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News With Nezua | We Will Not Comply

Nezua — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:29:54 +0000

News With Nezua vids first appear Monday mornings at La Frontera Times. Wednesdays they show up at UMX, as well as in a dim setting at The XOLAGRAFIK Theater. YouTube version here. To show your great adoration and appreciation for those who clean up your candy wrappers, tip the usher at will.

News With Nezua | The Illegal Europeans

Nezua — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:09:28 +0000

FEATURING the Netroots Nation 2010 Immigration Checkpoint mock ICE action. A group of friends and myself staged a mock immigration checkpoint where we racially profiled European immigrants and their descendants, and required them to show papers that proved they had a right to trespass on native land. Some were puzzled, many laughed, and a couple were furious. What made the difference in these reactions?

News With Nezua | Hunted

Nezua — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:55:33 +0000

THE NATIONAL MOOD AROUND IMMIGRATION grows darker, as the government neglects to champion the vulnerable undocumented population. Racists and White Supremacists show no such hesitance to engage the issue, and the ground is defaulted to them by a lack of legislative action as politicians worry about elections and polls and have forgotten their own humanity. Highlighted this week: The Utah Hit-list.

News With Nezua | Outlawing Justice

Nezua — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:28:11 +0000

As an age of nationalized narcissism comes to an end in the USA, the illusion of hyper-abundance meets the limits of physical reality. To protect the illusion, those in power gird their stance, the government grows more fearful, and the police state more powerful. Actions that benefit the people, weaken our dependence upon the state and/or strengthen communal bonds are made illegal. Given this trend, will all righteous acts one day be illegal ones?

News With Nezua | The Eloquence, The Hypocrisy

Nezua — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:18:01 +0000

Obama's Big Speech on Immigration is long on rhetoric—tho much of it truth—and long on hypocrisy, too.

News With Nezua | Take Our Jobs!

Nezua — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:54:12 +0000

FOR THOSE WHO CRY OVER 'LOSING THEIR COUNTRY,' here is a simple way to take it back!

News With Nezua | Semantic Games Do Not Make Change

Nezua — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:44:45 +0000

SEMANTIC GAMES DO NOT MAKE CHANGE. What a person stands for, acts for, works toward, and feeds is what and who they are. Given the dodging games and general misunderstanding of the terms Racism and Racist, are there clearer ways to assess and describe what harm someone is aiding, or what justice they are fighting for? Yes.

News With Nezua | War By Other Means

Nezua — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:41:35 +0000

The Long War. The Longest War the USA has been engaged in is not with Afghanistan. It is with Truth. It is against Truth. It is the war for White Supremacy, and it takes many shapes over time and yet never owns up to its own name: War. Waged by other means.

News With Nezua | All These Walls Will Fall

Nezua — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:48:49 +0000

THE WORLD GROWS CHAOTIC, humankind too often not heeding lessons, and all around is the feeling we must do something about everything. Walls spring up, oil spills out, violence creeps in and how is an engaged activist to keep centered in the face of all of it?

News With Nezua | Puppets and Pawns

Nezua — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:06:57 +0000

ARIZONA GOVERNOR JAN BREWER is desperately swinging back at the national boycotts and global condemnation demanding a repeal of Arizona’s SB 1070 (“Pro-Racial Profiling Law”). Last week, she commissioned a snarky frog-puppet video skit that promotes the widely condemned law by responding to all critics with an admonition to read the bill or shut up [...]