Our New Anahuac

  For Immediate Release                                                                              January 24, 2012                                                                                               CONTACT: Tony Diaz, Nuestra Palabra Director AztecMuse@aol.com    Houston writers & activists organize a caravan of Librotraficantes to smuggle contraband books back into Arizona! Houston, Texas – Local literary nonprofit Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say is organizing The Librotraficantes Banned Book Caravan from Houston, Texas to [...]

The mural at the University of Houston’s University Center is an icon. The mural showcases leaders of the Chicano Movement along with Uncle Sam in the middle as the embodiment of a calavera. Different historical images of Mexican history are painted throughout the mural. It is a political statement as much as anything else, but [...]

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 [...]

To all my friends with students in Texas classrooms: Are you ready to see forty kids per classroom? Read this letter from HISD. This is serious. Share and Enjoy:

Debate: Is DREAM Act a Solution for Millions of Undocumented Youth or a Funnel for Military Recruitment? The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act—DREAM—would allow undocumented young people a chance at citizenship provided they attend college for at least two years or enlist in the military. It’s been described as a dream come [...]

Mexican American Studies, the Social Justice Education Project and Critically Compassionate Intellectualism   The Social Justice Education Project (SJEP) and our Critically Compassionate Intellectualism model have and are showing profound effects on academic success, graduation rates, and participation in post-secondary education. Evaluation already in place determined the following information for the students who participated in [...]

The DREAM Act has long been a favorite of people in the movement.  I had immediate questions when I found out that there is a military option for undocumented youth, but no work or community service option. I have explained my concern about this on numerous occasions, and I’ll leave that for another time. However, [...]

A few weeks ago, the State of Texas made some major curriculum changes, opting to remove significant portions of Latino and Black History and opting to include more conservative history. The Houston Chronicle writes about the curriculum changes. DosCentavos.net did a write up on some of the details. I am proposing a statewide conference call [...]

During his speech to West Point graduates today, Obama repeated the myth that the pretext for invading Iraq was America’s War of Terror.  I knew soon after the Bush administration slyly shifted the war’s rationale from the search for Weapons of Mass Destruction to an extension of Afghanistan, that the administration would eventually be successful in [...]

 This has pretty much been my position on several prior posts!  From MAPA and Hermandad The Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) and the Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana make a call for full support for the students and youth who are demonstrating courage in the struggle for legislation that they interpret will provide them an option to [...]