I am reading a NY Times article about Day Laborers and laughing at how police were arresting day laborers outside of a home depot and “accidently arrested a Hispanic shopper” when I looked over at the photo accompanying the article.
Guess who is in the NY Times photo? My little (and only) sister Cristina!
Cristina works as an organizer for Day Laboerers in Austin. Pretty cool huh? Now, I gotta go get some hard copies of the NY Times and see if she is in the hard copy of the newspaper. I think the last time Cristina was in the paper she was getting arrested. Aye mi hermanita always up to something. If you want to know more about my sister you can check out her book Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. My mama sure did raise some revolutionaries.
That’s cool.
What’s REALLY funny is that the guy next to me at work was reading that article today and laughing. Of course, he was laughing because he thought it was funny that “all those illegals think they got rights”…. I think he advocated shooting them on the spot or something.
Good for her!
Fighting for people’s rights…
I’m glad that you and your sister are helping others less fortunate.
Cuidate!
Props to your mom for raising two young ladies so dedicated to la causa!
I hope that you don’t mind me saying so pero tu hermanita parece ser muy smart, feisty and looks super cute.
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