Our New Anahuac

I received what seemed to be a hoax-like text message yesterday regarding Wal Mart having given permission to ICE to conduct raids on premises. I found various reasons to discount this as a rumor, for one, ICE doesn’t need permission to conduct raids, or so I reasoned.
I heard from a third-hand sources that two days [...]

My father, an attorney for thirty years, came in this morning to the office with a funny smile, which made me know something was up.  We exchanged our morning greeting, and I paused, knowing that he had something to say. 
I was eating some oatmeal at the time, and he told me that the courts are a buzz [...]

I was a little slow off the mark posting about the decision to halt 287-g in Houston. I was hoping to post something soon, but Stace says it all in his blog DosCentavos.net. Check out his post entitled
Parker Cites Cost, Not Community Trust, in 287g Opt-Out.

I have to admit that I have a growing respect for what conservative activists have been able to accomplish. At times, I have even envied the disproportionate influence they have wielded. With more regularity, I have felt a great disrespect for the Democratic Party. I decided to take a look at why. Don’t get me [...]

Orale!
The Coalition In Defense Of the Community hosted a well-received event at Iglesisa Hispana Nueva Vida on Telephone Road. 
Tarsha Jackson made an emphatic opening call for black-brown unity and reminded us that in addition to a moral call for unity, our communities have several interests in common.  Both of our communities have been victimized by [...]

Puerto Rico might be set to liberate iteslf from its status as an informal colony of the United States, according to the National Journal Mag. Some Puerto Ricans would rather see the island become the 51st state in the US, but groups like the macheteros have fought, even with force, so that the Puerto Rican [...]

01/24/2010 SOUTHWEST WORKERS’ UNION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Report on the Hunger Strike at the Port Isabel Detention Center (Bayview, TX) which began the Day of the National March Against Arpaio. Ruben Tapia reports via Radio Pacifica KPFK 90.7FM. The time stamp for the interview is 17:30- 28:10.01/24/2010 Judy Colon, wife of one of the Hunger Strikers, [...]

We, social critics, have long noted the Hispano-trash that is transmitted by mega corporations over cable, broadcast and radio. The main topics at Univision seems to be breasts and celebrities, and its served up by people looking whiter than the journalists at CNN.
They have become much slicker at masking their racism. [...]

Late last year, I posted about The United Farmworker’s Union (UFW) and their campaign against Giumarra, the largest table grape company in the world.  Being that the UFW was home to Cesar Chavez, whom certain conservatives are literally trying to write out of the history books, I thought this update would be important.  Please [...]