Put forth by XicanoPwr
Jul
28
Hot off the press, the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility just released a report on the improper hiring practices by Monica Goodling, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) White House Liaison and Senior Counsel to the Attorney General. According to the report, Goodling broke federal law by discriminating [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Aug
27
The New York Times is reporting Alberto “Torture Guy” Gonzales will announced his resignation this morning over at the President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. (h/t from Matt Ortega and Think Progress). According to the Times, Gonzales submitted his resignation to President Bush by telephone last Friday, but it was not announced until after the [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Jun
05
Since 9/11, protecting the American imperial “homeland” has become an essential priority for the Bush administration. The creation and cultivation of fear is one of the pillars of empire within the “homeland.” Threats of terrorism and twelve million “illegal” immigrants are being used to maintain the government’s threat of discipline, punishment, and violence here in [...]
Posted in Alberto Gonzales, Concentration Camp, Elections 2008, Eliminationism, ICE, Immigration, La Migra, NAFTA, Nativism, Política Estados Unidos, Prejudices, Racism, Xenophobia | Tags: | functional 9 Comments »
Put forth by XicanoPwr
May
31
I came across this piece on OpEdNews. It is a link to an article on the New York Times, Hispanic Groups Reconsider Their Support for Gonzales.
Two years ago, major Hispanic groups broke with other civil rights organizations and supported Alberto R. Gonzales’s nomination for attorney general, primarily because he would become the highest-ranking Latino [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Mar
28
Rarely does a day a go by without Americans learning about Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the political strife over the firings of US Attorneys. Now the nation’s first Hispanic attorney general is being pressured to resign by columnists, pundits and everybody you can think of. That is to be expected by Latinos, African Americans [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Colonization, History/Historia, Immigration, LULAC, Política Estados Unidos, Prejudices, Raza | Tags: | functional 16 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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