Our New Anahuac

I did an earlier post about the auto makers and their intention to lobby for some of the bailout money. I guess when that wasn’t easy enough, at least one has decided to become a bank, which would qualify them for the bailout money. These guys are crafty for sure, but most of [...]

It seems simple enough: any movement which intends to create revolutionary change, must be rooted in revolutionary values. Movements which focus on incremental change are very valuable and push us to the point where we look to revolutionary change. Once there, we will deconstruct the old values which we have been programmed [...]

Cesar Chavez, a school in the Houston Indepenent School District, is in the top 1% of most polluted schools in the country. I hope to interview Bryan Parras more in depth about this subject, who was passing out literature on this last night.

Peru foreign minister defends lawsuit against Yale
From AP
LIMA, Peru – Peru sued Yale University over thousands of Inca artifacts excavated by a U.S. scholar because the university “never made a serious effort to negotiate” the return of the items, Peru’s foreign minister says.
“The government of Peru authorized that the pieces leave the country on loan. [...]

As promised, here are a few interesting bits of early Mexicano history in Houston. Steven F. Austin’s first land grant encompassed the entire length of Buffalo Bayou, as Arnoldo Deleon’s Ethnicity in the Subelt points out. Austin let in a bunch of illegals, also known as the founders of Texas. Anahuac, [...]

This week, my daughter won a blindly judged writing contest, in which over six hundred students submitted essays in Spanish on the benefits of being bilingual.
As part of her prize, she read in front of the abassador from spain. (I wanted to speak with him about reparations, but not suprisingly his time [...]

The big buzz this week is about the auto industry being rescued in some way. I just don’t understand the argument for bailing out this particular industry. The argument for the financial industry was that their credit greazed the wheels of commerce, allowing people to borrow in order to buy homes, cars, etc. [...]

November 5, 2008
The Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee
United States House Of Representatives
2435 Rayburn Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Congresswoman Jackson Lee
Mrs. Jackson Lee. I had the good fortune to meet your husband in my college days when I was organizing a student group known as MEChA. He was extremely helpful to us in our attempts to [...]