Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Chris Cano for Demcratic Progressive Caucus of Florida Board Member
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Chris Cano and SEIU Local 500 testified in favor of the HOME Act
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Congratulations Christopher Cano
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Neo-Fascists target Hillsborough County School Board Members under guise of Parental Rights
Governor Ron DeSantis and his neo-fascist allies are wading into school board races as part of a calculated plan to up-end all the progress made since the Civil Rights movement. Public education has been the core component of social mobility in America. It now stands under attack at every avenue. Whether the efforts to decertify teacher’s unions, remove diversity and equity trainings, or out right erase history with white-washed fallacies, all these multi-pronged attacks serve one ultimate goal, the reversal of progress in America. Progress has been characterized as “Woke” ideology. To understand this fight, first allow me tell you what “Woke” truly means…
For those familiar with the 90s-2000s movie franchise of the Matrix, a dystopian future where artificial intelligences utilize human beings asleep in a virtual reality as batteries in the real world, being woke is to unplug from the artificial reality. Much in this way the moniker of “stay woke” was popularized by young African American scholars in last 20 years as a reminder to avoid falling prey to the artificial realities created by the mainstream media and global political systems. And, somehow right-wing activists and politicians have co-opted and appropriated “woke” as a blanket term to classify any policies which forward diversity, equity, and inclusion. Their long standing war on LGTBQ+ culture has now allowed them to target African American culture and any allies to either group. Gone are the days when political correctness would have right wingers call these folks special interest groups. Political correctness itself is now seen as woke ideology. Where their grandfathers had no problems dropping racial epithets in public speech, now Ron DeSantis and his Moms for Liberty now utilize the term woke in its place. These are dog whistles to a conservative base that fears the progress in America. Years ago I recall the warnings that conservatives were going to begin targeting school board races to reverse the work of desegregation. Now it is clear that they affirm to go much further in controlling curriculum from pre-K to PhD. Fascism in America was always going to be wrapped up in rallying cry for liberty while carrying a cross. This is exactly what DeSantis and his allies intend. To play victim and say their freedom is under attack, that their Christian values are lost in a public school system separated from Church by the State.
Their next target is Hillsborough County. Jessica Vaugh and Nadia Combs, two outstanding school board members are being targeted in this next election cycle by Moms for Liberty for their progressive ideals and desire to keep kids safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Make no mistake, if DeSantis gets his way, Hillsborough County will no longer be a school system that produces scholars that can compete on an international level. We will become a bastion of pseudo-science, fascism, and false history instituted by a regime of his choosing as part of the greater culture war to destroy American progress. Gone are the days when David Duke and Klan are actively working to reverse our hard fought progress, now its Karens claiming their parent rights are infringed upon because their kids have to learn that their grandparents didn’t want to attend integrated schools. I would encourage any human being with an ounce of sanity and the right to vote to get out in this next election and ensure that these Moms for Liberty have several seats, and not ones on the school board.
Christopher C. Cano, MPA, Concerned Tampeño
Chris Cano's Tampa City Council Recommendations
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Chris Cano Endorses Sonja Brookins for Tampa City Council
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Debate over the legalization of Marijuana in Florida with Suncoast NORML Executive Director Chris Cano
Friday, January 27, 2023
Mike Tyson meets Chris Cano
Monday, January 23, 2023
Suncoast NORML Suncoast NORML at SPC/Gibbs Campus
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Sunday, December 25, 2022
2022 Sydney Eastman Courage Award: Connie Burton
Friday, September 9, 2022
Chris Cano: Generations of People
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Celebration of Collective Bargaining Rights Rally
Friday, August 26, 2022
Happy National Dog Day from Teal’c & Sansa - Chris Cano
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Friday, May 20, 2022
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Tommy Chong on The Rotation
Sunday, August 22, 2021
Friday, July 31, 2020
Florida GOP Nancy Torchia Riley
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Democratic Party Platform Committee votes Down Legalization
U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor,
Ana Cruz, Oscar Braynon II,
Mia Jone and Khurrum Wahid
Yesterday, the Democratic Party’s delegates appointed to their Platform Committee convened to vote on several key issues. One issue of importance was the topic of the legalization of cannabis. The presumptive nominee for the Democrats, former Vice-President Joe Biden, has not been a champion for legalization. Rather, he has adopted a lukewarm stance on the issue. This should come as no surprise to students of American politics. Biden served as a U.S. Senator for over 30 years and VP to Barack Obama for another eight, yet in all that time his record on criminal justice reform remains tarnished by his own support for the prison-industrial complex. He is no paragon of justice. Joe Biden is often credited as the architect behind the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The ’94 crime bill is frequently reference by social scientists as the driving force behind mass incarceration and the racial disparities in the modern criminal justice system. MORE
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"I am disappointed in Congresswoman Kathy Castor’s vote, and in the votes of all those who struck legalization of cannabis from the DNC platform. It stifles progress, discourages voters, and is contrary to what a majority of Democrats want — registered voters and elected officials who ran for President in 2020! What is their rationale here?" Asher Edelson