If you recall, a couple of weeks ago, US Customs and Border Protection wanted to use the herbicide imazapyr, Habitat, to defoliate the carrizo cane along a 1.1-mile stretch of the Rio Grande riverbank. Once news spread like wildfire, Mexican government and Texas border officials and environmentalists began protesting over the concern about possible side [...]
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Last week, a Colorado jury found that Ward Churchill had been improperly fired, and awarded him $1 in damages. Churchill was the professor who wrote the essay that described the financial workers who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 as “little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers.”
The essay was written [...]
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Twelve to 13 people were killed and another 26 were left wounded when a gunman walked into an immigrant services center, American Civic Association, and opened fire in Binghamton, NY.
The gunman carried identification that said he was 42 and from upstate New York, according to CNN. A man with a high-powered rifle went into a [...]
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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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