Our New Anahuac

Working hard to get people to the August 29th rally. Back to blogging soon.

I have not been active on the blog for the past several days.  All of my time and energy have been focused on promoting the August 29th Rally at James Driver Park in Northeast Houston.
Yesterday I spent five hours in Houston’s August heat doing hand to hand leafleting.  I plan to return to my normal [...]

As I write the title to the post, it is almost amusing that I would try to answer the question in a blog post. Roughly, Mexicayotl is a movement which tries to connect so-called Latinos to our indigenous roots. Mexicayotl translates literally as, “the essence of Mexicanismo” or “the essence of Mexitli Huitzilopochtli,” a Speaker-Representative [...]

A few weeks ago, I wrote about SEIU and Wal Mart teaming up to support certain healthcare measures.
Politics and healthcare certainly make strange sanch@s, because this week, it was announced that no-lobbyist-in-the-White-House Obama had cut a secret deal with pharmaceutical lobbyists!?! (see the Democracy Now video with Ralph Nader below). The pharmaceuticals agreed to cut [...]

AP reports: US Army soldier Michael Jackson Apodaca arrested for contract kill in Mexican drug cartel murder.
U.S. Army soldier and two other men have been charged with capital murder in the contract killing of a midlevel Mexican drug cartel official who was also a U.S. informant.
I posted a few days ago regarding the Zetas, one [...]

Recently, it was announced that children will no longer be sent to the Hutto detention facility.  Many of us see this as a small battle victory in a much larger war against immigrants. 
As a result a change in theme has been proposed for the rally on August 29th at Driver Park in Houston.  The proposed new theme is a call [...]

Obama slammed critics with spin:
“The same critics who say the US has not intervened in Honduras are the same people who say we are always intervening and Yankees need to get out of Latin America,” he said, accusing such opponents of “hypocrisy.”
“You can’t have it both ways,” he told reporters after the summit in the [...]

The effect of US foreign policy has always been to destabilize all other countries, when and if direct control is too costly either financially or politically. This is the only rational policy for any country whose ambition is control and dominance. In the political theory called “zero sum,” “realism,” or “realpolitik,” the idea is that [...]

Many times, dedicated activists have a hard time taking a victory lap even when due. I think that this is true for many reasons. Others are too ready to declare total victory and move on with their lives. So is the case with Hutto.
A few nights ago the feds announced that they would immediately stop [...]

The hard work of thousands of families has paid off:
New York Times: feds to stop sending families and children to Hutto. “One move starts immediately: the government will stop sending families to the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, a former state prison near Austin, Tex., that drew an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit and scathing [...]