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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In commemorating International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Angered by the hardening stance on immigration-related issues, Elvira Arellano will be holding hunger strike outside the US Embassy. She told the the Prensa Latina, “On behalf of the thousands of undocumented people, we demand the end of abuse against Mexicans in US territory.” [...]
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I want to thank everybody who wrote me, commented or posted about my unemployment. I do appreciate the lift, the encouragement and the help. It was very inspiring to read your thoughts on the “what do you do?” question. You made my day and week! I will answer all comments and emails as soon as [...]
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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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