“When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
- Alexander Graham Bell
We are often attached to the past that we oftentimes miss the opportunities that stand right before us. Not every plan [...]
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As my esteem colleague Jill Garvey of Imagine2050 highlighted in her post, the Chicago and IL Minutemen did show up to protest the National Council of La Raza’s (NCLR) Annual Conference on Sunday. So Jill, Kyle of Citizen Orange, and I decided to speak to the 10 or so minutemen members gathered outside. Truthfully, [...]
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Guess who? You miss me? I’m back!
Like a street preacher starting out with truth on my side and a voice to be heard, I have taken my word to the National Council of La Raza’s (NCLR) 2009 Annual Conference in Chicago, IL.
On Saturday I participated in a new media panel with esteemed experts Jill Garvey, [...]
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We all have seen the commercial for the anti-depressant medicine Cymbalta. Depression hurts,” said the popular television ads for Cymbalta. The point of the commercial, depression affects everyone around us: spouses, partners, children, parents, co-workers and friends.
Depression creates isolating behaviors, steals our energy and prevents us from being emotionally available to those around us. It [...]
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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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