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Política Estados Unidos Entries

13 de Mayo, 2008

Change in the Weather

Categorized under Pelicula , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , ,


BOY did I pick the wrong gig if I wanted not to be immersed in politics all the time. Whew. There's one giant politician here after another, every other day. When I'm not eating, I'm editing. When I'm not editing, I'm asleep. I hear Hillary is coming back and...

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Bill Clinton in Eugene, Oregon

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , ,


BILL CLINTON spoke last night at the University of Oregon in Eugene in behalf of his wife's candidacy, and of course, your trusty citizen journalist Nezua was on the scene. The speech was attended by about 800 - 1000 people. I didn't count, but the venue was switched at...

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10 de Mayo, 2008

Obama at the Quad

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , ,


EIGHT THOUSAND members of the O.F.B. showed up yesterday at the Memorial Quad at the University of Oregon to listen to Senator Obama. As usual, I feel exhausted after the whole ordeal, and it's always hard to believe that this is mostly from standing and waiting. As well as...

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9 de Mayo, 2008

Our Death Will Be Inside Our Homes

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Parenting , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: , , , ,


AND IN THE LAND THAT FLOATS UPON OIL, U.S. Forces and their subordinates are murdering the children of Iraq at the fastest rate possible. Though it's not quite fast or deadly enough to save them from the looming WMDs that endanger them all—the ones that required our military to...

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I Expect You'll Understand the Difference Between White and Wrong

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , , ,


IT IS FUNNY how the primaries don't even seem to be about who actually wins or loses each state, but how each win or loss matches up to the expectation of whether or not that state will be won or lost. Of course the expectations are constantly massaged, sort...

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8 de Mayo, 2008

Rust Takes Down the (Clinton) Machine

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A CONCISE AND UNEMOTIONAL article on why the Clinton Machine couldn't crest the hill. Some say "old guard" and this piece more or less backs that up. Their thinking is yesterday's news in various ways and that's why they never saw what hit them. Bam, bam, bam! Blogmigo Kai just...

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7 de Mayo, 2008

Summoning Us to Greatness

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I'M RATHER DISAPPOINTED that the Clintons will not be moving back into La Casa Blanca. After all, it would have been great to have Hillary as President. I could have proudly pointed both my daughters to her and show them how a strong and smart woman should act in...

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4 de Mayo, 2008

The Empire Strikes Barack

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THE FORCE is strong with this one....

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1 de Mayo, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [pt. 4]

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LAST WEEK we watched a young man (whom one person wrote me and called "arrogant") engage the democratic process as he questioned Hillary Clinton during her Town Rally at the South Eugene High School (April 4). The bold student wanted to know if when all was said and done...

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29 de Abril, 2008

A Proper Context

Categorized under Cultura , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Política México | Tags: , , ,


MEXCELLENT. AUSTIN, Texas — The School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin is offering an online course for working journalists on how to incorporate the voices and views of their communities' Latinos into their reporting. The four-week course, "Covering the Latino Community," will teach journalists across Texas...

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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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Reminder for Oregon

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28 de Abril, 2008

Blue-collar Bitter Gun Owning Harley Riding Voters

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sombrero tip to yliza...

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Fear Builds Walls, Hope Builds Pigs

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HA HAAAA CHARADE YOU ARE... Man, I love that song! Haven't played it in years, don't even think I have it anymore. That was in the cassette era, and I've lost all my music casettes. I saw Floyd in '88, NJ. (Maybe it was '89.) I think it was the...

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So Much for Lucidity and Political Abstinence.

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I SWEAR! There really was one lovely shining moment when I just didn't care anymore. Ah well. I excuse it by remembering I never follow football or basketball or anything. Politics is boxing without the sweat and shiny shorts. And we do know how I love to watch boxing....

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When Blackness Approaches Power

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 , Religión , Violencia | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,


THE CONTINUED hypocritical attacks on Jeremiah Wright and Obama's name are disgustingly racist. Period. And the more I hear of this Pastor vato, the more I like him. Speaking the National Press Club in Washington on Monday, [Pastor Jeremiah] Wright called the recent criticism surrounding his sermons "an attack on...

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27 de Abril, 2008

How Hillary Can Still Win

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25 de Abril, 2008

Oregon Latinos for Obama

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A coalition of Latino community leaders in Oregon has thrown its support behind Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Ramon Ramirez, the president of PCUN, the state's largest farmworker union, made the announcement Wednesday, citing Obama's commitment to improving the lives of farmworkers and Latino families in...

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24 de Abril, 2008

The Civic Reawakening of a New Generation

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With the central mission of the Institute of Politics being to engage and inspire young Americans in the memory of John F. Kennedy and his legacy, we are particularly pleased that the underlying shifts in civic participation that we noted in 2002 are not a one-time phenomenon but instead represent...

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Time to Lift the Rug (Again)

Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , , ,


When I say my thinking has traveled an arc with Clinton, dont take it the wrong way. I still do not think she is going to be, our should be, our president. But I have grown more sympathetic to her as a person, through the course of my recording...

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23 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [pt. 3]

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , ,


HILLARY CLINTON IN EUGENE [3] continues our HRC four-part series, which features the Senator's appearance at Oregon's South Eugene High School Gymnasium. You've read the comments of Tapper and Suarez and myself and probably many others, regarding this very appearance. If you're one of the chosen ones, you've even...

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21 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [MTV Vlog Apr21]

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HILLARY CLINTON IN EUGENE [1] begins our HRC three-part series, which will feature the Senator's rally/town-hall appearance at Eugene, Oregon's South Eugene High School Gymnasium. You've read Tapper and Suarez and myself and many others comment on this very appearance*. Now, witness all the small town high school political...

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Ruben Salazar Remembered

Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Raza , Salud | Tags: , , , ,


RUBEN SALAZAR, a respected Mexican American journalist whose face and voice became important to El Movimiento in the 70s will be posthumously recognized on a stamp. Salazar was shot and killed while covering the National Chicano Moratorium March, which was organized by the Mexican American community mostly to protest...

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15 de Abril, 2008

King Rat the Corpse Rancher

Categorized under Acción , Closing in on Bush , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: , , ,


I SAID I'D WRITE ON TORTURE today, as the Gross W. MoronTerror has recently admitted—using his typical "YGAFPWT"* methodology of confronting accusations of his violating the social contract—that he has signed off on the torturing of humans. A brief comment to mark yet one more slimy, sleazy, slipped notch...

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8 de Abril, 2008

A Hunger for Truth (And Tomato): Shooting the Obama Trilogy

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I PROMISED YA I would relate my arduous tale of shooting the Obama event here in Eugene (Parts 1 and 2, 3 still to come), and so I now point you to a lengthy and well-illustrated blog wherein I relate the story of A Hunger for Truth (and Tomato):...

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Bill Past Due

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SO I'VE BEEN THINKING after reading a few irate writers who imply that there is some kind of contagious framing out in the aether that unfairly paints Hillary Clinton as a liar. Some of these people say this persistent test she must pass is a special Clinton rule, or is...

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7 de Abril, 2008

Obama in Oregon, Part 2

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Pelicula , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , , , ,


OBAMA IN OREGON (PT. 2) continues our trilogy of Obama-in-Oregonity as promised last week! Peep through the Lens O' Nez and once again, enter "The Pit" in Eugene, Oregon—which is really not as gruesome as the name might sound, but instead a rather invigorating and some might even venture,...

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5 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , ,


COVERED THE HILLARY CLINTON campaign stop in Eugene yesterday, at the South Eugene High School. While there was a smattering across a few demographics (there were young people, too), it seemed to my eye to be mostly white women, and older people. (You can't judge by who is behind HRC...

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4 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton Releases Oregon Campaign Schedule

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HILLARY CLINTON has released her schedule for Oregon with one day to spare. (Senator Obama gave but two days notice). She will be speaking in Portland and Eugene. (Senator Obama spoke in Salem, Portland, and Eugene.) Senator Clinton will be stopping in Eugene tomorrow to speak at two high...

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2 de Abril, 2008

Raging Bill

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SOMEONE'S SMOOTH VENEER is popping off like pine panel in a bonfire. "It was one of the worst political meetings I have ever attended," one superdelegate said. According to those at the meeting, Clinton - who flew in from Chicago with bags under his eyes - was classic old Bill...

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30 de Marzo, 2008

Occupational Hazard

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I'M NOT HERE to be an unwavering bullhorn for Obama. That is utterly boring. And yes, I don't think there's any contest between him and Senator Clinton, as far as who could get more done. Or who would be more uplifting as a President in a few senses. Or...

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Obama Opens Office in Eugene

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RIDING THE WAVE of his recent appearance(s) in Oregon, the Obama campaign opens a local office. DOWNTOWN EUGENE - More than one hundred people showed up Saturday morning for the grand opening Obama's new office located at 1280 Willamette Street in Downtown Eugene. "I'm here this morning to support...

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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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28 de Marzo, 2008

Obama in Eugene Pt. 1 [MTV vlog 3-28-08]

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OBAMA IN OREGON (PT. 1) is the name of the new video shot and edited by yours truly, Oregon's Official MTV Choose or Lose Street Team 08 Citizen Journalist, and just as the title foreshadows, there will be two more parts to this tryptych of political goodness. Clicking the...

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27 de Marzo, 2008

Is Avoidance the Answer?

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THESE DAYS, there is a sure way to have me laugh at writing and declare it devoid of intelligent method, and that is to employ cute little hatenames for Obama supporters. I mean, come on. Is "Obama supporters" really so hard to type? Does it actually hurt to not sling...

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25 de Marzo, 2008

Vigil (to End the War) - [MTV Vid 3-25-08]

Categorized under Arte , Artivism , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Política Estados Unidos , Protesta , Violencia | Tags: , , , , , , , ,


ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of the Iraq Invasion, MoveOn held vigils all over the country at the same time. This video commemorates and captures the public vigil held in Eugene, Oregon to call for an end to the Iraq Occupation. The latest video for my MTV Citizen Journalist gig....

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24 de Marzo, 2008

Shining, Gleaming, Streaming, Flaxen, Waxen

Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , ,


ANYWAY, I'm feeling burnt out on some of these conversations. Political swattings and virtual angers. Maybe this is a place to which I keep returning. So I guess I must enjoy it on some level. How perverse. But I do need to step back, I'm getting too stirred up...

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