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WoC solidarity!
AAGU asked us to submit our pictures in solidarity of their Asian Face Appreciation Day. WoC solidarity!
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(vía soychorizo)
Migration is as old as humanity itself, with large-scale migrations typically produced by natural disasters and the physical unsustainability of the existing community. Today, migration is caused less by natural inadequacies and more by countries’ integration into a global economy organized around the profit motive, and the deliberate underdevelopment of certain countries to the benefit of others.
For Latinos living in the United States, their violent displacement is the faded reflection of the violent political and economic intervention waged upon their home country.
"— From the Liberation News piece Imperialism, immigration and Latin America: An analysis of why people migrate. This article is an excellent reminder that people don’t migrate for fun. Just in Central America and México, U.S.-backed dictatorships and NAFTA have produced horrendous civil wars, poverty, and displacement of millions of individuals. People migrate because the United States is a ruthless machine that only cares about its own profit.
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my mamá
“The majority of men are a bunch of idiots” - my mom, the misandrist
“Why are you saying Dalí was a fascist?”
“Why are you dismissing Dalí as an artist because of his political beliefs?
All actual shit sitting in my inbox right now. FASCISM IS NOT OKAY, TUMBLR. I also swear I am not making shit up. DALÍ WAS A FASCIST. GOOGLE SHIT. It’s not that difficult.
good job promoting fascists, tumblr.
One school in Georgia has until now had separate end-of-term dance parties for African Americans and whites.
It’s 2013 and almost 60 years after the US Supreme Court desegregated public school, but just now this Rochelle, Georgia high school is having an integrated prom. But we live in a post-racial society, right…
Political banners in Spanish make me cry more often than not.
Enidris Siurano Rodríguez may only be in 10th grade, but she knows if she wants to make a change, she has to stand… or in this case, sit for it.
The Puerto Rican-born 15-year-old is making a statement for her cause: raising consciousness about the political situation of the island of her birth and emphasizing her disagreement with U.S. government policies towards the island due to its territorial status.
Since 7th grade the honor student and gifted violinist,who moved to the U.S. mainland when she was three years old,decided not to participate during the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag in her Maryland high school, and stayed silent and seated during that time as a way to protest.
“I did it when I began to understand the current political situation of Puerto Rico,which I do not like,” Siurano told Puerto Rican daily El Nuevo Día. “I do not agree with the way the United States treats Puerto Rico… I think Puerto Rico has an undemocratic situation, I dislike the idea that a government so far [from the island] tells us what we can and cannot do. “
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Recently, the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland accused the Montgomery County Maryland Public School of violating Siurano’s rights after at the beginning of the year her teachers confronted her several times and sent to the principal’s office. Authorities told the teenager that while she didn’t have to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, she had to stand up every morning during that time.
According to the ACLU, Siurano’s mother was also informed that if her daughter keeps up her protestshe would be removed from class. Since then, teachers have constantly asked the student to stand up by her teachers in an effort the legal organization describes as a way to intimidate her and make her flinch.
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In Maryland, even though the statute demands that schools say the pledge every day,students that don’t want to do so can be excused, TakePart reports.In an interview with the site David Rocah, staff attorney at the ACLU of Maryland, said the reasoning for telling Rodriguez she must stand “was because she felt Siurano was being disrespectful to military families and the kids from military families in the school.”
This is a seriously gross violation of rights. As Siurano’s compatriot, Ricky Martin tweeted in solidarity: ”The right to free speech also includes the right not to speak. Too often this is forgotten”.
RIP Sal Castro, Educator & Chicano Civil Rights Leader
Educator and civil rights leader Salvador B. Castro passed away at his home in Los Angeles, California, on April 15 after a battle with thyroid cancer. He was 79 years old.
Castro, who was born in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles in 1933, lived a storied life whose work shaped California history and the lives of thousands.
Soon after he was born, Castro’s father was forcefully returned to Mexico as part of the United States’ Mexican Repatriation Program. He would attend his first years of school in Mazatlán, Sinaloa.
Upon returning in the second grade, Castro faced racial discrimination at the hands of teachers who ridiculed him for not speaking English.
“I started thinking, these teachers … should be able to understand me,” he said in a 1988 interview with the LA Times. “I didn’t think I was dumb — I thought they were dumb.”
As a child, Sal Castro witnessed the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, an event he often mentioned in speeches.
Castro single-handedly transformed the lives of thousands, spearheading the East LA Blowouts of 1968 and founding the Chicano Youth Leadership Conference in 1963.
Sal Castro’s legacy as an educator and activist will live on for generations. An deservedly so. ¡Viva Sal Castro!
A funeral mass has been scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 25, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. For more information, visit the CLYLP.
Image via the Sal Castro Facebook page.
(vía para-todxs-todo)
Amazing video of honor and Ivy-league school attending students sharing their journey in academics as undocumented immigrants. This video is a perfect example of how many undocumented kids had no choice in how they got in this country and how their immigration status doesn’t make them a criminal or any less American than you. Everyone needs to watch this.
(Fuente: si-dramatic, vía labrownrecluse)
This data comes from the blog’s Black Women of Brazil piece titled Nannies and maids: relations that perpetuate racism and sexism, an excellent post discussing the economic disproportion in Brazil due to historical and present-day race and sex relations.
My name is Xochitl and I blog politics. I am passionate about immigration and Latin American affairs. This blog is for the most part a strong reflection of that. I also co-run and am the creator of Reclaiming The Latina Tag and Spanish, Yeah
Why, yes. This is a sequel.
