I feel compelled to must explain why the Iowa caucuses change EVERYTHING. Not just public perception of the Democratic candidates.  Not just race relations in America in the 21st, and by extension, the 20th, 19th, and 18th  centuries. Not just party politics, which will be forever changed by Barack Obama's radical vision of... of.. of politics!

When we talk about keeping municipal police forces out of immigration enforcement, I suspect that conservatives imagine a scenario in which a perpetrator slips through the net because no one checked his status.  Remember the    Mt. Vernon School murders?

Let's hear it for Mexican reporters who really do care about getting the truth out.

Armed Assault on Nuevo Laredo's Newspaper February 7, 2006 El Mañana is Nuevo Laredo's largest daily newspaper. The paper has a reputation for honest reporting, the courage to cover narcotics and the maquiladoras, and for giving a voice to workers and the poor in Nuevo Laredo. Consequently it has been a frequent target of narco traffickers, corporate interests, and government repression. It happened again Monday when the newspaper was invaded by gunmen at 7:45 P.M. At least two men wearing hoods entered the newspaper's offices carrying high caliber weapons and opened fire on reporters and staff who were at work on the morning edition. Carrying AR-15 and AK-47 rifles and grenades, the intruders shot up the reception area and proceeded to the editorial office where they continued firing.

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Info provided by Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras I had the privilege of meeting Ninfa Deandar and members of her staff last year in Nuevo Laredo.  

CNN reports that the good folks at Clear Channel who work so hard to protect us from the Dixie Chicks and their ilk are up to more community-minded service projects

Get it? It's radio... so no one has to see the boobs... so it's not indecent!  It's family values!
See below to complain about  these swollen boobs. (I mean the execs at Clear Channel.)

That's a line from Cheech Marin's novelty song "Born in East L.A.".  He took Bruce's "Born in the U.S.A" and turned it into a story about being deported from his barrio home to a country he'd never seen. Quiche is a region and a language in  Guatemala.  

Did someone say "history happens first as a farce and then as a tragedy"?

 

18-Bill Initiative Includes February Presidential Primary, Mail-in Ballot Casting,
Pre-Election Day Voting, Paper Ballot Backups for Electronic Voting Machines

(Got this press release from NJLatinoIssues listserv.  201, 973, 908, 732, 856, and scenic 609, everything  we  do to clean up our politics is  a good fight. Contact your Senators and Ass(emblymen) at: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/legsearch.asp)

(TRENTON) - Assembly Majority Speaker Albio Sires today announced an Assembly panel next will begin examining an 18-bill election reform plan that aims to increase voter participation, ensure the integrity of election results, and enhance New Jersey's role in presidential politics.

 The reform initiative - dubbed "Every Voter Counts" - was unveiled at a State House press conference in October and would make New Jersey a national leader in promoting voter-friendly elections.

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