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Is it me 2007-03-06 23:59:04 Is it me or is there a cosmic force sucking everybody’ mojo. People on the blogoshere seems depressed, I hope I am wrong on this.
Update: For the people of the sun -
Here Comes the Sun
The Anti-Immigration’s Propaganda on Reproductive Rights 2007-03-04 05:20:43 In today’s society there are powerful elements seeking to gain as much ground as they can in an attempt to pass steps like the Sensenbrenner bill in the new future. We cannot allow the system free reign to reinforce racist stereotypes against our people at any level, much less to carry out them against us [...] Read more:Propaganda
, Reproductive
, Rights
Warning to WordPress Users 2007-03-03 01:03:55 If anybody is using WordPress 2.1.1, don’t! It seems, some cracker (not the gringo kind, its another term for a hacker) played with the software code. From WordPress:
If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all [...]
The Sick and Twisted Games People Play 2007-02-23 22:47:02 Racism, the ideology that came into full flower as a justification for European conquest of most of the planet, is now headquartered in the US. There could be no justification for a student group’s aggression, without the basic assumptions of racial superiority. Thursday, a student group at New York university played a game called “Catch [...] Read more:Twisted
, Games
Texas The Anti-Brown State 2007-02-21 21:23:00 One of the key issues in the current debate over immigration reform here in the United State
s has to deal with who may be considered an American. The anti-immigrant activists here in Texas
are arguing that American citizenship has nothing to do about where you were born, but who gave birth to you. By extension, [...] Read more:Brown
Back to Our Regular Programming … 2007-03-19 11:48:42 Regularly scheduled programming will be returning shortly. In the meantime, here is a short video from Def Poet Joe Hernandez-Kolski.
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9 yr Old Boy and Parents Have Been Released 2007-03-23 15:10:42 The 9 yr old boy, Kevin Yourdkhani who has been held at the T. Don Hutto immigration prison in Taylor, TX, since Feb. 4, along with his father Majid and mother Masomeh Alibegi are finally coming home! (hat tip to liberal catnip and Annamarie at Verbena-19). It is not surprising that they were housed at [...]
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Elizabeth Edwards’ cancer returns 2007-03-23 00:31:24 Going through my email, I saw the very sad news about John Edwards
’ wife Elizabeth
. Mrs. Edwards’ breast cancer has metastasized to her ribs. In a joint press conference, John and Elizabeth Edwards announced, that they will continue the campaign despite Mrs. Edwards’ illness. CNN reports:
“The campaign goes on,” the former senator from North [...]
Back to Our Regular Programming … 2007-03-19 11:48:42 Regularly scheduled programming will be returning shortly. In the meantime, here is a short video from Def Poet Joe Hernandez-Kolski.
Joe Hernandez-Kolski
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Be the Voice for the Voiceless 2007-03-13 01:03:05 In the midst of the 21st century, America remains stagnate in a milieu of worsening and repression, due to being MORALLY BANKRUPT. This immigration debate is not just about those people without proper documentation whose rights, dignity and criminality is at stake, it is about America’s morality. The human mind possesses the capability to rationalize [...]
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, Voiceless
Privatized Prisons for Immigrants 2007-03-10 01:28:06 In the nation’s response to the tragedy that occurred in 9/11 attacks, the border acquired new significant importance in the “war on terror.” Among the most relevant of the changes that transpired, the immigration issue is now assigned to the Department of Homeland Security. Although Mexico has no significant Islamic population and houses no known [...]
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When a Plan Comes Together 2007-03-09 16:42:02 Lets start the morning off right. I was going through my search term stats this morning and to my surprise, one of the search terms was “rage against the machine back together for good 2007.” And guess what, the post I did back on Feb 16, “Is Rage Against the Machine Back Together for Good?,” [...]
The Anti-Humanist Award Goes to… 2007-03-08 23:36:21 The Anti-HumanistAward
Goes to Chris Simcox and the entire jerkoffs from Citizens Border Patrol.
T-Shirt says: “Some people are alive simply because it’s illegal to kill them.”
Think the Minutemen are just netting people, better think again. They are out for blood, they do not value human life, so lets call them what they really are, [...]
A Call to Action 2007-03-08 04:02:38 There is an urgency this minute, I am alarmed by the complacency in reaction to the things that are taking place right here, right now in the United States of America. Most people of color love to say about the bygone days of the struggle, what they have been through to maintain what they [...]
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Is it me 2007-03-06 23:59:04 Is it me or is there a cosmic force sucking everybody’ mojo. People on the blogoshere seems depressed, I hope I am wrong on this.
Update: For the people of the sun -
Here Comes the Sun
The Anti-Immigration’s Propaganda on Reproductive Rights 2007-03-04 05:20:43 In today’s society there are powerful elements seeking to gain as much ground as they can in an attempt to pass steps like the Sensenbrenner bill in the new future. We cannot allow the system free reign to reinforce racist stereotypes against our people at any level, much less to carry out them against us [...]
Read more:Propaganda
, Reproductive
, Rights
MIA No Mas 2007-03-27 05:07:45 I am back and I want to say I’ve missed everyone and I would like to welcome all newcomers … Bienvendidos a todos to my humble abode.
Sorry for disappearing for the past two weeks and not replying or getting back to everybody, I had to spend time with my little sister because she is [...]
Alberto Gonzales and the Politics of Whiteness 2007-03-29 04:24:10 Rarely does a day a go by without Americans learning about Attorney General AlbertoGonzales
and the political strife over the firings of US Attorneys. Now the nation’s first Hispanic attorney general is being pressured to resign by columnists, pundits and everybody you can think of. That is to be expected by Latinos, African [...]
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For the Record 2007-03-28 02:15:18 Dear spammers
I am writing to tell you how much I welcome your efforts in attacking this site over the last several days. You continue to impress me with your dedication and resolve in the face of widespread irritation and organized opposition. A good job well done.
However, there remains a problem.
As much as I enjoy spending [...]
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Cut From the Same Cloth 2007-04-03 23:06:45 Here in the United States, native-born citizens and leaders take great pride mythologize their historical success of the great “melting pot” ability to absorb and unify people coming from diverse lands and cultures. America and immigration are strongly linked and have been so throughout US history. Many would say that the US would not exist [...]
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Endgame: America’s New Operation Wetback 2007-04-08 23:39:40 William Shakespeare once wrote, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” What’s in a name? Plenty, when the lives of millions of immigrants of color are at stake. Here, Shakespeare and subjects like love are not applicable. Here, the name game attains far [...]
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, America
, Operation
Keepers of the Gate In the Land of Lost Hope 2007-04-15 22:14:37 Last year, the country saw the unfolding of one of the most powerful waves of demonstrations in US history. Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and Latinos, along with other immigrants and their supporters took to the streets in protest of an anti-immigration bill that was on floor of Congress. On May 1 2006, an estimated [...]
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The Word According to Kos 2007-04-17 19:57:59 We all know the meaning when someone mentions liquid courage - those who consume it “gain” confidence and lose discretion. Well, I prefer to think Internet courage is where an individual who enjoys the benefit of hiding behind the Internet and because like liquid courage, a person tends to “gain” confidence and lose discretion [...]
The Consequences of Lazy Journalism 2007-04-20 20:23:53 I don’t know about you, but it feels like the Virginia Tech massacre that took place on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA has left people emotionally drained. I know that I am. This is now being considered the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history and as [...]
Rage Against the Machine’s Wake Up and More Reunion News 2007-04-22 19:28:06 OK folks, one week from today, Apr. 29, is the Rage Against the Machine
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 RATM were getting back together and how my [...]
Mas Maiz 2007-04-29 01:32:13 For all you big Rage fan, tomorrow is the reunion we all have been waiting for at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Califas.
We are at a point where we need to come together. Unity is fragile and in a time like this, it is important it does not fall apart. I [...]
The Fight Worth Fighting For 2007-04-28 06:00:31 When they say that the immigration debate is a heated one, that is not an exaggeration, it is. To be honest, I really don’t know how I really feel, there are so many raw emotion running inside of me, I really don’t know who to be angry at. But I have come to this conclusion, [...]
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, Fighting
Blood in the dust: Border Patrol agent guns down immigrant… 2007-04-26 06:56:47 Warning; Viewer Discretion Advised. Graphic images may be disturbing to some viewers. The surveillance video obtained by the Union-Tribune does show the actual footage of the shooting from the surveillance video that was leaked of the deadly shooting of Ramiro Gamez Acosta, an immigrant, by a BorderPatrol
agent. Acosta, 20, was blasted in [...]
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, Border Patrol
May Day 2007: Live-Blogging 2007-05-01 14:06:11 Today is May Day, better known as International Workers’ Day. Contrary to popular belief, this is not some pinko commie holiday. In fact, 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. But those were different [...]
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Striking Back 2007-04-30 21:02:22 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 type of nativism has slowly infected the US like a [...]
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