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24 de Junio, 2008

The Aroma of Justice

Categorized under Acción , Blogando , Historia , Juegos , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,


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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20 de Junio, 2008

Brutal Questions (MTV Vlog June 20, 2008)

Categorized under Acción , Artivism , Terrorizing la Gente , Violencia | Tags: , , , ,


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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20 de Mayo, 2008

Last Day for Oregon to Vote in Primary!

Categorized under Acción , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , ,


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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1 de Mayo, 2008

Carne Asada is Not a Crime!

Categorized under Acción , Comida , Cultura , Raza , día festivo | Tags: , ,


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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30 de Abril, 2008

UMX State of the Tortilla

Categorized under Acción , Arte , Blogando , Foto , Raza | Tags: , , , , , , ,


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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17 de Abril, 2008

Open Threadito

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Latin America , Oaxaca , Violencia | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,


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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15 de Abril, 2008

King Rat the Corpse Rancher

Categorized under Acción , Closing in on Bush , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: , , ,


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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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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6 de Abril, 2008

Skye Lynn Budnick [Please Help My Sister is Missing ]

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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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30 de Marzo, 2008

Protest the NAACP

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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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25 de Marzo, 2008

Your Papers, Fraulein.

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


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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16 de Marzo, 2008

The Perks of Being in D.C.

Categorized under Acción , Blogando , Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Man Eegee | Tags: , , ,


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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25 de Febrero, 2008

Cute Sea Lion Begs for Votes

Categorized under Acción , Planeta | Tags: ,


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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9 de Febrero, 2008

94,000 Humans Don't Count

Categorized under Acción , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , ,


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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7 de Febrero, 2008

Tornados

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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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19 de Diciembre, 2007

Christmas for a Wounded, Pretty Bird

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


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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9 de Diciembre, 2007

The Story of Stuff

Categorized under Acción , Artivism , Ciencia , Planeta | Tags: , , , , , ,


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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Pretty Bird Woman House

Categorized under Acción , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , Indígena | Tags: , , , ,


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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15 de Noviembre, 2007

D.C. March Against Hate Crime

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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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6 de Noviembre, 2007

Tragedy and Hope en México

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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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5 de Noviembre, 2007

Kucinich Takes Giant Step Toward Healing the USA

Categorized under Acción , Closing in on Bush , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , ,


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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31 de Octubre, 2007

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

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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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27 de Octubre, 2007

Urgent Help Needed

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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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19 de Octubre, 2007

Yearning to Breathe Free

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


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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29 de Septiembre, 2007

We All Live in Jena

Categorized under Acción , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,


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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23 de Septiembre, 2007

A Fruit That Poisons All of Us

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

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Nuestro Sueños - Our Dreams

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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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27 de Agosto, 2007

Dreams for Jose, and All of Us

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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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21 de Agosto, 2007

Hands Across el Rio

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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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16 de Agosto, 2007

Elvira and Saúl Leave Church to Pray for Change

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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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15 de Agosto, 2007

Calm Decapitations

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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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30 de Julio, 2007

Botulism Cases Spread (Castleberry)

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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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24 de Julio, 2007

How to Punish the Good

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Parenting | Tags: , ,


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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20 de Julio, 2007

The Pricking of My Thumbs

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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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18 de Julio, 2007

July 18: International Day of Action Against Repression in Mexico

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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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19 de Junio, 2007

Robert from SCF on Trial Today in LA

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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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10 de Junio, 2007

Beef Recall

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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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CDC Health Advisory

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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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16 de Mayo, 2007

Elvira and Saul Need Help - Stay of Deportation

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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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