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Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 08:34:05 AM EDT
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 I WAS ON a White House debriefing conference call on Friday (on immigration reform) and actually did much tweeting on it. (Talk about sentences you never thought you'd write....). I'll post some of those as well as talk about my own thoughts, hopes, and fears on the matter tomorrow (over here).
For now I'll crosspost the New America Media (NAM) op ed I was sent by NAM and asked to publish. And I'll also say that I'm definitely more in line with NAM's op ed than I am with the strategerizing from some of these cats that were on the phone call or even with Chuck Schumer and his whole Sound Meaner When Talking About Immigrants line. (Not that he doesn't deserve support for what he's doing to advance this issue in the first place (Yay Chuck!) but I'm really hoping he's not doing it for strokery but because he knows he is representing the ideals of the US, the wishes of his constituents, and more importantly, doing what is humane and right among humans.)
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Sun Apr 19, 2009 at 11:27:09 AM EDT
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THOSE WITH MORE MONEY AND POWER THAN MOST fight to retain the right to ignore borders when it comes to moving monies or goods to their own financial advantage, or opening bank accounts to evade taxes, or opening sweat shops and hiring populations that will work for substandard wages, or dropping bombs or firing bullets into bodies not like theirs, or dumping nuclear waste, or committing rape and torture to evade laws in the land of the torturer.
But when the people in general start to move about to try and escape the vacuums and pressure zones that open up suddenly and make life a suffering thing as a result of all these behaviors? The Global attitude suddenly constricts violently. And borders are seen as safeguards of civilization. And civiliation-the people-are actually seen as dangerous.
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Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 15:47:45 PM EDT
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 THE FEBRUARY ICE RAIDS IN BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON surprised many, coming as they did after President Obama was elected. The remnant of Bush-Chertoff style tactics were a brand new shock again, as a mass of federal agents surrounded a car engine repair shop and scooped many workers into buses waiting in the back.
Shortly after, Janet Napolitano confessed that the raid had taken even her by surprise, that she was not consulted, and that she would order a review. Speaker Pelosi was soon quoted speaking out against the devastating effects our "enforcement" tactics have been having on communities.
Did the focus have an effect on how this raid played out in the aftermath?
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Sat Apr 04, 2009 at 16:39:37 PM EDT
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 IF YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT The DREAM Act, I want to introduce you to the legislation, fight, and arguments. There's really no need for me to try and explain it because some compas have poured hours and hours of work into making cases, offering links, and organizing already. I'm just going to write at the moment to say I do support it (despite the fact that I don't support creating new ways for our war machine to suck up more mexicano-or other-lives) and I'm going to paste some links and writing from Dream Activist as well as Blogmigo Kyle from Citizen Orange.
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Fri Mar 20, 2009 at 01:10:58 AM EDT
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The idiocy expelled out all over the blogs, tv, and radio has passed as the immigration debate for too long. It is the rhetorical and intellectual equivalent of tic-tac-toe, The anti-freedom, anti-equality, anti-reality, anti-immigrant arguments need to be exposed for what they are; hysteria and tyranny. I think the audience for this crowd and their adherents are fewer than they suppose, and I hope that there are many among them whose minds can be changed, or who are at least interested in using their minds. Perhaps there are many within the ranks of the self-proclaimed "conservatives", "patriots", or "republicans" who are looking for arguments to pivot away from the dregs of the political right.
I want to address those who can be persuaded by reason, and are interested in more than the worn out clanging from people who would have you believe there are aliens living among us. The choice of the word 'alien' by the immigrant haters is obviously intended to literally alienate the immigrant as the consummate other. But it also exposes the infantile underpinnings of their thinking. Their appeal is to the visceral, those who are only interested in short cuts to thinking. They constantly deploy alien as their pejorative of choice because so many negative and frightening connotations attach to the word, but also because they believe in an America that is so encapsulated within a white-dominant cultural experience. They think it's not a leap to convince us that a brown man speaking something other than English is deeply threatening and somehow un-human.
Their ideas need to be exposed as extremist and un-American because they are.
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Wed Nov 12, 2008 at 14:30:25 PM EST
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 I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER how many times I've written on hate crimes against Latinos, or how the MSM spins the news and what it features to perpetuate fear and loathing and tired roleplaying of Brown/Black/Golden as Other/Evil/Contagion/Alien, or the advertisements that do the same, and the putos and haterz and abettors of the growing violence against mi gente. Some claim their virulent resistance to those from South of the "border" is all about "law" when clearly it is about culture and resistance to change at best, and naked racism at worst. (Some sound advice on how to take the shifting culture with perhaps some humor, rather than abject fear.)
The Clotty Red Stopper should not be yanked from its bottle so casually, as both Sarah Palin and John McCain ought to know by now. Demons claw at the cork all night. They gain legs in the silences left by the Left and are called forth from many foaming mouths on the Right.
Marcello Lucero was killed late Saturday night near the commuter railroad station in Patchogue, N.Y., a middle-class village in central Long Island. He was beaten and stabbed. The friend who crouched beside him in a parking lot as he lay dying, soaked in blood, said Mr. Lucero, who was 37, had come to the United States 16 years ago from Ecuador.
The police arrested seven teenage boys, who they said had driven into the village from out of town looking for Latinos to beat up. The police said the mob cornered Mr. Lucero and another man, who escaped and later identified the suspects to the police. A prosecutor at the arraignment on Monday quoted the young men as having said: "Let's go find some Mexicans."
-A Death in Patchogue
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Thu Aug 14, 2008 at 18:35:46 PM EDT
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TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY ARE FUSING at such a fast rate there's not enough time even to consider all the ethical and sociological implications. But an obvious one is that there is no longer much of a separation between Them, Us, and It.
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Fri Jun 06, 2008 at 22:46:28 PM EDT
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 "I SPENT EVERY CENT I HAD to come to America because I did not know what else to do.
I risked all I have ever known in my 38 years to come to a strange land because I feared that what was all around me would not keep us alive.
I paid a man money to drive me to the border and handed him all I had even though I knew he was lying about his intentions.
And when he dropped me off in the desert I wandered for hours until the heat overcame me and I knew I must drink or lose my mind.
And so I found myself drinking from stagnant and greenish water. I could not stop myself.
And the heat grew intense and I was dizzy and had lost my way.
And I fell and hurt my leg badly. And became sick. And I was alone and vomiting in the desert.
But men with trucks and weapons found me and are taking me back now to the situation I wanted so very much to escape..."
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