Normally, I don’t watch American Idol, however, the rest of my family are big fans. I am here in Austin and this evening I was watching who are going to be the top 24, 12 men and 12 women, who will sing for your votes starting next week. After weeks and weeks of watching auditions, [...]
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Journalist, political activist, and death-row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal lends his support for Ms. McKinney’s candidacy. This segment, originally recorded January 27th for Prison Radio, features Mumia Abu Jamal comments about the distinction between the illusion of change and the substance of change. He can be written to at: Mumia Abu-Jamal; AM 8335; SCI-Greene; 175 Progress [...]
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This song is from Clef’s album ‘Carnival II: Memoirs of an Immigrant’ that came out in December. The video is a tribute Tejano Queen Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. The video contains scenes from various Selena music videos such as ‘Donde quiera que estés’, ‘La Llamada’, ‘No me queda más’, ‘I could fall in Love’, ‘Tú sólo Tú’ [...]
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David Neiwert’s of Orcinus is beginning a series of posts over at Firedoglake talking about forming a coherent approach to immigration reform.
Immigration: Seizing the Day originally post at Firedoglake.
The main role of progressives so far in the immigration debate has largely been a defensive one — trying to beat back the ugly tide of [...]
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Welcome Deadspin readers.
During the Superbowl this year, SaleGenie just went a bit too far. They ran two commercial during the Super Bowl that borders on racism. The first animated cartoon depicted an Indian, by the name of “Ramesh,” who is considered to be the worst “salesman” at Acme Widget. His boss, Hank Bulleymonge, comes down [...]
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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.
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