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...
“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)
“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
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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...
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...
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.