Depending on the society, there are people today who are beaten, killed and shot, when trying to organize the strength of workers. Families are broken apart due to social conditions. For example, the same forces that have brought people here in an undocumented way are the same forces that are splitting them up by deportation. It is not chattel slavery, as was the case in the US, but I argue that it is a form of slavery, neo-colonialist slavery. When you, from birth, take a man or woman and intentionally deny them the tools and the skills to survive, you create a dependence that is akin to…
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New Book! _Every Broken Trust_ by Linda Rodriguez. The Interview . . .
La Bloga26 May 2013 | 12:00 amAmelia Montes: Congratulations, Linda, on the publication of your new and second mystery novel: Every Broken TrustLinda Rodriguez: Thank you, Amelia. It’s lovely to visit La Bloga again.Amelia Montes: Where does Every Broken Trust take us? Should we have read the first novel Every Last Secret or can the reader read this one and then go back to the first?Linda Rodriguez: You can read Every Broken Trust even if you haven't read Every Last Secret before it. They are a series, but I've tried to make each book work as a stand-alone novel, as well. Every Broken… -
Arpaio's Nemesis Rebecca Jimenez Elected Mayor of Guadalupe!
Immigration Talk with a Mexican American24 May 2013 | 5:59 pmArpaio's Nemesis Rebecca Jimenez has been elected Mayor of Guadalupe. She was the Voter's Clear Choice. Congratulations Rebecca! Keep Standing Strong against Arpaio and his Masked Goon Squad. -
¡Sin maiz, no hay país!
The Mex Files25 May 2013 | 5:00 amINTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST MONTSANTO Whether you like it or not, chances are Monsanto contaminated the food you ate today with chemicals and unlabeled GMOs. Monsanto controls much of the world’s food supply at the expense of food democracy worldwide. In Mexico, where corn originated, there has been an attempt by the U.S. multinational to patent OUR seeds and quite possibly destroy varieties that have been bred for milenia to meet the special needs of different soil and environmental conditions. Filed under: Evil-doers, Food and Drink, Maiz/Corn, Multinationals -
Happy day of mothers? Okay.
Chicana on the Edge12 May 2013 | 12:07 pmMay has always been a shitty month for me. I dislike the loss of winter with its quiet, soothing cover of clouds and coldness. I'm also prone to spring allergies, but mostly I don't react well to Mother's Day. Or at least I didn't in the past.For a long time I've struggled with the practice and concept of motherhood. It just looks to me like a job that women are set up to fail. As a former ungrateful daughter, I never want to be on the mother side of the stories that end up in the therapist's office. Even if a mother does her very best, she makes many mistakes and she can't know which ones…
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New Book! _Every Broken Trust_ by Linda Rodriguez. The Interview . . .
26 May 2013 | 12:00 amAmelia Montes: Congratulations, Linda, on the publication of your new and second mystery novel: Every Broken TrustLinda Rodriguez: Thank you, Amelia. It’s lovely to visit La Bloga again.Amelia Montes: Where does Every Broken Trust take us? Should we have read the first novel Every Last Secret or can the reader read this one and then go back to the first?Linda Rodriguez: You can read Every Broken Trust even if you haven't read Every Last Secret before it. They are a series, but I've tried to make each book work as a stand-alone novel, as well. Every Broken… -
Alumineros. Obama no mea culpa. Writing opp. Contender novel.
24 May 2013 | 11:00 pmFrom reciclero to El AlumineroThe U.S.A. is THE industrialized country known, and becoming more famous, for old people eating cat food or out of trash cans, catching zees and pneumonia under bridges during Xmas, and other uniquely American (U.S.) customs like losing your home to catastrophic medical expenses. (Not possible in Canada, for instance.) Evidence of our fame includes people panhandling on American street corners or going through alley garbage bins. We don't see many of the alley basureros, but the panhandlers are obvious to daily commuters.If you've excused yourself from giving… -
Readings and Greetings at the Old Zoo in Griffith Park
23 May 2013 | 11:00 pmMelinda Palacio Some say the old zoo at Griffith Park is haunted. The animals may be gone, but the smells remain, as do their wild spirits. The wafting of pungent earth might be left by nocturnal creatures who have taken up residence in the former dens. The old zoo was built in 1912. By the late 1930s, the cages and structures were deemed too small for the animals and by the late 1960s, the old zoo became a picnic area, its enclosures too picturesque to tear down. Children listening from above the empty lion's den.It took a New Yorker to dream up… -
Chicanonautica: Report From Disney Barrio
22 May 2013 | 11:01 pmby Ernest HoganI have a strange relationship with Disney. My parents took me to the grand opening of Disneyland while I was still in the womb. During the Great Depression, Walt offered my grandfather a job that Grandpa turned down because it didn’t pay enough to support his family. I fell in love with cartooning early, but Mad Magazine, CARtoons, and underground comix put me on a different path.So I wasn’t surprised when Disney announced that it wanted to trademark Día de los Muertos and that Latinos reacted like rebellious cartoonists. Mexican cartoonist Palo Jasso had his… -
Welcome Luna's Press & Bookstore
21 May 2013 | 11:00 pmInterview with Jorge Tetl ArguetaWhere is Luna's Press & Bookstore? Luna's Press & Bookstore is located in San Francisco CA, in a very special place in the Mission District, 3790 Mission Street. We are between a neighborhood grocery store an a day care center. There are also a few Salvadoran, Mexican and Nicaraguan restaurants and a coffee house nearby. We really like this location because it is family oriented. I believe it is the perfect place for a bookstore with arts and crafts.What kind of books can we find at Luna's Press& Bookstore?We have multicultural…
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Immigration Talk with a Mexican American
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Arpaio's Nemesis Rebecca Jimenez Elected Mayor of Guadalupe!
24 May 2013 | 5:59 pmArpaio's Nemesis Rebecca Jimenez has been elected Mayor of Guadalupe. She was the Voter's Clear Choice. Congratulations Rebecca! Keep Standing Strong against Arpaio and his Masked Goon Squad. -
Arpaio GUILTY of Racial Profiling!
24 May 2013 | 4:53 pmU.S. District Judge Murray Snow issued the ruling Friday: Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has engaged in racial profiling and must not use Hispanic ancestry as a factor when making law-enforcement decisions. The trial examined Arpaio's longstanding emphasis on immigration enforcement which led deputies to target Latino drivers based on their race, and that by doing so, they violated the constitutional rights of Latinos in Maricopa County residents.Dan Pochoda of the Arizona chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union called the ruling “a real vindication for… -
Happy Mother's Day - 2013: A Tribute to Hard-Working Latina Mothers
12 May 2013 | 5:49 pmI've been thinking about my Mom today. Mom was one of the hardest workers and best role models I have ever met. Momma -- as I called her as a six year old, taught us our work ethic. She, like most Latina Women, took her role very seriously. We were taught to Honor God, Family and Work!As I've frequently written, every summer from the time I was 6 until I was 12, we went up to the Traverse City area to pick Cherries. There are numerous Farms across Michigan. Regardless of what the right wing believes, most ALL of us were American Citizens. 95 - 99 percent of us were Latino. -
At NRA Convention, Racists TARGET the President!
6 May 2013 | 4:02 pmThe NRA Convention was held in Houston, TX and ran from May 3 - May 5th. The NRA allowed a company, Zombie Industries, to sell a range of three-dimensional "life sized" targets that "bleed when you shoot them." The Obama likenesses were on display until the last day of the Convention. A Zombie Industries booth worker told BuzzFeed: "They thought (the Zombie) looked like President Obama." When asked if the Obama likeness was intentional the worker said, "Let's just say I gave my Republican father one for Christmas."There was tons of anti-American bashing of… -
Food Costs Don't Matter! It all depends on the Tender Loving Care of the Peron Preparing the Food!
5 May 2013 | 5:30 pmI read an article today in the Daily Mail (British) that detailed the eating habits and costs (per week) comparisons. The list is just amazing.The poorest countries eat Fruits, Vegetables and home-grown foods. The richest countries eat packaged and processed foods. The US eats plenty of fast foods, especially the minorities. US Whites eat plenty of processed cereals. Japan eats plenty of seafood. Australia loves eggs. France loves water and wine. Rich people from Luxembourg love pasta. Germany spends the most and they love their bottled drinks. This takes me back to my childhood. My mom was a…
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¡Sin maiz, no hay país!
25 May 2013 | 5:00 amINTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST MONTSANTO Whether you like it or not, chances are Monsanto contaminated the food you ate today with chemicals and unlabeled GMOs. Monsanto controls much of the world’s food supply at the expense of food democracy worldwide. In Mexico, where corn originated, there has been an attempt by the U.S. multinational to patent OUR seeds and quite possibly destroy varieties that have been bred for milenia to meet the special needs of different soil and environmental conditions. Filed under: Evil-doers, Food and Drink, Maiz/Corn, Multinationals -
Find the illegal…
24 May 2013 | 3:09 pmOne of these guys was a dope-smoking illegal alien. The other one is Cheech Marin. In the video below, one of these guys is making sense. The other one works for Fox News. Happy birthday, Tommy Chong! Filed under: Human Rights, Indocumentados Tagged: Cheech and Chong, Tommy Chong. idiotic Fox News airheads -
Lead us not into telenovelas
24 May 2013 | 2:57 pmPhoto: Puente Libre (Chihuahua) On the heels of a polemical discussion about the role of telenovelas… set off by a column last month in Milenio by Álvaro Cueva, defending the trashy long-running “teen market” soap, La Rosa de Guadalupe comes the story of three girls, 13, 14 and 14, who find themselves facing very serious federal charges, based on a plot they hatched — they claim — inspired by the Televisa program. The issue is not so much whether a drama featuring “unprotected anal sex, drug consumption, the loss of virginity, kidnapping, bullying, abortion,… -
Line forms to the rear
24 May 2013 | 2:37 amThis was posted last September, so I can’t say if it’s more a comment on the sorry state of the British economy that Londoners queue up for a free meal, or that British food is so horrible it’s worth the wait for fake Mexican food. Filed under: Food and Drink, Great Britain, Tex Mex “food” -
Making money the old fashioned way… theft
24 May 2013 | 2:24 amDuring Andrés Granier Melo’s governorship, about 1.6 billion dollars “disappeared” from the State of Tabasco’s treasury. About 6.5 to 7 million U.S. dollars) of the missing funds seem to have been found, just sitting around in cash in a closet of a house belonging to the Granier administration’s State Treasurer. While I’m sure it’s all just a misunderstanding (doesn’t everyone have a closet full of boxes of 500 and 1000 peso bills ?) it is suspicious, given that Granier himself rather disappeared his last day in office. Not that anything…
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Happy day of mothers? Okay.
12 May 2013 | 12:07 pmMay has always been a shitty month for me. I dislike the loss of winter with its quiet, soothing cover of clouds and coldness. I'm also prone to spring allergies, but mostly I don't react well to Mother's Day. Or at least I didn't in the past.For a long time I've struggled with the practice and concept of motherhood. It just looks to me like a job that women are set up to fail. As a former ungrateful daughter, I never want to be on the mother side of the stories that end up in the therapist's office. Even if a mother does her very best, she makes many mistakes and she can't know which ones… -
What is it like to be married? (Part two)
9 May 2013 | 6:49 pm[My original post on this question was written in February, 2012]Lately I've been talking to people who’ve been married fifteen or thirty or more years. For decades I've been hearing that “every marriage is different,” but I still thought marriage was supposed to fit into certain parameters of respect and decency, and if it didn't, it could not stand. I don't know how the heck I learned this from my life experiences, but I somehow I got the impression that there were rules to be followed.I was wrong. Apparently marriage really doesn’t have to meet any standard whatsoever except that… -
The bright side of mental illness!
30 Apr 2013 | 5:44 pmGuess what, everybody? There's an upside to having bipolar disorder and depression! Dr. Nassir Ghaemi runs the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts USA. His book, A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness, argues that typical people without depression have an optimism bias: they expect to do well, things to go well, people to behave well, etc. People who suffer from depression don’t have this. We tend to see things 50-50: there's an equal chance things could be good or bad. This tendency handicaps us when it comes to… -
Some thrive on the unknown
28 Apr 2013 | 9:39 amI. The dirty stove (her job) competes with the uncleaned floors (his job)for most neglected surface,but the winner is her skin. Emotions balance and unbalance, shifting positions and changing sidesWho's heavier? II.It turns out the buoyant boy can sink,while the puffer fish moves towards the surface.Not too close because pressure is dangerous,but so is lack of pressure.She has spent her life in pitched and rolling seasunable to see through the shadows ahead.Uncertainty is her anchor.In a life with nothing approaching stability,new things are not only good, but preferred.Against a… -
Happy Administrative Professional's Day!
24 Apr 2013 | 9:09 amAdministrative Professionals Day | Forward this PictureI work as admin support staff, but I like to call this Secretary's Day, too, but I might be the only person left in the country who refers to herself as a "secretary."To those of us whose workplaces aren't recognizing this day (or our efforts) at all: Let's go buy ourselves a cupcake! Hey, any excuse, right?
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Still Waiting
25 May 2013 | 10:26 pmFrom waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy back in the LP vinyl record era. Not from the current cool kid vinyl fad phase. Poor Angel must be crying for a sign by now. -
Piñata Protection
11 May 2013 | 2:04 amWho hasn’t struggled with fitting a nice traditional-ish piñata into their vehicle? Probably lots of people. But for those of us that have, the top of the car wouldn’t be an option because you don’t want to destroy the fine paper tassels that make all the difference in these gigantic super star party accessories. Those cones double as fancy candy baskets, nobody wants one without the flair: otherwise its just a rolled up piece of carton. In yet another technological coup for the piñata industry, and a bit of help from the oil barons, we can now protect the paper flourish… -
Huevos Rancheros: Little Rodeo
2 May 2013 | 8:41 pmThe last time we visited this place back in July of 2009 it was called Rodeo Express, they closed down some time after that to remodel and only re-opened a few months ago. If you don’t want to click on that link the review was underwhelming, and the place still had those uncomfortable cement benches from the Taco Bravo days. Well they’ve definitely fixed it up with some nice outdoor tables. And it ain’t too shabby inside either. Seems like this place is already popular with the locals. They’ve also reduced the price of the HR’s by 2 bucks since last time, which… -
Easter Scenes
6 Apr 2013 | 12:32 amI didn’t see the OG zombie rising from the dead, but I did see a few street people playing the role. I also seen a few other things on this ignorable Sunday. Here are some pics. Even though I am partial to the circle A, I thought the square one was a good sign. Lots of work for a badly spelled sign. I plan to eat there soon. The new South Los Angeles Wetland Park is kinda cool, lots of birds are already using this small green oasis within the concrete tundra of urbanity. No walking on water for you Jesus! Random nice building that I can imagine being put to some socially worthwhile… -
Figueroa Produce Kaput
17 Mar 2013 | 2:31 amNorth East Los Angeles is definitely on the road to regrettable gentrification, as richer people start to buy up the places poorer people didn’t even think were worth owning. Crappy homes bought by shitty people. What will become of the neighborhood? Take a guess. The most astounding part of this process of displacing the poor is the delusions of all parties involved. Those with money invest in “up and coming” areas (barf!) with the hopes that they can flip their investment and cash out. Mostly they do succeed. And the poor think that the arrival of fancy shops somehow…
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Biking from Columbus to Chicago
25 May 2013 | 4:16 pmI’ve been wanting to do this for a long time now and I am tired of waiting for everyone to get their shit together. So, I am doing it with or without you people. I am biking to Chicago July 1st from Columbus, ideally we will arrive late morning/mid day in Chicago on July 4th. The longest ride will be on July 2nd with 111 miles and the shortest on the 4th of July only 45 miles (and we can even cut that short by hoping on the train with our bikes). I will be staying at cheap hotels along the route and will mostly be traveling by bike path–occasionally country roads. I have not… -
Tsarnaev brothers
29 Apr 2013 | 7:10 pmI’ve thought a lot about the Tsarnaev brothers and about how America has reacted to the fact that these were two young Muslim men of Chechen ethnicity. (The Wrong Kind of Caucasian: Despite the Boston bombers having little to do with Chechnya, the media were quick to demonise an entire ethnicity.) A very close friend of mine who grew up Muslim in Central-Asia in an area neighboring the Chechnya region, emailed me from abroad and said: “Yesterday I watched tv, russian news show about this. So they saying americans wouldn’t believe this is America’s own blame. I… -
mini revolutions
18 Apr 2013 | 5:11 pmThis is the piece I read at the recent blogtitlan feminista gathering in Chicago. This piece I felt was apropos for the event in that it was about Chicago, and about me finding my independence in the Windy City. I didn’t want to post it here until I’d read it and until my companion on my mini-revolutions had heard it as well. It is long but I hope you find yourself laughing and picturing me fierce with emotion. (The other two pieces I read were Why I, and maybe we, blog and ay no se que hacer..)… -
Blogtitlanista Mid-West Reading
16 Apr 2013 | 8:18 amTomorrow, Wednesday night, I and 5 other Latinas will be holding a Blogtitlanistas Reading at the No Nation Gallery here in Chicago in Wicker Park, 1542 N Milwaukee Ave 2nd Floor, at 8pm. I’ll personally be reading an old piece and a new unpublished piece. Below I am pasting bios on the impressive woman I’ll get to share a stage with. If you are in Chicago, come on and out, and bring me some wine or hugs — as I accept both forms of currency. Diana Pando is a writer from Chicago and a founder of the Proyecto Latina Reading Series spotlighting emerging and… -
Mami Ana
15 Apr 2013 | 3:00 pmHappy Birthday to my Mami. This woman created three children. Three educated, intelligent, opinionated, now self-sufficient adults. Together we are published authors, artists, activists, revolutionaries, multilingual, culturally aware, wanderlust, radicals. Not one of us is a follower in any aspect of our lives. Espero mama, que tengas orgullo en lo que has regalado al mundo. Te quiero mami con todo mi corazón y alma. Familia Tzintzún
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Dialectical Migrations
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19 May 2013 | 6:08 pm
19 May 2013 | 6:08 pmSong to WoodyA beautiful day in CO. Read some more interviews in POETRY IN PERSON: Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's poets. Many of these poets were interviewed in the late seventies and early eighties, and they seem to remove themselves from the first person lyric I, which I addressed a few posts ago in regards to trauma and recovery and the fragmented self. Healing involves finding and celebrating that self and reconstructing an identity based on new core beliefs about one's self.The collection I am working on, as a press has noted, successfully meanders through… -
14 May 2013 | 8:22 pm
14 May 2013 | 8:22 pmI really have second doubts about what I posted yesterday. My displacement in academic settings is however real, and most everyone I know believes I will be a better peer specialist in the mental health field. Letting go of ambition, unhealthy ambition is difficult. But I have for the most part let go of any hope of having an academic career. Yet, I am still writing and this is a good thing as there is time now to write. My third collection, recently rejected by a very well known press, has me feeling giddy as the press sent some very encouraging words about the manuscript. This manuscript… -
13 May 2013 | 10:49 pm
13 May 2013 | 10:49 pmBob Dylan's "Day of the Locusts" is my new theme song for my experience in higher education. Yup, he sums it up quite nicely, my experience. I pursued four degrees, trying to learn how to write. It was definitely a mixed bag of magic and dust. The magic came from reading every poem I could get my hands on; the dust came from trying to be somebody.Competition in academia, at least in the backward provinces, isn't pretty. I am relieved for the most part that I have escaped the strange distances between people that occurs. This is partly from rejection, partly from needing to find some recovery… -
11 May 2013 | 11:25 am
11 May 2013 | 11:25 amThe ordeal the women in Cleveland went through and are going through also unnerved me. Many people are horrified how a human being could take control of another human being's freedom. The bombing at the Boston marathon was also sad and horrific. I want to write today about sexual assault, rape, and childhood sexual abuse and healing, how women are objectified in the media and by men and pornography daily. We can become numb and move on quickly regarding these acts of violence and oppression. Society has a move-on to the next act of insanity brief attention span. There are some sick… -
4 May 2013 | 9:24 pm
4 May 2013 | 9:24 pmI have been watching too many David Foster Wallace videos on YouTube tonight. Brilliant mind. Such a loss! Here he discusses television and commercial entertainment and says avant-garde fiction is "academic and cloistered" and among other things "un-fun." I tried reading Infinite Jest in the nineties but found it too thick and overwhelming to read. I think I will be trying again. Just heard a video of him reading a short story and it blew me away. I have recently written or I should say drafted three stories. The fourth one is really not a story or a poem. In any case, I have written it, and…
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"Chiapas Against the Grain" 9th Itinerant Program Summer 2013
7 May 2013 | 2:49 pmIf you're already planning on coming to Chiapas for the Zapatista events this August, consider extending your trip so that you can participate in this valuable program. The independent collective “CHIAPAS AGAINST THE GRAIN” in San Cristóbal de las Casas has once again organized the ninth special summer program based on reflection workshops regarding Language and Culture within the context of different visions of space/habitat and the contradictions in the urban/rural spatial configuration under neoliberal policies. Said program seeks, in short, to encourage exchanges of experiences… -
Constructing a community police in the town of Álvaro Obregón, Oaxaca
16 Feb 2013 | 9:21 pmStrengthening the Struggle to Defend Territory on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec Published on February 11, 2013 in Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Juchitán by Daniel Arellano Chávez, Proyecto Ambulante translation by El Enemigo Común March in Álvaro Obregón. February 10, 2013 Today, February 10, 2013 is certainly a watershed in the struggle for the defense of the land and territory on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. After the successful resistance against the repression ordered by Oaxaca state governor Gabino Cué to shield Mareña Renovables, the peoples of the Isthmus are at a decisive moment in… -
Subcomandante Marcos Introduces the new Subcomandante Moises in Them and Us VI: The Gazes 5
16 Feb 2013 | 1:59 pmThem and Us VI. The Gaze 5. 5.- To gaze into the night in which we are. (From the new moon to the crescent moon) Subcomandantes Insurgentes Marcos (sitting) and Moisés (standing). Many moons ago: under a new moon, brand new, just barely peeking out, barely enough to make shadows below… We-are-hearrives. Without needing to consult or check notes, his words begin to draw an image of the gazes of those who rule here, and those whom they obey. When he finishes, we look. The message from the people is clear, short, simple, blunt. As orders should be. We, male and female… -
Them and Us VI: The Gazes 4 by Subcomandante Marcos
15 Feb 2013 | 7:52 pmThem and Us VI.- The Gazes 4. 4.- Look and communicate. I'm going to tell you something very secret, but don't go around telling it… or do, you decide. During the first days of our uprising, after the ceasefire, there was a lot of commotion regarding the eezee-elen. It was, of course, all of the media paraphernalia that the right tends to use to impose silence and blood. Some of the arguments that were used back then are the same ones as now, which demonstrates how outdated the right is and how antiquated its thinking is. But that is not a topic for now, and neither is the… -
Them and Us Part VI: The Gazes Part 3: Some Other Gazes by Subcomandante Marcos
8 Feb 2013 | 11:47 pmThem and Us VI. The Gazes 3. 3.- Some other gazes. one: A dream in that gaze. Photo: Moysés Zúñiga, Desinformémonos It's a street, a milpa, a factory, a mine shaft, a forest, a school, a department store, an office, a plaza, a market, a city, a field, a country, a continent, a world. The Ruler is seriously wounded, the machine broken, the beast exhausted, the savage locked up. The changes in name and flags didn't work at all, the beatings, the prisons, the cemeteries, the money flowing through corruption's thousand arteries, the "reality shows," the religious celebrations, the paid…
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Gone fishing!
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Susan Combs AWOL at CPRIT oversight meetings
14 May 2013 | 6:56 amCrony is as crony does.Like Attorney General Greg Abbott, Combs was not present as CPRIT encountered mounting problems that nearly caused it to cease operations.In 2007, the Texas Legislature approved a bill creating a state agency to administer a $3 billion program to fight cancer. The legislation set up an 11-member committee that included the comptroller and attorney general, or their staff members, to oversee CPRIT. The other members are appointees of the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker of the House.Unlike Abbott, who attended none of the meetings because in 2008 he picked an… -
Here's a headline you don't want to see
13 May 2013 | 7:58 am'Villalobos public corruption trial begins today in federal court'[Ex-Cameron County District Attorney Armando R] Villalobos is charged in a nine-count indictment with racketeering, bribery and extortion, case-fixing, favoritism, improper influence, personal self-enrichment, self-dealing, concealment, and conflict of interest. -
Read the best Texas blog posts
13 May 2013 | 7:54 amThe Texas Progressive Alliance is thankful for the mothers in their lives as it brings you this week's roundup.Off the Kuff has a Q&A with Robert Ryland, the founder of the Texas County Democratic Campaign Committee, whose mission is to help get more Democrats elected to county offices in Texas.As the end of the legislative session draws near the threat of a special session looms. WCNews at Eye on Williamson tries to discern what it all might mean, The special dance begins and "conservative" confusion.CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme notes John Cornyn is caught in his own obvious hypocrisy. -
John Cornyn is an asshole
10 May 2013 | 6:54 amJust because Ted Cruz is a bigger one, doesn't mean John Cornyn can't be spectacularly awful.Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) ranted Thursday that President Barack Obama hasn't put forward judicial nominees for vacancies in Texas, some open and without a nominee for more than 1,000 days. But he got schooled by his Democratic colleagues, who reminded him he's responsible for recommending nominees to the White House in the first place -- something he hasn't done for years.
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Latina Lista: News from the Latino perspective
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Graduate student in Mexico spearheading Kickstarter campaign to tell the stories of deported DREAMers
24 May 2013 | 4:04 pmLatina Lista: News from the Latino perspective Latina Lista: News from the Latino perspective - News from the Latino perspective. Graduate student in Mexico spearheading Kickstarter campaign to tell the stories of deported DREAMers by Marisa TreviñoLatinaLista — The credit for pushing Congress and President Obama’s administration to address immigration reform goes to the DREAMers. A group of young people who were brought to the United States by their parents as children and who grew up embracing America as their country. The threat of deporting these homegrown Americans has been the… -
Theater lovers everywhere can now enjoy the works of El Teatro Campesino via online video archives
24 May 2013 | 3:00 pmLatina Lista: News from the Latino perspective Latina Lista: News from the Latino perspective - News from the Latino perspective. Theater lovers everywhere can now enjoy the works of El Teatro Campesino via online video archives by Marisa TreviñoLatinaLista — El Teatro Campesino (ETC) is an iconic entity in Chicano and Latino history in the United States. It was founded in 1965 by Luis Valdes, under the blessing of Cesar Chavez, as a cultural component of the United Farm Workers union. With a pointed political mission, ETC performed their “actos” in the fields, agitprop… -
Indigenous Peoples share wisdom passed from their elders on life, living and Mother Earth
24 May 2013 | 1:59 pmLatina Lista: News from the Latino perspective Latina Lista: News from the Latino perspective - News from the Latino perspective. Indigenous Peoples share wisdom passed from their elders on life, living and Mother Earth by Marisa TreviñoFirst Peoples Worldwide (LatinaLista Editor’s Note: As part of our support of the first-ever Proud to be Indigenous Week!, this last post beautifully reflects the goal of the campaign — to raise awareness of Indigenous voices, heighten understanding of their respective cultures and history.) Today we’re celebrating indigenous knowledge as part of… -
The battle of Chicago’s 2013 Puerto Rican Day Parade
24 May 2013 | 8:42 amLatina Lista: News from the Latino perspective Latina Lista: News from the Latino perspective - News from the Latino perspective. The battle of Chicago’s 2013 Puerto Rican Day Parade by Marisa TreviñoBy Nikoleta Morales Extra News The Puerto Rican Day Parade was created and started 47 years ago. The parade was traditionally celebrated in downtown Chicago. This year the tradition was broken – there will be no Puerto Rican Parade in downtown. The Puerto Rican Parade Committee is joining forces with the Puerto Rican Cultural Center to celebrate this year’s theme “Promoviendo nuestra… -
Viernes Video: New bilingual comedy follows the love trail of ’200 Cartas’
23 May 2013 | 11:00 pmLatina Lista: News from the Latino perspective Latina Lista: News from the Latino perspective - News from the Latino perspective. Viernes Video: New bilingual comedy follows the love trail of ’200 Cartas’ by Marisa TreviñoLatinaLista — What happens when a guy meets the girl of his dreams in a crowded New York City bar, but before he can profess his love, they get separated and he knows only two things about her — her name and where she lives. Ordinarily, that wouldn’t pose a huge problem but with a name like María Sánchez in a country like Puerto Rico, problem is an…
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Hasta Los Gatos Quieren Zapatos
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Speaking of stupid people....
25 May 2013 | 8:30 am...meet Emma Way from across the pond in the United Kingdom. She hit a cyclist while out for a drive in the city of Norwich, fled the scene, and then bragged about it on Twitter.The dummy twittered, “Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier—I have right of way he doesn’t even pay road tax! #bloodycyclists.”That little missive was then retwittered 300 more times, inspiring anger along with the nickname “twit and run girl” by fellow Twitter users. The bragging twitter was then sent to the social-media savvy Norfolk police department, who wrote back, "we have had tweets ref… -
Seriously, who is this stupid?
25 May 2013 | 8:00 am..OK, we have a winner.It's one thing to try and get away with criminal activity, after all who really want to get caught?No one.Woman Cops Plea In "Coochie" Smuggle Case MAY 21--The 22-year-old Pennsylvania woman who texted a friend that she was “smuggling cocaine and heroin in my coochie” across the Mexican border has pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge, records show. Samantha Kurdilla was arrested in January after she attempted to walk back into the U.S. from Tijuana via a border crossing. A drug detection dog “alerted to a narcotic odor” emanating from her… -
Arpaio Targets Latinos. Who's surprised here?
25 May 2013 | 7:30 amHere's a non-surprise. According to a federal judge, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his deputies violated the constitutional rights of Latinos by targeting them during raids and traffic stops in Phoenix and throughout Maricopa County.I gotta say it: DUH!Judge G. Murray Snow of United States District Court tore Arpaio a new one. Judge Snow says his views on immigration made it the leading cause for many of the 800 deputies under his command.Well yeah. In any organization, the rot at the top will always spread throughout the barrel.At 142 pages, the decision is peppered with stinging criticism of the… -
I know these people they work where I work...
25 May 2013 | 7:00 am..it's comical.One would assume only the best and brightest would work at a university.That clearly is an assumption.A PhD is only as valuable as the brain that earned it, that said, practical application is a thing apart.That's not the part that bothers me.Advanced degrees being what they are are common in a university setting and yet it is a way to separate "the better from the best".In terms of promotions, salaries and perks its what culls the herd in terms of rewards.I learned a long time ago skill and talent are… -
Justice Delayed, Not Denied
24 May 2013 | 1:01 pmThe Internet has lit up with shock and disbelief that Jodi Arias was not sentenced to death. Apparently these people just landed on the planet after spending their lives on Saturn.Here's the reality: A young white woman, who some people think is attractive, will NOT be sentenced to death, especially by jurors who lived in an insular world for five months. Added to that, is what the jury foreman said this morning. He was not able to put the appearance of the defendant with the horrific crime she committed. Although they didn't believe her bullshit domestic violence accusations, they…
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Viva la Feminista
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Review: Rebel on PBS
23 May 2013 | 4:30 amLoreta Velazquez was no normal little girl. Even as the young daughter of Cuban aristocrats, she railed against the injustice of being a girl in a world that privileged boys. Her story is told in "Rebel," a new episode of "Voces" on PBS, premiering Friday, May 24th. Velazquez was sent to New Orleans as a child to live with an aunt, who was supposed to "finish" turning Velazquez into a proper young lady. Alas, love had a different plan. How this headstrong Cuban woman went from eloping with a Texan Army officer to becoming a Confederate soldier, then a spy for the Union is filled with tragedy… -
10 Years
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Mother's Day Giveaway
12 May 2013 | 5:30 amHappy Mother's Day to everyone who has mothered in any way. And to celebrate, thanks to My Yoga online, I'm giving away a year-long membership to their website. Feel like you don't have time to go to a yoga class? And DVDs are just not for you? Why not try this online yoga site? Videos are available not just on your computer, but also tablets, TVs and mobile devices. There's more than just yoga too! There are also pilates and wellness videos available. So here's the deal: To enter just leave a comment and leave your email address or tweet this giveaway (@veronicaeye so I know you did this!). -
EVENT: Choice Rocks! (New Mexico)
9 May 2013 | 5:30 amIf you live near Albuquerque, New Mexico, what are you doing on May 18th? May I suggest you head out to "Choice Rocks! 2013" It's a benefit for Planned Parenthood of New Mexico and tickets start at $20 for general admission and $50 for VIP tickets. It looks like a great time and at an affordable price too. So what are you waiting for? -
IMOW Muslima
7 May 2013 | 5:30 amDid you know that there is an online museum of women? The International Museum of Women is totally online and showcases some great art. Their latest exhibition is MUSLIMA: MUSLIM WOMEN'S ART & VOICES and features the artwork, stories and ideas of Muslim women who are standing up for their rights, reforming Islam from within, and reclaiming their religion for themselves. The curator, Samina Ali, led the peaceful protest at a West Virginia mosque that prompted the American Muslim group CAIR to change its policy about admitting women through a mosque's main doors. The best part…
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Los Ziegler en Canada
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Café de por Medio S04E20: Lissette, de Cuba a Sherbrooke
22 May 2013 | 6:00 pmCon los lectores Cubanos tengo una deuda pendiente. O dos, en realidad. Una es un Café de por Medio con alguien que haya llegado hace poco tiempo y otra deuda es una disculpa formal con ellos. Ambas deudas las pienso saldar hoy y juntas. Los invito a seguir leyendo y, si pueden, a dar una mano para que esta charla la pueda escuchar más gente que realmente la necesita. Primero, saldemos las deudas En el Episodio 10 de Café de por Medio publiqué mi conversación con Marcelino, un vecino de Ottawa llegado hace algo así como 10 años por aquí por medio del proceso de refugio. Muchos me… -
La Red de Mujeres Emprendedoras Latinas de Ottawa-Gatineau
19 May 2013 | 6:00 pmLa semana pasada me enteré que se iba a realizar este próximo Sábado 25 de Mayo una exposición muy especial. Es la primera exposición de la Red MELOG: Red de Mujeres Emprendedoras Latinas de Ottawa-Gatineau. Debo decir que me tomó por sorpresa y me alegro mucho saber sobre este emprendimiento. Por lo general uno se entera que estas cosas pasan en ciudades más grandes: Montreal y Toronto son muy buen ejemplo de asociaciones de Latinos que vienen trabajando muy bien hace rato. Pero por aquí, en este pueblo chico que es la Capital de Canadá, no es usual toparse con este tipo de cosas. -
Café de por Medio S04E19: Selena, de las Canarias a Alert Bay
15 May 2013 | 6:00 pmHace unos meses los lectores españoles me comentaban que les gustaría encontrar más charlas de café con sus paisanos en Canadá. Sabía que estaba en falta con ellos y que el pedido tenía fundamento, así que me puse a la búsqueda. Fue así que me dí una vuelta por spaniards.se, el foro de españoles en el mundo, que tiene una comunidad relacionada con Canadá muy activa y donde suelen citar al blog con cierta frecuencia. Sin embargo, me di cuenta que los españoles, tan adelantados y europeos ellos para algunas cosas, son tan poco inclinados a colaborar con sus coterráneos en… -
Café de por Medio S04E18: Carolina Z
7 May 2013 | 6:45 pmCarolina, su esposo y sus dos hijos son de Bogotá, Colombia. Ella es Ingeniera Industrial y el pasado 21 de Marzo (una semana después de haber grabado esta conversación) salieron para Laval. Los invito a escuchar mi conversación con Carolina sobre su proceso, las idas y vueltas, porque eligió Laval, que tiene planeado y mucho más. [Ingresar al post para escuchar el archivo] ¿Qué has aprendido hoy? Este es el momento en que te pido que hagas dos cosas: Déjame un comentario con tu opinión sobre lo que escuchaste. Quiero saber que has aprendido y como lo utilizarás. ¿Conoces a… -
Café de por Medio S04E17: Sergio V
2 May 2013 | 6:26 amSergio y Lina son de Bogotá, Colombia. Sergio es Ingeniero Electrónico y Lina es profesional del área de Marketing. Están casados desde hace unos 3 años y en solamente un par de días más se van a vivir a Montreal. En 2010 buscaban como mejorar sus vidas y seguir generando oportunidades de ser mejores profesional y personalmente. Cuando aprendieron sobre el Programa de Inmigración de Quebec entendieron que ese podría ser su camino. Un camino bien planeado Los invito a escuchar mi conversación con Sergio para conocer los detalles de su preparación para este nuevo camino que comienzan…
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Vista Hispano
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URBAN TxT’s Secret Sauce Turns Teens Into Tech Entrepreneurs
18 May 2013 | 9:41 pm“I guess we’re used to a teacher coming in and telling us what to do. When it was just us, nobody really knew what to do.” This answer resonated with everyone of the 31 teens accepted into URBAN Teens eXploring Technology (URBAN TxT) summer program, also known as the Summer Hackaneer Academy. The new participant was explaining why some teens stepped up to the plate and others did not during a teambuilding activity that happened earlier in the day.URBAN TxT students during first program activity.Creating an environment that allows young adults to explore their talents, insecurities,… -
Meet Cíbola: South Side Chicago's Innovation Center Fueling Diversity in Tech Innovation
29 Apr 2013 | 11:51 pmFresh off 54 hours of startup ideation via Startup Weekend Santa Maria, the excitement and energy still remains. Questions arise as to how we can keep the momentum going in the area of moving viable ideas forward. Enter Cíbola, a prime example of a focused collective effort aimed at helping drive the number of everyday innovators. The Rainforest by Victor W. Hwang and Greg Horowitt identifies several important aspects of the 'Innovation Funnel' including:IdeasPeopleEntrepreneursOrganizationsCoordinating InfrastructureCíbola, founded by Mahrinah von Schlegel and Emile Cambry, Jr.,… -
NORTEC Collective and Interesante.com Composing New Technology Tune.
24 Apr 2013 | 11:47 pmNORTEC collective and Interesante.com composing new technology tune.Mexico is experiencing an economic renaissance. The country's explosive growth has fueled a new wave of technology startups that are betting on the Mexican market. Interesante.com is one that has been able to fuse culture and technology into a service that allows users to publish, share and discover millions of interests in Spanish and English.Interesante users are a highly mobile crowd. To support this, we are regularly releasing improved versions of Interesante for iPhone and Interesante for mobile web. Our users can… -
Sabio.la Hosting Developer Bootcamps for Women and Minorities
8 Apr 2013 | 1:25 pmHow can we encourage more diversity in the arenas of entrepreneurship and technology? It begins with a sense of identity and community where each of us play an important role in recognizing that talent and possibility know no boundaries. Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas and we must take advantage of opportunities to turn our passions into rewarding careers. Advocates of Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) and proponents of technology and innovation in the startup arena are charged with the task of providing pathways for increased diversity in tech. As we speak organizations like… -
Latinos in Social Media to Partner with LEAD to Connect Summit Participants via Social Media
22 Mar 2013 | 2:46 pmSAN BERNARDINO, Calif.-The Latino Education and Advocacy Days project has named Latinos in Social Media (LATISM) as its ambassador for this year's LEAD summit. The day-long summit will take place at Cal State San Bernardino, on Wednesday, March 27, 2013, from 8:00 a.m - 5:30 p.m. at the Santos Manuel Student Union. LATISM and LEAD's social media team will solicit and train interns from CSUSB, University of La Verne, and East Los Angeles College to assist with twitter, facebook, and instagram traffic the day of the summit. Participants are encouraged to use the hashtags #LEAD2013 and…
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Inmigrantes Canadá: Blogs de inmigrantes en canada. Experiencias sobre trabajar en canada, vivir en Canada y estudiar en canada
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Destrámites consulares venezolanos en Montreal
25 May 2013 | 6:21 amMi niña sin cédula ni pasaporte venezolanos Pronto cumpliremos tres años de haber emigrado. Han sido tres años intensos, y nos hemos mantenido realmente ocupados. Los trámites me han parecido infinitos, aprender el idioma, documentos, buscar... -
Me decidi por un iPhone. (El post geek). Pilas con los Links!!!
24 May 2013 | 1:45 pmHace un año, harta como estaba de mi BlackBerry (al que ya tenía cariñosamente apodado “crapberry”), me lancé en una búsqueda en Internet leyendo opiniones entre los diferentes “Teléfonos Inteligentes”. Yo soy... -
Embarrassing moments – #59
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Carrefour international de théâtre
23 May 2013 | 6:13 pmQuébec (Centre-Ville- Quartier Saint... -
El fenómeno Hadfield
23 May 2013 | 4:09 pmHay una definición que utilizó el escritor norteamericano Bill Bryson en su estupendo libro “Down Under” (En las antípodas), para referirse a Australia que me parece perfectamente aplicable a Canadá: “No se porta mal. Es...
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Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations website and podcast
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Consultants suggest companies can achieve speedy innovation
24 May 2013 | 1:00 amInnovate Products Faster book coverPhoto: TCGen Press Developing new products does not require a slow and ineffective process. In Innovate Products Faster: Graphical Tools for Accelerating Product Development (TCGen Press, $19.95), John Carter and Jeanne Bradford, chief executive officer and principal respectively of TCGen Inc., make the case that companies can have innovation and speed. To do so, they say, it is necessary to have mastery of tools and methodologies that will support managers in making better decisions faster. They say the tools available should be those that can be quickly… -
Listen to podcast with John Teeuws, VP, Pulpo Media, about communicating effectively with Hispanics online
20 May 2013 | 1:00 amJohn Teeuws, VP, Pulpo Media Photo: Pulpo Media A podcast interview with John Teeuws, vice president, Pulpo Media, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, he discusses communicating effectively with Hispanics online with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.John manages sales to major US agencies and accounts. Prior to working at Pulpo Media he worked with the sales teams at Tribal Fusion, Spot Runner, Placecast, and Stack Media. John began his advertising sales career at The Washington Post… -
Branding consultant fan of Pinterest
17 May 2013 | 1:00 amPinterest for Business book cover Photos: Karen Leland Karen Leland, owner of a branding and marketing firm, believes in the power of Pinterest. People love pictures, she says. She points to recent studies that indicate that nearly 20 percent of women using the Internet are on Pinterest, 72 percent of Pinterest users are women, 66 percent of those are age 35 or older, and the average amount of time visitors spend surfing the Pinterest site is an hour. In Entrepreneur Magazine’s Ultimate Guide to Pinterest for Business, a 189-page soft cover book published this year, she set out to create an… -
Listen to podcast with Rebecca Adamson, president, First Peoples Worldwide, about the value of indigenous economics
13 May 2013 | 1:00 amRebecca Adamson, president, First Peoples WorldwidePhoto: First Peoples WorldwideA podcast interview with Rebecca Adamson, president, First Peoples Worldwide, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, she discusses the value of indigenous economics with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.Rebecca, a Cherokee economist, is also founder of First Peoples Worldwide. A leader, activist, and ground-breaking indigenous woman, Rebecca holds a distinct perspective of how indigenous people’s value and… -
Latin Alternative Music Conference
9 May 2013 | 7:00 amInformation provided by Event Partner Latin Alternative Music Conference New York City July 9-13, 2013 LAMC (Latin Alternative Music Conference) is the only major conference celebrating and supporting genres of Latin music that are left of center and forging the way Latinos, especially young, bicultural Latinos in the U.S., define themselves. The LAMC is also the largest Latin music conference in the US. The 14th annual LAMC will break new ground, inaugurating a new, expanded focus on a diverse array of special events dedicated to music, food, film, books, art and poetry.
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Our New Anahuac
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Latino in 2013
30 Apr 2013 | 12:23 pm***This event, which will share the perspectives of a diverse group of Houston Latinos, is the first in a series. All Houstonians are encouraged to join us and participate in the dialogue.*** 2013 is the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech, delivered during the march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Racial divides were central to both of these moments that stand out so brightly in American history. These divisions were again at the forefront of the nation’s… -
Are Today’s Working Conditions Akin To Slavery
1 Feb 2013 | 8:41 amDepending on the society, there are people today who are beaten, killed and shot, when trying to organize the strength of workers. Families are broken apart due to social conditions. For example, the same forces that have brought people here in an undocumented way are the same forces that are splitting them up by deportation. It is not chattel slavery, as was the case in the US, but I argue that it is a form of slavery, neo-colonialist slavery. When you, from birth, take a man or woman and intentionally deny them the tools and the skills to survive, you create a dependence that is akin to… -
Republican Achieve Act Should Be Discounted
28 Nov 2012 | 10:35 amAs far as the achieve act: I only know based on news reports the following: the original DREAM act was a good plan. However, it got changed to require military service or higher education, which I had a big problem with. The vast majority of our brothers and sisters could make no use of the higher education provision, which created a situation similar to a draft, I called it a de facto draft. For this reason, I opposed the later version of the DREAM Act. It would put undue pressure on our youth to go and commit to wars of imperialism for the sake of not having their families separated. -
Discussion on Welfare
4 Nov 2012 | 10:06 amWelfare is one of those topics that I have thought a great deal about this year. At least over the past couple of years, there seems to be some growing resentment, even from those who pay little or no taxes about those who collect welfare. In fact, I wrote a much briefer post about this in June of last year. I’ve have heard it so much and from so many different people in different situations, that I placed some thought into the subject. It may seem that I have someone in particular in mind. I don’t. I have handfuls of people in mind. It seems that over the past few months, many… -
Words from my Great-Great Grandfather
23 Oct 2012 | 9:00 amHe was writing about the Anglo incursion into Texas, and about the theft of land, specifically about the theft of what he believed was his personal land. These, and many more, words were recorded in a book by my grandmother. She recorded four memorials. Three were by her grandfather, Ygnacio Balli Tijerina III and one by her father, Ignacio Balli IV. This excerpt is from Ygnacio Balli Tijerina III, my great-great Grandfather. He is writing about the legal and moral protests about the theft of land. When a person is weak and prudent and besides, if he is very much offended, and if the laws of…
