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Resistance, Remembrance, and Comunidad: Cinco de Mayo, Mount Pleasant, and the Rebuilding That Erases

Cinco de Mayo is often misunderstood in the United States. It is reduced to a marketing holiday, a day of beer specials, paper flags, mariachi clichés, and the shallow consumption of Mexican culture without the burden of remembering Mexican history. But the heart of Cinco de Mayo is not consumption. It is resistance.

The day remembers the Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862, when Mexican forces defeated the French army, then one of the most powerful military forces in the world. It was not Mexican Independence Day. It was not the founding of Mexico. It was a day when a people under pressure from empire stood their ground. It was a day when the powerful were resisted by those who were supposed to lose. It was, at its deepest level, a day about memory, dignity, land, sovereignty, and the refusal to be swallowed by imperial appetite. (MySA)

That is why, for me, Cinco de Mayo cannot be separated from another May 5: May 5, 1991, in Washington, D.C.

I was there.

Read the rest of the essay at PeaceGrooves.com.

Resistance, Remembrance, and Comunidad: Cinco de Mayo, Mount Pleasant, and the Rebuilding That Erases

Cinco de Mayo is often misunderstood in the United States. It is reduced to a marketing holiday, a day of beer specials, paper flags, mariachi clichés, and the shallow consumption of Mexican culture without the burden of remembering Mexican history. But the heart of Cinco de Mayo is not consumption. It is resistance.

The day remembers the Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862, when Mexican forces defeated the French army, then one of the most powerful military forces in the world. It was not Mexican Independence Day. It was not the founding of Mexico. It was a day when a people under pressure from empire stood their ground. It was a day when the powerful were resisted by those who were supposed to lose. It was, at its deepest level, a day about memory, dignity, land, sovereignty, and the refusal to be swallowed by imperial appetite. (MySA)

That is why, for me, Cinco de Mayo cannot be separated from another May 5: May 5, 1991, in Washington, D.C.

I was there.

Read the rest of the essay at PeaceGrooves.com.

Resistance, Remembrance, and Comunidad: Cinco de Mayo, Mount Pleasant, and the Rebuilding That Erases

Cinco de Mayo is often misunderstood in the United States. It is reduced to a marketing holiday, a day of beer specials, paper flags, mariachi clichés, and the shallow consumption of Mexican culture without the burden of remembering Mexican history. But the heart of Cinco de Mayo is not consumption. It is resistance.

The day remembers the Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862, when Mexican forces defeated the French army, then one of the most powerful military forces in the world. It was not Mexican Independence Day. It was not the founding of Mexico. It was a day when a people under pressure from empire stood their ground. It was a day when the powerful were resisted by those who were supposed to lose. It was, at its deepest level, a day about memory, dignity, land, sovereignty, and the refusal to be swallowed by imperial appetite. (MySA)

That is why, for me, Cinco de Mayo cannot be separated from another May 5: May 5, 1991, in Washington, D.C.

I was there.

Read the rest of the essay at PeaceGrooves.com.

Resistance, Remembrance, and Comunidad: Cinco de Mayo, Mount Pleasant, and the Rebuilding That Erases

Cinco de Mayo is often misunderstood in the United States. It is reduced to a marketing holiday, a day of beer specials, paper flags, mariachi clichés, and the shallow consumption of Mexican culture without the burden of remembering Mexican history. But the heart of Cinco de Mayo is not consumption. It is resistance.

The day remembers the Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862, when Mexican forces defeated the French army, then one of the most powerful military forces in the world. It was not Mexican Independence Day. It was not the founding of Mexico. It was a day when a people under pressure from empire stood their ground. It was a day when the powerful were resisted by those who were supposed to lose. It was, at its deepest level, a day about memory, dignity, land, sovereignty, and the refusal to be swallowed by imperial appetite. (MySA)

That is why, for me, Cinco de Mayo cannot be separated from another May 5: May 5, 1991, in Washington, D.C.

I was there.

Read the rest of the essay at PeaceGrooves.com.

Resistance, Remembrance, and Comunidad: Cinco de Mayo, Mount Pleasant, and the Rebuilding That Erases

Cinco de Mayo is often misunderstood in the United States. It is reduced to a marketing holiday, a day of beer specials, paper flags, mariachi clichés, and the shallow consumption of Mexican culture without the burden of remembering Mexican history. But the heart of Cinco de Mayo is not consumption. It is resistance.

The day remembers the Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862, when Mexican forces defeated the French army, then one of the most powerful military forces in the world. It was not Mexican Independence Day. It was not the founding of Mexico. It was a day when a people under pressure from empire stood their ground. It was a day when the powerful were resisted by those who were supposed to lose. It was, at its deepest level, a day about memory, dignity, land, sovereignty, and the refusal to be swallowed by imperial appetite. (MySA)

That is why, for me, Cinco de Mayo cannot be separated from another May 5: May 5, 1991, in Washington, D.C.

I was there.

Read the rest of the essay at PeaceGrooves.com.

When DHS gets caught violating people's rights they still go ahead and try to use every other "legal" tool at their disposal to make an example of their victims.

#ICE #DHS #IceOccupation #Minnesota #ColumbiaHeights #Minneapolis

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/03/18/judge-orders-removal-of-liam-conejo-ramos-family-after-asylum-denial

#ColumbiaHeights fourth-grader released after a month in #ICE detention

https://sahanjournal.com/education/columbia-heights-fourth-grader-held-by-ice/

Columbia Heights Public Schools says three of its students are still in federal #immigration custody after the release of Liam Conejo Ramos and 10-year-old Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano.

Liam Ramos home, but 4 #ColumbiaHeights students remain at #Texas facility amid possible measles outbreak.

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/liam-ramos-home-but-4-columbia-heights-students-remain-at-texas-facility-amid-possible-measles-outbreak

"We are working to get them released and returned home," a school spokesperson said.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXhV... This dude's pretty cool. Straight talk. Very Minnesotan (a fuckton more true MN than the lying jackass #TomEmmer could ever hope to be). He's the husband of the Mayor of #ColumbiaHeights #Minnesota & he deserves to go viral for all the right reasons.

How Minnesotans deal with fede...

This is fucking sick.

“Instead,” she said, “the agent took the child out of the still-running car, led him to the door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.”

#ColumbiaHeights #Minneapolis #Minnesota

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/21/ice-detains-5year-old-minnesota-boy-lawyer-says-agents-used-him-as-bait

#Residents chase #ICE out of #ColumbiaHeights neighborhood in #WashingtonDC

Residents of #ColumbiaHeights in #WashingtonDC force out #ICE agents trying to #kidnap their neighbors

The Dollar Tree in Hilltop (on Central Ave NE, between #Minneapolis and #ColumbiaHeights, MN) is closing so they have a lot of stuff on clearance, including Xmas gift bags for $.25/ea, and we are talking, really really nice gift bags. Expensive-looking ones. Anyway, suffice it to say, I now don't need to buy Christmas gift bags for at least the next 10 years. I also got some with festive dinosaurs and aliens, and some that are winter-themed instead of explicitly Xmas. Score. #MNastodon

"I APART"

#ColumbiaHeights #WashingtonDC #Cityscape #Photography

A partial facade of the former Arcade Building in #ColumbiaHeights D.C.
Sadly, the site is now a giant retail complex with Target, Marshalls, and other soul crushing bastions of retail capitalism.
#WashingtonDC #Photography

Columbia Road.
#NWDC #ColumbiaHeights #WashingtonDC #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Portraiture #Photography

No Parking. c.2005

#film
#WashingtonDC
#ColumbiaHeights
#Photography

"LIER" 14th Street Washington DC
#columbiaheights #washingtondc #photography