Category Archives: indifference

Ongoing racism and oppression – El racismo y la opresión constantes

Posted on November 10, 2016 by silviantonia

This is yet another bilingual post… Este es otro artículo bilingüe. SO!!! Don’t come telling me to kiss and make up, to pretend I am not angry, to ‘come together’ with my oppressors. I have been trying to write an … Continue reading →

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The silver lining to the bad news and the worse news: el filo de plata en las noticias malas y las peores

Posted on November 9, 2016 by silviantonia

I recently posted a commentary on the Pavlov reflex, which is how we seem to run elections in the United States.  We have been well trained by our corporate masters, including, in particular, the mass corporate media, to salivate at … Continue reading →

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We now interrupt the regularly scheduled program (elections) for station identification

Posted on August 1, 2016 by silviantonia

So it has been all quiet on the Western Front from me, which yes, you could take as an allusion to Remarque’s brilliant post WWI novel about the destruction of human beings by war, or not.  The station in question … Continue reading →

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End the corruption and the rigging! ¡Paremos la corrupción y la manipulación de las elecciones!

Posted on March 23, 2016 by silviantonia

This article is posted bilingually.  Este artículo está presentado en formato bilingüe. Last night, after days of sleeping no more than three or four hours, I conked out at 6 p.m. and slept almost 12 hours, without having dinner, wearing all … Continue reading →

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On the discourse between latinos, hispanos, chicanos or whatever you have chosen to call us, and the rest of the people in the United States of America

Posted on March 15, 2016 by silviantonia

First of all, let me explain to you that America is not a country. This is a fight that I have been engaged in since I first came to the US and was told by a racist parent in my … Continue reading →

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Women hold up half the sky… a meditation on women’s rights and issues

Posted on February 13, 2016 by silviantonia

We are living in a world that is ever more disrespectful and abusive of women’s rights and issues.  In our current scene of politicians who pander to the lowest common denominator to blast and blaspheme against the birthing half of humanity, … Continue reading →

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Good days and bad days: an activist’s plaint

Posted on October 20, 2015 by silviantonia

Yesterday I posted in my Spanish blog that I had been listening to Leon Gieco’s song, “Cinco siglos igual” (which translates roughly to “the same thing for five centuries”) and that I couldn’t help but think that despite all the … Continue reading →

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