Houston

March to the Ballot: Houston’s East End Gets out the Vote

October 23, 2010
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Early voting is up by nearly 75% in Harris County and across the state. The effort to get people to the polls hit the street today in Houston’s East End. Mi Familia Vota project sponsored a March to the Ballot that started at Eastwood Park on Harrisburg and ended at Ripley House Community Center, an [...]

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UH-Downtown Hosts a Deputee Voter Registrar Swearing In

September 4, 2010
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Election day 2010 is less than 9 weeks away, and it’s gonna be ugly for someone. I’m hoping that rational people will show up to the polls and vote for Democrats, but if you believe the talking heads this isn’t very likely. The key to winning this year will be voter turnout. If Democrats can [...]

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The Immigration Speech: Too Little and Too Conservative

July 2, 2010
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President Obama delivered a speech today addressing the current immigration crisis the country is facing. I’ve excerpted some of his comments here. He begins by reminding the country of the long history immigrants have here. Of course, the tensions around immigration are not new. On the one hand, we’ve always defined ourselves as a nation [...]

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UH-D Name Change: A Question of Class and Race

May 16, 2010

I have a serious problem with the way UH-D is being represented in the media, and none of the people being interviewed in these articles seem to have the wherewithal to correct the reporters when they make asinine assumptions. Just because UH-D is an open enrollment university, does not mean that it is second rate anything. Students, faculty, and staff are doing amazing things with the scraps that UH gives us.

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Pictures from the May Day Marches

May 1, 2010
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Technorati Tags: Boycott Arizona, Houston, Human Rights, I am an Immigrant, Immigration Reform, May Day, Photos, Stop SB1070, Todos Somos Arizona

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The Name Change Continues

April 18, 2010

On Wednesday of last week, the UH-Downtown administration and public affairs offices held open meetings to discuss the results from the research conducted by the STAMATS research firm. I won’t recant the proceeding of the whole meeting because that can be found in my Twitter feed. I do have a response to the two proposed [...]

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Identity questions.

February 16, 2009

Identity is one of the massive subjects I would like to further study. I’ve done basic research on the notion of identity, and now I find myself questioning the role of identity in just almost every possible context. Most recently (if you follow my sparsely updated blog) I have focused on the identity of UH-D, [...]

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The storm is a coming

September 12, 2008

The hurricane is fast approaching. I tried to secure as much of the debris as I could from around my house. I can hear the wind whip around me; shaking trees and stretching power lines. I took some pictures outside. It got dark before I could get a lot of shots. Those I did get [...]

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