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Americanos

This is a visual reminder as a way to help you think next time you say the word Americans in reference to USA citizens.
These are the Americas. Therefore everyone who live here from South to North and North to South are Americans.

This… is only a part of America.

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Remembering the Feast of Enmegahbowh, First Native American Episcopal Priest

 
 

Lessons appointed for use on the Feast of Enmagahbowh
Enmegahbowh (ca. 1807 – June 12, 1902; from Enami’egaabaw, meaning “He that prays [for his people while] standing”; also known as John Johnson) was the first Native American to be ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
Enmegahbowh was an Odawa from Canada who converted to Christianity from Midewiwin. In 1851, James Lloyd Breck began [...]

Native American Communities and Insights into Oppression

Kuddos to TheOoze.Tv
for their latest video dealing with questions of power, oppression and Christian complicity. I’m glad to see the conversation go beyond sugar-coated issues of spirituality and ecclesial gymnastics. 
 

 
Andrea describes how native groups and people of color used to organize themselves around common areas of oppression, but that this became an unhealthy way to [...]

Making the world again

“Brothers and Sisters:
Humanity lives in the breast every one of us, and, like the heart, prefers the left side. We need to find her; we need to find ourselves.
There is no need to conquer the world. It is enough that we make it again. We. Today.”
- Zapatistas

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USA crossed our borders first

Actually the first Hispanics to become part of this country (USA) did not do so by migration, but were rather engulfed by the United States in its process of expansion- sometimes by purchase, sometimes by military conquest, and sometimes by single annexation of territories no one was strong enough to defend… Thus in the beginning [...]

America, a single country?

Even the name ‘America’ is raises the question: What preposterous conceit allows the inhabitants of a single country to take for themselves the name os an entire hemisphere? What does this say about that country’s view of that other countries who share the hemisphere with it?
Justo González,  Manana: Christian Theology from a Hispanic Perspective

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¡Hasta Siempre Comandante!

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love
- Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Seguiremos adelante
como junto a ti seguimos
y con Fidel te decimos:
!Hasta siempre, Comandante!

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Proclamation of the Republic of Puerto Rico

Grito de Lares
Rebellion

 

 

Tomb of Ramón E. Betances in Cabo Rojo, with the Lares flag in front, 2007
The Lares uprising, commonly known as the “Grito de Lares” occurred on September 23, 1868, but was planned well before that date by a group led by Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances and Segundo Ruiz Belvis, who on January 6, [...]

The Other September 11

Chile, Tuesday, September 11, 1973
“I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.” — Henry Kissinger
On Tuesday, September 11 1973, enemies of freedom committed an act [...]

It is not just about the last 8 years.

It is not just about the last 8 years.
To assume that change will happen by just focusing on November 4 is a naive view of history and a adolescent understanding of democracy. On Nov. 4 people will elect a new administrator in the same system of power that perpetuates itself. There are bigger systems than [...]

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