What does Washington’s legalization of marijuana look like from a Mexican perspective? Javier Sicilia is coming to tell us at two events today, the first at Seattle University and the other at the South Park Community Center. In 2011, after his son and six others were killed by narcos, Sicilia—a poet, journalist, and novelist—began leading estamos hasta la madre (or “we’ve had it”) protests across the country.
Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua.... More by Brendan Kiley