Over the last month or so, I’ve been following the development of a series of protests that is taking place throughout the U.S. known as SlutWalks, that began after a Toronto police officer made a comment how women could prevent being sexually assaulted if they, “Avoid dressing like sluts.” Since the movement’s inception, the SlutWalk [...]
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Post Updated: 04/05/2008 05:00 PM CDT Post Updated: 04/07/2008 06:45 PM CDT Officials from Texas Child Protective Services (CPS) removed 52 girls, ages 6 months to 17 years, from the from the Fundamentalist LDS Church’s compound near Eldorado, TX. Update: A total of 183 young women, girls and boys – 97 girls, 40 boys and [...]
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Thank you Dr Laura Schlessinger, I guess us men, especially Latinos, are not dogs after all, unless we are either “narcissistic” and/or “sociopathic.” According to Dr Laura, women are partly to blame when their husbands cheat. Appearing on NBC’s Today Show to discuss Eliot Spitzer’s sex scandal, she said that is was basically Silda Spitzer’s, [...]
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Happy International Women’s Day!!! I want to take this moment to reflect and recognize this very important day for women worldwide. Today (Yesterday), women around the world celebrated the achievements they have made in their struggle for power and recognition that has been waged for hundreds of years. In South America, we witnessed a change [...]
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Violence affects the lives of millions of women worldwide. It continues to be a global epidemic that kills, tortures, and maims – physically, psychologically, sexually and economically. It is one of the most pervasive of human rights violations, denying women and girls equality, security, dignity, self-worth, and their right to enjoy fundamental freedoms. Rape is [...]
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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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