I’m sad to say that another Texas icon has passed away, the first was Ann Richards. Texas native and best-selling author and syndicated columnist [tag]Molly Ivins[/tag] has passed away after an enduring battle with breast cancer. According to David Pasztor, managing editor of the Texas Observer, Ivins died at her home while in hospice [...]
Posted in Molly Ivins | 
Tags: | 
8 Comments »
Hi all, as you can tell I have redone the entire site with a theme I designed myself. I call it Aztec Sunrise, something that came to me in a dream. I think I have been spending too much time reading somebody’s blog. Speaking of that person, I do like to thank Nezua [...]
Posted in Blogging | Tags: | 19 Comments »
Democratic Revolution Party ([tag]PRD[/tag]) official Fructuoso Pedro Garcia was shot with nine bullets in the main square of Santo Domingo Morelos in [tag]Oaxaca[/tag] [tag]Mexico[/tag]- Houston Chronicle
Gunmen shot dead a local leader of Mexico’s largest leftist party in the southern state of Oaxaca where at least nine people were killed in political violence last year, police [...]
Posted in Mexico, Oaxaca, PRD | Tags: | 3 Comments »
A car bomb exploded today in a [tag]Baghdad[/tag] market killing 28 – The Courier Mail
BOMBS killed at least 28 people in Baghdad overnight, but Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed his new crackdown in the city would leave militants nowhere to hide.
In a speech to parliament, Mr Maliki urged politicians on all sides to support [...]
Posted in Iraq, News/Noticias, War | Tags: | Comments Off
In light of last nights [tag]State of the Union[/tag] speech, it is important we bring this subject up again. Last night, Bush stated he will ask “Congress to authorize an increase in the size of our active Army and Marine Corps by 92,000.” This will be done by establish a volunteer Civilian Reserve Corps. What [...]
Posted in Classism, Green Card Draft, Immigration, Military Draft, Racism, Raza, War | Tags: | 16 Comments »
Home
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.
Contact me
Entries (RSS) | Comments (RSS) | 
Creative Commons |
