Our New Anahuac

This post is an attempt to look at terrorism with a little logic.  I try to present facts here.  It is devoid of patriotic emotions over anything.  I admit that I am immune to such feelings, but for those who read this, understand that this is meant to be an analysis of terrorism, not a [...]

NATIONAL CHICANO MORATORIUM COMMITTEE
Jcruzor1 @ aol.com , (323) 687-0963-organize @ pnlru.org
P.O.Box 13 San Fernando CA 91340
December 28, 2009
Hermanas y Hermanos,
The Nacional Chicano Moratorium Committee-NCMC, extends an invitation
to help organize the 40th Commemoration of August 29, 1970.  The 40th
Commemoration is going to be held on August 28, 2010.
40 years is easily said, however it has taken [...]

From Wikipedia
The sample text below is an excerpt from a statement issued in Nahuatl by Emiliano Zapata in 1918 in order to convince the Nahua towns in the area of Tlaxcala to join the Revolution against the regime of Venustiano Carranza.[104] The orthography employed in the letter is improvised, and does not distinguish long vowels [...]

A few days ago, less than a week, I believe, I was listening to a report on KPFT or NPR and they were discussing the Glass-Steagall Act, the act which essentially limited banks from taking major lending risks. In 1999 the act was repealed. This repeal is largely blamed for having caused the financial crisis [...]

First and foremost, thank you to Citlali Chavana, who is typing this post for her jefito due to his broken pinky. No doubt she will one day be a great writer/fashion designer/actress/whatever she wants to be.
Last Fridayish, Attorney General Eric Holder held a press conference in which he explained why some of the 9-11 criminals would [...]

I think that one of the most difficult things for our people to grasp is the long-term danger of the use of such words as Latino and Hispanic.  These terms were born of an attitude of white supremacy among  Spanish and Portuguese speakers. It is shocking for some to realize that there are Hispanic [...]

This book is worth a read if you can find it.

Participate!! Esta vez, hasta la Victoria!!!! 
 
We are beginning our organizing efforts for the historic (national) 
40th annual commemoration of the 1970 National Chicano Moratorium 
Committee march against the War in VietNam and the social conditions 
faced by our people. 
 
To support, endorse or for more information: 
 
organize AT pnlru.org 
 
jcruzor1 AT aol.com 
 
Make your plans, now, to join us in this historic march [...]

Every year, Macario Ramirez shares his knowledge of building a Dia De Los Muertos altar.  Every October Saturday at 10AM at his Heights art shop, Casa Ramirez, he teaches for an hour what he has learned during his life about making our ancestors feel welcomed back in our midst. 
My daughter and have been keeping an altar [...]