Put forth by XicanoPwr
Aug
18
Last week, a Denver CBS affiliate, CBS4 News reporter Rick Sallinger, exposed the detention camps built for the DNC protesters. The city was hoping to keep this facility a secret, however, Rick Sallinger not only revealed but provided footage of the warehouse filled with metal cages made of chain-link fence material, topped off with barbed [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Aug
17
Only in Texas! A local school board, Harrold Independent School District, in rural North Texas unanimously passed the policy to allow its teachers and staff to carry concealed hand guns to school. According to Fort Worth Star-Telegram, since the tiny 110-student school district was just off a heavily trafficked freeway, US 287, they felt the [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Aug
14
As many of you know, I recently was on public access TV discussing the recent immigration that happened here in Houston raids and prison industrial complex. Now, I have just been invited on a panel on HITN TV’s new show, Destination Casa Blanca 2008: The Latino Voice in the Presidential Election, to discuss politics [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Aug
14
It’s another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance’s Weekly Round-Up. The weekly round-up is complied from submissions made by TPA member blogs. This week’s round-up is compiled by Vince from Capitol Annex.
The Truth About Texas Republicans, a new blogger-powered website designed to expose the real truth about GOP Texas legislators looks at the stuff [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Aug
13
Hat tip to blogamiga Adriana of Latino Politics Blog for the heads up on this issue. Disney Corporation’s winter quarter profits hit a record high of $1.18 billion. However, this is not enough, Disney figures the can cut cost by denying health benefits to employees who work fewer than 30 hours or 5 days [...]
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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.
