

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24 de Febrero, 2007

Free Chip Fitzgerald

Categorized under Acción , Chinga la Chota , El Malestar Pálido | Tags: Black Panthers, Political Prisoners

UPDATE: IF you are interested in freeing Chip Fitzgerald, please visit this site and sign the petition. Here is a recent message from a compa on the Free Chip Fitzgerald mission: We are asking that he be released...not arguing his innocence...he should be free by the law which put him...

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13 de Febrero, 2007

Sickly Slaves for Sweet Spinach

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos | Tags: activism, Antepasados, Chemicals, Farming

THREE HIGHLY NEUROTOXIC POISONS are being used in planting and maintaining the crops that end up on your table. They are Azinphos-Methyl (AZM or "guthion"), phosmet and chlorpyrifos. The EPA itself acknowledges that all three of these pesticides are "highly neurotoxic organophosphate insecticides which can attack the human brain...

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3 de Enero, 2007

Remembering Ramona

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Historia , Política México | Tags: activism, Chicanism@, derechos de mujeres, EZLN, Hope, indigenous, SCF

THOSE WHO ARE AWARE OF THE OTHER Campaign know who Comandanta Ramona was. For those who do not, she was a very important part of the EZLN, an activist for women if ever there was one, and the author of the Zapatista Revolutionary Laws for Women. Her kidney transplant gave...

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23 de Diciembre, 2006

Christmas Eve Vigil for Prison Camp Children

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Migra , Raza | Tags:

THIS IS VERY SHORT NOTICE—I first saw it just moments ago in a comment thread at XP's jernt. But people are organizing a Christmas Eve Vigil for the inmate Mexican children being incarcerated right now at the Hutto Prison Camp in Texis. They are bringing strength, love, candles, and...

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21 de Diciembre, 2006

Three Posters Not Selling Oaxaca

Categorized under Acción | Tags: Oaxaca, Power to the People, Protest, Ruiz

HERE ARE THREE POSTERS to download and print out and hang in the places you think might spark thoughts, or start conversation on the topic. The way I think of it, and the way I was thinking when I designed these, I really am aiming just to drop a question...

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Mexico Profundo and A New Way Forward

Categorized under Acción , Arte , Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Globalización , Historia , Latin America , Oaxaca , Política México , Resistencia | Tags: APPO, borders, Calderon, Capitalism, EZLN, False History, Hope, Imperialism, indigenous, Mexico

GUSTAVO ESTEVA has written an amazing three-part article on Mexico's divisions and decay, her history, the effects of NAFTA, Neoliberalism, the EZLN (and why they are a hugely important fact), Globalization, and the roots and reasons for what is going on right now in Oaxaca. But more than some...

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Oaxaca Call for Global Solidarity

Categorized under Acción , Oaxaca , Política México , Raza , Resistencia | Tags: activism, brown pride, EZLN, indigenous, Mexico

FRIDAY, EL 22 DE DICIEMBRE (TOMORROW) is the day that Solidarity Actions with Oaxaca begin. If you have only come across this post and are wondering why this would be important to you, read here, and there's much more here. EZLN llama a Movilización Mundial para Oaxaca (EZLN calls for...

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18 de Diciembre, 2006

Jungles of Injustice and You: the Big-Hearted Guerrilla

Categorized under Acción , Arte , Derechos Humanos , Hipnotismo , Oaxaca , Raza , Resistencia | Tags: activism, Child Abuse, Oaxaca, Protest

ART HAS BEEN ON MY MIND. And "art" has been on my mind. And Doing Something to Help has been on my mind. And ideas have begun to come together for me as if revelatory. Which is funny, because the ideas that have been ringing out (like fat raindrops on...

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16 de Diciembre, 2006

L.A. Oaxaca Solidarity March!

Categorized under Acción , Protesta , Raza , Resistencia | Tags: activism, Chicanism@, indigenous, Mexico, Oaxaca, Protest, Ruiz

I KNOW YOU ARE DYING to get your body in the mix, to put your feets where ya heart is, and here is the chance. There will be a Oaxaca solidarity march in LA, 22 de Deciembre. Look below the cut for more info, and if you want to download...

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4 de Diciembre, 2006

Sign Petition to Wrest Geronimo Back From Bushes and Yale

Categorized under Acción , El Malestar Pálido , Historia | Tags: Antepasados, historia, indigenous, Power to the People, The Haunted Land

LORNA DEE ASKS US TO SIGN AND PASS IT ON. Who am I to argue? Not to mention this really gets under my skin for more than one reason. I'm more than happy to sign. It's the least I would do, given the chance. Really. Because haven't enough bones been...

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2 de Diciembre, 2006

Casa de la Muerte

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Gobierno , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Política México | Tags: border, gonzales, House of Death, mexicans, racism, War on Drugs

THERE IS A DARK STORY that the White House is trying to suppress, most of the media is ignoring, and that we are not going to let pass by. It is a true story, a horror story. What is being billed as "The House of Death" is an account...

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1 de Diciembre, 2006

¡Somos la Resistencia!

Categorized under Acción , Blogando | Tags: Minutemen, Power to the People, Protest, racism

FOR THOSE WHO CHEERED ON THE STUDENTS at Columbia University when they let the Minutemen know—in no uncertain terms—that their brand of gun-patrolled racism was not welcome in America's learning centers and then later learned of (brave) Karina Garcia (Political Chair of the Chicano Caucus at Columbia University) and...

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6 de Noviembre, 2006

Alimentación del Mundo

Categorized under Acción | Tags: activism, Capitalism, Farming, UFW

AS THE SIGHTED MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE know, I support the United Farm Workers with my hard-toiling icon over there in the sidebar. It's not easy, but I forge on. I have used the UFW image for my "favicon" image (the one that shows up for bookmarks or in...

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3 de Octubre, 2006

The Problem In Oaxaca

Categorized under Acción , Gobierno , Oaxaca , Política México , Protesta | Tags: Oaxaca

BRINGING YOU AN IN-DEPTH PIECE OF BACKGROUND REPORTING on Oaxacan developments, as understood by one Rebecca Barroso. The Unapologetic Mexican cannot place his sterling silver reputation behind all opinions or facts in this piece, as he has not researched them. But he would be negligent in his duty to...

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2 de Octubre, 2006

A Candle for Oaxaca, A Prayer for America

Categorized under Acción , Gobierno , New Mexican Memes , Oaxaca , Política México , Protesta | Tags: Oaxaca

A CANDLE FOR OAXACA, en mi corazón y en mi cuarto. If you read this blog, chances are your interests have already taken you to sources of information on what is happening in Oaxaca, México. But if not, you can easily find many good reports in various blogs and...

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24 de Agosto, 2006

A Wetback With His Own Stinkin' Badge and Gun

Categorized under Acción , El Malestar Pálido , Palabras | Tags: 9/11, borders, brown pride, bush, jrh, mestizo, mexicans, Mexico, racism, RNC, The Haunted Land, war on terror, White Power, White Supremacists

It's not the first time someone has questioned my citizenship, or my patriotism. I've even dealt with comments where I was called treasonous, simply because of this blog. I'm sure I'll deal with them again, so let's get it all out, right now. If you are interested in understanding, I...

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4 de Agosto, 2006

NYC Volunteers Needed/Call for Latinos to Vote

Categorized under Acción , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: activism, Election, Latino, New York City

If you are citizen of the US, or if you know American Citizens, it is important that you (and they) vote in the next elections. Please keep in mind that your vote is your chance to make your voice known, and is a direct political contribution and a chance...

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2 de Agosto, 2006

First They Came for the Mexicans....

Categorized under Acción , Gobierno , New Mexican Memes , Política Estados Unidos , Protesta | Tags: activism, Camp Democracy, Gitmo, halliburton, mexicans, mexico, resistance, RNC

I'll grant you that in the United States our two big political parties never nominate a candidate of, by, or for poor people. Nonetheless, we have now established a pattern of stolen elections, and we have NOT taken over our nation's capital to demand justice. This fact alone would make...

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29 de Mayo, 2006

Please Help Save the South Central Farm! (L.A.)

Categorized under Acción | Tags:

Please watch this and decide for yourself if these people deserve your help. The time is drawing close. You and I are very, very comfy. But many familes are about to be thrown from their home and farms, and their livelihood, shelter, work, and a beautiful two blocks of...

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