In less than 48 hours Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070 (SB1070) will become law. That day, 1.4 million American Latinos living in Arizona and any passing through will become potential targets of racial profiling as SB1070 gives local law enforcement the jurisdiction to request proof of citizenship based solely on “suspicion.”
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Viva Las Vegas! Yes folks, I will be heading to Las Vegas for this years Netroots. I will be on a panel discussing immigration enforcement and detention issues. The panel is:
Crimmigration Under Obama: Pushing Back Against the “Enforcement-only” Immigration Regime
Description: Immigration enforcement under the Obama administration has continued almost unchanged from the “enforcement-only” regime [...]
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Many of us cannot escape logging onto the Internet daily either paying bills, learning about the news, interacting with friends on social networking sites, or just checking e-mail. But what if you find yourself having problems accessing the certain website because the gatekeepers of the Internet are discriminating between favored and disfavored uses of [...]
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Jasiri X, a rapper from Pittsburgh, known for his socially conscious videos, has decided to take on the Tea Party in a new rap song and video, entitled “What If The Tea Party Was Black?” which examines what would happen if Black leaders behaved like leaders in the Tea Party movement.
Jack and Jill Politics has [...]
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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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