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peru</category><title>Carlos in DC &gt; #SOPAblackout #J18 #StopSOPA</title><description /><link>http://carlosqc.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>668</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Carlosqc" /><feedburner:info uri="carlosqc" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><thespringbox:skin xmlns:thespringbox="http://www.thespringbox.com/dtds/thespringbox-1.0.dtd">http://feeds.feedburner.com/Carlosqc?format=skin</thespringbox:skin><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:emailServiceId>Carlosqc</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751235723479192230.post-3474684749288251731</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-11T20:11:10.538Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mitt+romney</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">immigration</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mexican+americans</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">elections+212</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">latinos</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">republicans</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cuban+americans</category><title>Marco Rubio could join Mitt Romney in presidential ticket</title><atom:summary>Marco Rubio could be invited eventurally by Mitt Romney to run as vice president in the November 2012 elections.

Today's endorsement of three top Cuban-American political leaders to Republican candidate Mitt Romney reinforces the odds for Senator Marco Rubio to be included in Romney's presidential ticket.

Mitt Romney with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart during a campaign </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/RQqHyaJxwRE/marco-rubio-could-join-mitt-romney-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/i6PYDh6Wgts/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Carlosqc/~4/RQqHyaJxwRE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://carlosqc.blogspot.com/2012/01/marco-rubio-could-join-mitt-romney-in.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751235723479192230.post-2757903174339850091</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-10T14:35:11.813Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cultures</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">videos</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nyc</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">urban</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">people</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">latinos</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">film</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">race</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">us</category><title>Shit Spanish Girls Say? Not really</title><atom:summary>This video is funny...


... but also this video portrays Latina women [and transgender Latinas too in this case] in certain ways that not everyone might like. These racial and cultural stereotypes may be funny for some, but is this good for Brown women?

That's an open question.

Besides, these girls are not Spanish but they are Caribbean women raised in a working class U.S. urban area.

Judging</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/sER8_o4oSks/shit-spanish-girls-say-not-really.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/LpaDBD84ET0/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Carlosqc/~4/sER8_o4oSks" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://carlosqc.blogspot.com/2012/01/shit-spanish-girls-say-not-really.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751235723479192230.post-7274749938100756772</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-10T05:04:45.037Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">immigration</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">elections+2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">barack+obama</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">latino+vote</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">deportations</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">latinos</category><title>The Obama reelection campaign and immigration</title><atom:summary>Last Friday, the Department of Homeland Security announced a new rule to help undocumented immigrants who have relatives who are U.S. citizens, to regularize their immigration status in a shorter period of time, while staying in the country.



Indigenous migrants participate at a naturalization ceremony at the U.S. Department of Interior on September 23, 2011 in Washington, DC. About 50 </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/befYWMzkaWY/obama-reelection-campaign-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/V26T-SfaFgk/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Carlosqc/~4/befYWMzkaWY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://carlosqc.blogspot.com/2012/01/obama-reelection-campaign-and.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751235723479192230.post-4798931240576236215</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-08T21:57:41.707Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">immigration</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">protests</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">latinos</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012+elections</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">undocumented</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">republicans</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">politics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dream+act</category><title>Latinos protest Mitt Romney in response to his remarks on the DREAM Act</title><atom:summary>Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney vowed to veto the federal DREAM Act bill if elected president, proving that he is not familiar with the bill itself while causing protests from Latino voters.

The DREAM Act is a bill that was rejected in 2010 by the Republican-led Senate, which would provide a path to citizenship to undocumented youth who grew up in the U.S. and graduated from U.S. </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/GlkyGvTrcoU/latinos-will-protest-mitt-romney-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/RJC1Mn8Pxg8/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which follows the destructive and corrupted model of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), includes 9 countries of the Pacific Rim: Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/sBSAl3jHuOo/another-nafta-on-making-trans-pacific.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sbqC3BzdJWQ/Tu6f8vDARpI/AAAAAAAAUjw/5ayfHNhU8kY/s72-c/012.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>7</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Carlosqc/~4/sBSAl3jHuOo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://carlosqc.blogspot.com/2011/12/another-nafta-on-making-trans-pacific.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751235723479192230.post-7864418080390231176</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-24T08:53:10.220Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">immigration</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">occupy+wall+street</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nyc</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">human+rights</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">protests</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">people</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">occupy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">activism</category><title>Immigration march at Occupy Wall Street: #ImmigrantsOccupy - LIVE blogging</title><atom:summary>Today is the the International Migrants Day (Sunday, December 18th). The Immigrants Occupy March will be held in New York City.

Update: 


The Real News Network's report:





The Live Streams included in this post are working partially and with difficulties. Included in this post is a Live Blogging event to follow twits from the march.

Ready to go! Photo twitted by @OccupyWallStNYC

Photo </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/UJEe1PnILhs/immigration-march-at-occupy-wall-street.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/UhTjOVrWmJM/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Carlosqc/~4/UJEe1PnILhs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://carlosqc.blogspot.com/2011/12/immigration-march-at-occupy-wall-street.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751235723479192230.post-6783755725711966670</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-15T20:01:10.886Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">washington+dc</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">new+media</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blogs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">people</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">twitter</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">social+media</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dc</category><title>My choices for DC Tweeps 2011</title><atom:summary>Corporate media used to ignore those of us who create new social media, citizen journalism. Times have changed fast, and now they even run contests to validate our work.

Here are The Washington Post's "DC Tweeps 2011" candidates.





If you want to learn more about D.C. social media, this is a good start. So thanks to The Washington Post for putting together this reference list. Although the </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/VKji5h0zf50/my-choices-for-dc-tweeps-2011.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Carlosqc/~4/VKji5h0zf50" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://carlosqc.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-choices-for-dc-tweeps-2011.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751235723479192230.post-7754989947571141678</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-14T23:04:32.634Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">washington+dc</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">photography</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">spaces</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">protests</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">people</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">city</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">politics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">occupy+dc</category><title>Occupy DC staying in McPherson Square despite demands for eviction and cold weather</title><atom:summary>Despite increasing demands for its eviction and harsh cold temperatures, the Occupy D.C. camp at McPherson Square is standing strong as one of the last standing Occupy camps in the United States.

Today I visited the Occupy D.C. camp and I took these photos. Notice that most protesters were at the U.S. Congress, joining a hunger strike to demand voting rights and budget autonomy for the District.</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/PFeDsJoGReU/occupy-dc-seems-growing-stronger.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jvE22--R2v8/Tufp2AsRnQI/AAAAAAAAUdw/vzPkMTDdT-U/s72-c/2011-12-13%252520Occupy%252520DC%252520Camp%252520%25252822%252529.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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Organizers, activists, students and several organizations including Our DC along with Occupy DC held a "Day of Action against the undue influence of money in politics</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/u-xS5Dpfeec/occupy-dc-rally-occupied-k-street.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/se3Po86rMZ4/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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Thousands of people have arrived to Washington, DC, from across the country for a five-day long protest to demand the U.S. Congress to pass legislation aimed to reduce the nation's high unemployment rates, to guarantee better jobs and extend current unemployment benefits.

Photo by 99inDC
This organized protest is being called Take Back the Capitol and is organized by the local community </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/EPTyK6xYc2o/video-take-back-capitol-protests-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lgByyiFItmc/TuDbovoA7QI/AAAAAAAAUZI/1gLCsjcE2dA/s72-c/The+Peoples+Camp.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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The anti-immigrant law HB56 implemented by the state of Alabama last September 1st, has caused an organized response from youth advocacy groups, community organizations and courageous individuals who are campaigning for this bill to be repealed, or at least modified. 


Alabama has followed the states of Arizona, Indiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Georgia by passing strong </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/xCnkquU4d9Y/something-is-happening-in-alabama.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/wfHQA-zr9-I/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Carlosqc/~4/xCnkquU4d9Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://carlosqc.blogspot.com/2011/11/something-is-happening-in-alabama.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751235723479192230.post-7355567931624314682</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-31T03:40:56.944Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blogs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">carlosqc</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">carlos+dc</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">social+media</category><title>Leaving Wordpress: Carlos in DC is back with Blogger</title><atom:summary>Creating valuable new online media is not an easy task, being a blogger requires a lot of unpaid work and sacrifices that can bring good results in a personal level, but sometimes it may cause you a lot of headaches.

The good side of online blogging it is that most publishing tools are free of cost, easy to learn, and they can reach out a lot of people. The bad side is that you are not always in</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/_9vRvwMNo6E/carlos-in-dc-returns-to-blogger.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-O7N5G5fDU8g/Tq4OuPWfB9I/AAAAAAAAUPM/1XAHceKXUGQ/s72-c/040.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Carlosqc/~4/_9vRvwMNo6E" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://carlosqc.blogspot.com/2011/10/carlos-in-dc-returns-to-blogger.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751235723479192230.post-5610266322455103810</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-31T00:25:59.526Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">peruanista</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">journalism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blogs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">carlosqc</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">social+media</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">media</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wikileaks</category><title>Censorship in Blogger</title><atom:summary>On Monday, December 13, 2010 around by at 11:00 AM. my blogs Carlos in DC and Peruanista were deleted after I tried posting a video of the WikiLeaks anonymous activists. Both blogs were re-posted after 12 hours.


I won Blogger any longer. I transferred my blogs to carlosqc.wordpress.com and peruanista.wordpress.com while other projects are coming with the support I received from several friends.</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/6CMx9YEat1E/censorship-of-blog-carlos-in-dc-bye.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Carlosqc/~4/6CMx9YEat1E" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://carlosqc.blogspot.com/2010/12/censorship-of-blog-carlos-in-dc-bye.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751235723479192230.post-6435102023759039498</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-09T22:01:38.055Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">interviews</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blogs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">people</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">latinos</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">native</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">indigenous</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">identity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">social+media</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">united+state</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">us</category><title>Latino Social Media in the US: Interview with Lance Rios of @BeingLatino [VIDEO]</title><atom:summary>Being Latino is one of the most popular social media websites among Latinos in the United States, with almost 50,000 members. 

Created by Lance Rios in May 2009, Being Latino started as a Facebook page which currently almost 50,000 members. Being Latino has grown to include a blog with more than 20 writers, a Youtube channel and a Twitter account.

Being Latino "...is a communication platform </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/B2qPkXuEw5s/what-is-being-latino-lance-rios-video.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_69u2CK25Cas/TQFH-BBRbfI/AAAAAAAARA4/PCk__QlYo0M/s72-c/027%20-%20Copy.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Carlosqc/~4/B2qPkXuEw5s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://carlosqc.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-is-being-latino-lance-rios-video.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751235723479192230.post-7376530442727210871</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-08T15:27:41.868Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">immigration</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">youth</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">campaigns</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">reform</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dream+act</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">us</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">education</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">families</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">legislation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">justice</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">congress</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">future</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">america</category><title>Why You Need to Call Congress TODAY: Meet the Young Americans Who Deserve a Chance [VIDEO]</title><atom:summary>This is it. Today is the vote!Why the Dream Act is fair and necessary:

Call Congress Today to Support the Dream Act!

Instructions:
1.  Dial the switchboard 1-866-587-30232.  Ask operator for a member from the target list3.  When receptionist picks up leave a message urging the member to vote yes on DREAM.Target list:

Senate Democrats:
Conrad (ND)
Dorgan (ND)
McCaskill (MO)
Webb (VA)
Warner (VA</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/h-IZXYX7DTE/why-you-need-to-call-congress-today.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Carlosqc/~4/h-IZXYX7DTE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://carlosqc.blogspot.com/2010/12/why-you-need-to-call-congress-today.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751235723479192230.post-274067489631514344</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-03T17:21:24.473Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">washington+dc</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">interviews</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">community</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hispanics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">latinos</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">united+states</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">right-wing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">us</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">conferences</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">videos</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">brown</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">elections</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">politics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vote</category><title>Conservatives Trying to Reach Out to Latinos: The Americano Hispanic Conference in Washington DC [VIDEO]</title><atom:summary>Conservatives are trying to reach out Latinos and benefit from the growing political power of our Brown communities -or as they call us Hispanics. A conference being held in Washington, DC, have gathered right-wing politicians and thinkers from the United States, Spain and [Latin] America to discuss on how to convince Latinos to support the conservative agenda.


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The Americano First </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/35JXAzxpSIs/conservatives-trying-to-reach-out-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Carlosqc/~4/35JXAzxpSIs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://carlosqc.blogspot.com/2010/12/conservatives-trying-to-reach-out-to.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751235723479192230.post-1894144324142020141</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-18T21:20:43.679Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">video</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">immigration</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">washington+dc</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">secure+communities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">human+rights</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ice</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">287g</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">protests</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">family</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">justice</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">government</category><title>Secure Communities Destroys Families: Mother Confronts ICE Director David Venturella [VIDEO &amp; PHOTOS]</title><atom:summary>Maria Bolanos, a mother facing deportation after she called the police (Maryland's Prince George County) in a case of domestic violence, stood up today in a public conference and confronted ICE Secure Communities Executive Director David Venturella, asking him to stop dividing families and to stop her deportation proceedings.

Photos and videos by Carlos A. Quiroz in support of NDLON and Casa de </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/WCXupEdVhAA/secure-communities-destroys-families.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tLOnL2biaWE/TOV7bk9D8dI/AAAAAAAAFH4/I6IqEmHkYKI/s72-c/111.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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Today there is more violence, sexism, abusive and hateful content in the U.S. television than ever before, even if they come sugarcoated as comedy. As we </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/QjTILhqbk28/modern-family-episode-and-sofia-vergara.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Carlosqc/~4/QjTILhqbk28" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://carlosqc.blogspot.com/2010/10/modern-family-episode-and-sofia-vergara.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751235723479192230.post-8963715882393437732</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-20T23:07:30.613Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">washington+dc</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">people</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">racism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">protest</category><title>Why the Washington Redskins should change its racist name</title><atom:summary>The Washington, DC, football team "Redskins" should eventually change its name.

This private company has not only a known history of racism: the Redskins was the last NFL team to hire Black players.

The name Redskins represents a mockery of the peoples who endured the biggest genocide and displacement in human history.

Redskins is a pejorative and racist nickname that offends Native peoples of</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/TJWcXulWsUs/washington-redskins-to-change-its-name.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_69u2CK25Cas/TMdjYwIMkcI/AAAAAAAAQ4Q/MELRD7_L_hM/s72-c/RS%20-%20Redskins.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>8</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Carlosqc/~4/TJWcXulWsUs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://carlosqc.blogspot.com/2010/10/washington-redskins-to-change-its-name.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751235723479192230.post-529127769077105033</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-10-25T20:37:02.321+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">opinion</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">videos</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2010</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">latinos</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">indigenous</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">elections</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">social+justice</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">racism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">politics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vote</category><title>Latinos in Politics: Your Vote Counts! [VIDEO]</title><atom:summary>A couple of readers contacted me and asked me whether Latinos should vote or not on this upcoming November 2th 2010 elections. My response is plain and simple: yes, you should vote. 

You should do it for many reasons, but in this video I mention the ones that I consider very important.

We as the Indigenous communities of this country [Latinos] we have a duty to fight for social justice, to end </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/m40l36KM_tA/why-latinos-should-vote-on-2010.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Carlosqc/~4/m40l36KM_tA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://carlosqc.blogspot.com/2010/10/why-latinos-should-vote-on-2010.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751235723479192230.post-2449980220937559760</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-10-03T17:14:39.408+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">washington+dc</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">human+rights</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">one+nation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">people</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2010</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">elections</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">civil+rights</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">democracy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">rally</category><title>Why I Decided to Join the One Nation Rally in Washington DC Today 10.2.10</title><atom:summary>Update: here are some photos that my friend Luis and I took yesterday at the One Nation Rally. It was a nice day with highly spirited people, showing that hope for change is still alive. Will president Barack Obama listen up this time?

Original post followsWhen I heard about the One Nation – Working Together Rally months ago, I thought it was a bad idea. I felt that I had enough of rallying and </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/qYC5s6vJ5Kk/why-i-decided-to-join-one-nation-rally.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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Music, poetry, singing, spoken word, the art of expressing oneself has been perhaps among the most powerful ways for African Americans to thrive for a better life, to resist and survive injustice, and to register their stories and their plight, their journey to their freedom, their survival, their success.

It is because of music and all forms of arts that Black Americans have overcame abuse and</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/wsYPCx4lRp4/power-of-black-music-in-religion-gospel.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tLOnL2biaWE/TKOK1Jq18GI/AAAAAAAAE74/GwqZmClHMz0/s72-c/037.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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Today is the 39th annual Fiesta DC Festival (former Latino Festival) held at its historical location in Mount Pleasant Street NW, between Park Road NW and Argonne Place NW. Fiesta DC is perhaps the most vibrant and popular street festival in Washington, DC, its organizers say that more than 80,000 people attend every year.

The festival kicks off around 11:00 am. </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Carlosqc/~3/WYQSJf4M2iQ/fiesta-dc-2010-is-today-meet-its-new.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carlos A. Quiroz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3532/3962841200_83bea1e4d1_t.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>6</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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