Put forth by XicanoPwr
Sep
11
Funding across the nation for public education, day care, after-school programs, and job training have been severely cut because of Dudya’s thirst for war. Moreover, as all this is happening, Congress continues to throw billions of dollars into the military budget.
But what happens when the US decides to participate in too many international conflicts and [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Sep
08
Pobre Mxico! Tan lejos de Dios, y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos.
(Poor Mexico! So far from God, and so close to the United States.)
- General Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico, 1877-1911
It seems Mexico has been hit by the Orwellian PAN rules - some pigs are more equal than others. In its final ruling, Mexico’s [...]
Posted in Felipe Calderón, López Obrador, Mexico, PAN, PRD | Tags: | functional 2 Comments »
Put forth by XicanoPwr
Sep
08
I recently completed posting a story at VivirLatino that really is not receiving that much attention, which it really should. The on going immigration debate will continue to be a hot button issue. Sad thing is, it appears, Congress is unlikely to enact immigration legislation before November. In other words it is a non-issue.
However, in [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Sep
06
It seems we can’t do anything right. The Loudoun public schools have decided that we are having a bad influence on the gringos because of our bad Spanish. An article in the WaPo talks about a school district that will offer Spanish to Spanish speakers.
This year, the foreign language department is adding two Spanish courses [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Sep
05
Update: Fecal won.
Tomorrow is the day that Today the Electoral Court of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF) will finally officially name Felipe Calderón president-elect. Honestly, it is not surprising, last week TEPJF had ruled that Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had failed to prove that the irregularities in many of the polling places did not stem [...]
Posted in Felipe Calderón, López Obrador, Mexican Election, Mexico, PAN, PRD, Vicente Fox | Tags: | functional 6 Comments »
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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