Raza Entries

5 de Mayo, 2008

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Categorized under Comida , Cultura , Música , Raza , día festivo | Tags: borders, Cheech and Chong, Chicanos, Film, lowriders, Mexicans, Mexico, migra, music, Obama, War, YouTube

MIS AMIGOS! It's a sunny day, we're alive in a moment many others have not lived to see, and still we refuse to be ruled by fear and misdirection and by those who would control us and keep us mired in an occupation of the mind, soul, and belief...

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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 5:27 AM.  | | (10)

1 de Mayo, 2008

Carne Asada is Not a Crime!

Categorized under Acción , Comida , Cultura , Raza , día festivo | Tags: Califas, May Day, Tacos

OYE, lovers of Carne Asada and other related deliciousness! The Great Endangered Taco Truck is not just an issue in Jefferson Parish, New Orleans! As la buena gente at saveourtacotrucks.org/ reminds us, Carne Asada is Not a Crime! As mentioned in The Los Angeles Times, to celebrate this year’s...

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Marching Side by Side

Categorized under Cultura , Derechos Humanos , Raza , día festivo | Tags: African Americans, Amigos and Amigas, Blacks, Califas, Latino, May Day, Power to the People

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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30 de Abril, 2008

UMX State of the Tortilla

Categorized under Acción , Arte , Blogando , Foto , Raza | Tags: Blackwater, blogs, Califas, Guadalupe, Harvard, historia, Power to the People, tortillas

IT'S BEEN PRETTY QUIET here, overall. You know what I mean. Less posts, less text, easy topics. (Aside from "anal bleaching," I suppose.) That's because I'm actually closing in on this massive knot of work that has been bottlenecking my peace of mind and daily schedules. It's always a...

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25 de Abril, 2008

Del Toro Teams Up With Jackson

Categorized under Raza | Tags: Film, Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit

OOOOH. Now that is an interesting idea. Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who produced "Pan's Labyrinth," will direct two big-budget films based on J.R.R Tolkien's book "The Hobbit," the Hollywood studios involved said Thursday. After months of media speculation, New Line and MGM studios confirmed del Toro, 43, would...

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21 de Abril, 2008

Ruben Salazar Remembered

Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Raza , Salud | Tags: Chicanos, El Movimiento, Hunter Thompson, Ruben Salazar, Salazar Park

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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19 de Abril, 2008

Peace. Passover. Freedom. Justice.

Categorized under Mi Familia , Raza , día festivo | Tags: Anti-Semitism, Der Kristallnacht, familia, historia, Immigration, Nazi, Passover, Poland, Russia, Treblinka, Warsaw, Warsaw Poles

I'VE SPOKEN of my great grandmother on my mother's side, the "white" side of my family. But again, the idea of "white" is so disturbing to me because it means just that. A fading away. Of roots and affiliations and history and family story. All for the idea of...

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18 de Abril, 2008

Sueños Rotos [Broken Dreams]

Categorized under Frontera , Música , Raza , Violencia | Tags: borders, migra, misogyny, Que Viva Las Mujeres, YouTube

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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31 de Marzo, 2008

Cesar Chavez Day?

Categorized under Comida , Cultura , Raza , día festivo | Tags: Chavez, Farming, Mexicans, Migrant farmers, Obama, Power to the People, UFW

¡FELIZ CUMPLEANOS, Señor Chavez! Or...Salud! It's been a while since you've been gone. Your work and deeds and purpose and name carry on. As farmworkers and laborers across America continue to struggle for fair treatment and fair wages, we find strength in what Cesar Chavez accomplished so many years...

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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: 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)

21 de Marzo, 2008

La Misma Luna [The Same Moon]

Categorized under Cultura , Raza | Tags: ALIENZ, Film, Immigration, Mexicans, Mexico

MAYBE AS MORE PEOPLE who are concerned with the inhumanity shown to migrants and the deeply-entrenched iniquities in place that perpetuate the harm being done to raza, to families, and to the economy and well-being of our nation as well as Mexico's get into positions of media making, the heavily...

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16 de Marzo, 2008

La Molina and the Tale of Naked Dave

Categorized under Arte , Raza , Stories | Tags: arte, Dave Stevens, Laura Molina, Que Viva Las Mujeres, The Rocketeer

NAKED DAVE IS DEAD. And if you know nothing of La Molina and the tale of Naked Dave, then even the name "Naked Dave" may mean nothing to you. For while the obit for the creator of the Rocketeer character tells us a few things about Dave Stevens, it...

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10 de Marzo, 2008

Sickle Cell Disease Rising Among Latinos

Categorized under Ciencia , Raza | Tags: Latino, Public Health

WHAT IS OFTEN thought of as a disease limited to the African American population is now becoming increasingly more prevalent among Latinos. The painful blood disorder called sickle-cell disease is striking an increasing number of Latino people in Colorado, according to University of Colorado researchers. The trend in the disease...

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7 de Marzo, 2008

MALVERDE - La Marcha

Categorized under Artivism , Cultura , Frontera , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Raza | Tags: borders, HR4437, Immigration, Latino, MALVERDE, May Day, Mexicans, Mexico, music, YouTube

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: borders, Clinton, FEMA, Format, Hope, Immigration, Material and Cognitive, migra, Migrant farmers, Obama, Wiretapping

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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that's why we use an X

Categorized under Cultura , Poesía , Raza | Tags: Chicanas, Chicanos

xicano means beautiful despised children of tomorrow dodging wire forged by yesterday's lie to me xicano is a name for orphan a child abandoned by tradition, tribe, and history a nimble heart running barefoot along the bloodied lips of the land kicking up wind and rain scoop of sweet corn...

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23 de Febrero, 2008

Asked and Answered: The Tale of the Golden Thesis

Categorized under M , Race for '08 , Raza | Tags: Democrats, Election, Obama, pundits, Race, satire, The White Lens, Transparency of Government

The subject: Michelle Obama. The location: Princeton University. The time period: 1985. (Incidentally, the year your humble guest blogger was born.) The problem: Something is not as it seems in Happy Politics Land because our subject has something to hide... The thesis, titled "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community" and...

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20 de Febrero, 2008

Teatro Izcalli (San Diego)

Categorized under Cultura , Humor , Raza | Tags: Chicanas, Chicanos, Comedy, San Diego

DO YOU LOVE COMEDY and live near San Diego? Check behind the cut for a Chican@ comedy troupe coming to town....

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18 de Febrero, 2008

187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border

Categorized under Literatura , Raza | Tags: Authors, JFH

SOME GATO who shares my last name is putting out a book on la frontera y los migrantes and it is called 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border. One of my favorite poets, Lorna Dee Cervantes, has some words on it: My old friend and literary buzz saw,...

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17 de Febrero, 2008

Essential Cream of Frida?

Categorized under Arte , Corazón , Cultura , Latin America , Raza | Tags: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Mexico, Que Viva Las Mujeres

CUANDO PIENSO EN FRIDA KAHLO, I think of pain. And beauty. When I think of Frida Kahlo, I think of a lifetime sentence of physical agony...and the spirit that must have moved this woman, the spirit that enabled her to keep living, and to create. When I think of...

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7 de Febrero, 2008

Desert Flower in an Icy Dreamland

Categorized under Corazón , Frontera , Raza | Tags: Flor Crisostomo, ICE, Immigration, Mexicans, migra, Que Viva Las Mujeres, Sanctuary Cities, Soul of the World

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: borders, Change, Hope, Immigration, Mexicans, Mexico

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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18 de Enero, 2008

Bedford Raid to be Reviewed by DHS

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Raza | Tags: Hope, ICE, John Kerry, migra, Soul of the World

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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8 de Enero, 2008

Lydia Mendoza, ¡presente!

Categorized under Arte , Corazón , Cultura , Historia , M , Música , Raza , Salud | Tags: brown pride, Chicanas, Lydia Mendoza, Mexicans, music, workers

Lydia Mendoza, a woman whose song and performance became part of the cornerstones of American music, died on December 20, 2007 at 91 years old. Her accolades include being the first Texan to win the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship in 1982 and winning the National Medal...

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31 de Diciembre, 2007

A Taste of Mittocrisy

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Raza , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: borders, hypocrisy, indigenous, Mexicans, Mitt Romney, putos, Republicans, RRPP

DEAR MISTER ROMNEY, I really appreciate your steadfast commitment to your faith. I've heard people choose these types of ideologies because it grounds a person in morality and integrity and human values. And of course I can admire that. With all the hate- and fear-mongering filling the public square today,...

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9 de Diciembre, 2007

Toy Drive for Imprisoned Children

Categorized under Raza , día festivo | Tags: Hutto, Soul of the World

ANOTHER CHRISTMAS IN THE HUTTO PRISON CAMP for families and children from 40 different countries. Toy Drive for the kids at Hutto Detention Center December 6th. 6-9pm. 1401 E 34th Street (on the corner of Lafayette and 34th) Come as you are and bring an unwrapped toy, book, art supply...

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7 de Diciembre, 2007

XP Wins Texas Progressive Alliance 2007 Silver Star!

Categorized under Blogando , Raza | Tags: activism, blogs, brown pride, XP

AND I JUST GOTTA post propz to mi hermano y blogmigo XP: Edmundo Rocha. Blending lends heavy-handed social critiques, local and national politics, and a heaping dose of common sense in his blog, Edmundo Rocha tackles heavy topics like imigration, teenage pregnancy, racial and gender politics, and backs up everything...

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6 de Diciembre, 2007

Ask a Chola Bout the WGA Strike

Categorized under Cultura , Humor , Raza | Tags: Ask A Chola, WGA, YouTube

sombrero tip to Michael A. Deliz aka The Latino Insurgent. ¡Órale!...

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12 de Noviembre, 2007

The Red Carpet Treatment [Veterans Day]

Categorized under Arte , Artivism , Humor , Raza | Tags: Ken Burns, Lalo Alcaraz

LALO ALCARAZ, a Xicano who pens some damn funny comix on the regular, wrote me and asked me to post up his latest comment on the Ken Burns saga. Behind the cut, I give you Lalo's latest. Should have been up ayer, but only got it anoche....

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10 de Noviembre, 2007

Trabajador

Categorized under Raza | Tags: blogs, Power to the People, Soldad@s

MI BLOGMIGO XP has been looking hard for work for far too long, given what a smart, ambitious, and hardworking vato he be. I mean check this cat out, he even writes a post about unemployment that reads like a well-researched, well-written piece of work! Someone hire this man...

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19 de Octubre, 2007

Yearning to Breathe Free

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Raza | Tags: borders, Hutto, ICE, Mexicans, migra, Police State, Power to the People, Raymondville

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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13 de Octubre, 2007

Pomona Art Show, Armando Cepeda

Categorized under Arte , Cultura , Raza | Tags: arte

AN ART SHOW by vato Armando Cepeda, going on in Pomona, Califas if you're in the area. I pass this goodie along. Dear Friends and Family, I am happy to invite everyone to see my newest artwork entitled: "Venganzen Cabrones." It will debut this Saturday at dA Gallery in...

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4 de Octubre, 2007

The Latino Challenge to Black America: Q &A With Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Categorized under Literatura , Raza | Tags: Authors, blogs, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Latino

LAST WEEK I mentioned that today I would be posting the questions I posed Earl Ofari Hutchinson in reaction to reading his book The Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation Between African-Americans and Hispanics, and that if readers were around at 4:00 - 4:30 or so, and...

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28 de Septiembre, 2007

Seven Minutes of Sunshine from Lorna Dee

Categorized under Corazón , Poesía , Raza | Tags: Lorna Dee Cervantes, Poets

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, but in wading through all the hectic energy of "news" as presented by the media, I often need deep draughts of beauty. Lorna Dee Cervantes is one of my favorite poets, and a good place to fill up tu copa. Here is her poem...

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27 de Septiembre, 2007

The Latino Challenge to Black America

Categorized under Literatura , Raza | Tags: Authors, Blacks, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Hope, Latino, Race, The Haunted Land

EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON is a widely-read author and political analyst, perhaps if nowhere else, you've seen him on Huffington Post. While I can't say I always agree with his take, what I do respect is that he employs a reflex in his writing that seeks to find the truth...

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23 de Septiembre, 2007

Like a Long Awaited Dawn

Categorized under Cultura , Política Estados Unidos , Raza | Tags: Democrats,