Mexika Resistance
Archive for August 23, 2012
Video: SB 1070 Protest Outside of Hearing – ICTMN.com
Opponents of Arizona’s immigration law, SB 1070, told a federal judge on Tuesday, August 21, that the measure will result in racial profiling and prolonged detention of Latinos. They are trying to block a United States Supreme Court ruling that allows police to question people about their immigration status during routine traffic stops and the … Continue reading
Sour Home Alabama | mexmigration: History and Politics of Mexican Immigration
Following in the footsteps of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Arizona’s SB1070, a federal appeals court judge for the Eleventh Circuit yesterday struck down most of Alabama’s anti-immigrant statute, HB56. Many critics have viewed this law as SB1070 on steroids since it went even further in its application of repressive measures to rid … Continue reading
Truthout Interviews Chris Hedges About Why Revolt Is All We Have Left
Chris Hedges, a former New York Times reporter, has become perhaps the foremost media scribe and most prolific advocate of a need for revolutionary change in our current institutional oppression and control of the government by the oligarchical and political elite. Hedges writes with a reporter’s detail, a prophet’s eloquence and a compelling sense of … Continue reading
Maya Collapse Tied To Drought, Deforestation
The city states of the ancient Mayan empire flourished in southern Mexico and northern Central America for about six centuries. Then, around A.D. 900 Mayan civilization disintegrated.
