Corazón Entries

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: Environment, Format, Hope, Let's Have Nexus, misogyny, Power to the People, racism, The White Lens

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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 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 12:11 PM.  | | (2)

Remembering Mister King

Categorized under Artivism , Corazón , MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Salud | Tags: African Americans, Citizen Journalism, Film, hope, MLK, MTV, race

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: consequences, Obama, pastor, race, religion, truth

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

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

8 de Marzo, 2008

Dear Barack (and Kevin),

Categorized under Corazón , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Change, Clinton, Democrats, Hope, Kevin Bacon, Obama

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: Hope, My Life, Power to the People, September 11

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: borders, Clinton, FEMA, Format, Hope, Immigration, Material and Cognitive, migra, Migrant farmers, Obama, Wiretapping

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: Blacks, Dick Gregory, YouTube

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: Blacks, Clinton, Dick Gregory, Obama, Outtakes and Remakes, Race, YouTube

THAT was excellent....

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26 de Febrero, 2008

The (Uppity) One

Categorized under Corazón , Race for '08 | Tags: Hope, Obama, racism

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: Adoption, Authors, Comida, Kim Sunée

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: I should tag this something, Intuition, Power to the People

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: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Mexico, Que Viva Las Mujeres

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: Clinton, hope, Obama

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: Democrats, español, Immigration, Language, racism, Republicans, Symbol and Essence, war on terror

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: George Carlin

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, ICE, Immigration, Mexicans, migra, Que Viva Las Mujeres, Sanctuary Cities, Soul of the World

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: Obama, Oprah, YouTube

"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: borders, Change, Hope, Immigration, Mexicans, Mexico

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: Hope, MLK

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: Immigration, migra, Mount Rainier, Sanctuary Cities

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: brown pride, Chicanas, Lydia Mendoza, Mexicans, music, workers

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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 M spits hot fire at Problemchylde. This post was rhymed and ripped by the hottest blogger of all time at 6:16 AM.  | | (7)

29 de Diciembre, 2007

The New Pretty Bird Woman House

Categorized under Corazón , Derechos Humanos , Violencia | Tags: hope, indigenous, Power to the People, Pretty Bird Woman House, Que Viva Las Mujeres, Souix

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: Change, Hope, Power to the People

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: ALIENZ, borders, Hope, Mexicans, migra

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, Tony Benn, War Crimes

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: Change, hope, Obama, racism

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: 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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15 de Octubre, 2007

(My) War Hero

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

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: Adoption, assimilation, familia, Lou Dobbs, mestizo, Mexicans, pundits, racism, Tancredo, The White Lens, Xicanos

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: Change, Fear, Hope, Let's Have Nexus, The Haunted Land

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: Lorna Dee Cervantes, Poets

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: Hope, Jena 6

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: blogs, bush, Democrats, Hope, Iraq, Olbermann, Petraeus, Power to the People, pundits

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: Democrats, Fear, racism, Republicans

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: familia, Madeleine L'Engle, My Life

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: Mexicans, Mexico, Power to the People, Xicanos

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: Chris Simcox, Environment, False History, Immigration, KGB Bar, NYC 2007 Pro-Immigration Meetup, New York City, The Haunted Land, activism, borders

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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 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as