IN HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS, President Obama speaks but “Thirty Eight Words” on Immigration Reform and judging from more than one source in the blogosphere, they weren’t extremely inspiring. Others were happy to hear immigration reform mentioned at all in the SOTU. But combined with the inaction so far on immigration reform, many [...]

The march and rally on January 16, 2010 in Maricopa County Arizona to protest the criminal Sheriff Joe Arpaio, reviled for his racial profiling tactics, his gratuitously cruel and humiliating conditions for detention, and his embarrassing anachronistic and race-based antagonism against entire communities.
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Haiti, Pundits, Presidents, Revolution, Earthquake, and ghosts in the machine.
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Meditations on hue, shape, purpose…being an artist. And featuring the work of Chicano artist Luis Gutierrez, of Arizona, USA.
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Supporting community, gearing up for immigration reform, and a national day of action in Arizona.

Seeing the year out with tradition, art, hope, and a connection across time and space. Happy New Year, Feliz Año! Thanks to all my amig@s and compas out here, to La Frontera Times, to my current readers and friends, and to the ones I’ll soon meet and make. Peace be with you and yours.
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In this new era of shifting cultural demographics and a shrinking white population, some heroes are gettin’ paid to be the Enlightened Whites. Unfortunately, too often this means repeating oppressive power structures but under the guise of altruism.
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Topics: The Avenida Almasol Christmas Special; a season to think of others…and quilts; the Reign of Terror that renegade lawman Joe Arpaio is ruling over; a response to the University of Denver’s “Architecture for Immigration Reform; and finally, a path forward through the heart.
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INTRODUCING Naco and Nico! And a new cartoon called Avenida Almasol, which takes place in a ‘hood where magical thoughts, connections, and adventures are always around the bend. We will meet a few other characters soon, maybe even the notorious Figga Five. For now, it’s just us and these two ponderous cats kickin’ down la [...]

The criminalization of poverty spreads. Half a million cannot afford water in Mexico, and Felipe Calderón shuts off their power for being delinquent. Lou Dobbs offers us some more entertainment by telling the world he is “Latinos’ Greatest Friends.” Nezua laughs and invites you to join him. Finally, four skinheads attempt to start a race [...]

AS THE UNITED STATES prepares to send tens of thousands more young men and women into the “Grave of Empires,” as Afghanistan has long been called, the violence wrought by war begins to infect the human and global state. Can we file the tragic and violent rampage that Major Nadal Malik Hasan exploded into under [...]

Sending Lou Dobbs off with every ounce of respect he deserves.
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THE UNITED STATES IS SHAMEFULLY the last nation to keep laws in place that deny the possibility of parole from juveniles sentended to life in prison. Today, the Supreme Court begins hearing argument on two cases that could change our laws and bring them into accord with the rest of the modern world.
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Lou Dobbs tells us that hate and vitriol has become his way of life. He manifests a negativity that haunts his own mind. He wants sympathy. This is a story about energy.
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Something short and simple this week from your friendly neighborhood Nezua!
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This week’s News With Nezua looks back on the history of Marijuana, the racism involved with its prohibition, and how that prohibition still plays out as oppression on people of color. Also highlighted is the hypocrisy of alcohol and tobacco being so accepted while the benefits of Marijuana are ignored or simply coopted under Capitalism’s [...]

This week we take an in-depth look at our new Post-Racial Paradise, and the paradoxes that present in the punditocracy when handling race. In the second half of our 12-minute manifest-mess, we also examine the shape of thought when it comes to racism and who, exactly, is a racist. Where does Racism exist? And what [...]

Immigration and Latino-centric News with Nezua for the week of October 5. Covered: Yair Anthony Carillo, ICE, 287(g), Sheriff Arpaio, Chicago Museums, Jorge-Alonso Chehade, a shoutout to Mercedes Sosa and a funkalicious moment of celebration.
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Your News With Nezua for September 27, 2009. A satirical look at what is doing the damage when we talk about “Racism” in the US: those who raise the discussion in the first place…right?
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THIS WEEK’S VLOG might best be called the “Crazy Old White Guys Edition,” and while it’s not a topic I’d want to visit too often, these cats be jumpin’ the rails and thrusting themselves into the news cycle with all the grace of a cry for psychiatric help on broken rollerskates. So let’s focus our [...]

IN THIS “SECOND GOLD RUSH,” where it seems every store, site, and organization is moving forward quickly to access “The Latino Market,” and with the awareness of the arrival of Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month, it seems a good time to consider the question: What does it mean to be “Latino” today?
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News With Nezua this week is a special commentary on the 287g provision of immigration law that deputizes local police with powers of border enforcement.
“A powerful presentation. Frankly, it’s the most persuasive and clear explanation of 287(g) I have seen. We post this with a great sense of doing something good and important for our [...]

A wrap up of immigration/latino-centric news for the week ending September 03, 2009.
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