Put forth by XicanoPwr
Jan
14
An advertisement appears in today’s edition of The Arizona Republic newspaper comparing Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to the infamous 1960s Birmingham public safety commissioner Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor. The strongly worded statement was sponsored by the Center for New Community and signed by sixty prominent Black leaders from twenty-three states.
These leaders chose an historic [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Dec
17
There are many problems we are currently facing; they range from a faltering economy, a health-care crisis, and the continuing war in Afghanistan. However, the debate over immigration policy, the one issue that stands above all others, has uncovered deep divisions within the United States over the treatment of undocumented immigrants.
Recently, Rep. Luis Gutierrez introduced [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Nov
19
This week’s season finale of South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker tackles, in their own way, extremist views about minorities in America. The general premise of the episode is that the local water park, Pipi’s Splash Town, is no longer what it seems, it has been “taken over” by minorities.
Cartman is clearly disturbed and [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Sep
29
Yesterday, I wrote that Gov Rick Perry’s move to deploy the Texas Rangers to the border would only aggravate the public’s inclination to assume its role as vigilantes, enforcing media-fueled conceptions of legal obligations and the public good.
In the latest incident of violent rhetoric against the President, an anonymous user of Facebook who launched an [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
May
13
The Luis Ramirez Murder: A Logical Step in the Process of Establishing a Subhuman Class
by The Sanctuary Editors
Three things immediately shock the conscious soul upon learning about the murder of Luis Ramirez. The simple manner in which he died is the first of those.
Ramirez, a father of three, was beaten to death in the [...]
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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.
