Put forth by XicanoPwr
Mar
30
Generally, truth commissions are bodies established to research and report on human rights abuses over a certain period of time in a particular country or in relation to a particular conflict. I recently post that Sen Patrick Leahy has been trying to create one. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely to become reality.
However, according to news reports [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Mar
26
As I mentioned, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has stopped the aerial spraying of the herbicide, imazapyr, on the Carrizo cane along a 1.1-mile stretch of the Rio Grande riverbank, according to the Laredo Morning Times.
Border Patrol was hoping to eliminate the invasive Carrizo cane to improve the visibility along the border. The plan was [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Mar
23
Along the border, rhetoric is high. As if there were not enough things to worry about here at home US, there is however, one more issue that may create the final perfect storm: Mexico.
The violence in Mexico that has spun out of control so quickly in 2008 has created a political reaction. It is hard [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Mar
20
Welcome Daily Kos and Jack and Jill readers.
There is always a touch of irony when a citizen of the United States complains about immigration. But now. As a Latino and a person of color, we no longer have to worry about those little things like, “driving while brown.” However, since the argument used against [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Mar
19
Two years ago, Michael Moore took on the health care industry in his documentary movie, “SiCKO.” In the movie, Moore includes a security video showing a disoriented elderly woman in a hospital gown and slippers wandering in the gutter of a busy Los Angeles street. Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center near Los Angeles had discharged [...]
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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.
