Gobierno Entries

30 de Marzo, 2008

US Court Overturns Mumia Abu-Jamal's Death Sentence

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Gobierno , Guest Blogando , Ley , Raza , Xicanopwr | Tags: African Americans, Black Panthers, Criminal Justice System, Democracy Now, Justicia, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Robert R. Bryan, Ronald Reagan

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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 XP's writing fuses an intense level of research with an instinctive feel for the zeitgeist and a sense of empathy that combines to produce commentary that is, in the literal meaning of the word, unique. This (unique) entry posted at 2:10 PM.   | | (1)

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)

6 de Febrero, 2008

Symbol and Essence, Part 3 [MTV Mix]

Categorized under Gobierno , MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 , Religión | Tags: activism, Gandhi, Henry David Thoreau, MTV, Power to the People, Street Team 08, Symbol and Essence, Voting

A BLOG POST exclusive to MTV (as it must be, contractually) can be read by clicking the image above. No video this week. But a specially-crafted Non-Super Wednesday message instead....

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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 10:00 AM.  | | (2)

10 de Enero, 2008

Clinton's New Hampshire Win and The Bradley Effect

Categorized under Gobierno , M , Race for '08 | Tags: Bill Richardson, Clinton, Democrats, Election, Race

I don't like assuming the worst about people (*smirk*), but there has always been some knowledge of the fact that liberal whites will tailor their responses to prevailing assumptions of equality and justice when asked about issues of race, gender, sexuality, disability, or what have you. However, what people say...

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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: borders, migra, Power to the People

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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17 de Noviembre, 2007

The Needle or the Cell?

Categorized under Ciencia , Gobierno , Violencia | Tags: Police State, Vaccinations

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — Hundreds of grumbling parents facing a threat of jail lined up at a courthouse Saturday to either prove that their school-age kids already had their required vaccinations or see that the youngsters submitted to the needle. The get-tough policy in the Washington suburbs of...

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Like Barium From Heaven

Categorized under Gobierno | Tags: Barium, Chemicals, Chemtrails, Environment

OR MAYBE SOMEWHERE more sinister... Could a strange substance found by an Ark-La-Tex man be part of secret government testing program? That's the question at the heart of a phenomenon called 'Chemtrails.' In a KSLA News 12 investigation, Reporter Jeff Ferrell shows us the results of testing we had done...

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4 de Noviembre, 2007

Notes on Manifesto, 7

Categorized under Artivism , Gobierno , Palabras | Tags: Change, hope, I should tag this something, music, My Life, Power to the People, resistance

I'VE GONE BACK to putting a tiny bit of cream in my coffee. Maybe it will be easier on my stomach. My mother was here for a week. She flew out after my grandfather's funeral. She thinks I have an esophygeal sort of condition, some corrosive thing where my...

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25 de Octubre, 2007

Rudy Wants

Categorized under Gobierno , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: Rudy Giuiliani, September 11

JOSH MARSHALL, at Talking Points Memo, discusses Rudy Giuilani and zeroes in on the fashion of fascism: My point of comparison would be Benito Mussolini. You've got the extreme hostility to civil liberites [sic] and the foreign policy adventurism. But I'm not thinking so much of the harder and sinister...

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7 de Octubre, 2007

Governments Don't Kill People, Books Do.

Categorized under Gobierno , Literatura , Violencia | Tags: war on terror

I HOPE this arrest is not part of anyone's quota in fighting "terrorism." A British teenager who is accused of possessing material for terrorist purposes has appeared in court. The 17-year-old, who was arrested in the Dewsbury area of West Yorkshire on Monday, was given bail after a hearing...

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6 de Octubre, 2007

The Secrets of Liberty

Categorized under Gobierno , Guerra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: historia, Israel

WELL, that's pretty interesting. I never knew that Israel knowingly attacked a US ship and the US Government hid it for years. My worldview is not exactly shaken, but it is quite a revelation. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee brags that it is the most influential foreign policy...

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15 de Septiembre, 2007

Harbinger of Mediocrity. Prophet of Flatulent Futures. Shill and Sham and Propped-Up Half-Man.

Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Gobierno , Palabras , Poesía , Política Estados Unidos , Spoken | Tags: bush

NOW I KNOW by now so many of us hold such great and deep and far-reaching and sincere contempt, NAY revulsion (and rightly so) for the man now holing up in la Casa Blanca that we have phrases like "Bush Derangement" and "Bush Bashing," and with these phrases even...

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14 de Septiembre, 2007

And You Shall Know Him By The Ease With Which He Misleads

Categorized under Gobierno , Guerra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: bush, Iraq, war on terror

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8 de Septiembre, 2007

People are Pretty Confident

Categorized under Gobierno , Hipnotismo , Once de Septiembre , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: bush, Iraq, Ozombie Bin Laden, war on terror

OUR FAVORITE UNDEAD political operative reappears to chastise his twin George "Without Terror I'm Just a Failed Businessman" Bush (which one is the Evil Twin is part of the great mystery of Osama The Gold Watch Wearing Dialysis-Impervious and The 19 Saudis who Took Down Building #7 Without Even...

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27 de Agosto, 2007

How to Commit Republican Suicide, Pt. 734

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

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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Atenco, Oaxaca, Chiapas

Categorized under Gobierno , Latin America , Oaxaca , Política México | Tags: Atenco, Chiapas, Mexico, Oaxaca

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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 Arellano, migra, Oaxaca, Power to the People, Que Viva Las Mujeres, Ruiz

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

I Want You to Think About Your Clothing

Categorized under Gobierno , Ley | Tags: Locura, putos

ATLANTA - Baggy pants that show boxer shorts or thongs would be illegal under a proposed amendment to Atlanta's indecency laws. The amendment, sponsored by city councilman C.T. Martin, states that sagging pants are an "epidemic" that is becoming a 'major concern' around the country. 'Little children see it and...

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21 de Agosto, 2007

MESSAGE: He (Wants You to Think He) Cares.

Categorized under Gobierno , Medios , Planeta , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: bush, Hurrican Dean, Katrina, putos

MONTEBELLO, Quebec (AP) - President Bush, at a North American summit on Tuesday, offered U.S. assistance and expressed his concern for the citizens of Mexico and elsewhere whose lives were affected by Hurricane Dean. 'We stand ready to help,' said Bush, standing alongside Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime...

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17 de Agosto, 2007

Hand of Bush Continues Killing the Brown

Categorized under Gobierno , Planeta , Violencia | Tags: Katrina, New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS—A crime wave is intensifying in this city already beset by a flagging recovery from Hurricane Katrina, and Hispanic immigrants helping to rebuild are common targets, according to police and to statistics released Thursday. Despite an infusion of money and manpower into the justice system, the number of...

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27 de Julio, 2007

What's Good for the Gonzo, is good for the George

Categorized under Gobierno | Tags: hypocrisy

TRUST ME WHEN I SAY that this man disgusts me. He disgusts me doubly, triply, quaternally. Not only is he a liar and an abuser of trust, he is a blatant example of what happens when a person sells out everything for a cheap dream of power in the dominant...

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21 de Junio, 2007

Disposable Heroes

Categorized under Gobierno | Tags: borders, hypocrisy

DISPOSABLE HEROES, the title of a song I used to love, is an apt name for the young men and women we insist die for the United States' wars of imperialism and aggression. June 17, 2007 — The U.S. military's announcement this weekend that it recovered the ID cards of...

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18 de Mayo, 2007

From Freedom to Fascism

Categorized under Gobierno | Tags:

FOR YOUR FRIDAY or Saturday night movie watching. If it interests you (and if you haven't seen it, of course), and you have time, I do recommend it. I originally wrote a long intro, but I've deleted it. I don't even want to do that. I'll leave all the punch...

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1 de Mayo, 2007

Government and Society and Person

Categorized under Gobierno , Palabras | Tags:

I WANT to thank all the people who emailed me a response to my sociological society/gov't-type questions. I'm going to chew on these and do some thinking for myself, and a bit more reading, probably. I may reply, and ask a follow-up question (which you are free to answer...

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8 de Abril, 2007

This Camera Kills Fascists

Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Gobierno , Hipnotismo , Once de Septiembre | Tags: Power to the People, The Unblinking Eye

FROM RODNEY KING TO MISTER MACACA TO UCLA cops tasering students to the cold-blooded shooting of Elio Carrion to PuppetBush's Seven Minutes of Inaction as well as countless other examples—video has brought us the truth that the ruling class and their Ganglords (la chota) and all their agents work...

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5 de Abril, 2007

Return of the Mud People

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Gobierno , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Chertoff

FIRST OF ALL, why does this guy still have a job? I see his face and all I can think of are dead bodies and overrun levees. Secondly, what the hell does this freak mean by "clean skin terrorist"? No, I mean honestly. What the hell does that mean?...

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27 de Marzo, 2007

Johnny "House of Death" Sutton Working Personnel?

Categorized under Gobierno | Tags: DOJ, House of Death

IN DECEMBER OF 2006 we learned of the Casa de la Muerte. Now, it seems the house is bigger than we thought. And one of the rooms leads to Purgegate. The U.S. Attorney who spearheaded a cover-up of a U.S. government informant’s role in the House of Death mass...

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Are You Somebody?

Categorized under Gobierno | Tags: Adoption, My Life

I LOST MY ID. Again. And my bank card. Which they won't replace....long story. Addresses, forwarding rules, bureaucracy in place to keep me "safe" now prevents me from getting any money out of my account. I feel so...secure! Eh. I am always losing this junk. for about 22 years...

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26 de Marzo, 2007

Gay Voodoo Land

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Gobierno | Tags: Dare Not Speak Its Name, racism

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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24 de Marzo, 2007

Dreams of Another Place

Categorized under Gobierno | Tags: bush, hypocrisy, Impeachment Pie

IN MY DREAM version of the United States, a politician would offer to testify—but only if he didn't have to be under oath, were in private, and with no transcript—and the politician would be immediately and harshly laughed out of office, any office. In my dream version of this...

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17 de Marzo, 2007

You forge of your self a dull weapon [Support the Truth II]

Categorized under Gobierno | Tags: Power to the People. Support the Truth

PERHAPS A READER cannot readily agree with the stance of holding soldiers personally accountable for aiding such massive crimes as the invasion of Iraq. Perhaps even though it is made clear to us in everything from time-worn fables to Self-Help books to music lyrics to television shows to age...

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5 de Enero, 2007

The Hyper-Powered Hatter and his Obedient Tea Party

Categorized under Gobierno , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Imperialism

CALL ME FRINGE, CALL ME RADICAL, say I see no hope in American Government and watch how (not) upset it gets me. But here is another crumb on a trail to the clearing in the path where the eyes get pried open by the imploding sun of entrenched neoliberalism...

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30 de Diciembre, 2006

All-Day Ticket to the War Theatre

Categorized under Globalización , Gobierno , Guerra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Capitalism, eat the rich, Imperialism, Somalia

UNSURPRISINGLY, The United States Warmoney Machine never rests. Sadly, it does not stray from its tired, cynical, repulsive formulas. Revoltingly, it cares not for human life, nor principle, nor peace. Only power. Oil, cash, blood. As long as it equals power for the Lords and Ladies of the USA....

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22 de Diciembre, 2006

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: assimilation, borders, gonzales, halliburton, Hutto, India, indigenous, Lou Dobbs, Mexicans, migra, NAFTA, Outsourcing, Police State, The White Lens

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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18 de Diciembre, 2006

An Eye in D.C.

Categorized under Dear Alberto , Gobierno | Tags: gonzales, NSA

SOMEONE in Washington D.C. with hardware/software that prevents their machine from being seen (and, ugh...is using Netscape 4) is digging The Unapologetic Mexican......

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15 de Diciembre, 2006

Dis-solutions to Unions

Categorized under Gobierno , Migra | Tags: Capitalism, hype, migra, workers

BETTER BELIEVE THAT people uniting is one story that el gobierno is not fond of. (They prefer tragedies)....

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The Story That Changes the World

Categorized under Gobierno , Política México , Protesta | Tags: Farming, indigenous

WE WONDER HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD and we often assume this means something huge and unattainable by mortal beings. "Changing the world" is a phrase for simpering, bleeding-hearts, and pleas from deranged protestors pounding at the White House gates. It's a puffed-up lyric from a Disney® flick, or...

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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: borders, Gitmo, malkin, migra

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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11 de Diciembre, 2006

Bush 'Remembers' Something or Other

Categorized under Gobierno , Hipnotismo , Historia , Latin America | Tags: activism, Capitalism, Chile, Police State, Power to the People, Protest, satire

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration remembered Augusto Pinochet's rule in Chile as a difficult period on Sunday and expressed concern for the victims of his government and their families. [...]"Our thoughts today are with the victims of his reign and their families. We commend the people of Chile...

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