Billboard in Austin, Texas, Stirs Controversy with Latino Immigrant Message – ‘Rise Up My People’

Billboard in Austin, Texas, Stirs Controversy with Latino Immigrant Message – ‘Rise Up My People’

 

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A new billboard in Austin, Texas, is raising eyebrows and controversy (video below).

 

The billboard depicts people with clenched fists and flags raised over an image of the U.S.-Mexico border and a heart emblazoned with the Mexican flag logo.

 

 

 

The words on the billboard “Arriba Mi Gente” translate to “Up My People” or “My People Arrive.”

 

Governor Perry on Cavuto: No exchange

 

Governor Rick Perry of Texas speaking at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I am pumped! Governor Perry just told Cavuto that Texas will NOT be setting up a health care exchange under Obamacare. He also raised the 10th amendment as the basis for the sovereignty of Texas as a state.

Willie Nelson unveils statue of himself on 4/20

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -April 21, 2012 (WPVI) — Country music legend Willie Nelson helped unveil a statue honoring him in downtown Austin by singing his new song “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die” on Friday, a date long reserved to celebrate marijuana use.

Multimedia Presentation on Rick Perry’s Secret Plan to Have Texas Secede from U.S.

This is the continuing series of Frequently Asked Questions about Rick Perry intended to adequately explain his record without distortion. At a Tax Day Tea Party rally in Austin on April 15, 2009, Rick Perry addressed the crowd of people in the prepubescence tea party movement. Individuals in the crowd shouted, “Secede!” It was a day of very red-blooded rhetorical baiting that all involved caught into the moment.

Here’s a video compilation of that day when Rick Perry spoke at Tea Party Rallies in Austin, Fort Worth and Arlington, Texas

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