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Aug
18
Last week, a Denver CBS affiliate, CBS4 News reporter Rick Sallinger, exposed the detention camps built for the DNC protesters. The city was hoping to keep this facility a secret, however, Rick Sallinger not only revealed but provided footage of the warehouse filled with metal cages made of chain-link fence material, topped off with barbed [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Jun
19
Yesterday, I saw El Nightwatchman and it was kick ass. Tom Morello is very talented and it was nice to see the effect his music had on my parents. It sort of stirred up the old Chicano spirit that laid dormant in them for a while.
If Morello is doing El Nightwatchman, what about Rage Against [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Jun
06
One month ago, I wrote that Rage Against The Machine was going to release a new alblum despite what the commercial music media and music blogosphere was reporting. Today Billboard.com reported that there is clock counting down to Aug. 24 (four day before my birthday) on Rage Against The Machine’s web site that presumably marking [...]
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May
06
I haven’t forgotten Rage Against The Machine, not after I have been posting about them until the Coachella festival (here, here, here, here, and here). Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to post about with every thing that happened right after their concert.
After seven long years, [tag]Zack de la Rocha[/tag], [tag]Tom Morello[/tag], Tim Commerford and Brad [...]
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Apr
22
OK folks, one week from today, Apr. 29, is the [tag]Rage Against the Machine[/tag] reunion we all have been waiting for. I hate to it, but I just have to tut my own horn on this one! Let’s just say, I was so on the money that [tag]RATM[/tag] were getting back together and how my [...]
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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.
