January 2012
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PUERTO RICO: FILIBERTO OJEDA RIOS WAS PLAYING THE...
By Jesus Davila Emailed to me January 30, 2012   SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, January 30, 2012 (NCM) – Two of the participating agents involved in the assault on the residence of Filiberto Ojeda – Commander of the Boricua Popular Army – The Macheteros – declared that the sniper [who is referred to by the pseudonym] “Brian” fired the fatal shots while the veteran guerrilla played his trumpet, according...
Jan 31st
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“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans...”
– Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and filmmaker. His book “The Lone Ranger and Tonto’s Fist Fight in Heaven,” was on the banned curriculum of the Mexican American Studies Program. http://progressive.org/sherman-alexie (via chicanainchoos)
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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“As the nation watches the Tucson Unified School District’s spiral into disarray,...”
– Students Step Up Tucson Walkouts: Protest School District Folly and Mexican American Studies Banishment, AlterNet 1/23/12 (via racialicious) hell yeah! (via ihavethisblog )
Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Martes Media Minute : Roe v. Wade Anniversary,... →
Following last week’s liveblog of a conversation on cervical cancer and Latin@s, Bianca Laureano shares her ideas for Cervical Cancer Awareness Month 2012 onwhat really needs to happen to end the disease. We are celebrating along with Mamas of Color Rising in Texas the decision of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to make a rules change that adds Licensed Midwives as health care...
Jan 24th
Jan 13th
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Mistaking Immigration Proposals for Policy in an... →
Last Friday, USCIS filed a notice of intent to change current policy that requires undocumented spouses and sons and daughters of U.S. citizens facing 3 and 10 year bars to file waivers outside the U.S. and then allowing them to return to their families by showing that their U.S. citizen family member would face extreme hardship as a result of the separation. Before you break out the leftover new...
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Jan 2nd
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Happy Independence Day to Ayiti (Haiti)
so-treu: Over on my history/education blog, Decolonize Your Mind (which is STILL technically in its beta phase), i’m posting a bunch of stuff on the Haitian Revolution. not as much as I’d like to as to as I’ve been traveling/not by my computer, but signal boost! nontheless.
Jan 1st
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December 2011
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Dec 30th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 4th
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November 2011
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Ambientalistas apuntan a La Moneda por...
oposicionpinera: Radio Universidad de Chile Diana Porras Acciones judiciales contra el proyecto A finales del mes de mayo de 2011, antes de la efervescencia de la Copa América en Argentina en julio, varias marchas contaron con miles de personas que gritaban contra el proyecto HidroAysén. Este movimiento derivó a escenarios judiciales, donde los defensores de la Patagonia han impugnado la...
Nov 1st
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October 2011
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Oct 10th
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Oct 5th
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September 2011
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“Without a doubt, in order to stand on our own two feet Puerto Ricans of all...”
– Bernardo Vega
Sep 24th
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“There is a vision of Puerto Rican beauty. There is a Puerto Rican faith. A...”
– Don Pedro Albizu Campos
Sep 24th
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Sep 23rd
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Sep 3rd
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August 2011
2 posts
Guatemala mother searched 5 years for stolen... →
thecurvature: Loyda Rodriguez Morales felt someone tug at her daughter as she tried to enter her simple home with three young children in tow. She turned to see a woman whisk the 2-year-old away in a waiting taxi. After nearly five years of searching, posting fliers, being turned away at orphanages and even staging a hunger strike, Rodriguez now holds what’s believed to be an unprecedented...
Aug 10th
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Aug 7th
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July 2011
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Black-Latino Artist Takes On Dominican Racial... →
Jul 28th
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Jul 26th
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Jul 16th
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The Queer Desi: ATTN: Queer Undocumented... →
queerdesi: This is a research project from a queer undocumented friend of mine. I hope people can take the time to participate. He’s obviously not one of the academics and intellectuals who are keen on using us for their research needs. Marco is one of us. Thanks. Mi nombre es marco antonio flores. I…
Jul 16th
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Jul 15th
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Jul 14th
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Jul 11th
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Jul 5th
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“As much as Hollywood would like to (literally) bank on it, we are not headed for...”
– Cherríe L. Moraga from el prólogo ; A Living Codex in A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness Writings, 2000-2010
Jul 4th
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June 2011
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Jun 16th
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Jun 16th
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“4 million residents of the U.S. Caribbean territory are American citizens but...”
– CNN (via speaksbeliefs)
Jun 14th
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What Obama Won't Discuss While He is Puerto Rico →
Jun 14th
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Jun 14th
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Karlota, 19, murdered in Puerto Rico →
dancingonembers: (warning for cissexist reporting/misgendering) via @KarariKue on Twitter
Jun 9th
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Jun 9th
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Eff Yeah Asian History: Personal Histories -... →
fyeahasianhistory: So I probably won’t make a habit out of this, but I recently arrived home from college - I’m living with my Mother and Grandparents in Tucson, Arizona, and the subject of my studies in Chinese came up. I just finished my first year, and I’m okay, but not great. For the purposes of this post, I think it’s important to know that I’m half Mexican-American - that plays into the...
Jun 2nd
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Getting Drunk off Fake Puerto Rican Pride →
Most remember the 1999 parade sexual assaults but most will not talk about how feminist organizations attempted to use that as an excuse to send more police into our communities to seek out men who attacked, not our fellow Puerto Rican hermanas, but non-Latinas. Most will not remember Puerto Rican women, like me, talking to media how our own bodies have not been protected and how those who claim...
Jun 1st
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May 2011
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AfroBrazilFest: DC's 1st AfroBrazilian Arts &... →
May 26th
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Decenas de miles de manifestantes contra Monsanto,...
oposicionpinera: El gobierno chileno acaba de adoptar el convenio UPOV 91 que fortalece y extiende el control y los privilegios de los poseedores de patentes biogenéticas. La UPOV, Unión Internacional para la Protección de las Obtenciones Vegetales, es una asociación de empresas centradas en el ámbito de la investigación biogenética cuyo principal impulsor y cabeza visible es la empresa...
May 25th
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“Commitment to grassroots democracy is totally consistent with support for the...”
– Decolonization, democracy and solidarity with Puerto Ricoby Olga I. Sanabria Davila
May 9th
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“Susana Baca Afrodiaspora Luaka Bop, 2011 Susana Baca - “Yana Runa” (clip)...”
– http://www.afropop.org/explore/album_review/ID/4312/
May 5th
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April 2011
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Apr 26th
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Rigoberta Menchú, premio nobel de la paz,...
tomasoski: Junto al escritor Eduardo Galeano, artistas como Manu Chau y Café Tacuba, los intelectuales Immanuel Wallerstein, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Pablo González Casanova, Emir Sader, entre muchos(as) otros (as)…hicieron un llamado al Estado Chileno a garantizar el debido proceso de… http://dlvr.it/Nl3hD
Apr 17th
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LatiNegr@s: International Year For People of... →
lati-negros: Around 200 million people who identify themselves as being of African descent live in the Americas. Many millions more live in other parts of the world, outside of the African continent. In proclaiming this International Year, the international community is recognising that people of African…
Apr 6th
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“Some of the activists delivered a letter to Georgia State University President...”
– Protest leads to arrests  | ajc.com
Apr 6th
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