Tell the Hateful Westboro Baptist Church to GET OUT NOW - WE DON’T WANT HATE!

The infamous hate group, the Westboro Baptist Church (www.godhatesfags.com), will be demonstrating against the Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride Festival on Saturday May 15th.

The group is mostly well-known for their abhorrent demonstrations at Military funerals and ( Read more... )

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To Carlos “Slim” Helú, the Richest Man in the World

the dirty skinny brown kids
stretched out their skinny arms
and threw down their boxes
of chiclets and mexican candy
their teeth stained yellow and
brown from years of a steady
diet of soda and tamarind candy
to pay closer attention to where
the trucks were going

the recently-fired members of
the mexican ( Read more... )

The Day the Immigrants Took Over

they were mopping up the floor in all
the buildings in downtown LA
pedro, maria, juan, josé and the rest
getting it ready for buffing; they
were emptying out all the office
trashcans into bigger trash bags
wiping down the glass doors and
windows with the luxurious, bold
silver, gold or black letters that read
executive, ceo, ( Read more... )

So as most of you know I am a member of this small grass-roots organization called Semillas Project, www.semillasproject.blogspot.com.  We're raising money for a community in Cuisnahuat (Sonsonate), El Salvador.

Basically, here is a community that is very conscious of the negative impact that transnational corporations are having on a country's  ( Read more... )

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Come out and support the Semillas Project.  This is an organization I am involved with that is trying to raise $3500 for five rural farmer families in Cuisnahuat, Sonsonate, El Salvador, so that they can cultivate their own indigenous seeds and not rely on foregin corporations that create dependancy, exploitation and under mind a people's ( Read more... )

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Catholic priest says sexism is sin, women should be ordained » peoplesworld

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All I Wanted was a Gun

i wanted a gun

and when i knew i couldn’t get one

i started writing about wanting a gun

and driving down to pasadena

on colorado blvd and emptying out

its contents onto all the middle-aged

well-off, well-dressed pedestrians eating

well-made lunches on the sidewalk next

to the steve madden store, comparing

investments, stock options ( Read more... )