Memory continues to live in us generations later. Some memories we inherit. Some memories shape and mold us into the people we need to become. Memory reminds us we are made of fire and the fire of memory urges us to keep moving forward, to teach the truth, to continue to work for social justice, and never ever forget the sacrifices that were made for us by previous generations.
Author: Irene Sanchez
Xicana. Mama. Public Scholar. Poet. Writer. Ph.D.
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Trump is Holding Children for Ransom
DHS is a child abduction agency. This is ransom. This is the United States of America. The white supremacist in chief and con-man extraordinaire is leading the policies on immigration. The U.S. government is holding immigrant children for ransom.
Cinco de Mayo and the Battle for Historical Memory
Something from the archives from your friends at the Southwest Political Report. Don’t dress up Mexican today!
Cinco de Mayo and the Battle for Historical Memory
The Southwest Political Report
By: The Editors of The Southwest Political Report
Outside of Puebla and surrounding areas Cinco de Mayo is not widely celebrated throughout Mexico. May 5th is widely and perhaps rightly regarded as a holiday primarily celebrated in the U.S. This may at first appear to be quite disheartening given how grotesque the celebrations here are.
With the current political climate, anger and disgust with Cinco de Mayo’s typical horrific parade of banditos, luchadores and drunken debauchery that people always seem to feel more comfortable to engage in when wearing someone else’s skin, is more than understandable. The impulse to pull away and give up on the holiday entirely resonates with so many of us and for perfectly obvious reasons.
It should however be remembered that this day, this commemoration of a heroic victory, did not begin as…
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50 Years After The East LA Walkouts, We’re Still Fighting For Latino Students
50 Years After The East LA Walkouts, We’re Still Fighting For Latino Students By: Irene Sanchez (Xicana Ph.D + co-founder of the Southwest Political Report) In the Huffington Post Opinion Section last month https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-sanchez-east-la-walkouts_us_5a981ef2e4b07dffeb708bc5
