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Aug
18
Last week, a Denver CBS affiliate, CBS4 News reporter Rick Sallinger, exposed the detention camps built for the DNC protesters. The city was hoping to keep this facility a secret, however, Rick Sallinger not only revealed but provided footage of the warehouse filled with metal cages made of chain-link fence material, topped off with barbed [...]
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Feb
01
CNN just reported that the US just settled an immigrant drugging suit. Amadou Diouf, an immigrant from Senegal, and another immigrant, Raymond Soeoth of Indonesia, accused ICE agents of injecting them with drugs against their will as they were about to be deported back in 2007. Soeoth’s medical records indicate one of the drugs used [...]
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Jan
14
Since the launch of the “global war on terror,” a large majority of Americans have conveniently been led to cower under the pseudo-protective umbrella of a permanent Nation Security State. Last year I wrote several posts about the current prison-industrial complex and the increasing number of privatized prisons being used to house thousands of [...]
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Dec
20
What is on your Christmas list? In a recent ABC News poll in which they asked people, “If you could have your choice, what one present would you most like to have for Christmas?” the answers provided gives great insight to the American psyche. Forget peace and happiness because most Americans wanted either a car [...]
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Nov
22
Today, Americans celebrate this day with certain kinds of food are served. For my family, we had turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy, cranberry sauce, corn, rolls, lemon pie and pumpkin pie. I know, some readers might have problems because we are giving into the dominate culture’s attempts to rewrite history and come together on [...]
Posted in Americas, History/Historia, Human Rights, Indigenous/Indígena, Prejudices, Thanksgiving | Tags: | functional 2 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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