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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Next week will be the 40th anniversary of Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s death. Guevara was executed by the Bolivian Army after his capture in the village of La Higuera on October 9, 1967. Here are some really nice photos from Reuters.
Bolivian President Evo Morales speaks in front of a portrait of Ernesto “Che” Guevara made with [...]
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How you respond to adversity in life? According to Martin Seligman, a renowned psychologist and clinical researcher, there are three levels on which to evaluate things: whether the event is personal, whether it is permanent, and whether it is pervasive. He states that pessimists believe that the bad events in their are their fault and [...]
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Saul Arellano leads the protest over families being broken up caused by our broken immigration laws. Saulito led a chanting crowd of about 150 pro-immigration activists through the halls of Congress yesterday. The banner reads “Born in the USA. Don’t take our moms and dads away.”
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Increasing globalization has stimulated an unprecedented flow of immigrants. Integrating immigrants and the subsequent generations into the receiving society is a primary challenge of globalization; failing to do so, however, can have long term social implications.
As I mentioned before, this past Labor Day weekend I attended another demonstration against this country’s use of the [...]
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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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