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 [tag]African American[/tag], [tag]Latino[/tag], [tag]Asian American[/tag], [tag]Native American[/tag], and other nationally and racially oppressed peoples the situation is at crisis levels. Adding another blow, the xenophobic resident of [tag]Farmers Branch[/tag], TX has approved by a [...]
Posted in Nativism, News/Noticias, Prejudices, Racism, Raza, Segregation, Texas, Xenophobia | Tags: | functional 7 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.
