Our New Anahuac

SOPA, The Stop Online Piracy Act, has recently grabbed many headlines all over the world. The bill would effectively create a precedent for the federal government to regulate and monitor online activities. If passed, the federal government would be able to block access from certain websites which have been determined to stream copyrighted content. The [...]

From Jim On the Houston Unido listserve Houston Unido/United– Occupy Houston has passed a proposal for an anti-police brutality march in solidarity with the Oakland General Strike/Mass Day of action. We’ll meet 11:30 am, Wednesday, Nov 2, at Tranquility. Then at noon, we’ll march to the Harris Country Sheriff’s office at 1201 Franklin. If you [...]

An Open Letter To Occupy Houston, Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Movements All Over The World I would like to open this letter by recognizing your recent efforts to shed light on the cases of many problems that many middle class United States citizens have begun to feel lately.  The unemployment, the disenfranchisement from the [...]

Over the course of the past several weeks some statistics have been released which are very disturbing for advocates of the so-called Latino community. A few weeks ago, a report indicated that Latinos made up over fifty percent of the people sentenced to federal prison during the first nine months in 2011 despite comprising only [...]

I wrote this a couple of weeks ago for El Pueblo, but I forgot to post. One of the biggest dramas that played out over the past week was outlandish commentary by a controversial comedian, Katt Williams. Katt Williams had been among my favorite comedians, despite, or perhaps because of, his many controversial remarks. Overnight [...]

How does it feel? How does it feel now that horror is erupting in your own yard and not in your neighbour’s living room? What is it like to feel the fear pressing down on your chest, the panic caused by the deafening noise, to see the flames burning out of control, the buildings collapsing, [...]

Check out the Black Agenda Report calling out Sheila Jackson Lee To the extent that that is true, to the degree that Black America remains more concerned about how Obama is doing as he seeks another term in office, rather than how the African American people are doing under Obama’s center-right, Wall Street- and war-loving [...]

It is often said that to understand someone’s values, one must simply look at his monthly budget. This line of reasoning insists that analyzing an individual’s spending will reveal a great deal about what is important to him. In late July, the Pew Center released a report regarding the decline in wealth from about 2005 [...]

I never got a chance to blog about this the other day, but Obama had a masterful week the week of Osama Bin Laden’s assassination. He buried the campaign of Donald Trump by releasing his birth certificate, just before the White House Correspondent’s dinner.  It is too obvious that he was providing fodder for the [...]

Background of Incident This weekend, I was invited by some friends of mine to visit Cleveland, Texas.  The trip was not a leisurely one.  We were invited to meet with a community which had been affected by a horrific incident-the gang rape of an 11-year old by a group of men.   This young girl was [...]