February 2012
luchador@s, An excerpt from “El Plan de San... →
EDUCATORS FOR FAIR CONSIDERATION (E4FC) →
LIFE AFTER COLLEGE GUIDE FOR UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS BRAND NEW FOR 2012! This 73-page guide contains valuable information, tips, and resources to help undocumented students navigate life after graduation. While initially it may seem as though undocumented students have limited options upon graduating from college, this guide is intended to shed light on the possibilities that do exist. The guide...
“PRESS RELEASE
CONTACT
Denise Chávez
The Border Book Festival
575-523-3988...”
– via Historia Listserve
guerrilla mama medicine: From the House of... →
bonnietsunami:
My mother had two faces and a frying pot where she cooked up her daughters into girls before she fixed our dinner. My mother had two faces and a broke pot where she hid out a perfect daughter who was not me I am the sun and the moon and forever hungry for her eyes.
I bear two…
comoespinademaguey:
Segundo podcast con nociones...
guerrilla mama medicine: digitalbin: Christy... →
Steps to Change Painful Emotions
1. Figure out your emotion. Emotions can be complicated and confusing. Figuring out what you are feeling — for example, anger, fear, frustration or guilt — is essential to determining how to change your feeling. 2. Ask yourself what action goes with that emotion. For example, avoidance generally goes with fear; aggression with anger; crying wallowing...
Los Angeles apologizes for role in massive... →
thenoobyorker:
“Many still don’t know that under the guise of “American Jobs for Real Americans” and touting it as a panacea to end the high unemployment caused by the Depression, President Herbert Hoover and the federal government launched an aggressive anti-immigrant campaign together with local governments to “repatriate” people of Mexican descent, forcibly deporting scores of individuals....
Think Mexican: The Oscar Is Mexican: Academy Award... →
thinkmexican:
The story behind the Academy Award’s Oscar statuette is itself one fit for the movies.
It starts in the 1920’s during the Mexican Revolution. Emilio Fernández was studying in Mexico’s military college when he decided to take up arms and help support the revolutionary cause of Adolfo de la…
HIV Stops With Me
latinosexuality:
lati-negros:
foto of HIV activist who is living positive Jahlove a AfroLatino from NYC.
foto credit @C.Read
so happy other LatiNegr@ queer youth will see jahlove, this was on a bus passing by.
Mujeres Talk: Finding Missing Latinas →
by Theresa Delgadillo
Over the past decade, there has been significant attention focused on the murders and disappearances of Mexican women in Juarez, Mexico. The public protests and demands for justice directed at local, state and national government bodies by the families of the missing women have been joined by international women’s organizations, grassroots feminist campaigns, and several...
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.
It is not the urge to...”
– Arthur Ashe (via dez-ray)
No one ever cares about how it feels for CHILDREN...
svnoyi:
Just pretend all the uphappy, unrepresented, and oppressed little kids dont exist, ok? They just suddenly exist at the age of 16 or so, always getting bent out of shape about race things for no damn reason. Gosh, why cant they get their shit together, right?
Immigrant Stories: How did you come to US?: Books:... →
immigrantstories:
Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Time challenges the propaganda and the realities of the current relationship between the United States and Mexico, focusing on the more intimate connection between the border towns of El Paso and Juarez. Charles Bowden, who first brought attention to the…
At least 204 people have been killed by the NYPD... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
February 4, 1999 - Amadou Diallo, 23 - Bronx
May 25, 1999 - Rodney Mason, 38 - Queens
May 26, 1999 - Dante Johnson, 16 - Bronx
Jun. 28, 1999 - Renato Mercado, 63 - Manhattan
Jul. 24, 1999 - Delano Maloney, 32 - Brooklyn
Aug. 5, 1999 - Jatrek Hewitt, 17 - Staten Island
Aug. 9, 1999 - Robert Striker, 54 - Manhattan
Aug. 15, 1999 - Angel Reyes, 47 - Manhattan
Aug....
The Scale of the Universe →
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VARELA FILM | Raul R Salinas and the Poetry of... →
¡hasta siempre, raúlrsalinas!
raúl r salinas and the Poetry of Liberation is an hour long documentary that takes us on a trip through the life Xicanindio poet/activist raúlrsalinas’ and a changing nation told through “medicine stories,” poetry, and the rhythm of jazz. This story examines, the social/political forces that transformed a man from petty criminal to a poet of the people and...
Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory | This American... →
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MR. DAISEY AND THE APPLE FACTORY
Originally aired 01.06.2012
Mike Daisey was a self-described “worshipper in the cult of Mac.” Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out.
PROLOGUE.
Host Ira Glass speaks with an Apple device about its...
