http://latinoblogger.net Our voices, our people, our Latino netroots Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:06:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bush's nominee for Attorney General John Mukasey does not believe that "waterboarding" is either illegal or actual torture. Let's see, this is one form of "waterboarding", better known around the world as Chinese water torture: And this is another representation of the same form of torture depicted in a painting at the ... http://latinoblogger.net/?p=64 In DailyKos, important up-to-the-minute information about the fires. http://latinoblogger.net/?p=63 Important documentary regarding the racist laws approved by the Prince Williams county board in Virginia. According to the filmmakers Annabel Park and Eric Byler who have posted the videos in their YouTube channel: This channel is an "Interactive Documentary" about the politicization of the immigration issue, currently being shot in Northern Virginia... Because ... http://latinoblogger.net/?p=62 The LNR Podcast #2 is out. You can listen to/download it here. Marisa Treviño (Latina Lista), Liza Sabater (CultureKitchen), Louis Pagan (Latino Pundit) and Roberto Lovato (Of América) join La Bloguera and Dabloguiman in the first podcast of the Fall season. Roberto Lovato brings us an exciting in-depth report about the 2nd ... http://latinoblogger.net/?p=61 The 2008 Republican National Convention is in Minneapolis. Apparently Minneapolis has one of the highest bathroom cubicle to person ratios in the country. Although we know the citizens of Minneapolis always make proper use of these facilities, it looks like once again the Republicans have other things in mind. If you don't ... http://latinoblogger.net/?p=60 What will it take for the Democrats in Congress to grow a spine? Maybe watching this clip should be a mandatory exercise for all of them. http://latinoblogger.net/?p=56 In a very troubling development for freedom of speech and the future of "net neutrality", the New York Times is reporting that Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a text-message program. Verizon claims that they ... http://latinoblogger.net/?p=55 I have been playing around with the Yahoo/Huffington Post/Slate presidential debate “mashup” site and I can tell you that it is not for the weak of heart. The debate has been billed as "the first-ever online-only presidential mashup". The raw footage from the online debate in which Charlie Rose and Bill ... http://latinoblogger.net/?p=54 Today is the day! The Democratic presidential candidates get together at the University of Miami in a debate that will be broadcast in Spanish by Univision. Although the questions will be translated to English and the candidates will answer also in English, it is expected that millions of Spanish-speaking viewers ... http://latinoblogger.net/?p=53 The mounted police of Washington, DC, in total disregard for the First Amendment rights of the people, charged in to break up an outdoor press conference and demonstration against the Iraq war. Some 20 journalists and four or five protestors were attacked by the police while having a press conference in ... http://latinoblogger.net/?p=52