I’ve started this blog to allow immigrants and the children of immigrants to tell their stories. This is a new blog so I need the help of tumblr to spread the word and start receiving stories to post! People from all of Latin America are invited to send their stories. I’d appreciate if someone signal boosted this post! Thanks a lot :)
Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a reservation, you do not have permission to be here.
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Minneapolis cop at Mall of America Idle No More rally (via ishkwaakiiwan) because Natives need permission to merely exist, and they must do so far out of colonizer sight and mind. how fitting this happened at Mall of America, the height of US capitalist megaconsumption & beacon of modernity—this is an excellent example of how colonial rhetoric relegating Natives to ahistoric primitive backwaters translates into real material (ongoing!) violence. (via nitanahkohe) |
A good friend of mine who lives in Alabama posted this picture that she snapped in traffic on facebook yesterday. Yes, this is real and, yes, this person deserves to be dragged out of their car and have their ribs cracked in several places.
Some background on Alabama’s recent policies toward migrant workers.
A Muslim man wrote a local ice cream company asking a question. This is the reply he received.
WOW WHAT THE FUCK
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what the shit.
Honestly ashamed to call myself an American when I see we still have people like this. Ignorance at its finest.
Wtf?
Federal judge will permit SB 1070’s “show me your papers” provision to go into effect
By TED HESSON
As legal observers expected, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton will not stop the “show me your papers” provision of Arizona’s SB 1070 from going into effect, citing the precedent from the Supreme Court ruling.
A Mexican worker said: “If I am a wetback because I crossed a river to get here, what are you, who crossed an entire ocean?
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