Our New Anahuac

He was writing about the Anglo incursion into Texas, and about the theft of land, specifically about the theft of what he believed was his personal land. These, and many more, words were recorded in a book by my grandmother. She recorded four memorials. Three were by her grandfather, Ygnacio Balli Tijerina III and one [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Isn’t that something? According to this article Influential Jews via councils helped to deport less-important Jews during Nazi occupation. Makes you think. From early 1942, when Germans began deporting Polish Jews to killing centers, the situation of Judenrat leaders became morally unbearable. There were incidents where Judenräte were forced to prepare lists of deportees, while [...]

From A Gringo Manual On How To Handle Mexicans. Published During The Chicano Movement, Relevant Today. Trick 66: Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Elections decide a winner and a loser. But for people without a candidate, elections are always losing propositions. The masses are extolled to vote for Mr. X because he’s better [...]

From the Section The Structure Of The New Order. Segregation 1920-1940. Residential segregation, demarcated, in a highly visible way, the distinct social standing of Anglos and Mexicans in the new order…American neighborhoods of handsome wood frame houses, paved streets, and enclosed sewers stood in sharp contrast with Mexican towns of corrugated tin shacks, dirt roads [...]

“The Case of Joe Campos Torres” is a documentary film about one of the most infamous cases of police misconduct in Houston history. Produced at KPRC-TV, Channel 2 in Houston in 1978 by Tony Bruni and written and edited by Carlos Calbillo, this documentary feature is reported by John Quiñones, now of ABC News in [...]