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Corazón Entries

5 de Julio, 2008

A Song for Sábado

Categorized under Corazón , Medios , Música | Tags: , , , ,


HERE'S A SOOTHING and sweet and short piece by un buen amigo, made possible for us to view and disseminate easily by YouTube....

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25 de Mayo, 2008

My Neck of the Woods

Categorized under Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Guerra , Historia , Latin America , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , , ,


As you might have heard, two presidential candidates decided to visit the little island of Puerto Rico this Memorial Day weekend. They took in the sights:...

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15 de Mayo, 2008

Path to the Oasis

Categorized under Corazón , Path to the Oasis | Tags: , , , , , , , ,


BLOGMIGO (and wicked-good writer) Kai Chang tackles the recent occurrences of white racist attacks against Asians in the Canadian fishing industry, and tells us what the Ontario Human Rights Commission is doing about it, as well as how this must serve as a model for our own work right...

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4 de Abril, 2008

A Community Garden [Let's Have Nexus 6]

Categorized under Ciencia , Corazón , El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Guerra , Planeta , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: , , , , , , ,


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

Categorized under Artivism , Corazón , MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Salud | Tags: , , , , , ,


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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22 de Marzo, 2008

I was in the room when....

Categorized under Aprender , Character Study , Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Gobierno , Guest Blogando , Historia , Invitados , La Lente Blanca , Política Estados Unidos , Preguntas , Race for '08 , Rafael , Raza , Religión , Stories , Terrorizing la Gente , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: , , , , ,


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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8 de Marzo, 2008

Dear Barack (and Kevin),

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


DEAR SENATOR OBAMA, I know that someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Kevin Bacon will read this. So I hope you talk to Mr. Bacon and he conveys these thoughts to you. It's not that I think I'm savvier on the political scene...

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6 de Marzo, 2008

candles on every corner

Categorized under Corazón , Once de Septiembre , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: , , ,


IT'S SO EASY for me to begin to get crazy. All I have to do is listen more to the news than I do to the earth and the wind and my own body and my own heart. It's a simple recipe, and there you have the makings of many...

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5 de Marzo, 2008

The Cognitive and The Material

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


INTERESTING and insightful article on messaging, power, voters, public discourse, and political agendas. There are two kinds of policy: cognitive and material. Material policies are familiar: they outline what is to be done in the world. For example, the details of a health care plan, or a plan for getting...

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2 de Marzo, 2008

State of the Black Union, Pt. 1

Categorized under Corazón , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , ,


BEST WORDS on george w bush EVER: If that man was alive, he'd be a sick, sick man. —Dick Gregory This guy just blows me away. So much heart....

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27 de Febrero, 2008

Dick Gregory Apologizes to the First Black President

Categorized under Corazón , Humor , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , ,


THAT was excellent....

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26 de Febrero, 2008

The (Uppity) One

Categorized under Corazón , Race for '08 | Tags: , ,


THE NOTION OF A BLACK MAN who holds his chin high, is not cowed by the craven and corrupt curses of our diseased political "discourse," nor the septic, slime-lipped attack dogs that need no whistle to howl; a man who seemingly shrugs off so many ugly barbs thus rendering...

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21 de Febrero, 2008

Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home

Categorized under Comida , Corazón , Cultura , Literatura , Parenting | Tags: , , ,


WHAT A BEAUTIFUL STORY, full of poignant struggle, sensuality, sorrow, happiness, and food. In 1973, when she was 3, her mother abandoned her in a crowded South Korean market swirling in gray mist and banana flowers. “Although memories are distorted,” she writes, “there are true sensations one doesn’t forget,...

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20 de Febrero, 2008

Tus Mensajes [Systematic Obviation of Personal Intuition]

Categorized under Corazón , Tus Mensajes | Tags: , ,


FROM THE MAIL: "Better Red Than Dead" nails it on the head. The systematic obviation of personal intuition and the deliberate machinations of the dark cadres that have been implemented to destroy personal, intuitive cognition; are the greatest single scam to come out of the 20th century. This manifests in...

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17 de Febrero, 2008

Essential Cream of Frida?

Categorized under Arte , Corazón , Cultura , Latin America , Raza | Tags: , , ,


CUANDO PIENSO EN FRIDA KAHLO, I think of pain. And beauty. When I think of Frida Kahlo, I think of a lifetime sentence of physical agony...and the spirit that must have moved this woman, the spirit that enabled her to keep living, and to create. When I think of...

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15 de Febrero, 2008

The Minimization of Inspiration

Categorized under Corazón , Race for '08 | Tags: , ,


FINALLY someone says it. And says it well. Hillary said she found her voice in New Hampshire because she cried in public. Her audience applauded. But now it seems to the senator that having a voice is irrelevant because somehow having a voice is now the subject of ridicule in...

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13 de Febrero, 2008

Symbol and Essence: The Power of Naming

Categorized under Corazón , Español , Frontera , Guerra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , , , , ,


ANOTHER BLOG POST exclusive to MTV, as it is part of my Street Team 08 duties! This one delves more into one of my favorite paradigms, Symbol and Essence. Words that came to me while thinking on our many forms of warring with the Other....

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12 de Febrero, 2008

38 and 11/12ths!

Categorized under Corazón , Humor | Tags:


got this in an email, tho i made up the grafik. posting it because it's good to remember that "George" is not just a name for the criminally insane and mind-bendingly stupid. behind the cut are some fantastic reminders. George Carlin's Views on Aging Do you realize that the only...

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7 de Febrero, 2008

Desert Flower in an Icy Dreamland

Categorized under Corazón , Frontera , Raza | Tags: , , , , , , ,


FLOR CRISOSTOMO is 28 years old. She is not a citizen of the United States, though she is trying to live her own tiny dream here. Which involves being alive, working very hard, living on extremely modest means (I can earn in an hour or so what this person does...

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4 de Febrero, 2008

The Gift of Wisdom

Categorized under Corazón , Race for '08 | Tags: , ,


"YOU CAN'T train for it in the workplace." Oprah speaks back to women who have told her she is a traitor to her gender as well as voting for Obama simply because he is black. "Don't play me small," she says... sombrero tip to liza...

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31 de Enero, 2008

Why Are Mexicans So Damn Kind and Smart?

Categorized under Corazón , Frontera , New Mexican Memes , Raza | Tags: , , , , ,


I GUESS THE ANSWER to that is just another mystery, like so many of those that disappeared with the ancient tribes of México. But look to José to break it down: ECATEPEC, MEXICO -- Jose Luis Gutierrez is the mayor of the biggest city in Mexico you've never heard of,...

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21 de Enero, 2008

Dream Until Your Dreams Come True

Categorized under Corazón , Salud | Tags: ,


THANK YOU for the dream. And for the doing. We're not there. We're still working. Salud, Mister King. And again, thank you....

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20 de Enero, 2008

Mount Rainier Has Heart

Categorized under Corazón , Derechos Humanos , Frontera | Tags: , , ,


The tiny city of Mount Rainier is considering whether to declare itself a sanctuary for illegal immigrants, entering a regional and national debate over enforcement of immigration law. If the City Council approves the proposal, the eclectic city of 9,000 in Prince George's County will join nearby Takoma Park in...

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8 de Enero, 2008

Lydia Mendoza, ¡presente!

Categorized under Arte , Corazón , Cultura , Historia , M , Música , Raza , Salud | Tags: , , , , ,


Lydia Mendoza, a woman whose song and performance became part of the cornerstones of American music, died on December 20, 2007 at 91 years old. Her accolades include being the first Texan to win the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship in 1982 and winning the National Medal...

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29 de Diciembre, 2007

The New Pretty Bird Woman House

Categorized under Corazón , Derechos Humanos , Violencia | Tags: , , , , ,


GRACIAS MIL, thanks so much to all here who gave something to help Pretty Bird Woman House, for they have reached their goal and can now buy the shelter!!! They got a big donation on Friday that took them over the top, and now the dream is a reality....

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New Waters, Ancient Dream

Categorized under Corazón , Derechos Humanos | Tags: , ,


THIS WORLD. My country. What a crazy fucking place. A place where many people are more worried about electric boxes of bits getting dirtied up with "dirty words" than they are a huge immoral monster-nation raping weaker tribes on the regular. Where we have a deranged and sad figure in...

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24 de Noviembre, 2007

Illegal Angel Operations

Categorized under Corazón , Frontera | Tags: , , , ,


ONCE AGAIN, a Mexican Being was where he was not supposed to be, and just look at the consequences. PHOENIX - A 9-year-old boy looking for help after his mother crashed their van in the southern Arizona desert was rescued by a man entering the U.S. illegally, who stayed...

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18 de Noviembre, 2007

"You Are a Declining Empire, and You Will Learn the Truth."

Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Corazón , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah | Tags: , ,


JOHN BOLTON gets his Walrus mustache trampled by an old stodgy dude with a British accent. It's a war crime that's being committed in Iraq. Because there is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons." —Tony Benn s/t...

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13 de Noviembre, 2007

Tus Mensajes [Ready to Work]

Categorized under Corazón , Tus Mensajes | Tags: , , ,


FROM THE MAIL: Hola. What pisses me off about this site is that it forces me to look at my own racist attitudes. Many well-meaning white folks will not even acknowlegde their racist tendencies which is unfortunate. Look at the Obama candidacy. I really do believe that there will be...

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31 de Octubre, 2007

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

Categorized under Acción , Corazón , Violencia | Tags: ,


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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15 de Octubre, 2007

(My) War Hero

Categorized under Corazón , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah | Tags: ,


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

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

Categorized under Corazón , Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Español , Hipnotismo , La Lente Blanca , Mi Familia | Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,


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

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6 de Octubre, 2007

The Coming Battle [Let's Have Nexus V]

Categorized under Corazón , Signs of the Sixth Sun , Violencia | Tags: , , , ,


THE GHOSTS STIR. The symbols of hate and division and dominance appear more and more. Do we see dismiss the single incidents one by one? Deal with each symptom to our satisfaction? Or do we sit back and note the larger mass, the overall pattern taking shape? CNN reported on...

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28 de Septiembre, 2007

Seven Minutes of Sunshine from Lorna Dee

Categorized under Corazón , Poesía , Raza | Tags: ,


I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, but in wading through all the hectic energy of "news" as presented by the media, I often need deep draughts of beauty. Lorna Dee Cervantes is one of my favorite poets, and a good place to fill up tu copa. Here is her poem...

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21 de Septiembre, 2007

We're In This Together.

Categorized under Corazón | Tags: ,


Statement of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement "Racism is real in America. The case of six black Louisiana teenagers receiving unequal justice because of the color of their skin has shocked this nation and has given rise to a new movement. Unfortunately, this blatant injustice is an all too familiar...

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Stand and be Counted. Or Cower and be Condemned.

Categorized under Corazón , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Medios , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , , , , , ,


I KNOW I DIDN'T GO INTO IT, but I don't go into many things that a well-informed and reasonably sane person staying current on the News would understand all by themselves. I don't like to bog down my blog (Blog-bog, must add this word) with unwieldy explanations that insult the...

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18 de Septiembre, 2007

The GOP Hates Your Brown [Black, etc] Ass

Categorized under Corazón , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: , , ,


DON'T EVEN IMAGINE the question is up in the air. It is not up in the air. I am not saying every Republican is racist. But the GOP as an organization—how they operate, what fears they dig up, what innuendoes their ads use, the framing their preferred TV networks are...

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17 de Septiembre, 2007

Cheese That Thinks it is Stone

Categorized under Corazón , Salud | Tags: , ,


FUNNY HOW LIFE CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND. Once, I lived as if I weren't afraid to die. And by that I mean many things. Like taking heaps of untested things into my body that could do just about anything, like saying "live fast, die young" when I was fourteen...

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16 de Septiembre, 2007

México's Dia de la Independencia

Categorized under Corazón , Cultura , Política México , Raza , día festivo | Tags: , , ,


THIS IS THE DAY TO SHOUT and let that Mexican@ pride ring out. The revolution that drove the Spaniards and colonial rule from Mexico was long (ten years), and bloody, and complicated, many factions of the people having different agendas and levels of participation and reward. (As Marcos has...

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13 de Septiembre, 2007

Back in the Good Ole O.R.

Categorized under Artivism , Blogando , Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , Guerra , Hipnotismo , Indígena , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,


AS IT TURNS OUT, I cannot blog on much that went on at the Immigration Strategy Meeting. My packet of materials is half drafts that cannot be disseminated (lest they "fall into the wrong hands"), and the cat who invited me to the panel I spoke on (and who funneled...

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31 de Agosto, 2007

Carnival of Education, Radical School Edition

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


BLACKAMAZON lays down a beautiful guide/post/linkfest/philosophy with her Carnival of Education-Radical School Edition. A must-read. And read again. Forget saviors We need teachers. We need them from the places we have never thought to have gotten them before We need scarred forearms, split tongues, bowed heads, nappy roots, and...

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28 de Agosto, 2007

Happy Slaves Are Building Fences

Categorized under Corazón , Frontera , Globalización , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: ,


The case of Elvira Arellano is symptomatic of the kinds of obstacles we face when trying to enforce immigration laws in the United States. Like other "essays" clinging to the web like lichen these days, this particular ugly growth waves a reasonable cluster of verbiage your way, an introductory phrase...

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21 de Agosto, 2007

Hands Across el Rio

Categorized under Acción , Corazón | Tags: , ,


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

Categorized under Acción , Corazón | Tags: , , , , , , ,


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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13 de Agosto, 2007

Nadie Es Ilegal

Categorized under Corazón | Tags: , , , , ,


AND WHILE SOME HUMANS FILL THEIR MOUTHS with talk of illegal beings and walls and borders and try to paint fear into our minds with visions of thugs and guns and crime and dark lepers sprinting across the tundra to swipe our sparkling slaughterhouse and fieldworker jobs and Shrinking Majorities—some...

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16 de Julio, 2007

Strong Women 4 Peace!

Categorized under Corazón , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , ,


Other strong women attending the conference, in solidarity with Iraqi women and children, drafted a "Call for Restitution to the Women of Iraq" which rejects the policies by which the United States brought war to Iraq and renounces war as a means of solving conflict between and within states....

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15 de Julio, 2007

The Possibility of Widespread Empathy

Categorized under Corazón | Tags: , , ,


TUCKER CARLSON's comment about Obama sounding "like a pothead" because he spoke of a lack of empathy in today's discourse was very helpful, and I have to thank him for finally revealing a piece of Right Wing paranoia of which I was not previously in possession. His insult (or...

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14 de Julio, 2007

So it's clear!

Categorized under Corazón | Tags:


LET'S GET SOMETHING CLEAR. I'm hearing things from people...some people think I'm a sell-out? Or in some way I have turned my back on something or breached some phantasmic ideological contract I never signed with anyone—because I post on Feministe? Or because I go to YearlyKos? And these are supposed...

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Love is Revolutionary (Let's Have Nexus IV)

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I HAVE WRITTEN A NUMBER OF POSTS lately that talk about the lack of empathy that I see dissolving many efforts and alliances among the politically active, or just feeding unnecessary negative exchange. By "politically active," I mean those who care very much about people and how we live...

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4 de Julio, 2007

A Cookie for You.

Categorized under Corazón | Tags:


ANOTHER THING INTERNET RACE THEORY will attempt to convince you without exception (styled in the Vengeful God of Self-Actualization vein?) is that should you begin to open your mind in the attempt to understand the lives and experiences of Peoplez of Color; should you make progress, should you begin to...

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23 de Junio, 2007

The Ghost at Our Table

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A NEEDED ANGLE in today's immigration talk. Fresno farmer David Mas Masumot brings a farmer's point of view. His is a humane voice, and offers a sane and kind perspective, as well as a frightening look into how farmers like himself will be forced to change to cope with a...

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11 de Junio, 2007

The Path is Always Sound [Nexus III]

Categorized under Corazón | Tags:


YES, I think that's it. Lately I feel that too much of my reading list has become a conglomeration of somewhat-haughty and overly-academic divisions. And I'm not interested in that. I'm very much still interested in all the things I write about. And I am very much interested in...

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10 de Junio, 2007

Where is the Kindness? [Let's Have Nexus II]

Categorized under Corazón | Tags: , , , ,


ARE WE BACKING OURSELVES into a trap? With our surety and righteousness and protection? If A has been oppressed/hurt/abused by B's type of people, and because of this we all agree that A owes B no explanation or education on why or how they experience life and need to be...

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17 de Mayo, 2007

Yearning to Breathe Free

Categorized under Corazón , Derechos Humanos , Migra | Tags: ,


OAKLAND AND SAN FRAN pull a Lady Liberty!: Oakland officials are reaffirming their city will remain a "city of refuge." Voting unanimously Tuesday night, the City Council adopted a resolution that forbids city employees or police officers from participating in immigration raids. The measure also broadens Oakland's 1986 "City...

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14 de Mayo, 2007

Del Diario - Entrada #051407 [(Re)introduction]

Categorized under Corazón , Del Diario , Derechos Humanos , Medios , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , ,


From the Del Diario Series, entrada #051407:...

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13 de Mayo, 2007

The Face of Our Collective Conscience

Categorized under Corazón , Medios | Tags: , , , , ,


I SAW AN AD for quaker oats this morning and in my oversensitive way, I noticed that two brown girls were tugging on the sleeve of the tall "Quaker" icon-man who was rolling away on a skateboard. Yes, it was surreal. But it got me thinking. It got me thinking...

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11 de Mayo, 2007

Imperative

Categorized under Corazón , Memicry , Parenting | Tags:


RIFFING ON A MEME brought my way by two powerful and intelligent women I answer now What is the great imperative of my life? And it is, simply, to be Free. To remember how to be free. To remember I am free. To help others be free. To re-make...

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2 de Mayo, 2007

For the Good of All: US-Iraq Must Fail

Categorized under Corazón , Iraq the Casbah , Parenting | Tags: , , ,


AND THE IRAQ OCCUPATION BE DRIVEN OUT and the attempt to sow seeds from the American invasion collapse—in an incontestable and dramatic fashion. As it is doing. While every statement from the Right or the Left presupposes the idea that Of Course I Hope it Succeeds, I must disagree...

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27 de Abril, 2007

You Can't Deport the Truth

Categorized under Corazón , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , Hipnotismo , Historia , Indígena , Ley , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Raza | Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,


BIG GOLD-TOPPED PROPZ to mis amig@s sech as XicanoPwr and Marisa at Latina Lista and mi güero blo'migo at Mexfiles, and Migra Matters and No Más Muertes and all the other soldader@s who stare the border issue in the face day after day after day after day. I read...

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26 de Abril, 2007

Why We Do

Categorized under Blogando , Corazón , Stories | Tags: , ,


ONE OF THE BLOGS I used to read one day sported an essay that essentially summed up the author's ongoing growing feelings that—in his opinion—blogs don't achieve much of anything and that the writer felt his blogging time only ate up time they could be using for other more...

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22 de Abril, 2007

Truth is My Law

Categorized under Corazón , Ley , Parenting | Tags:


IT IS EXPECTED that we take the laws seriously in this land. That we integrate them into our personal moral systems. We tell our children to do this, to trust us on our superior ability to filter out what is good and what is bad. And we hand them...

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7 de Abril, 2007

Pretiendship

Categorized under Corazón , Palabras | Tags:


HONESTY is more than a gift, it is as necessary to the relationship called "friendship" as hydrogen is to the compound called "water." If someone offends you, steps over your line, or acts in a way that hurts you or disappoints you but does not know it or see it...

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4 de Abril, 2007

Greedom on the March

Categorized under Corazón , Palabras , Poesía , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags:


POTENTIAL PRESIDENTS are discussed like well-produced flicks making the circuit and the appraisal of their smashing box-office numbers leaves me just as cold. As with many other facts that aggravate my spirit, I am often told these realities are nothing to be overly-excited or angry about. This defaulted drool...

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27 de Marzo, 2007

Nurturing the Mutant Cell

Categorized under Ciencia , Corazón | Tags:


TALKING POINTS MEMO takes a moment to ponder cancer and our inability to affect its occurrences. It's been a sobering several days, with Snow's cancer recurrence and that of Elizabeth Edwards. It's a reminder that with all our technology, the best medical care available, which I'm sure both of...

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12 de Marzo, 2007

What's Wrong With Being Right?

Categorized under Blogando , Corazón | Tags:


A BIG SHOUT OUT from el corazón del mundo to all those who are not Right. Not only is Being Right About Things something many bloggers measure their worth by, but it is part of the very heart of the Human Condition. (We must, of course, always add silently that...

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28 de Febrero, 2007

Remembering that Which Is True (part.2)

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MY FATHER TOLD ME a wise thing: the hardest part about [coming to this work, this journey, this exploration of self] is that everyone seems to know better than you who you are. This has turned out to be a very valuable piece of wisdom. Or rather, preparing for this...

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25 de Febrero, 2007

APPO on the rise!

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AS THE CRUEL, HARD, HANDS OF OPPRESSION, deception, and greed cannot hope to be stronger than the heart, the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) is only gaining support and energy as a reaction to the fascist, violent tactics of installed governor Ulises Ruiz. Once again the...

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24 de Febrero, 2007

Smile and Say CHEEZE

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FIFTEEN YEAR-OLD OSCAR GUTIERREZ is not smiling anymore. He died last weekend, addicted to a new, cheap drug called "Cheese," or "Cheeze," which is made of heroin and Tylenol PM. The drug, which sells at a very affordable $2 per hit, is sweeping through middle-schools and high schools in...

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22 de Febrero, 2007

The Purpose

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AND NOW, A SHORT INCESTUOUS talk about blogging. A short, self-evident, but perhaps important word about the online community. For those who come here to read the Dillio® and don't care one bit about the social aspects and drama of other blogs and how we all interact, first accept...

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5 de Febrero, 2007

The Uncivilized World Awaits

Categorized under Corazón , Palabras , Signs of the Sixth Sun , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: , , , ,


I GREW UP READING SCIENCE-FICTION, among other genres. I was heavy for a while into Fantasy and Sci-Fi. In that time, I read Clarke, Bradbury, Asimov, LeGuin, Heinlen, many others. In my youth there were films, here and there, about a strange future. A future in which a hostile government...

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31 de Enero, 2007

Living the Dream

Categorized under Corazón , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , ,


THIS IS A REMINDER that if your government wants you to be quiet when discussing the possible violations it has committed against YOU—the people who make up this so-called NATION—then this "government" is up to no good. That is to say, if the GOVERNMENT wants you and I to engage...

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19 de Noviembre, 2006

A Humane Being

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POVERTY IS A FUNNY TOPIC to post on after my last entry, but I swear to you that there is no subtext implied. I just snuck on the computer to try and read some junk, and on one of my regular sites came across this inspiring video. Of course,...

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14 de Noviembre, 2006

Remembering That Which Is True (part.1)

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THERE IS A QUICKLY MOVING VOICE that runs free in your mind. Voice flits back and forth, like an electron flow healing a synaptic cleft—between Consideration and Decision; between Contemplation and Reaction; between Estimation and Implementation. This speaker, this injection, this Voice moves and acts before you will normally recognize...

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31 de Octubre, 2006

The Shadow Shifts, the Light Lifts

Categorized under Corazón , Oaxaca , Palabras , Protesta | Tags: , , , , ,


AFTER BRADLEY ROLAND WILL WAS SHOT and killed, I have had a lot of feelings. Not that watching the events in Oaxaca haven't given me feelings anyway. They've given me more feelings and thoughts than I've noted here by far. And even in the posts I have written, my...

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11 de Septiembre, 2006

Trabajadores, Traitors, and Terminators

Categorized under Ciencia , Corazón , Globalización , Historia | Tags: , , ,


IT IS A HARD TASK GIVEN YOU; a troublesome puzzle created around your birth. It is not easy to come to realize, eventually, that the world you were born into is a sickened one, a mutated cell riddled with the malaise of Man's spiritual failures. It is a huge task,...

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