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Mar
31
Today, we celebrate Cesar Chavez’s birthday. Since 2000, only eight states have made this day a holiday – Arizona, California, Colorado, Michigan, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin. In Washington, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and others have pushed for a federal holiday since Chávez’s death in 1993.
Chávez stood for equality, justice, and dignity [...]
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Feb
06
Welcome Deadspin readers.
During the Superbowl this year, SaleGenie just went a bit too far. They ran two commercial during the Super Bowl that borders on racism. The first animated cartoon depicted an Indian, by the name of “Ramesh,” who is considered to be the worst “salesman” at Acme Widget. His boss, Hank Bulleymonge, comes down [...]
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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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Jul
18
Last week, CNN accused Michael Moore of fudging the facts and cherry-picking numbers from different academic studies to make his arguments stronger. On CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Wolf Blitzer (video) aired Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s senior health correspondent, “fact check” report that attempted to verify the facts Michael Moore’s 2007 film ‘SiCKO.’
Moore was furious [...]
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Jun
27
If you’ve spent any time surfing the Internet, you’ve seen more than your fair share of banner ads. The advertisement that is constructed from an image that appears all over the net and varies considerably in appearance and subject matter. Banner ads are usually relatively simple pieces of hypertext link code, instructs a Web server [...]
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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.
