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Frontera Entries

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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18 de Abril, 2008

Sueños Rotos [Broken Dreams]

Categorized under Frontera , Música , Raza , Violencia | Tags: , , , ,


THE BORDER is a tearstained sieve that traps pain and violence and visits it upon the weakest and poorest in our economy and society. It is a valve that shunts cash one way, and blood the other. Until it is torn down and a more modern, humane, holistic, and...

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2 de Abril, 2008

They Break Laws to Make Laws

Categorized under Frontera , Parenting | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,


OH, but we're not really surprised, are we? WASHINGTON — The Bush administration will use its authority to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations in an effort to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest U.S. border by the end of this year, federal officials said...

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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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Thru the Plexiglass

Categorized under Frontera , Humor | Tags: , , ,


PUT TOGETHER by a friend, Will Coley, and some of his friends. Here's a funny video (though its a humor held together by too many unfortunate truths) they made on the archaic and inefficient patchwork that is our current system of Immigration law....

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7 de Marzo, 2008

MALVERDE - La Marcha

Categorized under Artivism , Cultura , Frontera , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Raza | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,


I KNOW you been bumpin' this. For when gente feel like they've had enough Flamenco for the evening. Some pride and unity and rhythm and flow from Mexican American Hip Hop artist Malverde....

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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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3 de Marzo, 2008

Us Vs. You. Or Just We?

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


IT MAKES ME SAD to think that something as important to the "we" that we are as migration, hope, hunger, and self-actualization [i.e., "the immigration issue"] is so polluted with racism, fear, greed, anger, and other small parts of ourselves that we can barely talk about it reasonably anymore....

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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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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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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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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

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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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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30 de Diciembre, 2007

The Fable of Greebey Vather, Time Traveler Extraordinaire

Categorized under Frontera , Literatura , Medios | Tags: , , , , , , ,


I see a screenplay blooming. Dealing with a favorite theme: time travel. You now think you'll steal this zeitgeisty gem from me, but you cannot because in the future, I have already finished it, and am mailing it to myself yesterday in a walnut sealed in Presidential earwax and pressurized...

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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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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

Canucks Drill Through Border-Illusion

Categorized under Frontera , Globalización | Tags: , , , ,


NORTH VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cabo Drilling Corp., (TSX-V: CBE) ("Cabo" or the "Company") Mexico Division, has been awarded a contract by Pinnacle Mines Ltd. (TSX-V: PNL) to drill a minimum of 4,500 meters on Pinnacle's La Calavera copper-silver-zinc joint venture property located in the State of...

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14 de Diciembre, 2007

Code Switching for the Masses

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


THE USA'S selective loathing of foreign elements has always disturbed me. Almost 100% of our products are made elsewhere, (even the traditionally AMERICAN products, hola Chrysler users!), massive corporations join hands with no regard to politics or who our "enemy" is on any given day, and then here on...

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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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13 de Noviembre, 2007

Bloody Kisses on la Frontera

Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Frontera , Migra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , , , , ,


I HAVE TO SAY, the cross-border Kissing Booth just about cracked me up. Though I am not often capable of such things, meeting antagonism and violence and hostility with a sense of humor and love is probably the most satisfying way to engage negativity and destructive energy. Though la migra...

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29 de Octubre, 2007

American Bullets, Mexican Blood

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


MANY PEOPLE, when arguing me and trying to convince me of how evil and ugly and degraded Mexico is, like to minus part of the equation from their awareness. Talk about crime in Tijuana, but don't talk about the culture of criminality that a border creates with its unnatural...

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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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26 de Octubre, 2007

Mexican Firefighters Come to the Aid of US

Categorized under Frontera | Tags: , , ,


HERE IS A STORY I am sure you will see trumpeted across all the front pages of the major English-language US news sites, ahem: TIJUANA, Mexico: About 60 Mexican firefighters crossed the border to help fight the California wildfires — then returned home as a separate blaze roared up...

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24 de Octubre, 2007

Dream on

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


DREAM ACT fails to pass. (52-44 as mariachi mama and my email lists tell me)....

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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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16 de Octubre, 2007

Get Dusty Foot or Drown Trying

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JUST A REMINDER that your commute could be a lot worse: CORTÉS, Cuba — Cubans are migrating to the United States in the greatest numbers in over a decade, and for most of them the new way to get north is first to head west — to Mexico —...

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28 de Septiembre, 2007

Hope Your Hoofburger is ICE cold

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Reno, Nevada - Federal agents raided 11 McDonald's restaurants in northern Nevada and made dozens of arrests Thursday as part of an investigation into illegal immigration. Agents for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made at least 56 arrests in Reno, Sparks and Fernley after raids at the restaurants and...

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Somos América

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RIVERSIDE, N.J., Sept. 25 — A little more than a year ago, the Township Committee in this faded factory town became the first municipality in New Jersey to enact legislation penalizing anyone who employed or rented to an illegal immigrant. Within months, hundreds, if not thousands, of recent immigrants from...

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23 de Septiembre, 2007

Nuestro Sueños - Our Dreams

Categorized under Acción , Frontera | Tags: , ,


YOU'VE READ A POST here and there on this blog about the D.R.E.A.M Act, usually as related to my friend Jose. Those posts referred to the California DREAM act, but there is a Federal DREAM Act, too. The Federal DREAM Act does not offer instate tuition in any form,...

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19 de Septiembre, 2007

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

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NEW SITE on stories, resources and info on "immigrant integration." Click pic for link. The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights is putting together a new site to concentrate sotries, resources and info on immigrant integration - www.immigrantintegration.org. They are looking for other good websites or stories on...

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The Answer to All Our Problems

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: , , ,


...IS CLEARLY Tom Tancredo and his platform of racist blame! Tancredo said the more he studies the issue, the more it seems that many of the nation's problems can be blamed on Hispanics crossing into the United States from Mexico. Health care costs? Blame the burden of paying for...

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18 de Septiembre, 2007

Liliana and her Son

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


"THE MOVEMENT FOR THE ILLEGALS TO GO HOME," the anti-migrant protestor says, and I am not sure, but am assuming she doesn't refer to the illegal invasion of Iraq? Or does she? What could be more illegal than killing or aiding in the death of a million people in a...

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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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