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Ñewsweek: Abuelita and the ticking baby clock, no cholo too loco

by Comic Saenz April 29, 2012 El Now
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She needed help — a woman approaching 40 who wanted  kids but had no realistic baby daddy in sight.  Thankfully, she decided to write Dear Abuelita for advice, who gave her way more guidance than she was expecting. And in a very special video about Cholo Rescue Services, the gentle strength of The Cholo Whisperer [...]

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Familia del Barrio star in ‘Arizona-me’ (SB1070) (NSFW video)

by Lalo Alcaraz April 25, 2012 Cultura
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The The U.S. Supreme Court today hears the appeal from proponents of the racist Arizona SB1070 law, which legalized racial profiling in the Hate State. Long before this vile measure was challenged by legal experts, it was spoofed by in the Mexican cartoon series Familia del Barrio. Their animated episode Arizona-me details how the cartoon [...]

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Mexican garden statues get up, stand up and go on tour (photos)

by MIRA MIRA ANDAJUAL April 16, 2012 Cultura
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(PNS reporting from the HATE STATE OF ARIZONA) The “Sleeping Mexican” statues of Tucson we featured last week snooze no more. Buoyed by the online support they received after POCHO publicized their plight, these hombres woke up, stood up, dressed up and went on tour across Los United Estates to tell their story. From their [...]

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Kids, lowrider bikes, culture and history in Tucson 1996: ‘Low y Cool’

by M.A.S. BURRITO April 14, 2012 Cultura
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When a French filmmaker shoots Chicano Tucson, the result is fascinating and maybe a little bit foreign — in a good way. Low y Cool documents the lives of the Camaradas Lowrider Bike Club in South Tucson, AZ in 1996. The 52-minute video was directed by Tucson resident and transplanted Frenchie Marianne Dissard with funding [...]

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Photos: ‘Sleeping Mexican’ garden statues? What’s racist about that?

by EDUARDO BURRO April 12, 2012 Cultura
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Arizona sure loves its Mexicans! Taos-based author John Hamilton Farr went to Tucson on family business and was stunned by the “Sleeping Mexican” statues all around his mom’s old hood. He photographed these guys “within a two or three block radius of my mother’s old place…less than 10 minutes!” He brought the statuary to the [...]

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Photos: Great Moments in Arizona Republican Party History

by RICARDO RICO April 11, 2012 El Now
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Republicans in the Hate State of Arizona are not newbies when it comes to ignorance, racism and stupidity. The state’s Grand Old Party has a grand old poopy history. Come with us now as we take a Hate State Hot Tub Time Machine Tour — in photos. A picture is worth a thousand palabras.

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Ñewsweek: Tucson school board’s exercise in ignorance and hate

by MIGUEL GUALES April 8, 2012 El Now
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POCHO Migrant Editor Al Madrigal (he commutes coast-to-coast so he can work nights as Senior Latino Correspondent for The Daily Show) went to Tucson AZ to find out why students there aren’t allowed to take classes in Mexican-American history. Cameras running, Al interviewed a school board official who was apparently high on ignorance, stupidity and hate. [...]

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Al Madrigal reveals inside story of ethnic studies ban in Tucson AZ

by Comic Saenz April 3, 2012 El Now
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Tucson public school students are no longer taught Mexican-American history, and POCHO Migrant Editor Al Madrigal (who also moonlights as Senior Latino Correspondent for The Daily Show) went to the Hate State to find out why.

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Videos: Librotraficante caravan smuggles banned books into Tucson

by C. C. PUEDE April 2, 2012 El Now
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Tony Diaz’s Librotraficante crew smuggled banned Mexican-American Studies books — AKA wetbooks — into Tucson. These three videos tell the story. Diaz’s own video picks up the story below:

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California’s new official poetry man is Juan Felipe Herrera (video)

by Guillermo Chespeer March 31, 2012 Cultura
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Gov. Jerry Brown has sworn in UC Riverside professor Juan Felipe Herrera as California’s Poet Laureate — the first Chicano to get the honor. In this video, Herrera reads his poem 187 reasons Mexicanos can’t cross the border. The poem illustrates the difference between Jerry Brown’s California and Jan Brewer’s Hate State of Arizona, where [...]

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