Put forth by XicanoPwr
Jan
27
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Texas Progressive Bloggers Withdraw Support from Proposed Spending Freeze
TEXAS – January 27, 2010: Top progressive bloggers from across Texas issued a statement today in advance of President Obama’s State of the Union address cautioning the President to avoid calling for a spending freeze. While these bloggers maintain their support of their [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Jan
26
BREAKING: On the eve of the President’s State of the Union address, protesters blocked the streets around the national headquarters of the Department of Homeland Security for 2 hours until they were escorted by police. The protest was held to call attention to the suffering of immigrant families across the country. The arrests, which [...]
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Jan
14
An advertisement appears in today’s edition of The Arizona Republic newspaper comparing Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to the infamous 1960s Birmingham public safety commissioner Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor. The strongly worded statement was sponsored by the Center for New Community and signed by sixty prominent Black leaders from twenty-three states.
These leaders chose an historic [...]
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Dec
29
Why has the media become so unpopular? Depending who you talk, some will say it has to do with the way the media covers the immigration issue, their use of the labels “illegal immigrant” and “illegals,” and how they handle immigration status. A quick Google news search one can find numerous examples from news organizations [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Nov
12
Victory for people power. Under tremendous pressure from the Basta Dobbs and Drop Dobbs Campaigns, CNN’s Lou Dobbs resigned from CNN.
Never again do we have to hear Lou Dobbs anti-immigrant vitriol. Last night, Dobbs told viewers during his 7pm show, Lou Dobbs Tonight, that he was resigning immediately, saying that “some leaders in media, politics [...]
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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.
