While have been trying to keep up with the dizzying array of events unfolding around us on t, but we have allowed the activities of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fly bellow the radar. Over the weekend, the Washington Post reported that the “Pentagon and Homeland Security Department are developing contingency plans to send [...]
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May Day, better known as International Workers’ Day, has approached us once again. May Day began in America at the time we once were working more than 8 hour shifts and employers did not care for the safety of their workers. That was then, now, many associate May Day as an immigrant event. Yet, [...]
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Police Chief [tag]William Bratton[/tag] has ordered 60 members of an elite Los Angeles Police squad to “stand down” and have been taken off the streets due to their actions at the May Day immigration rally. After examining the videos of the [tag]MacArthur Park[/tag] incident, Bratton said:
“I’m not going to defend the indefensible,” Bratton told journalists [...]
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Last night before I went to bed I thought I heard on the news that the [tag]Los Angeles Police Department[/tag] fired rubber bullets and used tear gas on a group of peaceful marchers who were attending a the pro-immigration rally in [tag]MacArthur Park[/tag]. This morning, RAW Story and Brad Blog confirmed what I thought I [...]
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Those within wingnuttia have completely failed to grasp the power WE hold. The immigration debate has awakened the sleeping giant and WE are forcefully speaking out against the racist nativism that has divided this nation. This debate has also brought out the monster in some.
This type of nativism has slowly infected the US like a [...]
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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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