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Derechos Humanos Entries

1 de Mayo, 2008

Marching Side by Side

Categorized under Cultura , Derechos Humanos , Raza , día festivo | Tags: , , , , , ,


HAPPY MAY DAY. And may the day resonate with the energy of our collective hopes and la lucha that can not end until justice is felt in the heart and the lives of all those who need to be so recognized. The USA teaches us many myths: the Hero Myth,...

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29 de Abril, 2008

Home of the Brave, Sweatshop of the Free

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Historia , Parenting , Política Estados Unidos , Resistencia | Tags: , , , , , ,


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

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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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30 de Marzo, 2008

US Court Overturns Mumia Abu-Jamal's Death Sentence

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Gobierno , Guest Blogando , Ley , Raza , Xicanopwr | Tags: , , , , , , ,


On Thursday, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the death sentence of the imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther, Mumia Abu-Jamal, while upholding his conviction and rejected his call for a new trial. A three-judge panel ruled that Abu-Jamal, who has been on death row for twenty-six years,...

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The Invaders Press On

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: , ,


IF WE STEP BACK a moment from our ethnocentric surety and simply think out what it might mean to be INVADED by another nation, no not simply bombed once and let be to work our economy and feelings of unity and national safety out as we all have (supposedly)...

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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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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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17 de Marzo, 2008

¡Que Vivan Los San Patricios!

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Historia , día festivo | Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,


THIS IS NOT the first time in history that those with power looking only toward their own profit margin have unwittingly led their hand to disastrous effects on larger populations' basic ability to live; it is not the first time that indifference to the hunger of la gente has...

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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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13 de Marzo, 2008

Four Days in the Hole

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Ley , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , ,


A STORY that makes you cringe. And really, only the tiniest sampling of how inhumanely those inside the "justice" system can be treated every day. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A woman being held as an illegal immigrant spent four days forgotten in an isolated holding cell at a courthouse with...

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9 de Marzo, 2008

The 'Nice' ICE? [Van Nuys ICE Raid]

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , , ,


THIS VIDEO of the ICE raid in Van Nuys, California was given to a few of us here on the Latino (-issues focused) side of the blogosphere with a little advance notice before it hits the rest of the webworld. From amiga Anike: Exactly one month ago ICE called the...

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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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4 de Marzo, 2008

Death on the Installment Plan

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Earier this month, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Center for Disease Control confirmed a health problem that New Orleans residents have been talking about for almost two years. Studies in 2006 revealed that many government-issued trailers that city residents have lived in since Hurricane Katrina were toxic....

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31 de Enero, 2008

Something Stinks in Lima

Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Derechos Humanos , Violencia | Tags: , , ,


LIMA, Ohio — The air of Southside is foul-smelling and thick, filled with fumes from an oil refinery and diesel smoke from a train yard, with talk of riot and recrimination, and with angry questions: Why is Tarika Wilson dead? Why did the police shoot her baby? “This thing...

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30 de Enero, 2008

Obama for Safe Roads.

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , ,


(01-28) 04:00 PST Washington -- Sen. Barack Obama easily won the African American vote in South Carolina, but to woo California Latinos, where he is running 3-to-1 behind rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, he is taking a giant risk: spotlighting his support for the red-hot issue of granting driver's licenses...

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26 de Enero, 2008

Tear Down the Wall

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: , , , , ,


I WONDER sometimes if we (the human race) will ever live to evolve to a point (and yes it's "evolve" in my way of seeing things, hello, my blog, blog meet readers) where we look back on all the futile walls we tried to use to keep some people hungry...

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23 de Enero, 2008

The Struggle Not On Our Screens

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A REMINDER and an update on the struggle for human rights in Burma: When the youths of Burma chanted "The whole world is watching!" through clouds of tear gas last September, it was—for once—an understatement. Cell phone footage of the junta's violent crackdown made the rounds from Beijing to...

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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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18 de Enero, 2008

Bedford Raid to be Reviewed by DHS

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


NEW BEDFORD - Homeland Security has agreed to review an immigration raid at a New Bedford leather goods maker that immigrant advocates said caused a humanitarian crisis. [...] Most of the detained workers were women with young children, and immigrant advocates criticized the agency for tearing families apart. A...

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Poison? Or Antidote?

Categorized under Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Español , Frontera , Hipnotismo , Historia | Tags: , , ,


South Carolina has one of the fastest-growing Latino populations in the nation, and illegal immigration is one of the hottest topics -- along with concerns about the economy and the Iraq war -- among likely voters in the state's Republican primary Saturday. In Saluda County, a collection of farming and...

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Adding Injury to Injury

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THE INCREASINGLY ACCEPTED USE of Tasers does nothing to mitigate the sorrow when another "uncooperative" citizen has their heart fried by one. [bracketed] words have been added by Nezua. ...[A] 29-year-old man who had crashed his car died after state troopers [shot] him with a Taser, according to autopsy results...

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11 de Enero, 2008

Liberty in Chains

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , M , Migra , Protesta , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: , ,


Six years and going strong since America perverted its own sense of justice and fairness by maintaining a detention center in another country and under the banner of freedom from terror illegally detained American citizens and world citizens exposing them heavily to torture instead of legal representation and equal protection...

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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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19 de Diciembre, 2007

Fresh Fruit at Affordable Prices!

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


Three Florida fruit-pickers, held captive and brutalised by their employer for more than a year, finally broke free of their bonds by punching their way through the ventilator hatch of the van in which they were imprisoned. Once outside, they dashed for freedom. When they found sanctuary one recent...

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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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17 de Diciembre, 2007

La Migra Trying to Start War With México

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Gobierno , Planeta , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: , ,


SAN DIEGO - The Border Patrol says its agents were attacked nearly 1,000 times during a one-year period along the Mexican border, typically by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks. Now the agency is responding with tear gas and powerful, pepper-spray weapons, including firing into Mexico. The counteroffensive has...

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16 de Diciembre, 2007

KBR/Halliburton Rapeland Fest Interrupted by Scrutiny. Again.

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente , Violencia | Tags: , , , ,


Congress is asking questions about another ex-employee of government contracting firm KBR who claims she was raped in Iraq. Letters to the Pentagon and the Justice Department today from Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. underscore congressional concern about a second alleged assault, this time of a woman from Florida who...

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9 de Diciembre, 2007

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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27 de Noviembre, 2007

Hurricane of HIV

Categorized under Ciencia , Derechos Humanos , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , , , , , ,


AND WILL THEY SAY nobody could have foreseen the weakness of the levees? For the first time, Washington D.C. has collected data on H.I.V. and found that in the nation's capital, the "modern epidemic"—as the Washington Post calls it—is now primarily one affecting blacks. The numbers most starkly illustrate...

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28 de Octubre, 2007

Ex-Concert Pianist Murdered by Federal Kindness

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Drogas , Ley , Planeta , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , ,


THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. It's not just a bar in Liberty, NY. It's supposedly what you and I are entitled to by the government. Isn't that sweet? Isn't it so understanding of the human condition? Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to live with...

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27 de Octubre, 2007

Racism in a time of Need

Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Frontera | Tags: , , , , ,


REPORTS ARE COMING IN from San Diego that paint a picture of racism and anti-migrant sentiment on the part of la chota, sadly, in the midst of what should be a time where we are concerned with human lives and health. Can't say I'm a bit surprised. But I am...

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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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8 de Octubre, 2007

Humor for the Hungry, Pt. 8021b

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FOUND THIS on Willamette....

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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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7 de Septiembre, 2007

2007: The Beatles Invade Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration