12 de Mayo, 2008

Irena Sendler Dies

Categorized under Salud | Tags: Holocaust, Irena Sendler, Nazi, Poles, Que Viva Las Mujeres, Warsaw Poles

I'VE WRITTEN a few times of why the Warsaw Poles (and all the related horror) are personally important to me. But one need not have a story of their own ancestry tied to such horrific events to admire and be in awe of the young social worker and activist in...

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26 de Abril, 2008

Cherry Blossoms and Skye

Categorized under Salud | Tags: Amigos and Amigas, Citizen Journalism, Japan, MTV, New York City, Skye Budnick, Street Team 08

IT HAS ALMOST BEEN A MONTH since Skye Budnick went missing. She traveled to Japan on the 2nd of April. A 21-year-old female college student from the United States has been missing since arriving in Hokkaido on April 2, her mother and sister said Tuesday, asking Japanese people to come...

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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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4 de Abril, 2008

Remembering Mister King

Categorized under Artivism , Corazón , MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Salud | Tags: African Americans, Citizen Journalism, Film, hope, MLK, MTV, race

A MOMENT OF SILENCE to honor the man whose spirit and dream and work can never be jailed or shot down and yet lives on today. Martin Luther King, Jr. Salud. And thank you for the example. And the words. And the work. My MTV Citizen Journalist video titled Because...

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19 de Marzo, 2008

90 orbits

Categorized under Literatura , Salud | Tags: Arthur C. Clarke, Authors

GOODBYE to Arthur C. Clarke one of the Sci-Fi names I read devoutly during younger years, along with Asimov, Le Guin, Bradbury, Heinlen, and some others. British-born science fiction guru, Arthur C. Clarke, died at a hospital in Sri Lanka on Wednesday, his aide Rohan de Silva told AFP....

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9 de Marzo, 2008

The Sea is Blue, Too Blue, Too Blue

Categorized under Salud | Tags: I should tag this something, Oregon

SO THEN it is a day for a moment of silence and a moment of gratitude for that which we do not suffer today, and what others do. I've linked you and shown you fotografía before of the Oregon coast, and I've told you what a wild and violent...

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4 de Marzo, 2008

A World By Gygax

Categorized under Juegos , Salud | Tags: AD&D, Dungeon & Dragons, Gary Gygax

MY FIRST INTRODUCTION to role playing games (as I think of them) was at eight years old. When I say "role playing games" I mean games like Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) (not an electronic version), Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D), Gamma World, etc—games you play sitting at a a table...

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21 de Enero, 2008

Dream Until Your Dreams Come True

Categorized under Corazón , Salud | Tags: Hope, MLK

THANK YOU for the dream. And for the doing. We're not there. We're still working. Salud, Mister King. And again, thank you....

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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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27 de Diciembre, 2007

Benazir Bhutto Killed

Categorized under Salud | Tags: Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan

PERHAPS the most obvious admission that a person can make stating that they are personally incapable of changing the world's destiny with their own abilities and gifts and unique vision is to simply take the life of those who make it their mission to do so. Benazir Bhutto, I...

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15 de Diciembre, 2007

A Fierce Heart Moves on, Julia Carson Presente!

Categorized under Salud | Tags: Blacks, historia, Julia Carson, Que Viva Las Mujeres

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Rep. Julia Carson, who rose from a childhood of poverty and segregation to become the first black and first woman to represent Indianapolis in Congress, died Saturday. She was 69. Carson died of lung cancer at her home, where she had spent the past several weeks,...

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12 de Noviembre, 2007

Donda West Dies

Categorized under Salud | Tags: Donda West, Kanye West

KANYE WEST'S mother has died from what seems to be complications from cosmetic surgery. Kanye West’s mom, Dr. Donda West, tragically passed away Saturday night in Los Angeles. The former chairwoman of Chicago State University’s English department had undergone elective surgery, but the cause of death has yet to be...

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10 de Noviembre, 2007

The Naked...and

Categorized under Literatura , Salud | Tags: Authors, Norman Mailer

AFTER HIS RECENT hospitalization, Norman Mailer has died. Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Norman Mailer, the prolific writer whose public brawls and macho swagger often overshadowed his Pulitzer Prize-winning prose that challenged society's views of politics and sex, died early today. He was 84. Mailer died of renal failure at...

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11 de Octubre, 2007

K and K

Categorized under Salud | Tags: blogs, Immigration, Soldad@s

LET US send a large wave of good thought and energy and divine cosmic goodies (if we collect or have access to those) for our friends Kety E. and Kyle dF., both soldad@s en la lucha, both big hitters and important to the game, both involved in very humane ways...

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28 de Septiembre, 2007

Salud, Trabajadora.

Categorized under Salud | Tags: Eli Rose, Florida, Haiti, Immigration

IN ALL THE ABSTRACT talk of Millions of Migrants, or shadowy fear-driven agitprop about Mexicans Leaping Fences, we not only forget that the USA is NOT under seige, she is not being Overrun By Mexicans (not to mention that many different peoples from the south come here to work...

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17 de Septiembre, 2007

Cheese That Thinks it is Stone

Categorized under Corazón , Salud | Tags: familia, Madeleine L'Engle, My Life

FUNNY HOW LIFE CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND. Once, I lived as if I weren't afraid to die. And by that I mean many things. Like taking heaps of untested things into my body that could do just about anything, like saying "live fast, die young" when I was fourteen...

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6 de Septiembre, 2007

The King of the High C's Has Sailed Away

Categorized under Música , Salud | Tags: Luciano Pavarotti, music

LUCIANO PAVAROTTI, a name I remember being spoken with great awe since I was a young boy, has died, at 71 years old. Pavarotti, the literally and figuratively larger-than-life tenor whose recordings sold more than 100 million albums, and whose voice boomed everywhere from the Metropolitan Opera to Johnny Carson's...

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30 de Julio, 2007

Bergman Dies at 89

Categorized under Salud | Tags: Ingmar Bergman

THE MAN WHO MADE PERSONA, Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, has left the theater. A great filmmaker and artist, yours was a valuable contribution, and you had an effect on me. Adios, and salud, Mister Bergman!...

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14 de Julio, 2007

Ofrenda for Tony Salazar

Categorized under Salud | Tags: Ofrenda, Tony Salazar

Dear family, friends, colleagues of Tony Salazar The Oakland Museum of California has asked a group of friends and colleagues of Tony Salazar that we create an ofrenda in honor of our dear friend and colleague for the 14th exhibit of ofrendas for Día de Muertos that opens the...

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2 de Julio, 2007

Another One Done Gone

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Salud | Tags: David Ritcheson, Hate Crime, racism, The Haunted Land, White Supremacy

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22 de Junio, 2007

Un Puño de Tierra - Antonio Aguilar Presente!

Categorized under El Cine , Salud | Tags: Antonio Aguilar, Mexicans

Mexican mariachi singer and actor Antonio Aguilar, who recorded more than 150 albums and began his acting career during Mexico's "Golden Era" of cinema, was buried on Thursday at his family's ranch in the northern state of Zacatecas. Aguilar died late Tuesday at the age of 88 after a...

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13 de Junio, 2007

Memorial Mass for Tony Salazar

Categorized under Salud | Tags: Tony Salazar

A Memorial Mass will be held for Antonio (Tony) Salazar, President of Salazar Communications, and Publisher and Editor of Teleguia Spanish language magazine. Friday, July 6, 2007, at 5:30 pm, at St. Augustine Catholic Cathedral, 543- West Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan (269) 345-5147. Mr. Salazar passed away on Monday,...

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2 de Junio, 2007

Steve Gilliard Has Moved On.

Categorized under Salud | Tags: Steve Gilliard

BLOGGER STEVE GILLIARD has died, after a long and arduous illness. A moment of tribute for a man about whom I've heard many sincere words of praise. Steve Gilliard, ¡Presente!...

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1 de Junio, 2007

¡Tony Salazar Presente!

Categorized under Salud | Tags: Tony Salazar

AS YOU MAY REMEMBER, yesterday I posted on the passing of Tony Salazar, an old-school Chicano (cat knew mi papá!), one of los soldados who paved the way for us younger generations of xicanos and xicanas with such pasión y corazón y lucha, with El Chicano Movimiento. The esteemed...

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30 de Mayo, 2007

Tony Salazar Leaves This World

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I REALLY WANT TO POST THIS, but am crazy-busy with graphic design work (and grateful to have it), so formatting and commentary will be minimal, but message is important. Dear Friends: It is with sadness that I inform you that Tony Salazar passed away yesterday morning in San Francisco....

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16 de Mayo, 2007

Kings of Our Time

Categorized under Salud | Tags: Yolanda King

YOLANDA KING—a heart filled with love—has left the building. She will be remembered well. The King Center in Atlanta - set up to preserve the legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King - says his oldest child, Yolanda Denise King, has died. Steve Klein, a spokesman for...

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15 de Mayo, 2007

Fall well

Categorized under Religión , Salud | Tags: Jerry Falwell

MAY JERRY FALWELL never meet a god so cruel as that which he had envisioned. On the other hand....who am I to spare him his due? May he get what's coming to him. Whatever the hell that is....

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1 de Marzo, 2007

give us a smile

Categorized under Salud | Tags: eat the rich, Health, Soul of the World

I'VE BEEN READING OF THE BOY WHO DIED of empty pockets and a rotten tooth gone wrong. This story is one that speaks to me, and not just because I'm human with a heart, which would be the main reason. But also because it echoes some of my own story....

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12 de Febrero, 2007

Siesta For Yourself!

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THOSE DAMN LAZY MEXICANS were smarter than ya thought! In the largest study to date on the health effects of napping, researchers tracked 23,681 healthy Greek adults for an average of about six years. Those who napped for about half an hour at least three times weekly had a...

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2 de Febrero, 2007

Molly Ivins

Categorized under Historia , Salud | Tags:

OKAY, FINE. I'll say a word or two about her to prove I'm not callous or anything. Because I'm not, you know. I just wasn't very familiar with her. Yes, in this past summer's relaxing at dawn with my wakeup and the local paper, hers was the face you...

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