XP Hits the Small Screen
Put forth on August 9, 2008 by XicanoPwr
Posted in Deportation, Immigration, Immigration Debate
Last month, July 2, 2008, I was on a public access cable TV talk show, GreenWatch TV. I was asked to come talk about the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids conducted here in Houston and the prison-industrial complex. The host of GreenWatch is Brian Harrison, and the show was produced by Houston Media Source and sponsored by Harris County Green Party
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3151499288036631402
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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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Congrats, XP. Great job, my friend!
Great job!
Muy fantastico leerlo, amigo! Por favor sigue en sus esfuerzos!
BTW man– we’re getting some progress these days in Latino voter registration throughout the Southwest, including in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona (where we’ll soon have enough strength to kick out the racists who run that state), even Texas and Florida. But it’s still achingly slow. Problem is, the Minuteman types have infiltrated much of state government, and they’ve put up all kinds of racist roadblocks like the old Jim Crow laws, to make it difficult and expensive to register poor and especially minority voters.
My cousin has been doing some voter registration in Arizona, where the Latino community has become the “sleeping giant.” She was at a recent meeting for home-schooling Moms– FWIW increasingly popular among Latinos since we don’t have to deal with the pro-Anglo propaganda in the US schools, not to mention the crime and terrible health standards, plus can enseñar muchas clases en español– and anyway, they all agreed to become “voluntarias para el pueblo,” using their evenings off to sit down around Latino supermercados and cafes to register Latino voters.
Also, it’s now federal law that ballots have to be made available in languages spoken by the community (which means Spanish throughout the Southwest, dating to the Mexican War accords, as well as in Florida), so they have people working on that. It’s a shoestring budget at the moment, but they’re using their resources widely.
Anyway, if you can use that telegenic face and smooth delivery on public service announcements to help encourage voter registration, please lend a hand!
Hay que fomentar cuanto posible la registración y participación del pueblo en el proceso democrático! En 2008, es el año de nuestra revolución!
Thank you!
Wow HP, thank you!!
I just checked outside, I don’t see any pigs flying or any cows roaming the streets to go home. Has hell hell froze over yet?
Where is the real HP and what have you done with him?
I must be losing my touch because I would have never thought that I would see something that meets your approval on this site…..lol
I am an adamant supporter of immigration and of course, immigration rights! I thought you knew?
Btw, I watched 90% of the video and agreed with everything you said. Even when you explained the dangers of privatized prisons. The logic flew.
Your co-host though was amusing. I always find it interesting to see a self proclaimed socialist explain ‘economics’. Its like hearing a seven day creationist explain ‘evolution’.
Where she really got it wrong was in stating that immigration does not lower the wages and opportunities of native born low income earners. Though she may think “the economics of it” doesn’t result in that, in the real world it certainly does.
Though I would still argue that it doesn’t warrant a reduction in immigration, it is still a result of immigration, nonetheless.
Nice job XP!!!!
¡Gracias León y bienvinedos!
I know an organization who is specifically targeting six states for the fall ‘08 election where latin@s could tip the balance: AZ, NM, TX, NV, CO & FL
And believe me, this group is young and motivated and are coming up with creative ideas to get the vote out on election day.
Si, 2008, es el año de nuestra revolución!
En lucha, amigo!
HP, I know you are an adamant supporter of immigration and immigration right, there is no denying that. Pero, you do have to admit you and I have not seen eye-to-eye on some things I have written here…..je je je
This is true.
Doesn’t mean I can’t give props where props is due. Again, good job amigo!
kickass, XP. nice job.
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