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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
LatinaLista.net -- Democracy is a dying U.S. ideal -- thanks to the Texas State Board of Education (TSBE). In a vote of 10-5, the board, dominated by social conservatives, preliminarily adopted a new Social Studies and history curriculum that includes replacing the word "democratic" in referring to the form of...
Immigration grassroots activists who met with Obama reveal what went down at the White House
LatinaLista.net -- President Obama should be especially tired today. Between the GOP's constant attacks on his healthcare bill and two meetings with immigration reform advocates pressing him to do something, he should be feeling like one of those rubber Gumby dolls -- pulled in all different directions. Yet, after a...
Waiting for bipartisan support before introducing immigration reform doesn't sound too optimistic
LatinaLista.net -- Politico is reporting that Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Senate's architect on the latest Senate version of immigration reform, is feeling "optimistic" about producing immigration legislation this year. He and his congressional colleague, Sen. Lindsey Graham, are scheduled to meet with the President tomorrow after a series of scheduled...
LatinaLista.net -- It's been no secret that all who sympathize with undocumented immigrants and are tired of waiting for Congress to tackle immigration reform are planning to descend on Washington DC on March 21 for what is billed as We March for America!. People -- immigration reform activists, students, families,...
LatinaLista.net -- Today is International Women's Day, a day that celebrates the strides women have made and the hardships they still endure. When we think of those hardships, those of us who are middle-class, college-educated or have good jobs, tend to think of the women in third-world countries or countries...
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...
Column of the Americas Since 1994
Census: Mexicans & Hispanics/Latinos Can Identify as Indigenous
By Roberto Dr. Cintli RodriguezThroughout the years, to prove to government officials the indigeneity of Mexican and Central American peoples, I have had to resort to using the imagery of ancient pyramids. Unquestionably, it was the ancestors of Mexicans and Central Americans who built them – and who built them...
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...
Viva la Feminista
Book Review: Sexism in America by Barbara J. Berg, Ph.D.
Today's Women's History Tidbit: 1972: A small group of young Jewish feminists under the name "Ezrat Nashim" presented a manifesto entitled "Jewish Women Call For Change" at the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly convention.* Sexism in America: Alive, Well and Ruining our Future is an excellent feminism 101 book. It might bore those...
Women's History Month: Migraine Mania!
The past few day's in Women's History Tidbits: March 11, 1923: Agatha Barbara is born in Zabbar. She will serve as president of Malta from 1982 to 1987.* March 12, 1982: The first games of the first women's NCAA basketball tournament are held. Thirty-two teams will compete in the tournament; in 1994...
Women's History Month: Why I love Ariel & Belle
Today's Women's History Tidbit: 1990: Dr. Antonia Novello was sworn in as both the first Hispanic and woman to be U.S. surgeon general.* When Nobel Savage tweeted that Disney was renaming and reframing the Rapunzel story in a way that "allows" more boys to enjoy it, I thought, BULLSHIT! But as I...
Women's History Month: National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers
Today's Women's History Tidbit: 1993: Dr. David Gunn is assassinated and is the first of four women's health care providers to be murdered for providing abortions. This is why we show our appreciation today to all the men and women who help make choice possible.* Can you believe it's March 10th...
Women's History Month: International Women's Day
Today's Women's History Tidbit: 1911: International Women's Day is first celebrated in Europe. It will receive official UN recognition in 1975.* This post originally appeared at the AWEARNESS blog. Happy International Women's Day! Over the past 18 months I've written for AWEARNESS, I've written a lot about women's rights. For...
Women's History Month: Weekend in DC
The weekend's Women's History Tidbits: March 5, 1974: Reporter Helen Thomas becomes UPI Whie House buraeu chief* March 6, 1937: Pearl Buck dies. ** March 7, 1938: Race driver Janet Guthrie, the first woman to compete in the Indianapolis 500 (1977), is born in Iowa City.* As noted last week, I was in Washington,...
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News With Nezua | The Long Walk
THE WHITE HOUSE claims it wants "humane enforcement," and then washes its hands of those hurt or killed in their detention centers. Hate groups are recruiting record numbers of members, Nativist groups are doctoring polls, and amidst the hostility and fakery, four brave undocumented students are walking over a thousand...
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!...