On Sunday, tens of thousands of marchers will descend in Washington DC to voice their discontent. Immigrant rights groups hope the march forces immigration reform onto the agenda of a White House reluctant to take up the issue.
March for America is coordinated by Reform Immigration for America (RI4A) with the help of a the [...]
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Last week Feb 17, 1929, during the height of the nativist movement, three pioneering Latino civil rights organizations met at Obreros Hall in Corpus Christi, Texas and agreed to merge to form the League of United Latin American Citizens. The emergency of LULAC came at a particular history of South Texas when Hispanics [...]
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The Weekly Undocument: Kafka’s Cops On the Watch
by Nezua
THE ECONOMY FALTERS and desperate denizens of a sizable nation tack to the right, back away from the light, throw coins at half-crock cops to purchase stronger locks, to erect more dank and shadowy holes in which to imprison the vulnerable soul, tunnels through which we channel [...]
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The Weekly Undocument is a post done by blogger Nezua at The Unapologetic Mexican. This will now by a syndicated piece on this blog.
The Weekly Undocument: The State of our Union is Sassy!
By Nezua
THE PRO-MIGRANT BLOGOSPHERE IS ALIGHT with talk of The 38 Words uttered in President Obama’s first State of the Union speech last [...]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Texas Progressive Bloggers Withdraw Support from Proposed Spending Freeze
TEXAS – January 27, 2010: Top progressive bloggers from across Texas issued a statement today in advance of President Obama’s State of the Union address cautioning the President to avoid calling for a spending freeze. While these bloggers maintain their support of their [...]
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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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