Author: Oppression Monitor

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43 civil organizations marching for 43 murdered students

43 for 43: Marchers Demand Justice for Students of Ayotzinapa

43 civil organizations are currently marching 122 miles from Iguala, Guerrero to Mexico City.

Marchers are demanding justice for the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students disappeared by the State on September 26 in Iguala.

They arrive on Sunday where thousands are expected to join them in a mega march through the streets of the Mexican capital city.

Stay tuned for updates.

Source: thinkmexican.tumblr.com

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94% of Child Migrants Who’ve Received Removal Orders Had No Attorney

Between July 18 and October 21, immigration courts sped through 800 cases a week to begin processing the tens of thousands of child migrants who crossed the border into the U.S. this past summer, Politico reports. In the same span of time, judges issued 1,542 deportation orders and 94 percent of them went to children who faced their court proceedings without the aid of an attorney.

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Source: colorlines.com

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Woman thinks her White privilege can let her tell another mother to ‘go to hell’ – then gets beat down in parking lot

A woman was punched in the face after telling a mother to ‘go to hell’. Affiliate KPIX reports.

Source: www.cnn.com

CNN tries to twist this story and make it about the screaming child. 

This story is about a young white girl who thinks she has the right to tell another adult how to deal with their child, and who thinks she can tell another adult to ‘go to hell’ and not get a beat down. 

PS – the oppressor is the White woman who thinks she can talk down to another mom. The beat down is instant justice. 

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Mock Spanish

Mock Spanish (fl. 1953- ) is that thing where Anglo Americans use Spanish, much of it deformed, for added humour: “No problemo”, “Hasta la vista, baby”, “el cheapo”, “cojones”, “grassy ass”, “Comprende?”, etc. Because of Hollywood, it is no longer just them.


Most Anglos seem to see it as light-hearted, broad-minded and worldly (“See, I know some Spanish!”). It is used by the high and the low, the left and the right. They do not mean it to be racist, therefore they think it cannot possibly be racist.


Many Latinos, but not all, see it as disrespectful, if not racist.


The disrespect is not imagined – it is built right into Mock Spanish:


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Source: abagond.wordpress.com

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The Green Monster – How the Border Patrol became America’s most out-of-control law enforcement agency


This is the story of how the Green Monster came alive.


The irony of New York’s Statue of Liberty is that the Emma Lazarus poem inscribed on its base at its dedication in 1886, “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free,” marked almost precisely the moment the nation’s borders began to close to new immigrants—especially the tired, the poor and the huddled masses.


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Source: www.politico.com