Pride in Our Own will be a new series on this blog highlighting the accomplishments of our Latin@ youth.
If you or anyone you know would like to be recognized for reaching a personal milestone, share it with your community. Use my contact page to send me a brief description of what has been achieved.
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When people uproot themselves, all people – immigrant and US-born – yearn to maintain security, stability, and dignity in their new communities, especially if the environment is unfamiliar and hostile. This endeavor is as old as human history. In a recent study that has received significant media attention, Robert Putnam, author of “Bowling Alone,” found [...]
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Elvira Arellano was arrested about 3PM by law enforcement officials after leaving Our Lady Queen of Angels Church in downtown Los Angeles, according to Aztlan Electronic News. Arellano was scheduled to fly to Washington D.C. to lobby congress to reach and immigration reform agreement.
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that after talking to news media inside [...]
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As Congress has tried and failed to pass immigration reform, both Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Bush Administration plan to continue their strong-arm tactics against undocumented immigrants. Soon after the Senate’s failed second attempt to pass Bush’s immigration bill, ICE agents have carried out well-organized publicized raids in factories, meatpacking plants, janitorial services [...]
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What started off as an inactive Hurricane season is not looking to be an active one this month. There are two Tropical Storm Erin which is approaching South Texas and another tropical system that may intensify into a strong Hurricane.
Tropical Storm Erin, which formed in the western Gulf of Mexico early Wednesday, was moving [...]
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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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