What Will the 2018 Social Order Look Like?
What do we want the 2018 social order and the rest of the 21st century to look like? With the many internal and external challenges that a majority of Americans…
Nation’s Security Trumps Donald Trump
In a very recent publication entitled, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump (2017), (Lee, Bandy, M.D., M. Div., Organizer of the “Yale “Duty to Warn, Conference”) , a smattering of…
A Despedida to Escuela Tlatelolco
The once thriving school, where pictures of famous revolutionarios hung on the walls, in between murals depicting the many struggles Chicanos faced in Denver was transformed into an ambiance as…
Las Mujeres in la House and Senate
Metropolitan State University of Denver and the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department was honored by the presence of Dr. Christine Sierra, Professor Emerita from the University of New México. Selected…
Is King Trump a Racist?
King Trump is living in the wrong nation. Absolute Monarchy does not exist in the United States of América. Divine intervention did not place Donald Trump in this positon and…
Spanglish: Savior or Culprit
Esta bien aguitado since his lady left him. He doesn’t have ni un alibi. (Taken from Llan Stavans in “Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language.) I am a…
The Kind of América I Wanted to Help Build
For the many carnales and carnalas who have struggled against the daunting forces of racism, sexism, classism, militarism, heterosexism, ageism and ableism for several decades to achieve some semblance of…
Immigrants and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
For centuries, psychologists have written about how fear of the unknown, fear of failure, fear of success and fear in general as determinants of behavior that if not addressed can…
In the Spirit of César Estrada Chávez
I wanted to share the words I wrote for the César Chávez mass on Saturday, April 8th at Regis University in Denver, CO. Good morning brothers and sisters, here we…
The Separation of Local, State, and Federal Governments
Chicana/o communities have struggled for constitutional rights and democracy for over 150 years; sometimes to no avail but always with resiliency and tenacity. They have battled against repressive forces that…