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The Young Land: American gunslinger (Dennis Hopper) kills a Mexican man in California immediately after the Mexican-American war. The killer is arrested and put on trial for murder with the Hispanic population waiting to learn of American justice.
Mas…It’s 1848 and Dennis Hopper kills a Mexican in ‘The Young Land’ (video)
The Jewish holiday of Chanukah חנוכה starts Saturday night, so Hebrew hermanos Jaquann and Luis prepare potato latkes (pancakes) one of the season’s signature treats. Remember: Chanukah is the Festival of Lights, bitches. (Totally NSFW.)
Happy Hanukkah from the Hip Hop Hoodíos! Hanukkah חנוכה begins this year (5773) at sunset on Saturday, Dec. 8 and ends at sunset on Saturday, Dec. 16: ocho noches, Ocho Kandelikas
Alla Kushnir (AKA Leila) was Miss Belly Dance of Europe 2008, and winner of the Ukranian Belly Dance Championship in both 2007 and 2008. Carlos Santana is a Bay Area guitarist and bandleader.
The Pope is on Twitter and the Sisters of the Vatican have a new fashion show! Thank God the world is ending in three weeks!
When you roll with the East Side Locos, you have to learn proper tagging technique…or else.
From Barcelona comes Mamá, just under three-and-a-half-minutes of terror. Good morning!
Don’t worry, gringos, Mexican nationals won’t steal your job since all these “nationals” do is “stoop labor.” Also, explains the friendly Mexican Consul, they are “braceros” and not “wetbacks.”
The 19-minute film Why Braceros? was produced around 1959 on behalf of the Council of California Growers.
The Journal of Murketing explains:
It aims to tell viewers about “the benefits of the bracero program,” The Field Guide to Sponsored Films explains, “originally initiated by the United States in 1942 to alleviate the World War II labor shortage.” This was a “guest worker” program that made it okay for Mexican labor to be brought in seasonally to work on cotton farms and other manual jobs (“stoop labor,” it’s called in the films).
Mas…‘Why Braceros?’ 1959 PR film says don’t be scared, it’s OK
Haunting melodies, modern harmonies, righteous lyrics:
We came across the desert, we came across the sea; don’t forget that your abuelos were once immigrants like me.
IMMI wants you to know Immigrants are just regular peeps. IMMI is on Twitter.
The best defense is good offense, pochos. Watch and learn!
If only these undocumented immigrants had seen the video before they got stopped in the middle of Oklahoma!
Mas…Gringo uses the old Christianity trick to get past the MIGRA (video)
It’s coming — the End of the World As We Know it is just three weeks away — December 21 [CHECK OUR EXCLUSIVE MAYAN APOCALYPSE DOOMSDAY 2012 COUNTDOWN TIMER IN THE RIGHT COLUMN AND SYNCHRONIZE YOUR DEVICES.]
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The sun has been totally erupting with massive solar flares, dude, because the Earth and Jupiter are no longer in alignment, causing the Sun to fall inward on itself because there is less gravity pulling the Sun out, dig? Have you formulated emergency plans? It will be interesting to see what happens in the next 24 hours!
In China, Lu Zhenghai has been reading up on the upcoming Mayan Apocalypse Doomsday and he is totally prepared with his bitchin’ new self-constructed ark.
Mas…Mayan Apocalypse, solar flares (video), Chinese man builds ‘ark’
Sen. John Kyl, a Republican (surprise surprise!) from the Hate State of Arizona, is pleased to announce his online dating site for the young, undocumented and desperate.
Marry a citizen, become a citizen!
It’s just that easy with the “quick path to citizenship” from PendejoMatch.com.
Try Pendejo Match for free for 30 days or your money back! Just looking for love? Our sister site MojadoMingle.com is the place for you. Or maybe GueyDate.net.
When Tijuana’s Nortec Collective played the Shanghai Expo a few years ago, do you think it was the Chinese city’s first electric techno tuba experience? Mad magic is waiting at the Borderland.
Comedian Jose Barrientos‘s fake Mexican accent was so convincing he had his entire Speech 101 class fooled, except for this one blonde woman (she claimed later.) (NSFW audio.)
Going down! Brazil TV’s Programa Silvio Santos takes the old hidden-camera-in-the-elevator trick to the next level…THE NEXT LEVEL OF HELL!
A perro muerto mummified by the Mayans, they think, is ready for tests in Merrie Olde Englande. Estimated age for the kaput canine is 1000 years or so, and the pooch doesn’t look a day over 200!
And while we’re on the subject of pet videos from Europe, in Russia, if you’re a cat, dog fetch you!
In this video for POCHO U’s Gabacho Outreach Program (POCHO U, GOP!) I demonstrate the Chicano Handshake including a California version, a Texas version and a version with extra love. Why can’t we be friends?
French band ZIC ZAZOU plays the greatest hit from Georges Bizet‘s 1875 opera Carmen — Habanera — with stuff that’s lying around the shop. Now, you may ask yourself, “Do some people just have too much time on their hands?” And we say, “You don’t have time, you make time.” [EDITOR’S NOTE: Tell your friends about this video! Suggested email: ‘ZOMG it’s like OPERA and it’s rilly cool! See there’s like these old French guys…'”]
They thought they had the whole thing planned — deliver the heroin and collect $100,000. But the best-laid plans of mice and men are often subject to the unpredictable pendejo effect.
Why do we eat mashed potatoes and not mashed paper towels? How does that turkey pop-up timer work? Belches? Farts? Join students at the Catholic University of America for this short lecture by Professor Diane Bunce. The 24-minute video is called Thanksgiving and Chemistry: What’s the connection?
When you’ve got a lot left over, you need a big beautiful burrito! Jerry Springer reports.
“I can see it now — the WKRP Holiday Helicopter is coming in low over Cincinnati!” Les Nessman reports.
This short educational video from Mal★Mart explains how the retail chain is a good neighbor, supporting local communities and creating jobs all across America — with a smile. The case study features Latina entrepreneur Maria Muñoz of Maria’s Flan.
Mas…Pocho Ñews Insight: Mal*Mart gives back to local communities (video)
Beat icon, literary treasure, junkie, poet and provocateur William S. Burroughs offered this Thanksgiving Prayer in 1986. You don’t know Burroughs? His most famous book was Naked Lunch, and Wikipedia says he specialized in satire and “paranoid fiction.” (NSFW language.)
Like to laugh? Like to dance? Check out The Funny of (Latin) Dance from comic Bill Santiago, a video mashup of performances of his show across America. (NSFW language.)
The Daily Show’s Senior Latino Correspondent Al Madrigal goes to Arizona to understand how a streamlined legislative process can benefit the country.
DISCLOSURE: Madrigal is also POCHO’s Migrant Editor.
Cats? Been there. Dogs? Done that. Birds? Meh. What you need is a Mexican Redknee Tarantula — quiet, neat, just feed them crickets and keep them warm. And their venom may hurt like hell, but it’s not lethal!
We only met once. Ju think I’m creepy. Am I estalking ju?
Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) continues his education efforts on the House floor, introducing the Republican Party to Latinos.
A nameless man — let’s call him Juan Doe — dies in the desert near the border. This is his song: Dame Agua from Eric Holland‘s CD American Inmigrante.
Univision thinks this is the New American Reality. Is it your reality?
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