Our New Anahuac

Cesar Espinosa, Mike Espinoza, Maria Xiquin and I presented a panel discussion at St Thomas University.  Our sincerest thanks to Dave Atwood, St. Thomas U, Pax Christi, Maryknoll and Catholic Worker Newspaper.  My comrades knocked it out of the park.  I am posting a few pics, and the audio follows.
 
 
 

 
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Citlalli Citlalmina Anahuac of the Mexica Movement speaks about some deficiencies in Chicana feminism.  Thanks to Nahui Huitzilopochtli for sharing this. Briefly, Citlalli, argues:
Feminism doesn’t confront colonialism.
Feminism fights white men, but we shouldn’t be fighting our men.  We should be developing them.
Our pre-Cuahutemoc culture valued women, therefore our strategy for equality should be restorative.
Please [...]

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 [...]

Special thanks to Mazatzin, Assessor of the Ancient Culture of Anauak (an overly humble title in my opinion), for this guest post.
He asked me to include his contact information:
(323)830-7479
zemazatzin @ hotmail.com
www.aztekayolokalli.com
 
Happy New Year to all, in this European colonial calendar count. It is a new year because we are measuring it from exactly 365.25 days [...]

Below are some comments from Mary Almendarez of LULAC.  She applaudes the district imminent decision to fire some teachers for under-performing.  What a novel concept, right?  The teachers, under the new plan, would be held accountable for the test scores of their students.  To many it sounds like a no-brainer, but it’s not that simple
Traditionally, [...]

The secret to HISD’s success?  Get all the students that have academic challenges, route them to privatized partners, y de repente, your graduation percentages skyrocket, your “normal” schools are safer and your budget, at least in theory, is better off.  The Houston Press describes the environment at a CEP school, through the eyes of a [...]

The Brown Berets and other organizations are gearing up for a protest against Larry Whitten of the Whitten Inn in Taos, New Mexico to protest his controversial employment practices in which he required all of his employees to speak only English in his presence.  He even went so far as to require that employees either [...]

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 [...]

A guest report and commentary on the Indigenous Dignity March by Conrado Acevedo.  Photos Courtesy of Ollin Quetzalcoatl.
Saturday the March for Indigenous Dignity took place in San Antonio, Tejaztlan.  The march started in Columbus Park and took us all the way to the Front of the Bexar County Courthouse on Market Street in downtown Yanawana (San [...]

Houston organizers had the distinct pleasure of meeting with Favianna Rodriguez of the Basta Dobbs campaign, perhaps one of the first modern Latino campaigns with a truly national character. Favianna, an accomplished blogger who blogs at Favianna.com, explained the campaign’s focus on the largest media markets, and the importance of having every major city in [...]