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Nov
20
Last week, seven teenagers went out on a modern-day lynching because they had an urge “to beat up some Mexicans.” Marcello Lucero, an Ecuadorian immigrant, was killed in what Suffolk Police are calling a hate crime. He was murdered at the hands of a gang of seven high school students in Patchogue, New York, looking [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Oct
29
With all the excitement of this historic election, it is normal to overlook other news that normally would not have been missed; especially, the flagrant abuse of power by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Throughout Chertoff’s tenure as Homeland Secretary, I have said countless of times, [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Oct
23
Today was the fourth of an on going series of NCLR sponsored blogger calls. NCLR will be partnering with the Immigration Policy Center for this fourth blogger call where we will be discussing a forthcoming report prepared for the Immigration Policy Center by the consulting firm of Rob Paral & Associates.
There report explores the [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Oct
16
Blogger Call Agenda, 10/17/08, 12pm EDT
In the National Council La Raza effort to reach out to the blogging community, tomorrow will be their third in a series four conference calls with the blogging community.
The agenda for this conference has to deal with health care and the group invited to this conference call is a representative [...]
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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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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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