Did you grow up knowing you were Latino? I didn’t, not really. I lived in a very small world; home, church, school, family. Everyone spoke my language in my little world. Everyone looked like me in my little world. Everyone ate the same food. Our tenement and project apartments looked the same. How was I… [Continue Reading]
Protecting the rainforest
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- via BBC News As the Occupy Wall St. movement is spreading around the country and the world, there are people elsewhere fighting for their homes and what is dear to them. One thousand indigenous Amazonian men, women and children completed a two-month march from the Amazon town of Trinidad to La Paz, Bolivia (for… [Continue Reading]
Who’s afraid of America’s population changes?
10/20/2011 By 4 Comments
“The U.S. Census Bureau expects racial minorities/ people of color to make up a majority of the U.S. population in the next thirty to forty years. Do you feel concerned or hopeful about that?” The question comes from a survey conducted by the Applied Research Center, which asked Americans their opinions about a well-publicized fact:… [Continue Reading]
Caution, exotic animals
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- via The Guardian That’s a sign that motorists on highways in the Zanesville, Ohio area came across over the past couple days as authorities were trying to hunt down up to 48 wild animals that escaped from a private farm. The former owner, Terry Thompson, opened the cages of lions, Bengal tigers, grizzly bears,… [Continue Reading]
Choices in Chile: environment or electricity?
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Nature is beautiful. Nothing quite tickles the soul like the thought of trekking through an unspoiled wilderness. Chile has plenty of it. Patagonia in particular, famous for being one of the least inhabited places in the world, just might be the place to go when you want to get away from it all and disappear… [Continue Reading]