Our New Anahuac

“The three concepts (In Lak Ech, Panche Be and Hunab Ku), including the concept of Zero, are all interrelated. But as noted, they are necessarily and inextricably connected in this country to the pursuit of peace, dignity and justice.” -Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez in Amoxtli The X Codex This is my understanding of spirituality.  Perhaps [...]

“En una revolucion se triumfa o se muere, si es verdadera.” -Che Guevara In Spanish, Che’s words refer to the revolution and not the revolutionary. He states that a revolution either is victorious or it fails. It does not refer to the revolutionary. Vladimir Illich Lenin once wrote that it is easy to be a [...]

A revolutionary takes ideas that seem radically different and offensive to the powers that be and makes these ideas the norm. A revolutionary makes the impossible possible, tangible. A revolutionary takes raw materials and constructs a model so dear to your heart, so necessary, that you quickly begin wondering how to demolish your own home [...]

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 [...]

“There’s something wrong with a country fighting a war that most of the country has come to pay such little attention to.” Chris Matthews For those who know me, it is simply too expected to say that the war undesirable. It is an easy position to take, now that the majority of the country is [...]

Frustration is a sense of dissatisfaction aroused by unfulfilled needs or desires.  The emotion of frustration is a powerful one.  The emotion is powerful because it acts as a warning, an alarm.  In the same way that an alarm has the power to prevent a personal tragedy, social frustration sounds an alarm that can prevent [...]

I was reading this post called Union Busting is Market Manipulation and Wage Theft. The post was on DirtyHippies, and part of the argument I found to be very insightful. I love theory, even though it is often difficult to debate via the internets. Here is a portion of the argument, along with my response. [...]

Affirmative Action A few weeks ago, a federal appeals court refused to hear an appeal from a University of Texas student who was challenging the right of the university to even the playing field in admissions by considering the race of certain applicants. The court essentially said that the university had the right to prefer [...]

I have often said that small business ownership is one strategy to success for our community.  For years, scholars have documented the systematic limits and barriers for minorities in the corporate world.  One does not need to believe that every Anglo is racist to believe that there are many structural barriers which inhibit the success [...]