Take the Power Back
Feb
16
This is dedicated to all my brothers and sisters of color and my allies who part of the movement to take the power back.
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Texas College Education – Rich Gringos Only, Others Good Luck
Feb
16
Fostering diversity at institutes of higher education has long been the goal of many institutions and thus has been at the forefront of policy making decisions. Those who support the aims and principles of diversity, as well as those who decry them, agree that campuses face a variety of challenges in their efforts to make [...]
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The Gloves are Off
Feb
15
The most striking thing about our national debate over immigration is the utter lack of attention to the root causes of mass migration from Mexico or to the moral dimensions of the injustice and human tragedy that is unfolding before our eyes. There comes a point where turning away from violence, and not standing up [...]
Posted in Aztlán, Civil Rights, Eliminationism, English Only, Englishnistas, Immigration, Immigration Debate, La Reconquista fable, Nativism, Prejudices, Propaganda, Racism, Raza, Xenophobia | Tags: | 13 Comments »
Structured Racism
Feb
13
After reading Nezua Limón Xolagrafik-Jonez’s analysis, Speech Rules or Beliefs and Attitudes?, of [tag]Glen Greenwald[/tag]’s post, Awkward discussions of race and Obama and reading the post in question myself, I have to agree with Nez.
Mr. Greenwald writes that (”part of the reason”) people avoid discussing race is that it is “too easy to unwittingly run [...]
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Mayor Bill Purcell Has the Right Idea
Feb
12
From the same state where a small town that was considering banning all Hispanics from their city parks, Nashville, TN’s Mayor, Bill Purcell, has finally said Basta to all the Englishnistas.
According to AP, today, Mayor Bill Purcell vetoed a measure that would have made English the official language of [tag]Nashville[/tag]. Purcell said that the [...]
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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.
