Put forth by XicanoPwr
Apr
13
Caning the Border Patrol By Char Miller “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world,” anthropologist Margaret Mead once asserted. “Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” One such micro organization, Barrio de Colores, may not have changed the world when it took on the mighty U.S. Border [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Apr
09
If you recall, a couple of weeks ago, US Customs and Border Protection wanted to use the herbicide imazapyr, Habitat, to defoliate the carrizo cane along a 1.1-mile stretch of the Rio Grande riverbank. Once news spread like wildfire, Mexican government and Texas border officials and environmentalists began protesting over the concern about possible side [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Aug
24
This weekend there will be to protests taking place along the Texas-Mexico Border. Normally I would tried to tend one of these protests and later report on them but, unfortunately, this will not be happening since the only mode of transportation I did have was a borrowed one and is no longer in my possession. [...]
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Oct
01
Yes, the anti-immigrants are being played for a fool and they don’t even know. As anti-immigrant proponents lavish and complimentary media attention orchestrated by rabid nativist crying out how the “Mexicans†are intent on destroying America as we know it, they soon will enter their own matrix of public spin. Mexican President Vicente Fox has [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Sep
26
Curbing illegal immigration and securing US borders has always been on top of the congressional agenda. And in an attempt by Republicans to show a unified party and gain points with voters in the November elections, House Speaker Dennis Hastert stood before the cameras last week shrilling about how the House had passed nine border-enforcement [...]
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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.
