Put forth by XicanoPwr
Oct
17
In a time of war and economic meltdown, what is the corporate media ignoring? Where can you turn for grassroots information and analysis, and to connect with movements for justice?
7:30pm Saturday October 18th
Rice Media Center
Entrance #8 to the Rice University Campus
University and Stockton
Featuring:
- Tables by more than a dozen grassroots media organizations in Houston.
- Films [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Oct
15
Today is 2008 Blog Action Day, where over 10,000 blogs reach out at once to raise awareness on a certain issue. With our current financial crisis, there’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that these are shaky times for the US economy. The problems facing struggling Americans have been intensified by lack of affordable child care, [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Oct
13
This Wednesday, October 15th, is Blog Action Day, which means thousands of blogs around the world will post about poverty. Blog Action Day is a nonprofit, grassroots movement of thousands of individual bloggers coming together for one cause. The purpose is to start a global discussion and add momentum to an important cause. This blog [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
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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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Oct
31
Everywhere and in all ages, women have experienced violence. They have been raped, mutilated, battered and murdered. Violence currently poses the most significant threat to women’s rights as equal citizens. Yet, the seriousness and scope of the problem is often ignored.
Recent events just how widespread and multifaceted the situation is:
The brutal and inhumane rape, torture, [...]
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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.
