Put forth by XicanoPwr
Nov
01
In the United States today, under a distorted capitalistic system, our education system has worsened. In Texas, 185 high schools can be considered “dropout factories” according to a national report from Johns Hopkins University, who conducted the study for The Associated Press.
The study found that half or more of high school students do not graduate, [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Sep
30
After spending almost 10 months behind bars, Mychal Bell is finally free after a local judge set the bail for $45,000. This came hours after a LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters told a nationally televised press conference, he would no longer seek an adult trial for the Mychal. Walters had said he would [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Prejudices, Racism, Segregation | Tags: | functional 5 Comments »
Put forth by XicanoPwr
Sep
17
Acting on an emergency defense appeal, Louisiana’s Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the aggravated second-degree battery conviction of Mychal Bell, 17, ruling that the youth had been tried improperly as an adult. Mychal Bell, the first of the six black students to stand before a judge, was tried as an adult, convicted of [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Aug
13
One of the problems being a blogger during a time when much of humanity finds itself in a living hell and democracy here in the US is crumbing faster right before our very eyes, it becomes very difficult exposing everything that that is going on, such as completing a post on the situation down in [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
May
15
In nearly every category that measures social well-being, the conditions of racially oppressed people have worsened. In the communities of the African American, Latino, Asian American, Native American, and other nationally and racially oppressed peoples the situation is at crisis levels. Adding another blow, the xenophobic resident of Farmers Branch, TX has approved by a [...]
Posted in Nativism, News/Noticias, Prejudices, Racism, Raza, Segregation, Texas, Xenophobia | Tags: | functional 6 Comments »
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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