The targeted mass shooting that has seriously wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and left six others dead is just one example of mass shootings that are happening all too often in all parts of this nation. Our weak gun laws make weapons too readily available to dangerous people. Who can we thank for this? The GOP [...]
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Unless you have your head in the sand and are unaware what took place yesterday, January 8, 2011, Representative Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, and at least 17 others were shot when a gunman opened fire outside a Safeway supermarket parking lot where Ms. Giffords was holding a “meet and greet.” Rep. Giffords was shot [...]
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As we are less than a hundred days until the November elections, I decided to come up with a new blog policy. I have decided I want my endorsement to mean something, rather than just endorsing any old Democrat. As a leader in the Latino/a community and as a blogger, this blog serves as a [...]
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Many of us cannot escape logging onto the Internet daily either paying bills, learning about the news, interacting with friends on social networking sites, or just checking e-mail. But what if you find yourself having problems accessing the certain website because the gatekeepers of the Internet are discriminating between favored and disfavored uses of the [...]
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Mayor Bill White will enter the race for governor. It was quite obvious, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison not going to step down, and that would mean he would have to wait until 2013 when she is up for re-election. With a paid staff in the Metroplex, Austin, San Antonio and the Valley, he would have [...]
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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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