Hat tip to blogamiga Adriana of Latino Politics Blog for the heads up on this issue. Disney Corporation’s winter quarter profits hit a record high of $1.18 billion. However, this is not enough, Disney figures the can cut cost by denying health benefits to employees who work fewer than 30 hours or 5 days [...]
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On May 14, five Indian guest workers launched a water-only hunger strike outside the White House to protest the slave-like conditions that more than 500 Indian welders and pipe fitters have endured while working at the Signal International, a marine oil rig construction company based in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Each workers paid $20,000 to a recruiting agency [...]
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Last year, I wrote throughout our lives, we can identify changes in one’s own personal life by associating them to certain events that we either experienced or witnessed personally. Once again, going to Taylor, TX had an effect on me. However, it wasn’t just going there, it was an accumulation of things.
March marked my [...]
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Happy International Women’s Day!!!
I want to take this moment to reflect and recognize this very important day for women worldwide. Today (Yesterday), women around the world celebrated the achievements they have made in their struggle for power and recognition that has been waged for hundreds of years. In South America, we witnessed a change [...]
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Hola amgios y amigas! Hope your New years went well. I am back from my whirl wind tour of my Texas vacation. Now I have to go through tons of emails, yuck. I hate to say it, but not having an Internet connection was nearly killing me. The only Internet connection I had was very [...]
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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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