I don’t know what to expect from Ike, the last time I went through a major hurricane was back in 1983 when Hurricane Alicia hit the Houston/Galveston area, which also was a category 3.
The city and county officials have asked us to stay in place. My fear, officials here are responding to the [...]
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Everything is ok here in Houston, which is a good thing. It looks like it remained a tropical storm. I have a major problem with our local media who have felt they needed to scare us. I think our weather forecasters along with our local media were hoping for something really big and bad to [...]
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Houston we have a problem…the National Hurricane Center has issued a hurricane watch for the coast of western Louisiana and eastern Texas. At 10PM, Edouard’s center was about 390 miles east of Galveston, TX, and 80 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River.
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More than 100 community members and organizations met in front of the George Thomas “Mickey” Leland Federal Building yesterday to denounce the raid that took place Wednesday at Action Rags U.S.A. in the heart of Houston’s East End. According to local CBS affiliate, KHOU, agents arrested 166 of the 186 employees. ICE released 73 people [...]
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Around 7AM, Wednesday, 150 to 200 ICE agents raided an East Houston plant, Action Rags U.S.A. The company has 240 employees. Bob Rutt, ICE’s agent in charge, would not specify what led them to plan this raid, which is at least the second major immigration enforcement action in Houston in recent months.
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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.
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