say what you will about electoral politics and i say alot pero you have to hand it to the obama peeps at least when it comes to music videos. via man eegee......
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i guess theyre fresh out of bootstraps on wall street. manual guzman latino polatico 093008......
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much of the news and issues here are a bit sad. its a shame we live in a world that demands we spend so much time fighting for right rather than right simply being the way things are giving us time to just enjoy each others spirit and company. i hope before my time is through ill be able to see a world thats at least closer to this dream. in that spirit let us honor marcella grace eiler who lost ...
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700 billion bailout 400 million border wall you do the math. this is a great title given the fact that the border wall is representative of the same us greed thats gotten us into this crisis. while its not a greed that everyone is a part of it does exist within those that have the power to manipulate money and build walls. are we building a fence to keep people out or just to keep them from seei...
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i dont have access to the sanctuary editors account right this moment but this is too important not to post. the sanctuary has signed on to the petition for ana romero and we encourage others to sign onto it as well. the petition can be accessed here. for more information read what editors at the sanctuary have already written the unapologetic mexicanamerican humanityvivir latinolatino...
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today is citizenship day or as its been changed since 2004 constitution day. today publicly funded schools are mandated to teach about the constitution so i hope some self proclaimed patriots will sit in a few of these classes. immigration talk with a mexican american tells us the antis are losing the argument. it seems that some anti sites and minutemen groups are seeing their suns set. in this p...
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weve been following and asking peeps to help as isabel garcias role as a mujer activista and her right to her own job have been in the cross hairs of racist sexist jon justice once in a while there is good news. pima county administrator chuckle huckleberry released a memo on monday that made clear that garcia has a right to her voice and her work. huckelberrys memo which was released monday st...
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today is a day of sadness for many. many of us were affected by the acts of a few so many years ago today. i worked in tower 2 and was there. each year my company has a memorial service to those we lost. some have chosen to use this day as fuel to claim migrants are terrorists and that we must hurt others in the name of national security. others have chosen to see this as a reason why we must con...
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calling all hatewatchers introducing the dobbsy at hatewatch blog. a dobbsy sounds like a dundee but its a new tongueincheek award to be given to mainstream figures politicians pundits preachers and pedants who make utterly false or misleading statements that have the effect of denigrating or defaming an entire group of people. chchchchanges only time can change me but you cant this time at imm...
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you may remember nezuas the rekongkangkeesta and other varieties g. gordon liddys words on top of a nice beat. now we have palins alaskonquista and her participation in the alaskan independence party. what america do you want to live in at immigration prof blog. a new online ad released by americas voice presents two different visions of america. one vision recognizes our countrys long traditio...
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so much for proamerica. both latino politico and of amarica in recent posts have pointed out palins secessionist views and how the right hasnt made the connection to their fantasy reconquista myth and palins own desire to remove alaska from u.s. control. from of amaricas post alaska sounds like aztlan palin leading the secessionist reconquista palins personal connections to the alaska independenc...
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republican platform opposes comprehensive immigration reform at greg siskinds blog. despite the fact that the platform starts out with the promising statement that the us can have a strong immigration system without sacrificing the rule of law the text focuses almost entirely on enforcement. until we are all free we are none free at why am i not surprised. frederick douglas was an exceptional m...
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as michelle obama stated that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them 350 migrants were arrested by ice yesterday. and barack and i set out to build lives guided by these values and pass them on to the next generation. because we want our children and all children in this nation to know that the only limit to the heig...
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juan gomez once facing deportation grad off to college at dream activist. one year ago juan gomez the killian high school grad who was saved from deportation traveled to the nations capital to advocate for undocumented students. gomez headed for washington again thursday but for a different reason next week he starts at georgetown university. ice declares selfdeport program a failure at latina ...
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justfuck. an arizona shock jock who goes by the name of jon justice has made an effigy of isabel garcia a prominent and widely respected immigrant rights activist and then proceeded to mock sexually assault the effigy on air while making racist comments. as emily said its pretty disgusting and telling that his first response was to mock sexually assault the effigy to try to shut down this womans...
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over the last 15 years of my life where i have been an activist and blogger working with and writing about immigrant issues being told to go back where i came from queens nyc and being threatened is nothing new. but given the current political climate being a latina and being an outspoken advocate for the basic human rights of immigrants has become more dangerous with the battleground extending fr...
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in tucson arizona the campaign headquarters of congressman raal grijalva dtucson ariz. will host a carne asada for obama as part of the unite for change house parties. unite for change obama house party grijalva for congress headquarters. the goal of unite for change is to bring together people who supported all of the democratic presidential candidates as well as independents and even some repub...
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let me introduce myself. im an immigration attorney and i blog as yave begnet at citizen orange. ive been given the opportunity to guest post here on the subject of immigration law and policy. via man eegee i read today an article by anna gorman at the la times about the consequences of immigration raids on children of immigrants. yesenia rangel 12 looked out her window on a friday morning...
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hat tip to man eegee for pointing me to this one. i say hat tip because saying dap may get me on a terrorist watch list. so tom horne is being attacked by the goldwater institute. i know i know who do you root for in that one the goldwater institute is attacking horne for temporarilly suspending a scholarship programain one of their dailyaemails.ahorne ended giving the scholarships this year under...
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conservative radio host neal boortz recently said on the neal boortz radio show that he would be a lousy mexican because he was unable to properly use a floor buffer. on the april 10 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show neal boortz asserted i would make a lousy mexican. engineer and sidekick royal marshall asked boortz why is that boortz responded well because i wanted to scrub the hang...
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heres a link to a story on man eegees blog detailing how hispanics are being targeted by ice regardless of their citizenship status. this is exactly why we have to fight against these ridiculous laws targeting people simply for being in this country without permission. people that are good hardworking upstanding citizens. as we see here we simply have people being harassed that fit the descript...
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