Senate’s Second Secret Immigration Bill

Put forth by XicanoPwr


In the midst of a polarized debate on immigration, politicians and the media continue to paint conflicting pictures of the influence of immigrants on our communities and the economy. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people cross the border between Mexico and the US without documentation. According to the Department of Homeland Security Office of [...]

Happy Juneteenth

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I almost forgot Happy Juneteenth!!!
For those who don’t know what holiday falls on June 19, it is Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day. Only 25 states in the US celebrate this day, Texas is one of them. Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. [...]

El Nightwatchman

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Yesterday, I saw El Nightwatchman and it was kick ass. Tom Morello is very talented and it was nice to see the effect his music had on my parents. It sort of stirred up the old Chicano spirit that laid dormant in them for a while.

If Morello is doing El Nightwatchman, what about Rage Against [...]

Rising Blogging Insanity and Introspection

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Recently I came across an article, Beware the Bloggers’ Bile, in TIME Magazine by Joe Klein recently in which he wrote about the insanity that has taken over the Liberal/Progressive blogosphere. This of course is going well with Republican bloggers. In Klein’s piece, he expresses his concern of the recent criticism he is receiving from [...]

Mobilization Around Texas

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This is something new I am going to try. I am wanting to have some type of event aggregator on here. There are event that are happening here in the US that we don’t really hear about or if we do it is after the fact. So for now I will post things up events [...]

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