Last Update: 09.03.2010 at 15:28:16
El Bloguipodio: De Crisis Eléctricas, Día de Veteranos y Más Reforma de Salud
La Bloguera y Dabloguiman charlan sobre el Día de los Veteranos y los homenajes en Washington, la reforma de la salud, deliciosas cenas caseras y la falta de ciberseguridad en las plantas electrógenas. Música de introducción con Remembranzas de Max Vasquez.Saludos y respuestas a nuestros amigos en el grupo deEl BloguipodioenFacebook.Contáctanos víaSkypeoGizmo.El Día de los Veteranos en Wash [read more...]
Posted 11.13.2009 at 21:05:09
Brown Guy Calls It Like It Is
Every once in a while, a post comes along that needs very few words. Here’s one from editorial cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz, a friggin’ genius who rightly calls what’s happening in Arizona as nothing more than pure Nazism. [read more...]
Posted 04.28.2010 at 20:08:20
Barbour To GOP: ‘Quit Acting’ Like We Can Deport All Undocumented, Search For ‘Common Sense’ Solutions
Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS), who comes from a state ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, explained that the state would be “way, way, way behind where we are now” if it wasn’t for immigrants — “some of there [who] were here illegally” — that helped to rebuild the state. [read more...]
Posted 09.03.2010 at 15:49:39
DREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: Stop Ivan Nikolov’s Deportation
The “DREAM Now Series: Letters to Barack Obama” is a social media campaign that launched Monday, July 19, to underscore the urgent need to pass the DREAM Act. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, S. 729, would help tens of thousands of young people, American in all but paperwork, to earn legal status, provided they graduate from U.S. high schools, have [read more...]
Posted 08.11.2010 at 21:47:37
Una Identidad Sin Fronteras: Verdolaga Dreams
September 1st is a day that, for the past 15 years, has given me pause because it is the anniversary of my Tata Manuel's death. He was, and is, my hero.He was taken from us far too soon in 1995 by pancreatic cancer that wilted a heavy-ish burro of a man into a frail calavera in less than a year's time. Watching him deteriorate was the saddest yet most profound eras of my life because he suffered [read more...]
Posted 09.02.2010 at 13:25:00
LatAm and Twitter
From LatinoRebranded:By looking at traffic data to Twitter.com, we’ve identified several countries where Twitter is currently growing rapidly (this year). These are not necessarily countries that have a ton of Twitter users yet, but rather places where the traffic curve is pointing sharply upwards.Latin America coming strongOne interesting thing we noticed when going through the traffic data is [read more...]
Posted 06.26.2010 at 03:42:20
Arizona Focus: Angela Cotera, Rocket Scientists for Arizona
I love it when teachers, firefighters, cops, veterans or scientists run for office. I get sick of the nearly uniform lawyer candidates, though many of those lawyers are good. We need the perspective of teachers, firefighters, cops, veterans and scientists in government.Arizona has the chance to elect a magnificent, brilliant progressive to the state house: Angela Cotera, scientists AND teacher. Sh [read more...]
Posted 12.31.1969 at 18:00:00
DREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: Saad Nabeel
The "DREAM Now Series: Letters to Barack Obama" is a social media campaign that launched Monday, July 19, to underscore the urgent need to pass the DREAM Act. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, S. 729, would help tens of thousands of young people, American in all but paperwork, to earn legal status, provided they graduate from U.S. high schools, have good moral ch [read more...]
Posted 09.02.2010 at 13:50:42
what are you?
Directly next door to me live somewhere between 4 and 10 children. Not really sure the house always seems to be in some kind of transition but there are three children aged 3, 4, and 5 who are always around. The 5 year old, big sister, Steph, is the leader. All three kids are black, and I’ve never seen anyone at there house who wasn’t black. Our neighborhood is a mixed neig [read more...]
Posted 08.03.2010 at 15:23:41
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s United America
By Pablo ManriquezArizona Governor Jan Brewer’s Worst Debate Moment Ever (h/t Alicia Menendez) observable in the first minute-or-so of her gubernatorial debate with current Arizona Attorney Gen. Terry Goddard is making the rounds on the interwebs; but keep watching beyond Brewer’s freeze and you will hear the following exchange–Interviewer: Is SB1070 good for Arizona? Has it bee [read more...]
Posted 09.03.2010 at 14:29:21
Miss Universe 2010 backs marriage equality for same-sex couples
What a day! FirstFidel Castroowns up to the persecution of gays in Cuba while the island was under his command, and then this monumental story...OK, I am kidding but this is sorta newsworthy.While watching Miss Universe a few days ago (yup, I watched the actual pageant when it was broadcast back on August 22nd), it quickly became obvious that Miss Mexico -Jimena Navarrete- would take the crown thi [read more...]
Posted 09.01.2010 at 00:36:00
Time to take the ball and go home?
Back in the summer of 2008, when the heady promise of hope and change was still fresh and unspoiled by the realities of political expediency and power, candidate, Barack Obama sat down andanswered some questionsabout immigration issues for the editors ofThe Sanctuary.While many of his responses were the kind of predictable boilerplate we've come to expect from those running for office, a quick g [read more...]
Posted 08.13.2010 at 21:30:00
Pide Responsabilidades por la Infracción del Derecho Internacional en Gaza y el Sur de Israel
Hoy Amnistía Internacional EE.UU. publicó una carta a la Embajadora Rice, la representante de los EE.UU. a las Naciones Unidas. Esta carta exige a las EE.UU. de pedir a las Naciones Unidas, concretamente al Consejo de Seguridad, que adoptan decisiones inmediatas para que todas las partes implicadas en el conflicto rindan cuentas por las infracciones del derecho internacional que hayan cometido. [read more...]
Posted 01.28.2009 at 15:39:38
Children's March&Rally at the Oregon State Capitol to Highlight Need for Immigration Reform
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeptember 1, 2010Contact:Francisco Lopez, Executive Director: (503) 269-5694Erik Sorensen, Communications Director: (503) 488-0263Children's March& Rally at the Oregon State Capitol to highlight Need for Immigration ReformSalem, Ore.--Over the last couple months, immigration restrictionists and right-wing politicians in Congress have been calling for a change in the 14th A [read more...]
Posted 09.01.2010 at 17:53:00
Bloguerismos: De reformas financieras y derrames de petróleo
Después de una larga ausencia, La Bloguera y Dabloguiman charlan acerca de la reforma financiera, el desastre petrolero del Golfo de México y otros asuntos en Washington.Música de introducción con Remembranzas de Max Vasquez.Saludos y respuestas a nuestros amigos en el grupo deEl BloguipodioenFacebook.Contáctanos víaSkypeoGizmo.La reforma financieraDerrame petrolero amenaza destruir miles de [read more...]
Posted 12.31.1969 at 18:00:00
Is this illegal enough for you Judge Mukasey?
Bush’s nominee for Attorney General John Mukasey does not believe that “waterboarding” is either illegal or actual torture.Let’s see, this is one form of “waterboarding”, better known around the world as Chinese water torture:And this is another representation of the same form of torture depicted in a painting at the Tuol Sleng Prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Th [read more...]
Posted 11.02.2007 at 21:05:54
Guest Voz: "I firmly believe that we, the undocumented youth, are standing on the right side of history"
LatinaLista.net -- In our ongoing show of support and solidarity with the thousands of undocumented youth who qualify to stay in the United States under what is known as the DREAM Act, Latina Lista continues publishing the DREAM letters by young people who face an uncertain life and future because of their illegal status.The "DREAM Now Series: Letters to Barack Obama" is a social media campaign th [read more...]
Posted 09.03.2010 at 14:43:16
WE HAVE MOVED!
DosCentavosIs Now Locatedatwww.DosCentavos.netThank you for all of your support! [read more...]
Posted 06.01.2009 at 13:25:00
Historical Comparison of U.S. Border Policies
From the Immigration Policy Center: This week IPC released the next in its series of perspectives on immigration with Back to the Border: A Historical Comparison of U.S. Border Politics. During the spring and summer of 2010, America's broken immigration... [read more...]
Posted 09.03.2010 at 15:17:33
News With Nezua | Happy Anniversary to Us!
For the past year, News With Nezua videos have been sponsored by La Frontera Times, and many past episodes can be found there, as well as here on UMX. A YouTube version has always been posted as well, but this may soon be discontinued as Vimeo now creates a mobile-ready format, such as in the video above.___________________________________________________________________HERE’S A FUN ONE that [read more...]
Posted 09.01.2010 at 18:31:15
DNC Latino Leaders Conference
Please join DNC Chairman Governor Tim Kaine and the DNC Hispanic Caucus for a day full of events in Washington, DC on June 29th. [read more...]
Posted 06.29.2010 at 12:00:11
Yves granted last minute reprieve from deportation
A few weeks ago, we featured Yves’s story on our blog.Now for some good news. Thanks to the We Are America stories project, Yves was granted a reprieve from deportation. Here is the full story via the Washington Post.By David MontgomeryHis younger brother is an American citizen. His parents were illegal immigrants, deported to Bangladesh and India. For two years, Yves Gomes, who spen [read more...]
Posted 08.12.2010 at 15:59:09
World Watch: Baby steps?
* Middle East:Some progress was made this week yetplenty of obstaclesstill remain to be tackled in future discussions between the leaders of Israel and Palestine.* Portugal:Six men including a former TV presenter were sentenced after being convicted ofchild sex abuseat an orphanage.* New Zealand:No major damages have been reported in amagnitude 7.0earthquake that shook New Zealand.* Pakistan:At le [read more...]
Posted 09.03.2010 at 15:45:00
Watch Barack Obama's Immigration Speech Live! @ 10:45AM EDT July 1, 2010
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Posted 07.01.2010 at 13:38:00
New RSS Feed Address for DMIBlog
Please update your RSS reader to our new feed address: http://dmiblog.com/feeds/rss/index.php [read more...]
Posted 05.04.2010 at 12:52:02
Coming soon: New website
Hola, hope you’re well. We’re in the middle of redesigning a website with new features, new issues and new outlook. Will take several weeks, but be assured that we will be back singing “Carpe diem!”Saludos,RPosted in 1 [read more...]
Posted 01.25.2010 at 19:01:11
Summertime
It's got me. I'll be back very soon though. That's my word. [read more...]
Posted 07.26.2010 at 08:50:00
Fever Swamps Infect National Discourse
It didn't take long for the bright lights of the conservative revolution toconnect swine flu to undocumented immigrants.One problem with these theories (and some of them are nuttier even than I would have thought): most undocumented migrants are trapped in the U.S. and have been for some time. They know they can leave, but if they do, most won't be able to come back. So they st [read more...]
Posted 12.31.1969 at 18:00:00
Latino Netroots ...the Podcast
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