Filed under: Friday Funny | Tags: Colbert Report, Colberto Reporto Gigante, Fence, Immigration, Lou Dobbs, Stephen Colbert
I love this man (Colberto, not The Raging Racist…although I of all people should appreciate that Dobbs is answering to Spanish questions in English. heh).
Filed under: Latin@ Art & Lit | Tags: Alfred J. Quiroz, Alma Lopez, Chicana, cunt, feminism, Jane Fonda, labia, V to the Tenth, vagina, Virgen art, Virgen de Guadalupe, Yolanda Lopez
Okay, so I know this is all late and that the V to the 10th events were last week and everyone is over all the Vagina Monologues talk and the fact that Jane Fonda said “cunt” on live TV (oh, the horror.), but I wanted to post some of this Virgen de Guadalupe art as a belated Chicana homage to Vagina Power. I first came across it while I was working on my MA thesis last year, and ever since then I’ve wanted to show it off to the world. So here goes.
We’re all familiar with the iconic Virgen de Guadalupe imagery, right?
Filed under: Border Wall Watch, Rio Grande Valley | Tags: Boeing, Border Wall, CAFTA, Daniel Garza, Eloisa Tamez, Eminent Domain, Lou Dobbs, Melissa del Bosque, NAFTA, Rio Grande Valley, Texas Observer, University of Texas at Brownsville
Melissa del Bosque has a terrific article up at Texas Observer about how the government is taking away land and property from homeowners and the University of Texas at Brownsville (who depends on federal funding) to build the border fence in the Rio Grande Valley. Meanwhile the wealthy surrounding areas go untouched:
[Eloisa] Tamez, a nursing director at the University of Texas at Brownsville, is one of the last of the Spanish land grant heirs in Cameron County. Her ancestors once owned 12,000 acres. In the 1930s, the federal government took more than half of her inherited land, without paying a cent, to build flood levees.
Now Homeland Security wants to put an 18-foot steel and concrete wall through what remains [a whole three acres].
