Obama’s Citizenship: Will the Haters Ever Give Up?
While scanning a white nationalist message board I came across an interesting thread entitled “Obama: Don’t Miss Next Week’s Tribune.” The originator of the post was notifying other white nationalists to look at the Chicago Tribune on December 1st and December 3rd for a full page ad which would question Mr. Obama’s US citizenship.
The man who funded the ad is Robert L. Schulz, a New York tax protest activist. He claims to have spent tens of thousands of dollars to run the ads. Schulz is the founding member of the We The People Foundation. In the ad, Schulz accuses Obama of not providing an authentic live birth certificate from his birth state of Hawaii. The Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times both ran articles refuting the ads’ claims. Read more
Blog Highlight: Immigrants and Economic Crisis
Juan Tornoe over at AC360° blog recently posted on Latino immigrants and the economic crisis. His analysis was mainly directed towards marketers of Latino consumers, but he brought up some interesting points, saying:
First, let’s get one thing out on the open, documented or not Hispanic immigrants came to America in search of a better future for them and their families that for whatever reasons their native country could not offer. For the most part, they bet all their chips on the United States believing it is The Land of Opportunity. So, the U.S. is going through a rough patch right now… Seriously, this is NOT a big deal if you have lived in Latin America for a good part of your life. Most Latinos will have a “been there, done that” attitude towards it, tighten up their belts, and face the crisis diving head first into it in comparison to the average American who’s been living in abundance (relatively, at least) for their entire life and now are facing vast uncertainty. Read more
The Americas. The America. Of Appropriation and Identity.
The ongoing debate over “who is an American” must seem old to our neighbors who have lived for generations with the appropriation of “America” by a single nation self-assured for generations by its own exceptionalism.
That this nation early on proclaimed itself the United States of America may have been well-intended (in the most generous interpretation) as a declaration of belonging with the rest of the Americas, but the cultural and political identity that eventually emerged to produce the singularity “America”—referencing the US alone—has long been commonplace across the globe. Read more
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Bye Bye Black Friday
Black Friday is a perfect example of American consumerism gone awry. Shopping the day after Thanksgiving is a tradition for some that is more sacred than the holiday itself. But this year demonstrates once again that Black Friday needs to end.
Despite the economic downturn this year, people were still lining up at 4am to take advantage of the deals. Lining up, pushing, shoving, and stampeding. Yep, stampeding. At one New York Wal-mart people were so desperate for discounted plasma TVs they trampled an employee.
Most didn’t even stop shopping to see if he was okay. And he wasn’t, he was dead. Read more
There is no Promised Land without Black America
The emerging new black leadership owes black America tangible change. Across the blogosphere, in newsprint and on television and radio pundits are breathlessly hailing the rise of the Joshua Generation.
While initially used by the Barack Obama campaign as a title of a program that reach out to potential young evangelicals and Catholic voters it is now used to distinguish a growing group of young black leaders from those that participated in the 1960s Civil Rights movement. In short while the biblical figure of Moses (i.e. Martin Luther King, et al) led people out of captivity it was Joshua (i.e. new black leadership) who finally got everyone out of the wilderness and into the Promised Land.
Read moreAugury Of Truth
No one knows
Or can guess
What decisions
We make
For things to come
May bring.All we can do
Is trust
That when truth
Reveals itself
We’ll be able to stand
On the same two feet
That brought us here. Read moreGiving Thanks in a Foreign Land
By Ana Turck
I spent this Thanksgiving, as the past four, with my neighbors. As I frantically cleaned my house and helped in food preparations, I could not avoid remembering my first introduction to one of the biggest annual events in America. In 1995 after escaping Sarajevo and living in a refugee camp for seven months, I was finally reunited with my husband in Chicago. It was the summer of 1995 and I was beginning to recreate my life in a new country, with language and customs other than those of my birth place. Read more
Americans, Europeans, and Immigration
Americans aren’t the only ones dealing with immigration. The United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, France, Germany and the Netherlands have also found themselves contradicting their values when in comes to immigration. Read more
Audio: November 2008 Imagine 2050 Blogcast!
This month we are on the streets in San Francisco, California as we join a rally of over seventy-five hundred people who have come to show their support of same-sex marriage rights. This historic rally is part of a large network of rallies taking place on the same day all across the United States. We are joined by Stuart Gaffney, who, with his husband John, are speakers at the rally read more
Sustainability: Thinking Beyond Borders Part Two
When Americans import goods from foreign regions they are often exporting environmental degradation. In the U.S. we import all of our coffee, mostly from Colombia, Brazil and Guatemala. And we import a lot of it. After oil, coffee is the second largest import in the United States.
Luckily, about two thirds of the world’s coffee beans are still classified as arabica. Arabica beans are grown at higher altitudes, require less watering, and need cooler climates. Which means that almost all arabica beans are shade grown, greatly reducing the number of trees being cut down. Shade-grown coffee also grows slower than other varieties, producing a more flavorful, higher quality product. Read more
2016: Chicago’s Olympic Dream, Do They Deserve It?
In June of 2008, the International Olympic Committee (ICO) announced that Chicago was one of its 4 finalists to host the 2016 games. The US has not hosted an Olympics since 1996 in Atlanta and many are hoping for a return in 2016.
Chicago’s bid was thought to be behind in the running, trailing Madrid and Tokyo, but Obama’s victory could swing the tide in Chicago’s favor. The big question is does Chicago deserve to host the games? Read more
Nebraska Laws Undermine Families in Crisis
By Jessica Acee
The debacle surrounding the Nebraska Safe Haven law highlights a hidden crisis within American families.
Last week Nebraska amended its Safe Haven law and social workers and hospital employees across the state breathed an uneasy sigh of relief. Now, only infants 30 days or younger may be dropped off at hospitals and firehouses with no fear of prosecution for the parents. For the last two and a half months, parents have been able to drop off kids as old at 17, and many have done so. Read more
Brooklyn Still Haven for New Immigrants
Brooklyn continues its long tradition as a comfortable haven for new immigrants. A resurgence of western European immigrants are reshaping Williamsburg, which has been better known for its hipsters and indie music scene the last several years. But in changing, Williamsburg and other New York neighborhoods are merely remaining true to the best versions of themselves. Read more
Philanthropists Fuel Anti-Immigrant Bigotry
When well-known philanthropists give money to national anti-immigrant groups it gives a new twist to the axiom “throwing good money after bad.” The result is increased discrimination and violence against immigrants and their families.
Controversial anti-immigrant leader John Tanton used to brag that from 1983 until 1986 famed financial leader and philanthropist Warren Buffet made yearly gifts of $90,000 to his organization, U.S. Inc. While Buffet is thought of as a man who donates selflessly to the public good he is also remembered as supporting bigotry. Read more
Scar Tissue
It’s a part of me.
Though I don’t like to think it.
Would rather disassociate
The entire thing
From my entire being.Would rather go on like nothing happened
Like it wasn’t happening all the time.
The events so small
They hardly effected me
In such small doses
The ones I forgot I took.Yet when the big one happened
The small ones became much more
Vivid in my memory.
Read moreHate and Death: The Federation for American Immigration Reform Harvest in Suffolk County
When I first journeyed to Suffolk Country eight years ago to work with religious, civic, and immigrant rights groups facing growing anti-immigrant activity stoked by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, I was stunned to witness the depth of anger and hostility that the group’s organizer had helped unleash. It all started “respectably” enough. But the attempt in 2000 by neo-Nazis to kill two Mexican workers was a harbinger of where growing, unchecked anti-immigrant fever and fervor could go; other violence followed. Now, an Ecuadoran immigrant, is dead at the hands of area youth who reportedly set out to beat up “some Mexicans,” bringing the tragedy of Suffolk County to its inevitable end. Read more
Sustainability: Thinking Beyond Borders Part 1
I saw an article last week titled “Why Environmentalists Support Immigration Reform” on the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s (FAIR) website. Considering myself an environmentalist, I read the passage to better my understanding of exactly why “I” support immigration reform.
Now of course, as some of you may have already guessed, I was a bit skeptical of the entire notion, but I tried to keep an open mind. When doing a “preliminary skim” of the article, I noticed a rather interesting statement: “But however one may try to abdicate responsibility for it, the connection between immigration, population, and the environment remains.’ I was rather confused, thinking, ‘Well, I can see a connection between immigration and national population, and I can see a link between global population and environmental issues…” But I somehow couldn’t link those two thoughts. How are they connected? Read more
Neighbor Turns Ugly When American Dream Disappears
Buying a home can be a ticket out of poverty. It can symbolize a shift from the poor camp to the middle class. Owning a house can represent a sense of financial security and mobility for many families and their children.
A few days ago, Kate Brumback from the Associated Press reported that Lorenzo Jimenez finally found his ticket about four years ago to buy his first home in a suburb outside Atlanta. But Mr. Jimenez had one problem that many working fathers don’t have to consider when buying a house for their family. Read more
Lewis Hamilton: Victory in the Face of Racism
In June 2007, Lewis Hamilton made history by becoming the first black driver to win a Formula 1 race. A little more than a year later Hamilton drove his way into the history books again in dramatic style. Hamilton’s last gasp win in the final race of the season in Brazil won him his first Formula 1 Driver’s Championship. Hamilton’s win shocked the F1 world and delighted fans in his home country of England.
But for some fans Hamilton’s victory was not met with joy. Fans in Spain were especially bitter with Hamilton’s victory because of his feud with Spanish driver and former McLaren teammate, Fernando Alonso. Read more
Gulf War Illness Proven But Not Cured
In this country when soldiers enlist, they know wars are possible, even likely. They accept the sacrifice of precious moments with their wives, children, and friends, and most acknowledge the possibility of the ultimate sacrifice, their lives. This dutifulness is what makes them admirable in the eyes of America; we afford them a special brand of dignity through our heart-wrenching movies and romanticized media coverage. What most wartime soldiers are not prepared for and never warned of, and what we civilians routinely ignore is that there is a good chance they will be stripped of that dignity when they come home. Read more
Who Has Blood on Their Hands in Anti-Immigrant Murder?
It’s been a little over a week since a group of youth in Suffolk County took the life of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero, stabbing him to death in what law enforcement officers called “a hunt to beat up some Mexicans.” Seventeen-year old Jeffrey Conroy has been charged with a hate crime for his alleged role in the taking of Lucero’s life. Read more
It’s That Time Again: The Holidays
Ah the holidays. I can’t believe they’re almost here. No really…I can’t believe it! I don’t know if it’s that “the older you get the faster time flies” or if it has something to do with being so busy with the kids and jobs. This year instead of joy and excitement I feel a sense of dread.
I want to be able to give my children everything they ask for, for them to be content and stuffed full of food and happy with the Christmas booty they’ve received, but what am I teaching them? That Christmas is that terrible monster of greed that leaves one worked up and always unsatisfied? Read more
Lessons from Liberia: Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Not unlike other international news lost in the maelstrom of the last eight years, the plunge of Liberia into utter, horrific chaos didn’t warrant significant U.S. news coverage or response. Not surprising. After all, Liberia is in Africa (country or a continent?) and even though it was born of former slaves from these shores it—like most African nations and peoples—seldom grabs U.S. attention. Read more
Bendita Esperanza
Autor: Fortino Vargas
Destellante luz para mi obscuridad,
inigualable calma, en angustiosa soledad.
Escencia de vida que aun la respiro,
como grato recuerdo, que evoca el suspiro.Te busco; en la triste y amarga soledad,
en mi tiempo perdido, en mi vida inconclusa.
Fragil, por torrentes de gran tempestad,
que desvastaron una juventud…ya muy difusa.Eres tu, escape de una vaga mirada,
imposibilitada, perdida en la distancia.
Solo en los crystales de mi fe reflejada,
ventana de males, habitados en mi consiencia.
Mi paz moribunda, mas no perdida,aun percibo la llama, del fuego de ilusion.
Mi alma habatida, la razon casi vencida.
No estoy muerto, por ti; vive este corazon.
For English Read more
The Miracle of Thunder: Turning Water into Oil
Thunder Boone Pickens Jr. may have been the greenmailing poster boy for the oil industry in the 1980’s, but so what? It’s 2008 America! The man did a little research…and bam pow! an alternative energy activist is born. If you’re like most Americans and spend more time than you should starring at a screen (computer or TV), you’ve most likely seen his commercials. They feature the self-proclaimed “man with a plan” preaching the urgency of our environmental and economic crises, and offering a solution: The Pickens Plan.
Mr. Pickens’ layout calls for building new wind generation facilities and switching (firstly commercial) vehicles to run on natural gas instead of refined oil. Then, he will harness the power of the wind turbines, creating energy to replace the electricity that was previously supplied by natural gas. While reading his scheme, I couldn’t help but notice that he never mentions anything about Americans slowing down the pace of our energy usage. Perhaps we’d like to believe that we don’t need to change our lifestyles, but there simply aren’t enough resources for us to be consuming at the rate that we do. Although Mr. Pickens would disagree with me. Read more
Casting My Vote
By Ana Turck
This past Tuesday, November 4th, I was one of hundreds of thousands of new naturalized immigrant voters. Prior to the election I made sure to conduct thorough research of local issues and candidates’ backgrounds, knowing that I am not only casting my vote for the President but for many other public servants whose performances will help shape the political and personal realities of all Americans. Intellectually, I understood the task ahead of me, but my emotional response to casting a vote for President caught me by surprise. While I waited in line to vote I felt anxiety building, and once I finally picked up the pen, I had to steady my hand and wipe off pesky tears in order to cast my vote. I left the voting area feeling a mixture of fear and excitement; fear that my vote will not help change the status quo, and excitement that it just might help create a better world. Now, reader, before you assign my response to emotional instability, let me place my reaction in a greater context. Read more
Obama Victory A Massive Setback for White Nationalists
After Obama’s landslide victory on November 4th we saw scenes of joy throughout the country and all over the world. People everywhere were speaking about their renewed hope. We also saw the reactions of those who voted for McCain, many of them blaming George W. Bush for McCain’s record loss. The media however did not portray the white nationalist community’s reaction to Obama’s victory. To gauge their reaction I paid a visit to arguably the most influential and popular white nationalist website; Stormfront. It was founded in 1995 by former KKK member Don Black. The website’s motto is “White Pride World Wide.” According to a June 2008 article in the Washington Post, Stormfront draws more than 40,000 users to its message boards every day. The message board is split into many categories including forums dealing with youth, education, activism and even a white nationalist singles forum. The forum also has an international section with different message board set aside for countries such as Britain and Serbia. Read more
Suffolk County Murder of Latino Man Deemed a Hate Crime
A man named Marcello was walking with a friend on Saturday night in Patchogue, Long Island. As they walked a car pulled up and seven young men got out and surrounded them. The teenagers, all 16 and 17 years old, hurled racial slurs at the two men before attacking them. Marcello’s friend managed to escape and run for help while Marcello tried to fight back. He was overpowered, beaten, and stabbed in the chest.
By the time help arrived it was too late, Marcello had died. Now let me put this to you another way: on Saturday night a man on Long Island was lynched by a mob.
According to Assistant District Attorney Nancy Clifford in Central Islip, the seven suspects did not know Marcello Lucero or have any reason to harm him, in their own words they wanted to “find some Mexicans to f— up.” Read more
Anti-Immigrant Attacks Slip Under the Radar
From urban cities to rural communities to suburban sprawl, Americans now find themselves at the crossroads of a contentious, often appalling, national debate centered on forced economic migration. Underneath this raging battle that divides communities, neighbors, friends and families a simple fact remains—forced economic migration, more popularly known as “undocumented immigration”, has become its own vocabulary, a way to talk about race, in a society in which race has often been a conversation coded in meaningless terms such as “reverse discrimination,” “dual loyalists,” “illegal alien” and “playing the race card.”
In the midst of this debate, opportunistic white nationalist organizations operating under the guise of “immigration reform” have fueled some of the worst aspects of this conversation. They’ve done this by attacking local communities in an attempt to deny the basic dignity of community members regardless of their immigration status. Read more
A Welcoming
Greatness
Struggles
On your behalf.Brotherhood
And Mankind
Twice the Act.Our Golden prince
The Chosen One
How much sacrifice
For how far we’ve come.On your brow
The burden grows.
A nation’s fate
Upon your face.What Hope
And Love
And Courage
BringMay it be
A Welcoming
A precious thing. read moreW., Reviewed
When I heard director Oliver Stone was making a movie about George W. Bush, I was intrigued. So intrigued, in fact, I bought my tickets ahead of time and waited in line with my boyfriend to get into the theater. As we waited, the previous showing was emptying out. The looks on the faces of exiting moviegoers should have been indication enough to drop our tickets and run. Nobody was smiling or talking, just a solemn, silent procession out of the theater. Two hours and nine minutes later I understood why. Read more
One Day in America: November 4th, 2008
I woke up around noon, nice and late, just as I like it. I stretched and cracked my neck, and then I remembered what day it was. I threw on my clothes and ran downstairs to the coffee shop below my apartment, grabbed a mug and filled it with the dark blend (spice island, one of my favorites). Then I saw my dull, but strangely glowing, grayish gold bicycle u-locked to the pole outside, and decided it was time to ride. On my way to work, I fantasized about the day’s potential. Sure, I may be spilling burning hot coffee on myself and on my way to work now, but tonight was going to be awesome. Read more
Parades in Northern Ireland: A Veiled Excuse to Spread Hate
Sunday in Belfast, Northern Ireland a parade was held for local British troops returning from tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Talk about the parade has dominated the Irish and English news over the past week because of the anticipation of trouble. In many nations around the world a parade for returning troops brings a sense of belonging and pride to the people who attend but in Northern Ireland parades mean a very different thing. Since the beginning of the troubles in the region, parades have been used most notably by the loyalists who want Northern Ireland to remain part of Great Britain. The parades in Northern Ireland in the past have been very bloody and violent, and even though the Troubles are over, marching British troops in the area were bound to stir up controversy. Read more
The Morning After: Let Our Work Begin Anew
Heading to canvassing headquarters last weekend, I walked with another volunteer who said she was so pumped up and excited about the prospects of this new day that she hadn’t slept well in weeks. We both laughed knowingly—it has indeed been difficult to focus on anything else as the possibility of this day loomed large, within grasp, but still elusive. Amid tears of deep joy, now it is real. One cannot help but reflect on the costs, the sacrifices that made it so, or the dream-like quality of its truth. It is a day to celebrate as never before.
We have not, however, reached the promised land. Perhaps it’s in distant view, but the journey toward its gates is still going to be difficult and arduous. Read more
Anti-Immigrant Groups Spread Lies & Contribute to Voter Discrimination
Social Contract Press spreads lies about voter fraud and contributes to suppression of the voting rights of Latino citizens. Anti-Latino groups, like the FIRE Coalition, are using SCP’s false findings to encourage their followers to man the polls and discriminate against whomever they perceive as “illegal aliens”. This is voter suppression and it’s downright un-American.
It’s Morning in America Again
I love those mornings!
You know the type of morning I’m talking about. The kind of morning when you wake up early and you have the whole day ahead of you. The sun is slowly rising in the east and your calendar is clear. You don’t have to work, your bills are paid (or at least up to date), there’s food in the fridge and no one gets to dictate what the day will hold for you. You can sit and quietly read the paper, take in the guilty pleasure of early morning TV, or surf the net without a care in the world.
Maybe you surprise the kids and take them to the park. Maybe you spend the time fishing, enjoying the quiet of the river. It’s not what you do that matters, but rather that the day is yours. These mornings are like a breath of fresh air that chase away the tension and stress of life. You savor the day, and at night when you close your eyes you know that it will be the memory of this day that will sustain you through the hard times. Read more
Security, Sovereignty, & Justice
Earlier this year, prices of food staples shot up 40 percent, marking the fastest rate of increase since 1990. The current recession is beginning to bear its weight on the spending choices of middle-class Americans, from big ticket items to weekly grocery lists. Twenty eight million citizens are now relying on food stamps to survive - a record high and a sure sign of increased poverty levels. Food riots have been increasingly occurring around the world due to the rising price of grain and fear of starvation. Our nation’s food security is already at risk, and while some people may be reluctant to come to terms with this reality, I think it’s time to take a more in-depth look into social food movements already battling these pressing sustenance issues. Read more
Things to do this Week:
Wake up everyday with my children at 5am.
Attempt to take a soothing bath and hope that the screaming children in the background will survive.
Dishes
Laundry
Pay rent
Weekly menu
Grocery shop
Check bank account
Pay bills.
Get gas.
Work.
Vote.
Vote.
Vote.Anti-Latino Hate Crimes Rise for Fourth Year in a Row
Originally posted on SPLC’s blog, Hatewa
tch, by Mark Potok on October 29, 2008
Hate crimes targeting Latinos increased again in 2007, capping a 40% rise in the four years since 2003, according to FBI statistics released earlier this week.
As anti-immigrant propaganda has increased on both the margins and in the mainstream of society — where pundits and politicians have routinely vilified undocumented Latino immigrants with a series of defamatory falsehoods — hate violence has risen against perceived “illegal aliens.” Each year since 2003, the number of FBI-reported anti-Latino hate crime incidents has risen (see table, below), even as a swelling nativist movement has become larger and more vitriolic. read more
Questioning Obama’s Campaign Tactics
With the presidential election wrapping up in less than a week a change will certainly be a-coming. Whatever the results of Tuesday’s election may be, the lives of countless Americans will be forever changed.
The lives of people like Joe the Plumber and Bill Ayers will go back to relative obscurity, at least beyond their close circle of friends and associates. This may be a good thing or a bad thing, but I must warn you, be prepared for a resurgence in the future. This year’s election has seen unprecedented things many of which will be studied. The successes and failures of Barack Obama’s and John McCain’s campaigns will be studied closely and will help form new strategies for future elections. Read more
Response to Obama Murder Plot Says Much about Belonging
I was a 6th grader at Clara Barton Elementary School in 1976. The school bus I rode everyday was a multi-racial smorgasbord of young kids who were excited to get to school so that we could shoot marbles or show off our newest toy before class started. It was on one of those days, on my way to school, that I was told something that changed my life forever.
On a Monday morning one of my school mates whispered that the previous weekend neo-Nazis protested against Jews and blacks in one of the parks that we passed along our way to school and that it had been in the paper. No one really talked about it much, and I’m sure that the conversation quickly turned to our favorite television shows, but from that day forward this park took on a sinister form in my mind. Read more
Restricting the American Dream
In December of 1997, I boarded a plane from Ireland with my family bound for America. My dad had been offered a job in Chicago and he took it without question. When we arrived I faced the daunting task of starting school in a completely different country where I knew nobody. I didn’t think I would fit in with the other kids because of my accent and because the school system and culture is completely different. But from the first day I walked into my 5th grade class I found out that I had something good going for me: in America being Irish is considered to be “cool.” I was the center of attention and the other students all gathered around me asking me all sorts of questions ranging from “do they have TVs in Ireland?” to “what language do they speak there?” Everyone made me feel welcome and halfway through the school day when my mom came to pick me up I told her that I didn’t want to leave! I was welcomed with open arms, but for millions of immigrants who come to the United States, the welcome is much different. Read more
American Apparel Wages War on Failed Immigration Policies
If you’re under 30 you already know about American Apparel. If not, well, you probably know them best by some of their homemade-looking magazine ads featuring skinny non-models lounging around in underwear (very ambercrombie on heroin). American Apparel is the most successful clothing company in the United States. It has 200 locations worldwide and employs over 10,000 people, 4,500 in downtown L.A. factories alone.
Several years ago I read an interview with the company founder, Dov Charney, just as the company was embarking on their rapid expansion. He came off as quite a pervert, but there was no denying he was a radical and on to something with his socially aware policies. The company has great benefits, a decent hourly wage, tries to protect the environment and is even given a good grade by PETA for their “vegan-friendly” garments” (small miracle to get anything from PETA). Read more
Mi Razon
By Fortino Vargas
Estoy aqui, soy uno mas,
de la estadistica y discucion.
Dios, dame tu paz,
en pie de guerra la imigracion.Por piedad, no me culpen mas,
soy humano, productivo en su nacion.
Si de mi depende, no quiero irme jamas,
pero estoy escondido,.. que gran afliccion.Estoy aqui, estaba alla, soy uno mas,
sufriendo injusticias y marginacion.
Dios. no me abandones, se que tu me amas,
pero en mis dias….solo veo humillacion.Mientras viven en mi pais,
ladrones, ursurpadores sin consiencia en el poder.
Politicos hambrientos, llevandose lo del maiz,
marginando al pobre, que luche para comer.Dicen que le mandatario hoy anuncio,
que esta mañana, la economia subio.
A mis hijas;.. su gran noticia no convencio
porque en su plato, nada mas sopa, su Madre sirvio.Vivo…angustioso y desesperado,
no soy delincuente, tan solo trabajador.
Derechos humanos? Estoy abandonado.
U.S. acuerdate de Luter y Lincoln - ¡se tu mi libertador! Read moreHunger
Do I need you
Sweet agony past
Have you been my
Reason for the trip?Do you hold my hand
And guide me through the present?
Do you chain my feet as I drag you through today?Eat up my mind and
Leave me starving for some
Other thought.Lies in the past
Lies in the present
Where then is there any
Truth at all?Who is this clown
Without his makeup
Is it government?
Is it read more
