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11 de Julio, 2008

Latinos [and Allies] Want Specifics, Not Soundbytes

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Latin America , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , , , ,


MMMM! DO YOU SMELL WHAT NEZUA'S COOKIN'? It's the flava of the voting week, and that flava is currently simmering and spiceh!!! It may fade in a few, but for now, that flavor is Obama and McCain's Concern for Latin@ Issues. It also means that the "Left Blogosphere" or...

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7 de Junio, 2008

The Grapes of Apathy

Categorized under Blogando , Derechos Humanos , Path to the Oasis , Raza | Tags: , ,


JUST DROPPIN' IN to point you to a new post today at The Sanctuary. It's called No Shade for Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez. It has to do with delicious grapes, heat over 100º, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a dead baby that should still be alive and with mama. But isn't....

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5 de Junio, 2008

No Fear in the SanctuarySphere

Categorized under Blogando , Derechos Humanos , Medios , Path to the Oasis | Tags: , , , , ,


THE UNAPOLOGETIC MEXICAN blog was linked and mentioned yesterday in a Chicago Tribune article. I felt the need to respond to the article. Excerpt: What kind of American is this who wants to ride the pile and let others suffocate beneath? What kind of Americans are these that bubble...

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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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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 lent 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

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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

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


IN REFERENCE TO THE LAST POST, here is Joshua Hoyt's (Executive Director Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights) spoken testimony to Congress concerning H.R. 1645, the "Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy"-- The STRIVE Act of 2007. It is an intelligent and informed and passionate talk (and...

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31 de Agosto, 2007

Home of the Cage, Land of the Dog Box

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: , ,


PERHAPS one day I will feel vindicated for the absolute madness that threatens to corrode my thinking process at each moment I dare to think about what our nation is doing to others in our names. While many people seem somewhat sane and copasetic as they discuss our crimes...

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27 de Agosto, 2007

ACLU Challenges Prison-Like Conditions at Hutto Detention Center

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From aclu.org: On August 27, the ACLU announced a landmark settlement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that greatly improves conditions for immigrant children and their families in the T. Don Hutto detention center in Taylor, Texas. The settlement was the result of lawsuits brought earlier this year on...

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Cause and Effect

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Undocumented immigrants are starting to leave Arizona because of the new employer-sanctions law. The state's strong economy has been a magnet for illegal immigrants for years. But a growing number are pulling up stakes out of fear they will be jobless come Jan. 1, when the law takes effect. The...

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How to Commit Republican Suicide, Pt. 734

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


SOME SENSIBLE WORDS for the Republicans today. Of course, to have hope in their hearing such words, one would have to possess the view that the Republicans are currently motivated by "sense." And as the article points out, it seems all they really care to reach for these days is...

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25 de Agosto, 2007

Elvira Brings the Fight to México

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Gobierno , Latin America , Medios , Migra , Oaxaca , Política México , Protesta | Tags: , , , , ,


ELVIRA WON'T REST, and though she was prevented by men with guns from showing up in D.C. to step to what she felt was unjust persecution and law, she now speaks her peace to the government of Mexico. I have a feeling this mujer is determined to confront the...

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23 de Agosto, 2007

Elvira Protest Tomorrow (Fri) in San Fran

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


FROM OUR SECRET SOURCE on la calle: There is a protest of Elvira's deportation in front of San Francisco's homeland security/I.C.E. office (630 Sansome Street) at noon tomorrow (friday)....

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19 de Agosto, 2007

Elvira and Saul Arrested

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THEY HAVE ARRESTED arrested Elvira and Saul Arellano. Of course. The government knew it was dangerous to let her become a Cause for Human Rights or anything like that. Better to chop her down before she got too far. It's not as if they weren't hearing all this "Rosa...

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15 de Agosto, 2007

Calm Decapitations

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


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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27 de Julio, 2007

A Victory for Humanity and Empathy

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YES. US cities and towns may find it harder to crack down on illegal immigrants after a federal judge ruled on Thursday that an anti-immigrant law passed by a Pennsylvania city was unconstitutional. The judge stopped the city of Hazleton from implementing a law that would fine businesses that hire...

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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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In The Wake of a Yellow Star

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IN THE ABSENCE OF A HUMANE SOLUTION to the immigration issue, loathing and frustration is leading some individuals to propose their own notions on how to stigmatize foment revulsion deal with the problem. Wayne Mayo of Portland is one such cognitively-challenged individual....

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22 de Julio, 2007

The Appearance of Health

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today while we sat in the zocalo and LJT ran around and climbed things we saw a man take off his clothes down to his shorts and climb into one of the fountains. these fountains are unreliable at best, some days on some days off; most of the sources...

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18 de Junio, 2007

La Nación es de Quien lo Trabaja

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THE NATION BELONGS TO THOSE WHO WORK IT. Or "Narco News Calls out the Left Blogosphere for Being Absent on a Core American Issue That Will Be Carried Forth by A New Valiant Sector: Today's American Immigrants." Hmmm. Sounds a bit familiar for some reason. Have you somehow missed...

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16 de Junio, 2007

The Lazy Mexicans, Pt. 4437.02

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THE JOBS MEXICANS steal from us. Employees worked closely together in frigid temperatures wielding sharp knives, many without protective gear, investigators and former workers say. Some workers, they say, stood in pools of water without boots near submerged electrical cords. Many were forced to work up to 18 hours a...

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23 de Mayo, 2007

A Cage of Many Purposes

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Migra , Raza | Tags: ,


OKAY, this has got to end. My blood is boiling and I am afraid to even hear the whole truth. Listen, I know I shouldn't be surprised that there are now allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in the concentration camp known as Hutto. That doesn't mean I'm not...

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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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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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15 de Mayo, 2007

Choppin' Off the Nose

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LATINA LISTA talks about some of the first signs of how Ordinance 2903, passed Saturday in Farmer's Branch, Texas—and the first of its kind in the state—will affect similar communities: With the passage over the weekend of Ordinance 2903 that starting May 22 will fine landlords $500 a day for...

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14 de Mayo, 2007

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

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

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8 de Mayo, 2007

ALLIES is one letter away from ALIENS

Categorized under Blogando , Derechos Humanos | Tags:


ONE MORE METALICIOUS post referencing la unidad, allies, and blogando, and then I'm headed for algunos rayos de luz. I think, anyway, it will be a few days processing the recent post I wrote on us "Lefties" joining together for what I see as today's Civil Rights struggle—bringing humanity...

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6 de Mayo, 2007

The True Front of Progressivism

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


SOMETIMES YOU WONDER if blogging is a component of Real Change, done for distraction, provided as a social experience, or is just a game. And of course, it is all these things at different times. In their better moments, blogs can affect people and their views profoundly, just as a...

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4 de Mayo, 2007

The New N****** in Town

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Raza | Tags: , , ,


Illegals is the 21st century version of 'nigger'. That is what I hear when the term is thrown at undocumented families. Just like nigger was (and still is, although less overtly) the soundtrack to the murder and oppression of black folks, 'illegals' is the political theatrical score for the...

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3 de Mayo, 2007

Regroup

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Palabras , Violencia | Tags:


I look around and it seems it's okay with most, what happened in L.A. I am stunned. And between the vile comments I've seen and the justifications, the othering of Mexicans, and the silence of good people, I honestly feel a bit ill. I'm maybe gonna take a tiny...

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The Right of Peaceful Assembly. Gone.

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


THERE IS NO RIGHT TO PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY IN AMERICA. There were signs earlier, it's true. But now it can be said to be official. File this along with what you read on blogs about habeas corpus and wiretapping, this latest display of contempt for our rights: here is a...

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2 de Mayo, 2007

Scaredy-Cats With Bullets and Bats

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


SOME OF MY BLOGMIGOS have written some good posts on la chota, and how the fear brigade brought their rubber sadism to peaceful May Day rallies. Am I surprised? Nah. Do I have any feelings over it. Yeh. I do. Do I have any words of my own on...

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1 de Mayo, 2007

It's A Community Thing.

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SOLIDARIDAD. Even in Milwaukee, USA. RACINE — Roughly a dozen local businesses — from Taqueria Gran Morelos and Las Palmas to Alicia Villa Realty and the Dollar Store — won’t open for business today. [...] Approximately 200 Racine Unified high school students and 200-300 family members will board about 10...

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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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25 de Abril, 2007

Toking About Truth

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POPPING IN briefly to ask you please to read this story, and digg it. It would be great (and important, I think) if everyone also took the action JC suggests in the post. But you read it and do what you are moved to. Gracias....

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24 de Abril, 2007

Let's Have Nexus

Categorized under Cultura , Derechos Humanos , Literatura , Política Estados Unidos , Sexismo , Signs of the Sixth Sun , Violencia | Tags: , , , , , , , ,


THE NON-MAINSTREAM areas of the blogosfero—the Brown™, the Feminists, the disabled, the marginalized—bring us many intelligent, hopeful, restless people finding the ways in which they want to grow, to reach for their own light, their own right, their own path away from the cramped vessel of personal servitude or...

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22 de Abril, 2007

Secret Superheroes

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


SOME OF YOU ARE AWARE of the latest "outing" of real-life identity, and round of threats leveled on a woman blogger, DeviousDiva. I'm glad to say that at the least, the person who put her information out there has removed it. But of course, the dynamic remains, and we...

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15 de Abril, 2007

King Koz the Kold

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AS WITH EVERYTHING, there are a few ways we can look at Mister Moulitsas' brief press release shrugging off (for the second time) the Kathy Sierra incident. This is how I see it: What we talk about with each other out here; what we hope for one day; why...

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13 de Abril, 2007

Lavish Promises

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UNCLE SAM IS A PIMP. Overseas recruiters lure guest workers to the U.S. with lavish promises of permanent residency, high-paying jobs and better living conditions, charging thousands of dollars in “processing fees.” Guest workers are usually deeply in debt by the time they arrive in the U.S., where the...

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6 de Abril, 2007

War

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Música | Tags:


WAR, WAR, WAR. And the monster wants more. Here is a song from a man and a prophet whose voice and lyrics and spirit filled my house when I was younger. I'm working on a post that touches on this right now, but for now I'll just preface this...

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4 de Abril, 2007

The King is Gone

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Foto , Historia | Tags: ,


...BUT he's not forgotten....

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Mexico Through the Eye of the NYTimes

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IN THE NY TIMES, we find an article about Mexico's bill to allow abortion for any reason in the first trimester, predicted to pass into law on April 19 of this year. Amanda at Pandagon points out that the article quotes "Catholic Leaders" who threaten (by lingual proxy) violence...

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29 de Marzo, 2007

The Clotty Red Stopper

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Guerra | Tags: ,


IS VIOLENCE LIKE A GENIE in a bottle, once summoned answerable only to its own propagation? And specifically, why is it so important for you and me to know the truth about the atrocities that troops commit while embarked upon their glorious missions of Liberty and Justice®? Because these atrocities;...

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26 de Marzo, 2007

Gay Voodoo Land

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LITTLE IS SADDER to me than to see the Brown™ sidling up to the Man and oppressing the Brown™. Well, maybe emails that are entirely in capitals. It's a toss-up. Either way, Pandagon brings us a story, now, of an Army recruiter who uses a military email address in an...

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25 de Marzo, 2007

Mexico Freed the Slaves First

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ONE OF MY PERSONAL interests is setting history straight. Not for the WORLD or anything so grand. For myself. And thus, for my children. And for theirs. And for theirs. And so on. And so on. And so on—just like the creepy 1970s shampoo commercial, ese. Because what I've...

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22 de Marzo, 2007

Humanitarian Crisis-Style Freedom

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


ALMOST TWO MILLION Iraqis have been displaced by ethnic cleansing within the borders of their own "democratized" country. According to Andrea Mitchell of NBC news, the situation is a "Humanitarian Crisis." I do agree. The investigation by Refugees International obtained by NBC News says the U.N. expects 1 million more...

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17 de Marzo, 2007

Please Help the Stranded Bedford Immigrant Children

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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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15 de Marzo, 2007

Are You Hetero Enough to Kill?

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


My upbringing is such that I believe there are certain things, certain types of conduct, that are immoral. ... I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts. —Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General and American Warmonger,...

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1 de Marzo, 2007

Other Ways Than Violence

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THOUGHTS OF A FATHER, the ongoing lessons I never stop getting. It's interesting, that violence is a part of learning. You seek to escape it by any means, and yet it is integral to the process of teaching. Of course, I don't mean physical violence. Any training or teaching is...

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25 de Febrero, 2007

Support the Truth.

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Guerra , Hipnotismo , Iraq the Casbah , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,


DEAR WORLD, Mother Nature, the Force that created me, and my fellow Americans: This is my public and formal declaration that I do not support murder, nor the lovely thoughts in the murderer's mind, nor the shiny steel weapon in his hand that he claims will help him reach...

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21 de Febrero, 2007

George Takei Responds to Hardaway's Homophobia

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Humor | Tags:


OKAY, this is hilarious....

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19 de Febrero, 2007

America Fails its Children

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OH UH! It's report card time. UNICEF has done a study on 21 industrialized nations which they sum up in the report as "An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries." Looks like Murka should have spent more time doing homework instead of staying out late with the boys...

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13 de Febrero, 2007

Sickly Slaves for Sweet Spinach

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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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9 de Febrero, 2007

And Then Go Home

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I'M NOT NECESSARILY PROUD that I used to live uptown in the nice, white Westchester County suburbs. But I did. And even though my job gave me a trophy labeled "IRVINGTON'S MUST UNLIKELY RESIDENT" at the Christmas party (which made it obvious how out of place I was with...

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8 de Febrero, 2007

Surging the Bush Doctrine - Strafe From Hell

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Iraq the Casbah , Terrorizing la Gente , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: , , ,


THE FIRST VICTORY in Bush's surge—the supposed foiling of the DOOMSDAY Shia Muslim CULT Soldiers in Heaven—was only a victory if your war plan states "gunning down fleeing Iraqi civilians" as its goal. (Which was part of the Iraq AUMF, correcto?) The occupation forces and their Iraqi allies last...

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6 de Febrero, 2007

Such as Cancers That Replicate

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THE PRESSURE IS BROUGHT ON TO KNEEL. The pressure is brought on to pause and heel. The hateful forces of the fanatic ultra-Right are responding to the rise in Brown census numbers. The Neo-Nazis and the KKK are gaining in popularity, having far more success at recruiting than the...

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30 de Enero, 2007

Royal Thugs

Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Derechos Humanos | Tags:


THESE ARE NOT ANOMALIES. This is how the police act MUCH of the time. It's based on the way they see themselves and those who dare to question the authority and might of the State. This questioning can take the shape of you simply not living the way they believe...

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23 de Enero, 2007

El Gobierno: Breaking the Spine of La Gente

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STOP TO WONDER. If "Democratic" governments are elected by La Gente, and work for La Gente, then why are they so afraid of La Gente? I was one of the RNC 1800, as many of you know. I spent about 55 hours in jail without talking to a lawyer,...

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13 de Enero, 2007

The Heart and Mind of Augmentation

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3 de Enero, 2007

Remembering Ramona

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Historia , Política México | Tags: , , , , , ,


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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27 de Diciembre, 2006

Leash for a Crucifix

Categorized under Arte , Derechos Humanos , Historia , Iraq the Casbah | Tags: , ,


AS THE MEDIA FAILS to escape its corporate and fiscal shackles and communicate the horrors of our Glorious Wars of Liberation, it is the artists who step forward to fulfill their role and whisper snatches of truth into humanity's ear.......

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24 de Diciembre, 2006

Merry Christmas, Mexican Macacas

Categorized under Arte , Derechos Humanos , Migra , día festivo | Tags: , , ,


IT IS NO ACCIDENT that I have combined fotos/images/concepts from four different attacks on the Brown. It is in these "multiple theater" anti-brown moments that we can find cause to celebrate such a joyous Murkan Xmas. Merry Christ'sMask, little Macacas all over the world; you who have fallen under...

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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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22 de Diciembre, 2006

Americans For the Jailing of Mexican Children

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


VIEW LARGER JPG VIEW LARGER JPG VIEW LARGER JPG VIEW LARGER JPG FEEL FREE TO DOWNLOAD, PRINT, AND HANG UP somewhere patriotic and Good Americans congregate so that we can begin a dialogue to wake up America and convince everyone how important it is that we begin incarcerating all...

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The Long War on Mexico

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Gobierno , Historia , Latin America , Migra , Política Estados Unidos , Raza , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,


I'M FINDING these anti-Immigrant Detention and Terror Tactics very upsetting. Deeply disturbing. In a way I'm not sure Mr. Bush or perhaps many citizens even understand. Perhaps in a way not even some of my friends know. I know there are probably some American Mexican@s who don't feel as...

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21 de Diciembre, 2006

Mexico Profundo and A New Way Forward

Categorized under Acción , Arte , Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Globalización , Historia , Latin America , Oaxaca , Política México , Resistencia | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,


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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20 de Diciembre, 2006

The Contortions are Particularly Poignant

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags:


JOSE PADILLA, the Dark Goldstein, is hardly the only person being accused of terrorism. Yet why is he the one that the United States Government has put the full force of its sick, sadistic, paranoid weaponry against, while others—like White Supremacist madman Demetrius "Van" Crocker are hushed? On Nov. 28...

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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: , , ,


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

Blind

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IF IT IS WRONG TO KILL; if you even have devised laws against it, what on Earth makes you think it's right when the State does it? Ending someone's life is wrong on this side of the border, it's wrong on the other. It's wrong when done by a...

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15 de Diciembre, 2006

The Trains That Ran on Time

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Hipnotismo , Historia , Latin America , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags:


A GREAT ARTICLE ON PINOCHET'S LEGACY by Greg Palast that disputes, refutes, and negates the entire (disgusting) notion of citing great achievements in the implementation of a Free Market as a justification to excuse Pinochet's crimes against humanity. Today's tyranically-minded might want to take note at the implications. If...

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14 de Diciembre, 2006

Rights to the Left of me, Torture to the Right

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


SOME BAD NEWS, SOME GOOD. And why would I think it bad news that the inmates of Guantanamo are denied the rights of Americans? Because I do not believe in this notion that when it comes to human rights, what is Wrong to do to human beings on our...

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Catch A Fire, Oaxaca Style

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IT LOOKS LIKE HELPFUL MINIONS OF FLAME have smiled up at Oaxaca's Governor Ulisses Ruiz, for records kept in his offices that would most likely have shown many illegal exchanges are now...ash. Ruiz of course, claims it was the APPO's use of molotov cocktails, but there are many who...

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10 de Diciembre, 2006

A Cruel Dimension of Reality

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Globalización , Historia , Latin America , Literatura , Road to the Fifth Sun | Tags: ,


WITH THE DEATH, FINALLY, OF AUGUSTO PINOCHET, self-appointed "Supreme Head of the Nation of Chile," I am soothed. While nothing can undo the untold amounts of pain and suffering that his coup and junta brought about, at least we were able to watch him become wracked with disease and...

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7 de Diciembre, 2006

Why they would shut a man's eyes

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"The eyes are the window to the soul." They don't want any cameras recording the slighest bit of humanity in The Dark Goldstein. They take their cues from media. When they were done reading 1984, they popped in Silence of the Lambs....

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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: , , , , ,


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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11 de Agosto, 2006

El Otro Lado

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A Pennsylvania National Guard member died after collapsing in 104-degree heat on her first day patrolling the Arizona-Mexico border, a guard spokesman said Friday.Spc. Kirsten Fike was two hours into the training mission near Yuma when she collapsed Wednesday. She died the next day at...

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9 de Agosto, 2006

The Lie of the Land

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The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to U.S. officials and a copy of the amendments.Left off the list would be what...

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