For those who are not aware of this holiday, Juneteenth is the oldest known celebrated holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth is also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day. Only 25 states in the US celebrate this day, Texas being one of them, where the holiday actually began.
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Yesterday, Rep. Joe Barton, the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, apologized to BP for President Obama’s “shakedown” of the company.
Barton, a former oil company executive, called BP the victim of a “$20 billion shakedown;” he was referring to the $20 billion compensation fund for the victims of the Gulf Coast’s [...]
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In his novel 1984, George Orwell created a nightmare vision of the future in which an all-powerful Party exerts totalitarian control over society by forcing the citizens to master the technique of “doublethink,” which requires them “to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancel out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them.” [...]
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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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