Latest Update: I am ok! It was a rough ride last night, but other than that, I am ok. I like to thank CenterPoint Energy for working as quickly as they can to restore our power. I am one of the lucky ones, considering over 2 million households lost power.
Power has finally gone out! Repeat [...]
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I don’t know what to expect from Ike, the last time I went through a major hurricane was back in 1983 when Hurricane Alicia hit the Houston/Galveston area, which also was a category 3.
The city and county officials have asked us to stay in place. My fear, officials here are responding to the [...]
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As I walked around Denver to familiarize myself with the town and the places I am suppose to be to place my XP mark, I felt out of place. You can definitely feel there is a major police presence here and it is unsettling. I have overheard the undocumented are not reporting to work and [...]
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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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Last month, July 2, 2008, I was on a public access cable TV talk show, GreenWatch TV. I was asked to come talk about the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids conducted here in Houston and the prison-industrial complex. The host of GreenWatch is Brian Harrison, and the show was produced by Houston Media Source and [...]
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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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