Movin’ On Up: The Gospel of XP Set For National Stage
Put forth on April 21, 2009 by XicanoPwr
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Like a street preacher starting out with truth on my side and a voice to be heard, I created this digital soapbox for anybody willing to listen to me on the issues affecting the Latino/a community. The intention of this blog is to help people navigate through the river of informational sewage that collects in drips and spews from ducts and runoff of think tanks, media outlets, and so-called credible sources. Since that time, I have been asked to spread the Gospel of XP beyond my digital soapbox, such as last weeks participation on a panel discussion at the Hispanic Male Summit hosted by the Lone Star College System.
A new chapter is beginning. I am now being asked how I succeeded in spreading my message and how it can be replicated. Yes dear readers, I am now considered an online media expert. I have been asked to be a co-presenter with Kety Esquivel of NCLR’s We Can Stop the Hate, Nezua of The Unapologetic Mexican and Jill Garvey of Imagine 2050 and and Raven Brooks, Executive Director of Netroots Nation, in a community building workshop on new media techniques for this year’s National Council of La Raza’s (NCLR) Annual Conference in Chicago. The Annual Conference will be held July 25 – 28 at McCormick Place West in downtown Chicago, IL.
“New Media” is still still in its infancy and is rapidly changing and it is easy to get lost. This workshop is intended to people a firm understand to navigate this rapidly developing field to explore new communications strategies and tools, especially the power of networking with like-minded communities for local/global actions and sharing of resources.
If you are planning to attend NCLR’s Annual Conference and want to find out how you or your organization can utilize all that new media has to offer, then this workshop is for just for you. Hope to see you there.
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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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Congrats again XP. You’ve kept it clean and professional and now reap the rewards.
But be careful, the trade-off is the loss of anonymity.
Without anonymity we tend to watch what we say and sometimes we censor ourselves.
Anonymity allows us to say things we normally wouldn’t in public.
The founding fathers of the U.S. were well aware of this.
Aside from that, give’m hell!
Destiny summons, you have my support.
I know what you talking about and I did take that into consideration. I am hoping everything works out for the best so I don’t lose my originality just to reap those rewards.
That’s why there are people like you to keep me grounded.
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