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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 [...]
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Police Chief William Bratton 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 [...]
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Last night before I went to bed I thought I heard on the news that the Los Angeles Police Department fired rubber bullets and used tear gas on a group of peaceful marchers who were attending a the pro-immigration [...]
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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 [...]
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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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