kingdom praxis | a.k.a. eliacín’s blog

Crossing the Border

 

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God Loves Sex Workers and Doesn’t Require Them to Repent

Here is an interview with my friend Bowie Snodgrass from NYC.
village voice sex naked city - God Loves Sex Workers and Doesn’t Require Them to Repent
Bowie Snodgrass and her colleague Isaac Everett are the founders of Transmission, an emerging liturgical community in New York City that meets every other week in its members’ homes. Participants [...]

Generation Illegal

You’ve heard of the:

Great Generation
Baby Boomers
Gen X
Gen Y
Net Gen

How’bout Generation Illegal - Listen podcast here.

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Clandestino

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Manu Chao 

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San Diego fires + harassment

From Jason Evans at The Ecclesia Collective
Friends,
As many of you know, many of us in our community have been feeding the volunteers collecting donations at the Chicano Park donation drop point.
Yesterday, our group of primarily gringos experienced some resistance to serving the primarily Latino volunteers. We came to find out that earlier in the day, [...]

Confronting the Empire

Abolition of poor countries external debt
Control of international financial capital and taxation for wealth redistribution and development financing
Moratorium on the WTO to reorient international trade
Public control (oversee) of transnational companies
Defense of labor rights
Development of a solidarity economic sector
Environmental reconstruction and sustainable development
Creation and extension of universal health care and education system
Food sovereignty
Democratization of mass communication [...]

Brown is the New Green

Brown is the New Green

Brown is the New Green:
George Lopez and the American Dream - Synopsis
Finally there is someone that you can invest in that looks like you, speaks like you, relates to things you relate to, and make our culture okay to talk about.” - George Lopez

Numbering 44 million, Latinos are not only [...]

M.I.A. from the Immigration Debate, Creating Economic Opportunity in Mexico

M.I.A. from the Immigration Debate, Creating Economic Opportunity in Mexico

“Why should capital go freely across borders while people cannot? These are human beings trying to make a better life, for god’s sake. Why is the wall on the Mexican border more acceptable than the Berlin Wall?”
read more… 

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New Sanctuary Church Movement

MEDIA ADVISORY
May 3, 2007
Contact:  Michael Ramos, (206) 525-1213 x3950
 
FAITH COMMUNITIES TO LAUNCH NEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT
 
Religious congregations and their allies in the Seattle area have joined together to pledge to open their hearts and doors to immigrant workers and their families on the brink of deportation.  The New Sanctuary [...]

Primero de Mayo

¡Gigante Despierta!

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