As some of you my readers have noticed, this site has been down for a few months. I am still redoing the site, while re-evaluating the mission of this blog.
Early voting began yesterday. If you have already decided who you will be voting for please use this opportunity to vote early. I believe early voting [...]
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As we are less than a hundred days until the November elections, I decided to come up with a new blog policy. I have decided I want my endorsement to mean something, rather than just endorsing any old Democrat. As a leader in the Latino/a community and as a blogger, this blog serves as a [...]
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Congratulations are in order for Mayor Annise Parker on her historic victory and becoming Houston’s first openly gay mayor. Despite all headlines around the country after the election, Parker’s victory is not surprising and just proves what I have said previously, Texas is not as conservative as the media make it out to be. Ms. [...]
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Making the rounds in the Latinosphere is former Florida House Speaker and Republican senatorial candidate Marco Rubio and his take on President Ronald Reagan’s immigration policy.
I don’t know if I want to hang my head in shame or die laughing at the irony of it all. One thing is for sure, I am awarding Marco [...]
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Just a reminder since today is election day here in Texas. Vote for Prop 4
Currently, Texas loses more than 10,000 high school graduates per year who leave the state to attend doctoral granting universities in other states, while attracting only about 4,000 students from other states to attend doctoral granting universities in Texas. This brain [...]
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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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