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Federal Police Intimidate Electrician Union Members in Iztapalapa, Mexico
Laid-Off Workers Vow to Relocate Their Table to Continue Assisting Striking CustomersOn Monday, March 1, at about 9am, approximately ten heavily armed Federal Police arrived at the former Luz y Fuerza del Centro's Santa Cruz Meyehualco office in Iztatapalapa, Mexico, and forced union electricians to remove a table they had...
Mexican Drug Policy Reform Movement Takes Shape
International Conference in Mexico City Provides Hope, Inspiration to a Budding Domestic MovementThis past February 22 and 23, drug policy experts and organizers from around the world gathered in Mexico City for “Winds of Change: Drug Policy Around the World,” a conference organized by the Collective for a Comprehensive Drug...
Bolivian President Evo Morales Visits Mexico City
The Event, Organized by the Mexico City Government, Was Evo's First Official Visit to MexicoEvo Morales visited Mexico City on Sunday evening on his way to a Rio Group summit in Cancun. The Mexico City government, controlled by the center-left Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), organized a public event and...
SME: "Don't Pay Your Electric Bill!"
Supporters Argue that the Closure of Luz y Fuerza is an Affront to Taxpayers, Electricity Customers, Workers, and SubcontractorsThe Mexican Electric Workers Union (SME) is keeping the pressure on the federal government leading up to negotiations between the union and the government over the fate of 18,000 SME members who...
Frustrated With Government Lies, Mexican Electricians Declare Wildcat Actions
Two Workers Detained and Later Released Following Other Campaign Mobilizationssource: Narco NewsFollowing President Felipe Calderon’s executive order that shut down state-owned Luz y Fuerza and put its 44,000 workers out of a job, Mexico’s other state-owned electricity company, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), began to remove equipment from Luz...
by Centro Prodh- Robledo was involved in planning the police operations that led to grave human rights violations in San Salvador Atenco and Texcoco on May 3 and 4, 2006.- His designation is a new demonstration...
Wild Chihuahuas
I Know What's Wrong with America
This week's 9-11 lie from George W.'s former speech writer Marc Thiessen is just the latest case. For close to eight full decades, the Right has steadily poured a deathly poison into Americans' eyes and ears. The result is that today we're sickened almost to the killing point. There's a...
Behold the City on a Hill. Or, I Can't Make This Stuff Up
If you secretly want to know what a far-Right Republican regime looks like, visit Arizona. From my favorite AZ blogger about a pending AZ House bill: "HB 2650 would increase the waiting time for a divorce by 4 months, to give couples a chance to reconcile their differences." Like they...
My family and yours are struggling. We and/or our neighbors are in peril of losing our jobs.We and/or our neighbors have already lost billions in retirement investments and home equity.The suicides piling up, the homeless shelters our better towns try to provide, the overwhelmed emergency rooms, even the animal rescues...
If you're like me, you sorta do and you sorta don't understand why Wall Street and significant parts of corporate America are implicated in the destruction of the American middle class. You sorta get what all these high-level finance shell games have to do with unemployment, home foreclosures, closed schools...
Ya, so I'm a little late with this, but surely there's somebody besides me who missed this latest GOP marvel.Check out TYT for some background.So let me get this right. The party of law 'n order is for law 'n order except when they interfere with bidness. That about it?Why...
AZ Republican Rep Calls Obama "Enemy of Humanity"
From Salon's War Room today:Republican congressman: Obama "enemy of humanity""Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., has always been a little skeptical of President Obama. Skeptical enough, in fact, that he flirted with the Birther movement for a while, and even considered filing a lawsuit before the election in order to seek proof...
Ana Castillo
BREAKING NEWS: Yesterday a.m. I ended the first complete draft of THE LAST GODDESS STANDING. (Random House, NY) Before I had a chance to breathe a sigh of relief or plan a quiet celebration or set the alarm clock so as to go out and watch the predicted...
JAMES ARTHUR RAY: DISGUSTING. If this year hasn't been tragic enough to everyone in the world for various reasons, in this country to 95% of the population economically to begin with then we have disgusting scam artists like this:I'm talking every area of your life! You've got to...
Internet Networking Fatigue Syndrome--below is my favorite paragraph from the Facebook article I entered in the blog earlier. Having said all this and w/ about 10 pages left before I finish the first complete draft of my new novel (!!! The Last Goddess Standing !!!!) that I am sure...
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Facing Off with Facebook Editorial by Debra Ollivier If you’re a published author or soon-to-be-published author, chances are you’ll get something like the 63-page document I got from my publisher before my recent...
Elenamary
A lot of people dislike using interpreters whether they be doctors, social workers or school administrators. Arguments like “the interpreter slows the process down” or “we understand each other enough” are not good reasons to avoid the use of interpreters, and it violates Civil Rights Act of 1964. ...
Dear Urban Active, I’d like to be as clear as possible with my objective in writing this email. My desired outcome is two fold: 1. An apology 2. Your company honoring a Gift Certificate given to me by a friend that states “This Certificate entitles 6 months free membership for a friend” I am...
I am thankful today for the people I’ve had in my life who I’ve been able to love. I am more thankful for the opportunities I’ve had and taken, to tell them that I love them. I think too often we hide our feelings, out of a fear of consequence. The...
I wonder what future generations will think about the fact we ever even debated this....
All are welcome, as long as you aren’t the public
I live very close to my “Neighborhood Pride Center“. It is a pretty cool idea I think, to house community space, the police, university safety patrol and basic city services all in one place. I’d like to make a recommendation to the City and the University who are joint partners...
Last night I was at one of my favorite hangouts, CaraBar, with my aunt (from my Mexican side), and my friends Tony from the Bahamas, and Jason. My aunt doesn’t speak English and so I spent a good deal of the time doing simultaneous interpretation of our conversation. We...
Latina Lista
The sad state of Latino unemployment
LatinaLista.net -- Everyone is suffering in this economy but until the Bureau of Labor Statistics' February report spelled it out in numbers, the high degree of unemployment in the Latino community wasn't truly appreciated. While national unemployment stands at 9.7 percent, Latino unemployment is at 12.4 percent and blacks suffer...
Texas 2010 Republican Primary Election: Prejudice at the polls
LatinaLista.net--Incumbent Texas Railroad Commissioner Victor Carrillo should have won his bid this week for re-election, but he didn't. In fact, he was soundly beaten -- 61%-39%. Who was his opponent? A man by the name of Porter. According to Carrillo, that says it all. Though Carrillo spent $600,000 on his...
New report underscores the rise of a new national pastime -- immigrant bashing!
LatinaLista.net -- In 2008, it seemed an odd coincidence that there should be two murders, later deemed hate crimes, of Latino immigrants so close together. In July 2008, Luis Ramirez was beaten to death in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. Eventually six people were indicted for his death -- four of them police...
Latinos comprise largest share of "Below Basic" literacy rates
LatinaLista.net On the heels of the President's address of the dismal dropout rates, the nation is supposed to be observing today Read Across America Day 2010. For those students who have dropped out of school or who are struggling academically, poor reading skills are a big part of their problem....
President's dropout recovery plan lacks four components to help Latino students
LatinaLista.netPresident Obama outlined a plan today to reduce the high school dropout rate. He deserves kudos for understanding that this educational crisis goes beyond local communities and state jurisdictions, and has serious national implications for the future. According to the President's statistics: Every school day, about 7,000 students decide to...
Guest Voz: Esther Chavez Cano Added Up the Devastation of Gender Violence
By Theresa Braine Esther Chavez Cano died in Juarez, Mexico in December 2009 after losing a battle with cancer, but Esther fought another battle that to many seemed like she was losing but had achieved a victory to the dismay of her critics -- international attention to the murders of...
Column of the Americas Since 1994
Masking Identities or Counting the Indigenous Among Us
Commentary, Roberto Dr. Cintli RodriguezIt was when I first stood atop the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan,Mexico in 1976 that I was finally able to grasp something my parentsfirst communicated to me when I was five years old; that my roots onthis continent are not simply Mexican, but both...
The Huehuetlahtolli of Maria Molina
By Roberto Dr. Cintli RodriguezMaria has a cargo. A sacred cargo. How do you translate that? It’s not something physical, but it is akin to a bundle.I cannot tell you what’s inside of it, but it is something greater than its contents. Some of the things are unknowable. Others have...
We wanted a Mandela; We got a Clarence Thomas
By Roberto Dr. Cintli RodriguezPresident Barack Obama is an enigma. No one quite seems to know what he actually stands for. Most progressives saw in the election of Obama, a Nelson Mandela figure. Based on his first year in office, many are understandably disillusioned.Conversely, much of the right wing of...
Haiti is Bleeding… so too is Afghanistan, Iraq & The Arizona Desert
By Roberto Dr. Cintli RodriguezThe images from Haiti compel us to look at the mirror and ask ourselves, if we have a heart and a face? What we see compels us to ask if we are the human beings that we profess to be. The answer moves us to act....
Connecting MLK’s words, Sheriff Arpaio’s policies & the Crisis in HaitiBy Roberto Dr. Cintli RodriguezHaiti is changing the way we look at life and the way we look at each other as human beings. All but the insane and the most bigoted amongst us understand that the people of Haiti...
The Huehuetlahtolli re Sheriff Arpaio
By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez Beware of the new Sheriff in town; he’s actually an old coyote.He denigrates, dehumanizes and belittles; he’s an eater of flesh.pink underwear, pinstripes and ball and chains are his trademark.He’s actually an old sheriff who lives in another century, in the Wild Wild, West.This is...
Viva la Feminista
Women's History Month: My history
Today's Women's History Tidbit: 1933: President Franklin Roosevelt nominates Frances Perkins as US Sectretary of labor. The first woman in the cabinet, she will serve 12 years and will be the primary figure behind the Social Security Act of 1935. Today I'm in Washington, DC for a NSF grantee meeting. But...
Women's History Month: Association for Research on Mothering
Today's Women's History Tidbit: 1962: Track and field champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee is born in East St. Louis, IL.* The Association for Research on Mothering is an organization which I've admired from afar. I failed to ante up the membership dues because I felt they were a bit steep for my pocketbook. The...
Book Review: Getting Real Edited by Melinda Tankard Reist
Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls edited by Melinda Tankard Reist is a collection of essays/charges against the world-wide phenomena of the pornification of childhood thru advertising, marketing and pop culture. This was a great book to read as the authors are Australian and sometimes I wonder how much of...
Women's History Month: Support Women's Sports
Today's Women's History Tidbit: 1989: Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine receive the first star on Miami's Calle Oche Walk of Fame.* Over the weekend I launched my latest project on Facebook. It's called "I pledge to attend one women's sporting event in 2010." Yup, it's that simple. As regular...
Women's History Month: Chicago Calendars
I really, really want to blog every single day this month! In honor of March 1, 2010, I will point you to all the Chicago area Women's History Month calendars I can get my grubby hands on. If you know one I missed, just let me know & I'll add it....
Life's been pretty good the last few years in terms of accolades, but with each accolade, I get asked "How do you do it all?" or get called a Supermom. Answers? I don't. I'm not. If I did it all, I wouldn't miss important networking events. This is the area where I...
UMX | El Machete
Your Weekly Vinyl Reminda! [March 07]
HE'S GOT THAT SHAPESHIFTING VOICE that can squeeze gasoline from a model car; he's the everchanging pixie, the spider-wrangler from mars, the supragenderous figure who leaps over dividers to swing from the stars......
News With Nezua | The War on Truth
THE WAR ON POVERTY. The War on Drugs. The War on Terrorism. Is it safe to say the USA loves war? Is it more accurate to say the USA is war? Could the nation exist as we know it were we not maintaining a War on Truth every day?...
TAKING A TRIP back to the days of my youth...this is a happy tune that still makes me feel good when those opening chords begin. Love, disco, and an ode to someone who lifts the heart...and the feet. Do you remember this number?...
News With Nezua | Whoa, Canada!
WHY DO REPUBLICANS SUPPORT WHITE-WING TERRORISM? How is Arizona giving police more power to apprehend Latinos than exists anywhere else in the nation right now? And how did your trip to Vancouver go, Nezua?...
The Weekly Undocument | You Gotta Move.
A BUBBLING STEW OF JUSTICE is on the stove! Who is minding it? Who hears the whistle as the steam builds? Who out there in the political wilds is carrying kindling? Nezua takes a look in the Weekly Undocument, rounding up Immigration and Latino news like only he do!...
News With Nezua | Arpaio Coming Undone
IF YOU CAN STAND THE FUN, sit yaself back and enjoy this Arpaio-Only edition of News With Nezua!...
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Winnemem Wintu Tribe Urges Feinstein to Withdraw Salmon Killer Legislation
[Photo of Mark Franco and Caleen Sisk-Franco courtesy of Indigenius Media.]By Dan BacherThe Winnemem Wintu (McCloud River) Tribe of northern California today joined environmental organizations and fishing groups in strongly opposing legislation sponsored by Senator Dianne Feinstein to waive Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for imperiled Central Valley Chinook salmon....
Thanks for the electric energy rebate, I think?
By Jesus Manuel Mena Garza - Having worked for a utility marketing department for many years before I moved back to California, I know that rebates are essentially a sham. What better way to divert attention away from their monopoly then by distributing an insignificant number of rebates. Thanks for...
Rudy Madrid: Aug. 4, 1949 - Jan. 23, 2010
By Ben CadenaWhere do you start to talk about an old friend compatriot and fellow musician? He left us too early but had been faring poorly in recent months. Local bar owner Brigitte Tapia of the Keyes Club at Eighth and Keyes said, “We have to love him while we...
How Do You Think Our President Is Doing?
Express YourselfBarack H. Obama has been in office for over a year now. Please take time out of your busy day to tell our President what you think. Maybe you feel our President is doing a fine job. Or you may believe Obama has more to do. Here is your...
Comment on Chinese Labor and US Corporations
Jesus Manuel Mena GarzaIt has become increasingly obvious to me that American corporations are working hand in hand with the Chinese government to render the US, a second rate power. This is being done in two ways. First, it is well known that corporations love profits. Who doesn't like a...
Humberto Montes de Oca To Speak In San Jose On Mexican Labor Lockout
Bay Area Tour of Humberto Montes de Oca Interior Secretary, Mexican Electrical workers Union (SME) January 18-28, 2010 Forty-four thousand electrical workers in central Mexico have been locked out of their jobs since October 10, 2009, when the government of President Felipe Calderon, who was imposed by fraud in the...
La Otra Tijuana
• Continúan los hostigamientos y amenazas armadas de miembros de la OPDDIC contra ejidatarios adherentes de la Otra Campaña en Jotolá bajo cobertura de elementos...
Porque las comunidades zapatistas no están solas
A 26 de Septiembre de 2009 A la Sociedad Civil Mexicana e InternacionalA las Comunidades ZapatistasA la Otra Campaña en MéxicoA la Otra Campaña InternacionalA...
Desalojan a integrantes de la otra campaña en Tamaulipas
El 24 de septiembre, a las 8 horas, 500 familias de la colonia Mano con Mano, integrantes de la otra campaña, en Tampico, Tamaulipas, fueron desalojadas a balazos por la policía metropolitana, encabezada por Enrique Aragón Sierra, delegado regional de la Procuraduría del estado, y Arturo Medina, secretario del ayuntamiento,...
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Libertad y Justicia para Atenco
CONVOCATORIA A LA SEGUNDA ETAPA DE LA CAMPAÑA NACIONAL E INTERNACIONAL LIBERTAD Y JUSTICIA PARA ATENCO. septiembre- diciembre 2009 A la sociedad civil nacional e Internacional A las 218 organizaciones de la sociedad civil que se integraron...
Carlos Fazio La matanza de Acteal fue una operación de...
¡Para Justicia y Libertad!
Last Week in Latino History: LULAC formed in Corpus Christi
Last week Feb 17, 1929, during the height of the nativist movement, three pioneering Latino civil rights organizations met at Obreros Hall in Corpus Christi, Texas and agreed to merge to form the League of United Latin American Citizens. The emergency of LULAC came at a particular history of...
Samuel Freeman: Mr. President, We Have Shed Enough Tears
Mr. President, We Have Shed Enough Tears By Samuel Freeman On Wednesday, 10 February, Pfc. Adriana Alvarez of San Benito died of a gunshot wound in Baghdad, Iraq. The exact circumstances of her death remain unclear, so we do not know whether her death is combat related. Pfc. Alvarez enlisted in...
The Weekly Undocument: Kafka’s Cops On the Watch
The Weekly Undocument: Kafka’s Cops On the Watch by Nezua THE ECONOMY FALTERS and desperate denizens of a sizable nation tack to the right, back away from the light, throw coins at half-crock cops to purchase stronger locks, to erect more dank and shadowy holes in which to imprison the vulnerable soul,...
The Weekly Undocument is a post done by blogger Nezua at The Unapologetic Mexican. This will now by a syndicated piece on this blog. The Weekly Undocument: The State of our Union is Sassy! By Nezua THE PRO-MIGRANT BLOGOSPHERE IS ALIGHT with talk of The 38 Words uttered in President Obama’s first State...
Texas Progressive Bloggers Withdraw Support from Proposed Spending Freeze
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Texas Progressive Bloggers Withdraw Support from Proposed Spending Freeze TEXAS – January 27, 2010: Top progressive bloggers from across Texas issued a statement today in advance of President Obama’s State of the Union address cautioning the President to avoid calling for a spending freeze. While these bloggers...
Immigrant Groups Disenchanted With Administration’s Inaction
BREAKING: On the eve of the President’s State of the Union address, protesters blocked the streets around the national headquarters of the Department of Homeland Security for 2 hours until they were escorted by police. The protest was held to call attention to the suffering of immigrant families across the...