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Mar
16
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Looks like UK economist is warning that the “world is now close to a 1930s-like Great Depression.” (h/t to MarisaCat)
From London’s The Independent:
Wall Street fears for next Great Depression
By Margareta Pagano, Business Editor
Wall Street is bracing itself for another week of roller-coaster trading [...]
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Mar
15
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Thank you Dr Laura Schlessinger, I guess us men, especially Latinos, are not dogs after all, unless we are either “narcissistic” and/or “sociopathic.” According to Dr Laura, women are partly to blame when their husbands cheat. Appearing on NBC’s Today [...]
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Mar
14
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One year ago, I wrote this post entitled The Words We Use: The Rhetoric of Race. The post had to do with articulation and race. In light of the recent fire storm over former New York Rep. Geraldine [...]
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Mar
12
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Recently, political pundits have been asking if the Republican party lost the Latino vote. It is hard to deny that the Latino electorate has become a coveted political force. Between 2000 and 2004 George W. Bush increased [...]
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Mar
09
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Happy International Women’s Day!!!
I want to take this moment to reflect and recognize this very important day for women worldwide. Today (Yesterday), women around the world celebrated the achievements they have made in their struggle for power and recognition that has been [...]
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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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