Molina Soleil is a hip emcee, poet, playwright and performance artist from Colorado. He uses his artistic abilities for activism and social justice education. As an educator and activist, he reflects on his complex upbringing and difficult life choices. He recently hit me up on a Def Jam Poetry type video he did, which he [...]
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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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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