Cockroach People
Rants and ruminations by a classical liberal with radical Chicano tendencies
Posts Tagged ‘Peru’
The Continuing Conquest of Native America
28 Dec 2009***UPDATE: TAKE ACTION NOW*** I remember being horrified a few years back when Wal-Mart decided to open a store near Teotihuacan less than two miles from the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon. Wal-Mart had already begun to rule the earth back then and was poised to destroy what little bit of culture in the [...]
The Last Stand of the Earth’s Keepers
17 Jun 2009My friend thinks that American media outlets are obsessing about Iran’s New Revolution in order to divert “our” attention from the revolutions happening here in our own back yard . While I won’t go as far as she does in attributing conspiratorial motives to the media or to the US corporation Conocophillips, I do believe that [...]
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About this blog
While some people look at cockroaches as disgusting pests, I view them as resilient organisms that predate humans and will likely outlive us as well. People of color, the poor, the downtrodden, and the oppressed, much like cockroaches, are often despised, feared and in some cases have been the objects of extermination.
I started this blog as an attempt to understand the complicated world we live in. Things have changed since the old days of conquest, colonization, and slavery. Anonymous living, consumerism, and mass media have made it difficult to identify the forces that make modern-day oppression possible. Thus, posts here tend to focus on corruption, media, bureaucracy, ethics, economics, law, human rights, etc...in short, I try to take a second-order inquiry into assumptions and systems that some of us take for granted. I also take time to challenge stereotypes that function to place us in a box. Occasionally, I just rant.
Thank your for reading!
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- Bryan J.: Here's a new little bit of investigation I did on the situation in Honduras: http://bit.ly/agslp [...]
- Bryan J.: The Courts are so very active lately in decisions that are contrary to the majority of the public op [...]
- City of Bell’s Public Officials Live High on the Hog!: [...] at the expense of the working class that they serve. This reminds me of the cacique mentality [...]
- Samuel Huntington’s “Arizona Nightmares” - Cockroach People: [...] close to the end of the waves of super, mega marches for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR [...]
- lockim up: if he did his job so well, where is he now? exactly. [...]
- I’m back!
- Arizona Law Blocked (sort of)
- Samuel Huntington’s “Arizona Nightmares”
- Illinoisan Dunces Approve Anti-AZ law, then sign contract with AZ
- Opus Dei Comes to LA: Welcome the new, Latino Archbishop
- Border Security, The Great Chimera
- Ronald Reagan: A Latino Leader?
- Mortgage Fraud, Latino Style: Meet Eliseo Carrillo Jr.
- Marco Rubio, Lesbian Bondage, and the GOP’s Spending Problem
- On Vacation; No posting for another week or so.