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Issue #1

  • Campus News

    Youth organization Right to Rebel SATX let a student walkout at Sombrilla on Main Campus to protest against university cooperation with ICE raids and arrests happening now across the nation. The deaths of Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr have sparked outcry and protests/walkouts nationwide. The gathering occured around 11 a.m. on the Feb. 3. Many demonstrators held handmade signs and chanted:

    Campus PD works with Ice to keep the people down, No justice, no peace! Get ICE off our streets!

    As part of this Hispanic-serving institution, we cannot stand for the unacceptable violence happening every day to thousands of people in the Latino community right here in SATX, Latino communities across the nation are being systematically targeted and brutalized for the crime of the “American Dream”, if you see something, say something. Here are some resources if you see/hear ICE activity in your neighborhood.

    San Antonio Rapid Response ICE Activity Hotline:
    210-361-3070
    Know Your Rights
    ICE Activity Tracker
    National Immigrant Justice Center

    Superbowl Halftime and Chicano Resistance

    Medical training for abortion procedures in Texas underway

    Bad Bunny’s preformance was more than just the annual bread and circuses of the annual Superbowl. Similarly to Kendrick Lamar’s infamous show year, conservative outcry has reached the far ends of the nation in an all out culture war about the NFL choice of artist for the occasion. Starting off, Bad Bunny paints the scene of the sugar cane fields of Puerto Rico, one of the most important crops in the Spanish colonization and enslavement of the Carribean. In a miniature set of an NYC bodega, he proceeds to take a shot with Maria Antonio “Tonita” Cay, an affluent pillar of the Nueva York Puerto Rican community, and a fierce opposition to the growing anti-gentrification movement in Williamsburg, NYC. Ricky Martin’s part in the show, while spoken in Spanish alongside most of the preformance, sung about a tale too often overlooked about our 50th state:

    After years of radio silence, reckless endangerment, doctor’s and medical personnel fearing for their careers, deaths, and the regressive anti-abortion rhetoric that has plauged the autonomy of pregnant women in Republican states since the historic repeal of Roe v. Wade, the texas medical regulator have finally given clarity on when they are “permitted” to preform medical abortions. Previously doctor’s were under threat of severe penalties regarding the legality of these procedures. Since then, sepsis rates have skyrocketed for pregnancy loss as a result in this legal limbo for pregnancy care. At least 4 women have died due to a lack of intervention and proper reproductive care in their time of need. In response, the Texas Legislature passed the Life of the Mother Act last year. Since then, Texas law has since added medical exemptions additionally to legal burden needed for prosecutors to criminally charge a doctor and required the medical board to create guidance for doctors by Jan. 1, something no other state with an abortion ban has done. This new medical training also adds 9 example scenarios in which medical abortions can be preformed, including complications from a partial abortion.

    “They want to take away my river, and my beach, they want my neighborhood, and for Grandma to leave. No! No, don’t let go of the flag, or forget the “Lelolai”! I don’t want them to do to you what happened to Hawaii.“

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