Put forth by XicanoPwr
Nov
20
Last week, seven teenagers went out on a modern-day lynching because they had an urge “to beat up some Mexicans.” Ecuadorian immigrant, Marcello Lucero, was killed in what Suffolk Police are calling a hate crime. He was murdered at the hands of of seven high school students in Patchogue, New York, who were targeting for [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Aug
17
Only in Texas! A local school board, Harrold Independent School District, in rural North Texas unanimously passed the policy to allow its teachers and staff to carry concealed hand guns to school. According to Fort Worth Star-Telegram, since the tiny 110-student school district was just off a heavily trafficked freeway, US 287, they felt the [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Apr
10
As immigration continues to be a big issue in American politics, controversy has erupted over a recent ad campaign for Swedish-based Absolut Vodka. The ad in question reignited the La Reconquista fear among wingnuttia. The ad shows a historical map of the Mexico before Texas’ Independence and the Mexico-US War of 1846-48 had occurred. The [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Mar
14
One year ago, I wrote this post entitled The Words We Use: The Rhetoric of Race. The post had to do with articulation and race. In light of the recent fire storm over former New York Rep. Geraldine Ferraro’s, the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1984, statement about Barack Obama. It really isn’t surprising to [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Oct
27
This is a comment to an earlier posting, “Privatized Prisons for Immigrants,” which I feel it deserves its own post. A letter from the Elizabeth (NJ) Immigrant Detention Center To Whom It May Concern. This letter is on behalf of all the inmates at the Elizabeth Detention Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey. This “prison” or [...]
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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.
