Our New Anahuac

…just working on an extensive essay on what the economy of Our New Anahuac would look like. Share and Enjoy:

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 [...]

Democracy is the concept that “the people” have the absolute right to govern the affairs of their country. The degree to which Democracy has ever existed in this country is debatable. (There is that whole slavery, genocide and theft of land issue). The concept that the people rule, however, has been almost a sacred concept [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Since the days of Cesar Chavez, the politics of the farm worker have been much more publicized than almost any sector of work in our community. Chicanos, Mexicanos and Central Americans are over represented in many other industries, yet the struggles of the farm worker continue to make headlines more frequently than other sectors of [...]

Perhaps it is the economy, but I have heard many more people bringing up the topic of welfare lately.  It seems that many of us trying to keep our head above water are working harder than we were five years ago, and we are earning less money as we do so.  I credit this frustration [...]

¿No que Chente era Hijo del Pueblo?  Un verdadero hijo del pueblo no se enriquece por medio de compañías que apoyan a leyes que separan a familias mexicanas y que dañan a generaciones del futuro. Aún así, Fernández ha hecho un contrato con Budweiser, una corporación que tiene enlaces fiscales con el Senador John McCain, [...]

I think that sometimes my friends who think that they lean even left of me look at some of my commentary about wealth with some suspicion.  I am not rich, nor have I claimed to be, nor am I even close.  I drive a 99 Tahoe and an 03 Town Car.  But I have been [...]