Thursday, November 28, 2013

11/28/2013 #Aztlan-Network-News Blog via @Peta_de_Aztlan

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11/28/2013 #Aztlan-Network-News Blog via @Peta_de_Aztlan
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Day of Mourning Statement from Leonard Peltier November 2013

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11/28/2013  How the Anglos Stole Thanksgiving ~By

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11/27/2013  What a Latino Thanksgiving Means

  
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11/27/2013 Latino Leadership Follows A New Model ~By Juana Bordas

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San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro speaks to the crowd at the Lone Star Project Inauguration Celebration on Sunday, January 20, 2013 at Hill Country Barbecue in Washington, D.C. (Barbara L. Salisbury/MCT via Getty Images)

Comment: 11/28/2013  It is certain that there is no radical vanguard leadership among La Raza Cosmica aka Latinos that is well known among the people. I hope this will change as time goes by and our mass communal consciousness is raised.

We need to keep in mind that social media via the Internet is a game changer and La Raza needs to get better at navigation online. Maybe some of the potential leadership has been deported. Maybe others are caged up in Amerika's concentration camps. A lot of the official leadership has already been bought-off or co-opted by corporate capitalism via non-profits.

I still believe we need a La Raza Unida Party to help give voice to the voicesless. The truth is that many of La Raza find it hard to come together in a collective cohesive way without conflicting personalities. There are a lot of internal divisions that need to be resolved by coordinatng leadership for us to be united together.

Venceremos! @Peta_de_Aztlan  c/s
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11/27/2013  Congress Members Want To Talk About Border Patrol Killings via

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July 10: Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., speaks at a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on immigration reform and border security principles. (Photo via Getty Images)
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New tax law driving expats to renounce U.S. citizenship

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VIDEO: Can President Obama Do More To Stop Deportations? Pub 11/27/2013

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11/27/2013  Opinion: ¡Basta ya! Enough with the ignorance about U.S. Latinos ~By  via

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(Host Pitbull at the American Music Awards at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP))
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Comment: 11/28/2013  Blessings to those who fast for freedom. I remember that the fast of Cesar Chavez oould of caused harm to his body, thankfully he died in peace in his sleep.

Due to Global Corporate Capitalism millions are fnow asting aka going hungry. I use social media and communicate to those I can about immigration and other humane rights issues. The present Immigration Legislation now is incredibly flawed, esp. as designed by rich gringos in the corrupt U.S. Congress. Chances are it is not going to happen this year.

We should not raise people's hopes up to no avail. We need a massive community education campaign for all peoples. Mexican immigrants did not cross any ocean to get here. They are in Aztlán ~ the land of their ancestors.

#Amnesty now! @Peta_de_Aztlan  ~ Sacramento, California  c/s
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11/27/2013 Mexico's Housing Bubble: From Boom to Bust

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11/27/2013  Attempts to Silence Environmentalists Continue via @ecowatch  EcoWatch http://ecowatch.com/2013/11/27/silence-environmentalists-continue/
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11/27/2013 Drug Arrests Highlight  Police Corruption

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11/26/2013  Redskins name condemned by Black and Latino groups outside FedEx Field
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11/26/13  Why I Am Thankful: Survival, Fashion, Language and Family ~ Gyasi Ross

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Photo by Thosh Collins ~Native pride on display at Nike's 'Bridging the Arts'
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11/26/2013   deports US-born teenage hitman who beheaded for cartel
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11/26/2013 Latino officer on why he spoke out against stop-and-frisk
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11/26/2013  ‘Walkout’ inspiration Paula Crisostomo leads the charge for Chicano students
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11/25/2013  5  Companies That Achieved Billions In Revenues

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11/26/2013  San Diego: Latino Enrollment Lagging On Covered California @KPBSnews
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#Ecuador Memo: Chevron's RICO Trial to Nowhere | Steven Donziger via @AmazonWatch http://stevendonziger.com/2013/11/26/memo-chevrons-rico-trial-nowhere/
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11/26/12013  Migrants clash with U.S. Border Patrol agents at Mexican border @CNN
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7/11/2013 Creating a Military-Industrial-Immigration Complex ~
US-Mexican border a war zone via @thenation
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#Phoenix Former state legislator Ben Miranda remembered as advocate for Latino community [VIDEO]
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/Former-state-legislator-Ben-Miranda-remembered-as-advocate-for-Latino-community
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Teresa Villareal [1935-2013]; Latino activist helped migrant farm workers - Toledo Blade
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Obama's immigration speech interrupted by anti-deportation hecklers @LatinoTimes http://latinotimes.com/politics/908520-obama-s-immigration-speech-interrupted-by-anti-deportation-hecklers.html
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11/25/2013  Obama talks immigration in San Francisco’s Chinatown, says it’s not just about southern border via

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Obama Confronts Hecklers At Immigration Speech #StopDeportations
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▶ President Obama Delivers Remarks on Immigration Reform:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwdiQGrKC40  ~Streamed live Nov 25, 2013
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#Latino Memphis Pushes Immigration Reform For Memphis Economy  [VIDEO]
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Powell: The Latino vote is eluding GOP via @HoustonChron  Houston Chronicle http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Powell-The-Latino-vote-is-eluding-GOP-5011077.php
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University of Texas student Jonathan Hernandez, center, 21, marches in an immigration rights rally on the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas, Wednesday Nov. 20, 2013.

The rally was organized in reaction to the student group Young Conservatives of Texas "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Game" that was canceled due to public outrage.
(AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner)
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11/25/2013  Gallo's district will be majority Latino @UTsandiego   http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/nov/25/escondido-gallo-ironic-latino-immigration/ 
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Google backs Latino-focused accelerator Manos http://upstart.bizjournals.com/companies/innovation/2013/11/24/google-backs-latino-focused.html via @upstartbusiness
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Dominican Republic Expels 244 Haitians Over Border Killings
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Above: Marie Matte Mayan 26, sleeps on the floor with her twins, Maudeline and Maudena Pierre an a shelter after being deported by Dominican Republic authorities, in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Sunday Nov. 24, 2013. Dominican authorities expelled 244 Haitians after an elderly Dominican couple was slain in an apparent burglary near the border between the two countries and an angry mob retaliated by killing a Haitian man, Rev. Antoine Lissaint of Haiti's Jesuit Refugee and Migrant Organization said Sunday| ASSOCIATED PRESS
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#Venezuela opposition protests at Maduro special powers @BBCWorld
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11/24/2013  Jewish and Latino communities share history, goals in #Tucson
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11/22/2013  The Need for Immigration Reform ~By Ernestine Fu @ErnestineFu
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Flashback! 8/28/2013 ~ How 1963 March on Washington motivated Latinos ~by   via
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Above: Maria Varela, 73, recollects her role in the Civil Rights movement in Alabama and Mississippi, at her home in Albuquerque, N.M. While Varela was one of a handful of Mexican-American activists involved in the civil rights movement in the South, she did not support the March on Washington because of differences within the movement. She was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and later became a photographer for the group. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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CBS VIDEO: 1960: "Harvest of Shame" Uploaded Nov 24, 2010
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▶ Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman bids farewell to this world...  
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Aztlan-Network-News Blog ~via @Peta_de_Aztlan
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Friday, November 22, 2013

11/22/2013 #Aztlan-Network-News Blog via @Peta_de_Aztlan

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11/22/2013 #Aztlan-Network-News Blog via @Peta_de_Aztlan
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#Honduras elections: leftist party challenges right's grip on power via @eguardian
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Xiomara Castro de Zelaya addresses supporters in Tegucigalpa before the Honduran elections. Photograph: Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images
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Juan Orlando Hernández, the National party's presidential candidate.
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11/22/2013  Interviews Available: #Honduras Elections Amid "Intensified State Terror" | Quotha
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Exclusive: Teen's Mysterious Killing At Mexican Border Exposes Unaccountable, Violent U.S. Policy via @occupy
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Latin Grammy 2013 Winners Include Carlos Vives, Marc Anthony And More (LIST) (PHOTOS)
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✔ @LatinGRAMMYs Seguir  14a Entrega Anual del #LatinGRAMMY con @MarcAnthony
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11/21/2013  'Dreamers' Pushing Immigration Reform Stalk Speaker Boehner, Target Him
At Home via @FoxNewsLatino
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World Toilet Day 2013: In Latin America, 120 Million People Do Not Have Access To Toilets Or Sanitation @IBTimes
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[VIDEO] Miss Universe Gabriela Isler @Molly_Isler Opens Up About The Anti-Chavez
Twitter Controversy via @FoxNewsLatino
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11/21/2013  New Jersey Homeless Man Ralph Santiago, Killed By Teens As Part of Horrific 'Knockout' Game [VIDEO] via @FoxNewsLatino 
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11/21/2013  $1.5M in Narcotics Seized at Border via @Crime_Voice
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DEA: Coca Down In Colombia And Cartel Infighting In Mexico Means Less Cocaine In U.S. Streets via @FoxNewsLatino
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Mexican Bishop challenges drug cartels, won't stop people from arming in village under siege
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Tony Diaz @Librotraficante #Chicano power. 50th anniversary of JFK reception wt LULAC. #Houston Retweeted by Liana Lopez
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11/21/2013  John Boehner: #Immigration work not dead via @POLITICO http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/john-boehner-immigration-100207.html
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#Latino & Interracial Relationships: Is There Still a Stigma? @Latin_Post
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George P. Bush: Beacon For Latino Voters? @WebProNews Holy Mary Help Us!!
http://www.webpronews.com/george-p-bush-beacon-for-latino-voters-2013-11
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Mexican-American Vets Ignited Kennedy's Latino Support via @nprnews
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#Argentina: Cristina Fernandez Wants To Expand Left-Leaning Economic Model
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11/21/2013  Latin America sees straight through John Kerry's 'Monroe' speech @guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/21/latin-america-john-kerry-monroe-doctrine-speech
Recall: The United States brought down 41 Latin American governments between 1898 and 1994.
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11/18/2013  Kerry Makes It Official: ‘Era of Monroe Doctrine Is Over’ @WSJwashington
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11/15/2013  #Latinos Among Over 3,200 Nonviolent Offenders Who Unjustly Serve Life-Without-Parole @Latin_Post
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Latin America sees straight through John Kerry's 'Monroe' speech @guardian

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/21/latin-america-john-kerry-monroe-doctrine-speech

The centuries-old Monroe doctrine has little relevance to US policy in the region today. No wonder there have been no parties
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US secretary of state John Kerry
'The steep human cost of drug enforcement in Latin America was not even acknowledged by John Kerry, nor was migration mentioned.' Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

This week, John Kerry gave a major speech at the Organization of American States, stressing the United States' desire to re-engage with the region. He stated: "The era of the Monroe doctrine is over," presenting what sounded like a major paradigm shift: the overcoming of the paternalism involved in the Monroe doctrine and its canonical statement "America for the Americans". And yet, from a Latin American perspective, it didn't sound like a major shift at all. The speech did not generate any official response in Latin America, nor was it considered more than merely rhetorical by most Latin American interpreters, from Sao Paolo to Buenos Aires and Mexico City.


Two centuries ago, President Monroe had presented his doctrine as the obligation for Americans to prevent new colonisation attempts by European powers in the western hemisphere. For generations, most Latin Americans simply interpreted the doctrine as meaning that the Americas would informally, and sometimes formally, live under the control of the United States.

The latter view was, in fact, a very perceptive reading of the record of the United States in the region. In the 19th century, the United States acted as "protector" of so-called smaller nations in the Caribbean, Central America and beyond. In this role it went along with other European nations (France, England and Germany), with the difference that it generally stressed indirect rule rather that outright occupation. The Mexican war and the brief occupations of Cuba and Nicaragua in the early 20th century were exceptions to this pattern, although they had important effects for the overall perception of US policy in the region. According to the historian John Coatsworth, the United States brought down 41 Latin American governments between 1898 and 1994. The most famous cases include Panama (the US was a key promoter of Panama's secession from Colombia and its creation as a country), Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Bolivia. All of these cases of regime change happened before 1944.

Later, the US shifted from an anti-fascist policy with Franklin D Roosevelt to anti-communist support for authoritarian rule in the region. This political interference was generally on the side of criminal dictatorships, from Chile and Argentina to Guatemala and Brazil. In the 1990s, the US actively supported highly contested neoliberal regimes as part of the so-called Washington consensus. More recently, the constant harassing of Latin American immigrants and the nativist overtones of the immigration debate in the US do not boost its image in the region. There is a need for the United States to care about Latin American positions, searching for true democratic integration rather than simply promoting military-anti-drug related alliances, cyber-security and industrial espionage while showing sporadic episodes of interest.

Given the long list of acts of intervention in Latin American politics during the 20th century – none of them justified by the actual threat of a European invasion – Kerry's announcement on the end of the Monroe doctrine should be celebrated. But the real issues that separate US policies from Latin American interests today are no longer found in overt political and military intervention.

And the real concerns of US policy in the region were all but ignored in the speech. There was merely a passing mention to drugs in Colombia, when billions of dollars and active collaboration with armed forces in the region support US prohibitionism against increasing opposition from Latin American societies and even politicians. The steep human cost of drug enforcement in Latin America, all for the benefit of US public health, was not even acknowledged. Nor was migration mentioned by Kerry, maintaining the fiction that immigration policies that harass and, during the Obama administration, deport record numbers of Latin Americans back to their countries of origin are not also a matter of foreign policy. Perhaps the fiction is necessary considering the human rights cost of prolonged detention, expulsion and the separation of families that those policies entail. And Kerry also failed to mention the elephant in the room: the growing interactions of the region's most dynamic economies with China, a customer for raw materials but also an investor that competes with US companies in several sectors. The Monroe doctrine, after all, only referred to European influence. It is not surprising that such a short-sighted, predictable speech has not elicited any reactions.

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