I was prompted to write this post because of a recent experience I had when I decided I would venture to post a comment on one of the big named community blogs. The issue boils down to institutionalized racism regarding Hispanic credibility based on my perception in today’s society.
What I find amusing is how people [...]
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For several years, the state of Texas has been widely cited as a model of standards-based education reform. Some called the educational progress occurring in Texas a miracle, even Texas’ educational accountability was even touted as a model that ultimately usher in the “No Every Child Left Behind Act” (NCLB) in January 2002.
The claims [...]
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Since Mexico’s Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) ordered a re-count of 9% of the nation’s 130,000 precincts, evidence of election fraud continues to mount up. Nearly every Mexican polling station recounted either result with the original count of paper ballots being wrong, sealed packets have been tampered, and in one case, a whole polling station’s ballots have [...]
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s has written an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times. AMLO is requesting our support in demanding a full recount be done. As is clearly states, the millions of citizens in Mexico who support AMLO are speaking loudly and clearly: Enough is enough!
Recounting Our Way to Democracy
NOT since 1910, when another [...]
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Speaking of elections, here in Texas there have been some recent developments that have occurred ever since the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ordered Congressional District 23 to be redrawn because the Court found CD 23, as racial gerrymandering in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
After Republicans won control of the Texas state legislature [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
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