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In Lak Ech, Panche Be & Hunab Ku & The Forgotten 1524 DebateEagle Feather Research Institute 2010 Collective CopyrightBy Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez, Arnoldo Vento, PhD, Vivian Garcia Lopez, PhD, Mixelle Rascon, Pricila Rodriguez, Norma Gonzalez,

In Lak Ech, Panche Be & Hunab Ku: The Philosophical Foundation for Raza Studies or What State Officials Don’t Want Arizona School Children To Know?by Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez, Ph.D.For the next few months, the world will be focusing on Arizona’s S

Leticia X is Human II: Tragedy & Waiting for Pres. ObamaBy Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez  In October of 2009, I wrote a column about a brilliant high school DREAM student whose goal is to attend college in the fall of 2010. I referred to her as Leticia

By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez By now, most of the world has learned that the Republican-dominated legislature in Arizona and its unelected governor are capable of creating laws more associated with repressive regimes – or bygone eras – than with modern

Ipalnemoani: That For What We Live ForBy Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez As we prepare to get arrested as a result of the passage of a new anti-ethnic studies law in Arizona, several attorneys explain to about 30-40 of us in Tucson’s state building the conse

By Roberto Dr. Cintli RodriguezSpecial length Feature (850 words) As a result of several recent draconian laws, Arizona’s image has taken a drubbing internationally. And yet, Arizona is but the spear. In reality, its politics are not that dramatically dif

WE BEGIN, but do not end, with the sensational incident where the Obama White House, under Trumpian pressure, produced for public inspection the President’s “long form” birth certificate. I do not know how successful I will be in my attempts to navigate t

JUDGING BY THE EGREGIOUS SILENCE on mainstream U.S. infotainment stations, one might assume that the life and premeditated murder of an innocent child is only worth our compassion and outrage if she is white. Because the brutal shooting and home invasion

DOES CHE GUEVARA DESERVE TO BE AN ICON for Xicanos, Xicanas, Latinas, Latinos? Only if we remember where the struggle lies and what it is about, at heart.

MAJOR POWERS PLAY MAJOR GAMES. How do these apply to the Democrats and their actions lately on immigration? How do these apply to the promises made to raza? Here comes the election game, let's play!

WE RETURN with a call for action! The DREAM Act is up for a vote. Despite the fact that as usual, politicians play cynical games of expediency with people's lives, there is cause for enthusiasm and happiness. So get on that phone! Also featuring the vaunt

HERE'S A FUN ONE that yanks back the curtain and gives you a glimpse of some "making of" moments. From bulbs blowing to flies buzzing to flubbed or forgotten lines, you can see that things don't run as smooth as the final cut pretends.

Discuss Immigration Issues with a Mexican American. Truth, Honesty and the American Way!

(Sorry, all — my keyboard is STILL possessed by demons, and is under some gringo voodoo curse that won’t let me type accent marks) Since 1945, the International Monetary Fund has seen its role as “oversee[ing] the global financial system

Investors are piling into Mexican bonds as a record gain in the peso keeps price increases near a five-year low and bolsters dollar-based returns on local assets. Neighboring Brazil and Peru are seeking to stem advances in their currencies while strugglin

I’m having some very odd computer problems (a virus perhaps?) so if the formatting is off, and there’s a lack of accent marks where there should be, there’s not much I can do about it, and am muddling through. There have been several art

CHEPE, the Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacific  was — and still is — one of the engineering marvels of the world, requiring 36 bridges and 86 tunnels to traverse the route frome Chihuahua to Topolobampo, crossing the six canyons collectively known as Barranc

President Felipe Calderon says Mexican people are “suffering” because of the violence and need a visit from Pope Benedict XV to lift their spirits. (Guadalajara Reporter, 6-May-2011) And Jesus says Mexicans are suffering because they had bad governments n

“Over 100 police officers… includ[ing] riot police, a SWAT team, a helicopter squad, a K-9 unit, several blockades and heightened security screens for those allowed to enter…” Terrorism?  Nah… but the Tuscon Unified School Di

Lately my HR adventures have become more predictable than I predicted, just not that exciting to mention and easily the bulk of my excursions. Its not like its a waste of time, I get breakfast out of it after all. … Continue reading →

Remember how crappy the Vons by 5 points treated us? With weekly specials on Kool-Aid and Cup-o-Noodles? The Smart & Final “extra” hasn’t been much better in that department, stocking mostly processed foods but this time in bigger qu

This is one of the best breakfast-es I’ve had in a long time. Huevo estrellados cooked in a ranchero sauce with rajas, queso, and crema. A sort of huevos en cazuela, though these are named after the restaurant. I plan … Continue reading &#8594

Mr. Office hanging out at the Carbon Credit Shack by the Big Saver. I was making a left when I noticed him there. Hold the fuck up traffic behind me, I have to take a picture! A different view of … Continue reading →

I go up to Frisco about once a year, at least. Mostly to check out the often interesting Anarchist Bookfair that happens in Golden Gate Park. Sometimes there are good speakers, sometimes there is good radical literature. Sometimes I don’t … Co

The man that ran The Office is still hanging around the streets of Lincoln Heights and Cypress Park, but now he is roaming with a fancy decorated cart. I keep trying to catch a pic but always fail. This is … Continue reading →

by Kristin Bricker, Upside Down World After four years of war that has left nearly 40,000 people dead, countless more disappeared, and soldiers on the streets of every state in the country, many Mexicans are finally "fed up" with President Felipe Calderó

by Kristin Bricker I'm in Morelos covering the "We've Had It Up to Here, Stop the War, For A Just And Peaceful Mexico" march. I will publish an article about the march when it's over at Upside Down World. But I'm so awestruck by the people I've met

by Kristin Bricker, Upside Down World Drug war victims finally made themselves heard in Mexico in the most unlikely way: a nation-wide silent March for Peace with Justice and Dignity. Over 100,000 Mexicans took to the streets over the weekend to protes

by Kristin Bricker, Huffington Post Javier Torres Cruz On April 18, unidentified gunmen opened fire on Javier Torres Cruz and his brother Felipe as they drove near their hometown of La Morena in Petatlán, Guerrero.  Javier was killed and Felipe wa

President Felipe Calderón and Defense Secretary Guillermo Galván Galván share a laugh. Mexico's House of Deputies is debating a reform to the National Security Law that would attempt to legalize Mexico's unconstitutional participation in domestic polic

by Kristin Bricker, Upside Down World This article was published in Upside Down World just before Movement for Justice in El Barrio's "5 Days of Worldwide Action for the Bachajón 5" on April 1-5.  The five indigenous Zapatista supporters (adherents

Long time, no talkee. Sorry. I've been rescuing Dobermans and working to improve as a artist in polymer clay. If anyone wants to see my work, I can post an image or two, but that's another world, really. So much of note I've ignored here, or missed. Ma

Christopher Hitchens can be infuriating, wrong, and disgusting. And he can be brilliant Welcome to the upper echelons of humanity.Here, find brilliance. Find one tough-minded enough to slog through the gelatin that so often passes for liberal thought and

Sure, Mehlman deserves our understanding. And I think we understand him very well.Ken Mehlman, former chair of the Republican National Committee, wasn't averse to screwing gay men and lesbians when he was making a (big) buck doing so. He chaired the RNC u

I''ve listened to the yammering on CNN tonight following BP's announcement that the "Top Kill" method of sealing the oil geyser in the Gulf of Mexico has failed. I really don't think anyone up the food chain has the foggiest idea of the depth of rage that

Dear Senator Kyl and Senator McCain:Please explain to me why the United States Congress, under both parties, has refused to protect our nation's coastline aggressively, and to treat our coastline, wildlife, habitat, marshes, sea food, related industries,

What government wouldn't do everything in its power to protect its coastlines?http://www.wildchihuahuas.blogspot.com

by Elías Cepeda | trad. Victor Flores Extra News CHICAGO — Tanya Diaz, a working mother of three and supportive wife, knew all the excuses for not exercising throughout a busy week. “I used them all,” she says. “I’d say,

By Mariana Llamas-Cendon Amigos805.com OXNARD — At 24 years of age, Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios is a professional in the boxing ring. As an amateur fighter Rios had won the Silver Gloves, the Ringside Nationals, the USA Nationals, and was cho

LatinaLista — The United States isn’t the only country that has problems with its teachers’ unions. In Mexico, the national teachers’ union — The National Syndicate of Educational Workers — has garnered so much power ov

LatinaLista — Recent studies suggest that Latinos are still on the wrong side of the digital divide with less home access to the internet, but a new report released today by The Hispanic Institute reveals that Latinos more than make up for it with t

LatinaLista — The Navy’s recent goodwill gesture of offering to name a cargo ship after the iconic Latino civil rights leader Cesar Chavez is drawing fire from some people. It wasn’t unexpected. It wasn’t unexpected that far right-

LatinaLista — The concept that all undocumented immigrants are criminals has been a hotly debatable subject ever since it was discovered that being in the country illegally isn’t a major crime that critics would have everyone to believe. It is

Do you remember the freedom you felt once you were old enough to get a two-wheeled bike and allowed to zoom around your neighborhood? Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat tires Along the Way) by Sue Macy recalls when wo

Chicago Women's Health Center (CWHC) seeks community support to match a $35,000 challenge grant from the Topfer Family Foundation by June 30 to move into a larger space by the end of the year. CWHC was founded in 1975 to specifically and thoughtfully

I was 11 and in 5th grade on a field trip to Chinatown when Katie S. came up to me to announce that Challenger had exploded. I didn't believe her. My group found a TV in a shop or restaurant, I can't recall, and there it was...on TV...the truth...it had.

I've described A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique & American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s by Stephanie Coontz to others as a historical look at the women who read The Feminine Mystique, the impact of the book on their lives and a look at the

Last year I launched the "I Pledge to Attend a Women's Sporting Event" page on Facebook. Unfortunately I started it with the year 2010 attached and Facebook doesn't allow for name changes. So I started a new page without a year! Please join! Take the pled

Eight years. I just read through eight years of blog posts about Mother's Day*. I stopped keeping a diary in college. Maybe that's why blogging has such an appeal to me. I write and know it's going to be read. Going through eight years of highs and lows

Official Lorna Dee Cervantes website for scholarship, literary criticism, biography and just plain chisme with the poet herself. Locate links to the Poem, the Whole Poem, and Nothing But the Poems. ~ "Schools are for fish. Competition's for horses." ~ LDC

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