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Mar
31
Today, we celebrate Cesar Chavez’s birthday. Since 2000, only eight states have made this day a holiday – Arizona, California, Colorado, Michigan, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin. In Washington, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and others have pushed for a federal holiday since Chávez’s death in 1993.
Chávez stood for equality, justice, and dignity [...]
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Mar
28
On Thursday, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the death sentence of the imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther, Mumia Abu-Jamal, while upholding his conviction and rejected his call for a new trial. A three-judge panel ruled that Abu-Jamal, who has been on death row for twenty-six years, deserves a new sentencing hearing [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, News/Noticias, Prejudices, Racism, US Supreme Court | Tags: | functional 5 Comments »
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Mar
26
Last week, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was forced to tackle the issue of race in the midst of the controversy over the explosive comments of Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Obama’s speech reflects the hard truth about America, we still struggle to talk openly and honestly about race.
However, looking back on how this got started reveals [...]
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Mar
19
Today our nation marks five years of war in Iraq. It was five years ago President George W. Bush and seven of his administration’s top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements about the national security threat posed by Saddam [...]
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Mar
18
Breakthrough, a New York-based nonprofit international human rights organization, recently launched their video game, ICED! (I Can End Deportation), that aims to educate people on current immigration policies, and is targeted to a younger demographic.
Breakthrough is not new to the immigration game. Last summer, I wrote about the deportation of Anslem Ifill, an immigrant [...]
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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.
