December 4, 2008
From CNN comes the news of the migrant family that became the icon of a generation: McIntosh is the girl to the left of her mother when you look at the photograph. The picture is best known as "Migrant Mother," a black-and-white photo taken in February or March 1936 by Dorothea Lange of Florence...
go to article »December 3, 2008
As President Bush prepares to leave office, he's reflecting on what went wrong and according to him immigration and the war in Iraq went wrong. Well kind of sort of. Bush said that one of his biggest disappointments was the failure to pass a comprehensive bill on immigration reform. "I firmly bel...
go to article »November 29, 2008
Would it have been so bad for the President Elect to mention Indigenous People? ...
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Now this just seems like a slap in the face to me. For the first time, federal legislation has set aside the day after Thanksgiving - for this year only - to honor the contributions American Indians have made to the United States. This is the same logic that turns Columbus Day into the lat day of...
go to article »November 28, 2008
Growing up with a mom who worked in retail, the day after Thanksgiving meant watching my single mom wake up before the sun, before the crazy shoppers, to open up whatever store she worked in at an unholy hour. We never shopped for bargains because it was my mother's job to make sure others could. Ev...
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I hate to rain on your Thanksgiving Day parade, blown up and filled with hot air like the balloons blown up to incite people to stuff themselves silly today under the illusion of family unity, and prepping people to stampede their way into stores to get that must have toy made of plastic. We've be...
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Feast on this: The first president, George Washington, in 1783 said he preferred buying Indians' land rather than driving them off it because that was like driving "wild beasts" from the forest. He compared Indians to wolves, "both being beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape." Thomas Jefferso...
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I had never seen this till this morning. Gracias Ms. Sylvia. ...
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Once upon a time when I was a teen, food stamps were actually like stamps, well actually more like coupons on Monopoly money colored paper and I remember being ashamed when my then boyfriend's mom sent me to the corner bodega to buy something with them. While sadly the stigma still exists with using...
go to article »November 26, 2008
While many families in the U.S. are stocking their kitchens for the perverse Thanksgiving holiday, families in Vieques, Puerto Rico are still dealing with the aftermath of years of U.S. military training on their land and through their food. A new study has found dangerous levels of toxic metals i...
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