New Orleans The search for movies with a politically satirical message is unwavering and someone has to do it, so there we were at opening night for the world release for “Machete,” the new Richard Rodriguez blood and gore flick, and we were thumbs up all the way. In fact our friends at NDLON, [...]
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New Orleans The good news on the judge’s issuance of an injunction is that: boy, this was a close call and could have been soooo much worse! But, let’s be honest, we’re trying to pull “gold out of the garbage” as our ragpickers say. There’s still no reason for great joy and celebration because [...] Dallas Organizers involved in immigration reform were talking throughout the week about what strategy and tactics they could devise to have a chance to win real reform in 2010. It’s probably the wrong question and with any frankness no one would like the answer since the odds are so improbable for any real reform [...] Tegucigalpa and Mexico City Early on Sunday morning walking through the centro in Tegucigalpa I noticed a branch of the Bancos de los Trabajadores, the Bank of the Workers. I had heard about them repeatedly the day before while meeting with the women in the colonias Ramon Amalia Amador, and we found ourselves discussing [...] San Pedro Sula There was a strange meeting hosted by President Obama and some administration officials at the White House this week for a small group of immigration reform advocates including Ali Noorani of the National Immigration Forum, Eliseo Medina of SEIU, the head of the National Council of La Raza, and a couple of [...] Toronto Short squib in the papers in the US caught my eye. Immigration fees for green cards and work permits all were announced as increasing by 10%. Reason: business down. Fewer applications were submitted in this bad climate for immigrants and in this terrible economy so there was a [...] |
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