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  • EPA takes key step towards a cleaner future
    The Obama Administration and EPA announcement that it will establish the first national limits on carbon pollution from new power plants is great news for anyone that cares about clean air. No longer will new power plants be able to endanger our health with unchecked carbon pollution and the clima....
    ( 04/05/2012 1:26 PM EST )
  • Learning responsibility, behind prison bars
    All the laughter stopped once the knife came out. The gravity of the situation cloaked the cell like a death shroud, and the glare in Chivo’s eyes seemed just as deadly as the piece in his hand.
    “Sit down an’ quit actin’ like this is a game!”
    His tone was too authoritative to consider rebe....
    ( 04/05/2012 1:25 PM EST )
  • Buffett Rule: Everyone pays their fair share
    Editor’s Note: The following are remarks by President Barack Obama in his weekly address on March 31, 2012.
    Over the last few months, I’ve been talking about a choice we face as a country. We can either settle for an economy where a few people do really well and everyone else struggles to get....
    ( 04/05/2012 1:24 PM EST )
  • Where classroom and community come together
    Reyes-Rafael is a bright fourth grader, but he probably doesn’t realize how much his father influences his learning environment.
    While some parents help out at Hope Online by coordinating activities, offering classroom support or providing reading assistance, Reyes-Rafael’s dad, Ramón, bring....
    ( 02/23/2012 1:57 PM EST )
  • Thinking big on poverty
    It has been 47 years since our country declared war on poverty. The year 1964 was another time of war and economic anxiety in America when the gulf between the “haves” and “have nots” seemed a bridge too far to cross. But President Lyndon Johnson understood the urgency of the situation and propose....
    ( 02/23/2012 1:48 PM EST )
  • Tar sand crude: “Dirtiest fuel in the world”
    The Oglala Sioux Tribe’s rally Feb. 11 against the Keystone XL Pipeline showed the extent to which the multi-billion-dollar tar-sands crude-oil industry has galvanized cross-boundary opposition in the interest of earth justice.
    While mainstream media have failed to inform decision makers of t....
    ( 02/23/2012 1:47 PM EST )
  • Latinos denied access to Alabama State House
    A spirited Valentine’s Day rally to repeal Alabama’s anti-immigrant law, HB 56, turned into a commentary on race and immigrant relations on February 14 when hundreds of Alabamians showed up at the State House to protest, only to be largely turned away and prohibited from speaking to their legislat....
    ( 02/16/2012 09:39 AM EST )
  • Obama steps up for communities of color
    President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2013 sets a responsible course for rebuilding the economy so that it works for everyone, not just the privileged few. Our middle class is the engine of economic growth, but is threatened by dwindling public investments, a tax system increasi....
    ( 02/16/2012 09:37 AM EST )
  • Thoughts from an unlikely environmental Evangelist
    I was not raised in any religion, nor do I follow any religious practices now. I don’t believe in God as a benevolent white man in the sky, nor do I believe that one needs to sit in a particular building, listening to a particular preacher, to reach out to the divine.
    But I have always felt a....
    ( 02/16/2012 09:36 AM EST )
  • Why conservatives want to tax poor children
    This month Congress must extend the 2012 payroll tax cut to help boost our nation’s economic recovery. In 2011 this tax cut resulted in 122 million American households boosting their take-home-pay worth to the total tune of $120 billion. The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holiday throu....
    ( 02/02/2012 7:58 PM EST )
  • Place for youth to engage in healthy dialogue
    Seventy-five young Latinas met a few weeks ago to talk about ¡Cuídate! (Take Care of Yourself)—the theme was chosen to start a dialogue with youth around engaging in healthy behaviors, practices and relationships, and other issues that affect young Latinas, our families and allies. The Latina Heal....
    ( 02/02/2012 7:57 PM EST )
  • Romney embracing harsh anti-immigration rhetoric
    Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney once tacitly supported immigration reform. Sadly, his recent embrace of hardline immigration positions is a show we’ve seen before with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in 2008, and it targets the fastest-growing demographic in the country. With his new stanc....
    ( 02/02/2012 7:56 PM EST )
  • Tilling the soil of STEM awareness
    Positive, hands-on science, technology, engineering and mathematics experiences have lasting impact on students.
    “When you think about how students choose their majors, it usually ties back to a positive role model in a subject where they were encouraged through a successful experience,” poi....
    ( 01/12/2012 6:14 PM EST )
  • Prioritizing families is a common-sense proposal
    Many immigrants in the process of obtaining permanent residency through sponsorship by U.S. citizen spouses or parents will no longer need to undergo prolonged separation from their families, if a proposal by the Obama administration is put into effect. The Obama administration last week announced....
    ( 01/12/2012 6:10 PM EST )
  • It's easier to be gay than undocumented
    It was harder to come out as undocumented than it was to come out as gay.
    Despite the stereotypes and prejudices that may still linger around the gay community, I always felt comfort in my gay identity— a comfort I often struggled with living with as an undocumented immigrant.
    When I com....
    ( 01/12/2012 6:04 PM EST )
  • Coming out: Building a circle of trust
    Coming out of the closet as gay to your best friends – the ones who see you every day and know you best – can feel like a relatively simple task when compared to the anguish of coming out to family members.
    I know this for a fact. With my own family, I was in the closet for six long years. Co....
    ( 01/05/2012 6:09 PM EST )
  • Clear Signal
    The League of United Latin American Citizens, the largest and oldest Latino membership organization in the United States, hailed the stunning defeat of Arizona Senator Russell Pearce in a recall election that pitted his extremist anti-immigrant record against the moderate civil tone of his opponen....
    ( 11/10/2011 6:39 PM EST )
  • Destructive Impact of Prison Privatization
    The American Civil Liberties Union this week released a new report providing the first comprehensive analysis of the destructive impact of prison privatization
    The report, “Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration,” traces the rise of the for-profit prison industry over the p....
    ( 11/10/2011 6:38 PM EST )
  • The Republican 'Voter Fraud' Fraud
    Presidential candidate and angry white man Newt Gingrich seems nostalgic for the good old Jim Crow poll tax days: he has called for people to have to pass an American historical literacy test before they can vote. His colleagues on the anti-democratic right have not gone quite so far, but 38 state....
    ( 11/03/2011 10:23 AM EST )
  • Shortchanging Our Paychecks
    Back in the "Happy Days" of the 1950s and 1960s, most young American couples graduated from high school or college, got married, and immediately bought the most expensive house they could afford. They bought their houses on credit, their cars on credit, their appliances on credit, their furniture ....
    ( 11/03/2011 10:23 AM EST )
  • Will they ever learn?
    Escalating Immigration Attacks May Not Only Kill Perry’s Campaign, But Also GOP White House Chances
    Why Aren’t any Adults in the Party Challenging Romney and Field as they Pander to the Extreme Right and Alienate Latino Voters?
    Will they ever learn? Republican presidential contenders, esp....
    ( 10/05/2011 7:59 PM EST )
  • Math Behind “Class Warfare”--A Middle Class Under Attack
    President Obama said on Monday that his proposal would bring taxes for millionaires in line with those paid by the middle class. This “is not class warfare; it’s math,” he stated. But he could have easily been referring to math that hasn’t favored working-class and middle-class households for most....
    ( 10/05/2011 7:57 PM EST )
  • We must do better
    New Census Bureau data on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage document the ongoing, painful impact of the Great Recession on millions of families and under- score the urgent need to create jobs. Shrinking incomes, rising poverty, a record number of Americans without health insurance, an....
    ( 10/05/2011 7:57 PM EST )
  • Why Obama Couldn’t Save Troy Davis
    From the instant the Georgia Parole Board denied clemency to Troy Anthony Davis, the quiet murmurs grew to a crescendo in some quarters that President Obama should have stepped in to block the Davis execution. Filmmaker Michael Moore went even further and mused that Obama should make like Presiden....
    ( 10/05/2011 7:56 PM EST )
  • Fiscally Responsible
    Today, 14 million Americans who could be working and producing are unemployed. Persistently high unemployment has left millions of people on the sidelines, depressed wages, dampened consumer demand, and has now brought economic growth to a standstill. America has not faced a jobs crisis of this ma....
    ( 09/15/2011 08:44 AM EST )
  • Will America execute another innocent?
    Barring a last minute stay of execution by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles in a last ditch hearing scheduled for September 19, accused Savannah, Ga. cop killer Troy Anthony Davis will be executed.
    If the execution goes forth, the question must be asked: did Georgia execute an innocen....
    ( 09/15/2011 08:43 AM EST )
  • Beyond Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
    On September 20, 2011, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” a policy that bars openly gay and lesbian Americans from serving in the military, will finally end. With the path to repealing this misguided policy now firmly in place, it’s time to shift focus to making sure that gay and lesbian troops have equal a....
    ( 09/15/2011 08:42 AM EST )
  • The Latino factor in the President’s job plan
    I spent Labor Day with President Obama in Detroit. As we looked ahead to his big speech tonight and discussed his plan to put all Americans back to work, he said to me: “Hilda... as tough as things have been on Latino workers, I know our economic future depends upon them.”
    I couldn’t agree mor....
    ( 09/15/2011 00:02 AM EST )
  • Ransom paid to political hand of the radical right
    Anyone who characterizes the deal between the President, Democratic, and Republican leaders as a victory for the American people over partisanship understands neither economics nor politics.
    The deal does not raise taxes on America’s wealthy and most fortunate — who are now taking home a large....
    ( 08/04/2011 12:52 AM EST )
  • Alabama: Fiscally and educationally irresponsible
    Just when it seemed Alabama had left its dark past of segregation behind, its legislature passed one of the nation’s strictest anti-immigration bills, H.B. 56, taking the state back in time 50 years.
    During the civil rights struggles, Birmingham, Alabama, was the epicenter of the civil rights....
    ( 08/04/2011 12:49 AM EST )
  • President Obama’s continued leadership
    Editor’s Note: On July 25, President Obama delivered remarks at the annual conference for the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) – the only 2012 presidential candidate to do so.
    I commend President Obama for his address at NCLR today. Beyond his remarks, I am proud of President Obama’s act....
    ( 07/28/2011 1:09 PM EST )
  • The GOP's Honeymoon Is So Over
    Republicans swept last year's elections. The GOP captured more than 675 state legislative seats, flipped 10 governor's mansions, gained control of over 20 state legislative chambers, and won more than 60 seats in Congress previously occupied by Democrats.
    Elections this lopsided have consequen....
    ( 07/14/2011 12:59 AM EST )
  • It's Time to Get Outraged
    One of my favorite bumper stickers reads, "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention."
    That's sort of how I feel about the health care debate. If more Americans paid attention to the fate of neighbors and loved ones who have fallen victim to the cruel dysfunction of our health care s....
    ( 07/14/2011 12:55 AM EST )
  • Protect our Communities: Yellowstone River oil spill
    Over the July 4th weekend, a pipeline in the wild Yellowstone River broke, spilling 42,000 gallons of oil into fast-moving waters. This is just the latest in a series of oil spills from pipelines in the United States and yet another sign that independence from oil should be our goal at this point.....
    ( 07/14/2011 12:54 AM EST )


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  • It's Time to Leave Afghanistan—Or Is It?
    Editor’s Note: Veteran global correspondent Frank Viviano says a U.S. and European pull out from Afghanistan could trigger new killing fields—and a global catastrophe.
    BARGA, Italy--My head tells me it’s time to leave. But my heart, for reasons grounded in personal experience, is profoundly w....
    ( 07/07/2011 9:54 PM EST )
  • The Cruelty of Asthma
    Rosa Perea's 5-year-old son lives an asphyxiating life. If he does not take his medicine every morning or if the air is too polluted, he can end up in the emergency room with an asthma attack.
    Perea, director of the Juan Diego Community Center in South Chicago, goes through this tragedy not o....
    ( 07/07/2011 9:54 PM EST )
  • GOP's Medicare lies
    In an astonishing observation, Rep. Paul Ryan recently declared: "Washington has not been honest with you."
    Gosh, Paul, that possibility never occurred to us!
    What makes the Wisconsin lawmaker's observation astonishing is the fact that he is Washington — a seven-term Republican insider, Ho....
    ( 06/23/2011 10:52 AM EST )
  • Republican economic strategy reprises Bush-era failures
    House Republican leaders in late May released a new plan to boost jobs and growth by reducing regulation and taxes. This plan is a rehash of the same unsuccessful plan that led our economy into the Great Recession during the Bush administration. The problem then and now with the top Republican goa....
    ( 06/09/2011 2:48 PM EST )
  • US- Colombia: Volatile agenda on agriculture
    Barack Obama's trade policy, as embodied by the pending U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement, sadly resembles George W. Bush's blueprint. It promotes export growth and investment at the expense of local economies and resilient food systems. This is unfortunate, not only because it fails to deliver t....
    ( 06/09/2011 2:47 PM EST )
  • ICE continues to act like rogue agency in Ft. Morgan
    On June 1st, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations Office, Fort Morgan Police Department, Brush Police Department, Morgan County Sheriff's Office, and the Colorado 13th Judicial District Attorney's Office conducted raids across the town of Fort Morgan, loo....
    ( 06/09/2011 2:45 PM EST )
  • We are all Guadalupanos
    Editor’s Note: The following is an open letter sent by Donna Lucero to Our Lady of Guadalupe priest Father Benito Hernández, who is responsible for initiating the wall and thus creating the division within the community. Mrs. Lucero was hosting a mass in honor of her late daughter and her account ....
    ( 04/07/2011 1:46 PM EST )
  • Youth Mobilize to Protest Drug War Violence
    The human column files into Avenida Insurgentes in the south of Mexico City and marches toward the national university. It’s neither the largest nor the smallest march this city has seen, accustomed as it is to demonstrations that voice grievances and tie up traffic nearly every day.
    But it’s ....
    ( 03/31/2011 9:06 PM EST )
  • Always Money for War, But Never for Schools
    Every day, I receive solicitations from deserving charities helping everybody from children born with cleft palates to Haitian earthquake victims to elderly impoverished Israelis to paralyzed American veterans to retired nuns; the list is endless. From these cries of pain from all over the world, ....
    ( 03/30/2011 8:04 PM EST )
  • Arizona: At what cost, and who’s paying the tab?
    Shameless demagoguery on the issue of immigration was part of the arsenal that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and State Senator Russell Pearce deployed in their election campaigns this year. Their brand of politics aims to push all the buttons of a public legitimately frustrated with federal inaction....
    ( 11/25/2010 12:51 AM EST )
  • DREAM Act will be a stand-alone bill
    If there is a bipartisan bill that makes sense for our country economically, from a national security perspective and one that reflects American values, it is the DREAM Act. This bill will give children brought illegally to this country at no fault of their own the chance to earn legal status. Chi....
    ( 11/25/2010 12:50 AM EST )
  • GOP to América: Don’t get old or sick
    Did Tea Party politics get seniors to drink the Kool Aid on Nov. 2? Former history teacher Sylvia Martin James, a 77-year-old Riverside, Calif., resident, is concerned with what she calls “disturbing trends” in the political landscape. In many ways, she says, “old people, poor people, sick people ....
    ( 11/18/2010 09:48 AM EST )
  • Two hands and a flashlight
    This election season, I have been severely troubled by comments coming from Yale educated attorney Ken Buck. As a publicly elected official, he presumably took the oath of office affirming to uphold the United States and Colorado Constitutions. But, what does the Constitution mean to a man who has....
    ( 10/28/2010 09:22 AM EST )
  • My struggle for justice continues for my son
    I am writing you this letter hoping you do get it and read it. I am a Master Deputy with the Pueblo County Sheriffs Office in Pueblo Colorado, I have been a street officer for 21 years now and have been on SWAT for 14½ years, recently retired from SWAT. The reason I am writing to you is in referen....
    ( 10/07/2010 11:21 AM EST )
  • Pollution Knows no Borders
    Mexico, Canada and the United States have serious problems with the emission of diverse pollutants. The three member countries of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America, a body created as part of NAFTA’s environmental side agreement, are facing high rates of emissions ....
    ( 10/07/2010 11:18 AM EST )
  • GOP pundits belittle Latinos
    On October 4th, the Pew Hispanic Center released a polling data indicating that two-thirds, or 65 percent, of Latino registered voters say they plan to support the Democratic candidate in their local congressional district. Meanwhile a couple of articles have appeared in recent weeks authored by c....
    ( 10/07/2010 11:17 AM EST )
  • Protecting America’s Harvest
    I would like to thank Chairwoman Lofgren, Chairman Conyers, Ranking Member King and all the members of the committee for holding this hearing and for inviting me. My name is Arturo Rodriguez. I am the president of the United Farm Workers of America.
    Today, across America the harvest season is ....
    ( 10/07/2010 11:16 AM EST )
  • You Are Not Welcome
    On September 21st, the immigration reform movement and immigrant youth were stymied by an obstinate Republican minority more interested in scoring political points than in delivering for the American people. Republicans in the Senate caved – again – to partisan pressure from their leadership to bl....
    ( 09/23/2010 9:04 PM EST )
  • América’s cleansing of ethnic studies
    “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell
    The state of Arizona is known for many notable attractions: the majestic Grand Canyon, the scenic desert landscapes, luxurious vacation resorts, and more recently, thinly concealed examples....
    ( 09/16/2010 11:30 AM EST )


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  • Honduras: Birth to feminist
    I remember the coup d’état as if it were yesterday. I was at home, and a strange sound–like a knife scraping the sky–awoke me.
    I was born in the time of dictators and coups (1975), but I don’t remember the stories they told me about those days, when the country woke up one morning to find its....
    ( 08/12/2010 2:38 PM EST )
  • The myth of equal opportunity
    Our education system is in crisis. We face a growing academic achievement gap, alarming drop-out rates and the continued push-out of low-income students of color. Here in Denver, only 53% of students graduate from high school. But these are problems that go beyond Denver and Colorado; our educatio....
    ( 07/22/2010 09:54 AM EST )
  • Manufacturing a Border Crisis
    Unlike Mexican border states where drug-fueled violence has been on the upswing, violent crime rates in U.S. states bordering México have been decreasing for the last several years. El Paso and San Diego are rated among the safest cities in the United States. Since 9-11, no terrorist has been dete....
    ( 07/01/2010 12:37 AM EST )
  • Glory and shame, in equal measures
    After a decade-long retirement, Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer legend, has returned to the field to coach his country’s team in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
    Maradona, now 49, was soccer’s first media bad boy— a scandal-prone talent who could be counted on to furnish the European ....
    ( 06/17/2010 12:54 AM EST )
  • Dolores Huerta erased from Texas curriculum
    The Texas State Board of Education voted to adopt new curriculum standards, which uses the state’s education system to push a conservative political agenda. Among the changes the board agreed to were resolutions adding the study of Right Wing movements to the curriculum, and pushing strongly cons....
    ( 06/03/2010 09:37 AM EST )
  • When is enough, enough?
    Following a meeting to discuss comprehensive immigration reform with Senate Republicans, President Obama announced that he would send 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-México border and would request $500 million for additional border personnel and technology as part of the Emergency Supplem....
    ( 05/26/2010 11:35 PM EST )
  • México’s state of impunity
    When international human rights observers rounded a curve on a remote road in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, they found the way blocked by boulders. They decided going forward would be dangerous. But they didn’t know that going back would be deadly.
    As the vans began to turn around, ma....
    ( 05/26/2010 11:28 PM EST )
  • Romanoff supporter defends candidate
    As a child, I sat by my father's knee, as the stories of workers' struggles for workplace fairness and civil rights marches washed over me. It is so important for our young people to understand their rights and fight for justice, and so it was with great pride (and a little matronly concern) that ....
    ( 05/20/2010 4:58 PM EST )
  • Thirty five years after the war, betrayal is Vietnam's story
    A headline in a local paper here seems to say it all: “The Main Method is to Use Love.” The story: Women and Children trafficking activities along the Vietnam- China border.
    One of these “love methods” went something like this: A man from the city seduced a young woman from a village, then too....
    ( 05/06/2010 09:58 AM EST )
  • Activists face tough choices on immigrant rights
    In April 2006, immigrant rights supporters took to the streets in an unprecedented public demand for legislation that would protect 8-12 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. The marches were followed by two national elections in which anti-immigrant Republican Congress members were de....
    ( 05/06/2010 09:58 AM EST )
  • ‘We can’t push back reform for another day’
    Editor’s Note: Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado, sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid asking him to make comprehensive immigration reform a legislative priority.
    Dear Majority Leader Reid: I am writing to urge you to advance comprehensive immigration reform. Major law en....
    ( 04/29/2010 10:20 AM EST )
  • Covered Guadalupe mural sparks further outrage
    I was moved by the article, “Beloved Icon Concealed,” by Magdalena Gallegos that appeared in El Semanario in Dec. ’09. It was well researched, chronicling almost 40 years of events taking place at Guadalupe Church, and the vision of artist Carlota Espinosa.
    I was Pastor of Guadalupe Church wh....
    ( 02/04/2010 11:05 AM EST )
  • ‘I know the righteousness of my situation’
    Greetings and happy holidays. I hope this letter finds you all enjoying the spirit of the season with family and friends.
    My August parole denial was appealed in short order. We are expecting a response to that appeal sometime very soon. It has occurred to me that the viciousness of this syste....
    ( 12/31/2009 5:34 PM EST )
  • Blacks, Latinos still lose big in health reform
    President Obama, every Democratic and Republican senator and House member, the private insurers, major pharmaceuticals, liberals, progressives and many conservatives are virtually unanimous in claiming that the big reason for waging the health care reform war is to insure all, most, or many of the....
    ( 12/31/2009 5:33 PM EST )
  • Harsh reality of undocumented individuals
    Recently, Illinois Representative Luis Gutiérrez introduced a new comprehensive immigration reform bill. Included in his legislation is AgJobs, a bipartisan, broadly supported farm worker immigration measure negotiated by the United Farm Workers and leaders of the nation’s agricultural employers. ....
    ( 12/31/2009 5:31 PM EST )
  • Health insurance market expansion program
    When we look back on 2009 in the Latino community, most of us will probably and reasonably see it as the year when Sonia Sotomayor became an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court. To me, I don't know, the most emblematic event occurred on July 21st. That was the day when Gidget, the Taco Bell ....
    ( 12/31/2009 5:24 PM EST )
  • Recognizing changes in U.S. immigration policy
    The Obama administration quietly announced last week that it would overturn one of the harsh immigration enforcement measures enacted by the Bush administration following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Beginning next month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said, those who arrive in the Unite....
    ( 12/31/2009 5:24 PM EST )
  • Trust fund settlement rip-off
    The United States continues to steal from Indians; a settlement will pay back $3.4 billion of $137 billion owed. And that's just what was documented. With all due respect to Elouise Cobell, lead plaintiff in a recently settled lawsuit over American Indian trust funds ("U.S. to pay Indians $3.4B," ....
    ( 12/17/2009 4:39 PM EST )
  • Settlement overlooks breaches of trust
    The United States recently announced a comprehensive settlement in the Cobell trust fund case, but that overlooks other breaches of trust to American Indians and violations of the human rights of the survivors of one of the most massive breaches of Indian trust — the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute. ( 12/17/2009 4:38 PM EST )
  • Prayer ceremony at Crow Creek Sioux land
    By now, you have may have read that the IRS auctioned off 7,100 acres of land owned by the Crow Creek Farm, a Corporation under the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe. The IRS sold the land to pay for employment taxes unpaid by the Tribe after the Tribe was informed by a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) officia....
    ( 12/10/2009 1:12 PM EST )
  • Ignorance, racism cannot take away our history
    After reading your article in El Semanario 12-3-09, Western Civilization: To be or not to be by Roberto ‘Dr. Cintli’ Rodréguez, please give that empty-headed c****n, Arizona hick, some more history of Kokopelli – who has been drawn by a human-hands from the tip of Chile all the way to New México/C....
    ( 12/10/2009 1:02 PM EST )
  • Investigate brutal murder of gay teen as hate crime
    All week the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Puerto Rico has been closely following the brutal murder of 19 year-old gay man Jorge Steven López Mercado. After learning the details of what happened to Mercado, the affiliate is now urging commonwealth prosecutors to investigate the murder a....
    ( 11/26/2009 10:14 AM EST )
  • Amendment seeks to prevent accurate count
    The Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) strongly opposes Vitter Amendment #2644 to the Commerce Justice and Science FY10 Appropriations. For over 35 years, LCLAA has advocated for the interests of Latino working families throughout the United States and the Commonwealth of Puerto....
    ( 11/05/2009 8:38 PM EST )
  • President Obama: Nobel honors for a noble man
    Last night my wife asked me if I thought I was a little too hard on Obama in my letter last week congratulating him on his Nobel Prize. "No, I don't think so," I replied. I thought it was important to remind him he's now conducting the two wars he's inherited. "Yeah," she said, "but to tell him, '....
    ( 10/15/2009 8:25 PM EST )
  • Census mulls how to fix undercount
    Certain U.S. populations are historically undercounted by the census. The 2000 Census data show that in Los Angeles County alone, African American and Latino populations were undercounted by a margin of 2.85 percent and 2.6 percent, respectively. This may not seem like a lot, but when you consider....
    ( 10/15/2009 8:24 PM EST )
  • Both sides in Honduras criticize U.S.
    In politically divided Honduras, where two men claim the presidency, all sides appear to agree on at least one point: No one seems happy with how U.S. President Barack Obama has handled the crisis so far.
    I spent my first morning in Honduras reporting on a protest organized at the teachers col....
    ( 10/15/2009 8:24 PM EST )
  • Political reality of Obama and immigration reform
    The recent interview of Mauricio Cardenas, a former Colombian Minister and now Director of the Brookings Institute for Latin América, is a brief but incisive window into the political reality of President Obama. Cardenas comments on the fact that the present complexities of the domestic agenda ha....
    ( 10/08/2009 11:42 AM EST )
  • What health insurance reform means to you
    Health reform is very important for minorities in this country, especially Hispanics, African Americans, and others, because the probability that we lack access to insurance is twice that of others. Through a health insurance exchange, Americans and immigrants who are here legally will be able to ....
    ( 10/08/2009 11:41 AM EST )
  • Need for immigration reform is more urgent than ever
    Editor’s Note: The Washington Post and other papers reported on a new report by the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties in California and Mexico's Human Rights Commission that shows that deaths along the U.S.- Mexico border are higher than ever. The report notes this staggering statistic: in ....
    ( 10/08/2009 11:40 AM EST )
  • Sec. Clinton urged to immediately condemn violence
    This is an urgent plea to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: Immediately condemn the violence unleashed against the Honduran people by the de facto regime and take every peaceful measure possible to avoid a bloodbath in that country.
    The coup has deployed the police and Armed Forces to the Br....
    ( 09/24/2009 7:36 PM EST )
  • Healthcare, Immigration: Solutions needed on both fronts
    As we predicted, the politics of immigration has been dragged into the politics of health insurance reform. It is now crystal clear that no issue of importance can be determined smoothly and comprehensively as long as 12,000,000 people live, work and raise children in the United States but float i....
    ( 09/24/2009 7:34 PM EST )
  • Will Dems, Obama lose immigrants?
    After less than eight months in office, President Barack Obama’s
    administration is under serious scrutiny by some leading immigrant
    advocates.
    As the legislative drive for health care insurance reform picks up steam,
    pro-immigrant groups are increasingly alarmed by proposals that t....
    ( 09/24/2009 7:28 PM EST )
  • Neither walls or moats can hold them back…
    Congressman Joe “You Lie” Wilson has touched a raw nerve. Yet, he may
    have also opened wide the proverbial Pandora’s Box regarding
    “illegals.” Not dealt with properly by the President and the
    Democratic party, Wilson’s incivility could end up unleashing a new
    and more rabid anti-im....
    ( 09/21/2009 8:53 PM EST )
  • The case for comprehensive immigration reform
    Across América, nearly everyone agrees that the current immigration system is broken. So if the system is broken, why do we continue pouring money into it? Instead, we should take this historic opportunity to fix it.
    Many politicians are saying that they want to address the root causes of our ....
    ( 09/21/2009 8:51 PM EST )
  • Census prisoner count skews political representation
    Prisoners may not be able to vote, but their U.S. Census population count is being used to bolster the political power in rural areas where prisons are located.
    On April 1, 2010, the Census Bureau will conduct its 24th decennial count of the U.S. population. Data from Census counts is used to....
    ( 09/21/2009 8:50 PM EST )
  • Civil Rights advocates , LGBT Americans herald new legislation
    On Sept. 15, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO), along with Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), Congres....
    ( 09/21/2009 8:49 PM EST )
  • The coming change in demography
    Immigration is frequently perceived as a structural problem, particularly in times of economic crisis. But it bears remembering that we, over the last 15 years, absorbed about 7.2 million undocumented workers. And it was not workers crossing the border in search of employment who triggered this cr....
    ( 09/14/2009 11:50 AM EST )
  • Choosing between food or medicine
    As the debate over health insurance reform intensifies across the country, 47 million people — roughly 800,000 Coloradans — are living without health coverage.
    Each day, people are forced to choose between groceries and health care, a no-win situation that jeopardizes many of the freedoms we ....
    ( 09/14/2009 11:49 AM EST )
  • Disorder on the border: Trashing the law in the name of immigration deterrence
    In two recent criminal cases in the United States, defendants received similar sentences for very different sorts of actions. In the first, a young man was convicted of negligent homicide for texting while driving and killing two scientists in the process. The New York Times reported on the case a....
    ( 09/14/2009 11:49 AM EST )
  • Troubled waters in the México-Canada relationship
    In important ways, the story of México and Canada is a different one than the saga of the United States and México. For decades, thousands of Canadian "snowbirds" have passed winters in tropical Mexican resorts, contributing to the tourism economy. In funky Acapulco, the Quebec dialect of French i....
    ( 09/03/2009 3:29 PM EST )
  • Former Bush security chiefs find terrorism obsession can be profitable
    Contracts with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are spewing billions of dollars into private industry, largely to companies that also rely on Pentagon military contracts. In this new variation of the military-industrial complex a new revolving door is now in full swing.
    Tom Ridge and ....
    ( 09/03/2009 3:28 PM EST )
  • On Women's Equality Day: Are we there yet?
    Each year, on August 26, we celebrate Women's Equality Day to pay tribute to those brave suffragists, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul and Ida B. Wells Barnett, who led the struggle for American women to win the most critical tool of democracy -- the right to vote.
    Women today not only....
    ( 08/27/2009 8:53 PM EST )
  • Achieving healthy immigration reform
    There are times when campaigning for one thing is best done by campaigning for something else as well. This is one of those times, when those of us supporting immigration reform need also to campaign vigorously for something entirely different, namely affordable health care for all Americans.
    ....
    ( 08/27/2009 8:53 PM EST )
  • Stimulus leaves bus riders out in the cold
    By the time President Barack Obama announced the end of the Cash for Clunkers program last Thursday, Americans had turned in more than 457,000 polluting cars and trucks for nearly $3 billion in government cash.
    The program was "successful beyond anybody's imagination," Obama said. "And we're n....
    ( 08/27/2009 8:51 PM EST )
  • League of Women Voters: Health care for all
    Health care is not a partisan issue, but it is a political issue…The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonpartisan organization, but it is a political organization. Health Care Reform is a League of Women Voters priority!
    LWV encourages "informed" and "active" participation of citizens in our....
    ( 08/20/2009 11:10 AM EST )
  • How the White House's deal with big pharma undermines democracy
    I'm a strong supporter of universal health insurance, and a fan of the Obama administration. But I'm appalled by the deal the White House has made with the pharmaceutical industry's lobbying arm to buy their support.
    Last week, after being reported in the Los Angeles Times, the White House con....
    ( 08/13/2009 11:36 PM EST )
  • Reality Check: Immigrants and Health Care
    As the current debate on health care rages in town halls across the nation, immigration is being used as a way to jam a stick into the wheels of impending reform. Some are scapegoating immigrants as a way to thwart progress on the issue and are arguing that even legal immigrants be restricted from....
    ( 08/13/2009 11:35 PM EST )
  • Is Obama a socialist? The answer doesn’t matter
    In a feature interview in Esquire in July, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was asked point blank, “Is Obama a socialist?” Bush’s short answer: “I don’t know.” His answer was as duplicitous as it was cryptic. Bush and the GOP attack hounds have worked night and day to tar Obama as a stealth red presid....
    ( 08/13/2009 11:34 PM EST )
  • Femicides of Juárez: Violence against women in México
    Juárez is nicknamed “the capital of murdered women.” The border city of 1.5 million inhabitants draws tens of thousands of young women from small, poor towns with $55-a-week jobs in maquiladoras operated by such wealthy major corporations as General Electric, Alcoa, and DuPont. According to Amnest....
    ( 08/06/2009 1:25 PM EST )
  • Investigation needed in case of disappeared Spanish citizen
    Human rights groups recently asked two U.N. Special Rapporteurs and the U.N. Working Group on Involuntary or Enforced Disappearances to investigate the case of Mustafa Setmariam Nassar, a Spanish citizen who was forcibly disappeared almost four years ago. According to media reports, Nassar, an inf....
    ( 08/06/2009 1:25 PM EST )
  • SPLC president calls on CNN to remove Dobbs
    Editor’s Note: The following is a letter from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) President Richard Cohen to CNN President Jonathan Klein on July 24, 2009.
    Dear Mr. Klein, As an important and respected news organization, CNN has a special responsibility to ensure the accuracy of its repor....
    ( 08/06/2009 1:24 PM EST )
  • Blacks, Hispanics will suffer biggest loss
    If President Barack Obama’s drive for some form of universal health care falters the biggest losers by far will be Blacks and Hispanics.
    Blacks and Hispanics make up nearly half of the estimated 50 million Americans who have no health care insurance, according to a report by the Commonwealth ....
    ( 07/30/2009 1:03 PM EST )
  • CIW: Post-mortem of a PR debacle...
    In the press release ahead of last week’s free screenings of the documentary “Food, Inc.,” Chipotle CEO Steve Ells said: "I hope that all our customers see this film. The more they know about where their food comes from, the more they will appreciate what we do."
    It’s an admirable goal – with....
    ( 07/30/2009 1:02 PM EST )
  • The truth about socialized medicine
    I have been hearing a lot of pundits and politicians bemoan “socialized medicine” and its supposed inefficiencies and inequities. These horror stories are never accompanied by data, just hearsay and anecdotes from “a friend of a friend” in Canada or the United Kingdom. Rarely have I heard from peo....
    ( 07/30/2009 1:02 PM EST )
  • Doctors, media critics demand broader TV debate on healthcare FAIR
    This week, the national media watch group FAIR and local healthcare advocacy groups delivered a petition signed by over 12,000 people demanding that the TV networks include the single-payer proposal in their coverage of the national healthcare debate. The petition's signatories include Obama's lon....
    ( 07/30/2009 1:01 PM EST )
  • Pregnant farmworkers exposed to pesticide drift
    Pesticide drift poisonings should be a thing of the past. Agribusiness knows pesticides are dangerous. Pesticide applicators know pesticides drift. Proper precautions should be taken by applicators. Every farm should make sure supervisors know what to do in a drift emergency. It's simple. Right? <....
    ( 07/23/2009 3:20 PM EST )
  • In elections, México emerges as a mature democracy
    During the recent midterm elections in México, President Felipe Calderón’s party suffered a stunning rebuke from voters that, more than a defeat for the governing party, demonstrated the maturity of México’s democracy.
    In democracies around the world, midterm elections give voters the opportun....
    ( 07/23/2009 3:20 PM EST )
  • Reverse remittances: More Mexicans sending money to US
    For decades, money sent home by Mexicans working in the United States has been a key pillar of the Mexican economy. Now, scattered reports are surfacing of Mexicans sending money to support relatives in the United States hard hit by the economic crisis north of the border. Latinos, especially immi....
    ( 07/23/2009 3:14 PM EST )
  • América is still the land of opportunity
    Statement of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on the start of Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor:
    “Today, millions of Hispanic children and young girls of every race, religion and background will look at coverage of Judge S....
    ( 07/16/2009 8:56 PM EST )
  • NALEO call for support follows review of Judge’s qualifications and record
    The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) expressed its strong support for the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to serve as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. This endorsement follows a thorough review of the Judge’s qualifications by the NALEO Bo....
    ( 07/16/2009 8:55 PM EST )
  • Call for confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor
    This week marks the beginning of the confirmation hearings on the historic nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to Supreme Court of the United States. Once confirmed, Judge Sonia Sotomayor would become the first Hispanic and third woman to serve on the nation’s highest court. Sotomayor is a distin....
    ( 07/16/2009 8:54 PM EST )
  • NCLR board unanimously endorses Sotomayor
    In a letter sent to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D–VT) and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R–AL), NCLR (National Council of La Raza,) the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., gave strong support for the confirm....
    ( 07/16/2009 8:52 PM EST )
  • Disappointment across nation on e-verify decision
    This week, the U.S. Senate passed an amendment by Senator Jeff Sessions to the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill to permanently mandate use of the E-Verify employment verification system for all employees of Federal contractors. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which scored th....
    ( 07/10/2009 1:51 PM EST )
  • Disappointment across nation on e-verify decision
    The National Immigration Law Center is disappointed by the Obama administration's decision to renew the former administration's rule requiring that federal government contractors and subcontractors use E-Verify, an ineffective tool used to check for workplace eligibility. We applaud the administra....
    ( 07/09/2009 1:51 PM EST )
  • Pushing open that heavy gate
    The moment I awoke to the news that President Barack Obama had nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court, I found myself weeping for joy.
    Judge Sotomayor studied at Yale Law School, an Ivy League school, while I attended a much humbler law school in California, but we were in l....
    ( 06/11/2009 7:13 PM EST )
  • Postville raids: One year later
    It's been a year since the largest immigration raid in U.S. history. That was the day Pedrito's Mom was taken, and he has not seen her since. For Postville, May 12th is a day that will live in infamy.
    A year later, the welcome signs still stand: "Iowa, Fields of Opportunity," "Postville, Hom....
    ( 05/21/2009 9:03 PM EST )
  • Hearing on broken windows policing needed
    Open letter to Denver City Council Members Jeanne Robb, Doug Linkhart, Carla Madison, Michael Hancock:
    Representatives of the Fix Broken Policing Campaign met with those of you named above months ago and discussed the economic hardship imposed on African American and Latino community members w....
    ( 05/14/2009 2:01 PM EST )
  • The natives are restless, or is that nativists?
    Last November, U.S. nativists were handed their lunch, and they didn’t find it easy to swallow. To their shock Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, and that was only part of the bad news for them – the champions of Nativism lost seat after seat in Congress and the Senate. They ....
    ( 05/07/2009 2:33 PM EST )
  • México: Under medical seige Part 1 of 2
    México has long been considered the laboratory of globalization. Now a potentially deadly virus has germinated in that laboratory, finding ideal conditions to move quickly along a path toward global pandemic.
    Those conditions include: a rapid transition from small livestock production to indus....
    ( 05/07/2009 2:32 PM EST )
  • Illegal immigration and the abuse of children
    Recent statistics from the Department of Homeland Security demonstrate that our nation is pushing the lives of many children to the verge of total disaster. It is estimated that, out of the 2.2 millions deportations in the last 10 years, 108,000 are parents who left their kids behind. Today, mo....
    ( 04/29/2009 9:40 PM EST )
  • Mr. President: Calderón is not México
    President Obama's visit to México has produced vague and contradictory statements, centered on worn-out strategies. Many people who had hoped for a new approach that would seek to redress the inequities of the binational relationship will find little in these declarations to pin their hopes on. ( 04/23/2009 9:40 PM EST )
  • An industry drunk with profits
    Ship Master Joseph Hazelwood had had too many drinks that night and had gone to bed, leaving the huge vessel in the very tired, inexperienced hands of Third Mate Gregory Cousins.
    The Exxon Valdez, loaded with 53 million gallons of crude, had to avoid the icebergs that were blocking the usual r....
    ( 04/02/2009 4:47 PM EST )
  • It's time to end slavery in Florida
    "The extreme is slavery, the norm is disaster,” said Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders as he described the conditions in Immokalee Florida last year.
    As a farmer and part of a Food Justice delegation to Immokalee earlier this month I would say that Senator Sanders was spot on. Poverty wages, abu....
    ( 03/26/2009 6:48 PM EST )
  • Indigenous: Protection of workers rights Part 4 of 4
    The Democrats' victory by electing President Barack Obama was achieved in part by the reaction against the anti-immigration policies of the Republicans, their constant verbal attacks against Latino immigrants, and their pseudo-legal actions in some cities and at the federal level, such as Law HR 4....
    ( 02/26/2009 8:01 PM EST )
  • Coal is dirty. Period.
    Just as a mother makes her child wash his mouth out after telling a lie, one of the worst ecological catastrophes in our country’s history is making the coal industry wash off its face, which is full of soot.
    Last year, this industry spent $45 million in a deceiving national public relations c....
    ( 02/19/2009 7:25 PM EST )
  • Indigenous: ‘take to the streets again’ Part 3 of 4
    Millions of Indigenous people have migrated from small towns and communities to the big cities of Mexico, and around half a million Mexican Indigenous people now live in the United States. It began when people had to look for work to support their families during the severe economic crisis of the ....
    ( 02/19/2009 7:24 PM EST )
  • Indigenous challenges: Language, culture Part 2 of 4
    Challenges for Indigenous Migrants in the United States
    Indigenous Mexicans have been forced to leave their countries in search of survival on the economic, educational, healthcare, cultural, and human levels. This has been mostly positive in the economic area, but not in the area of human ri....
    ( 02/12/2009 3:35 PM EST )
  • Uranium mining, Native resistance, and the greener path
    In a Dine Creation Story, the people were given a choice of two yellow powders. They chose the yellow dust of corn pollen, and were instructed to leave the other yellow powder-uranium-in the soil and never to dig it up. If it were taken from the ground, they were told, a great evil would come. ( 02/12/2009 3:33 PM EST )
  • No Child Left Behind should be re-examined
    President Obama needs to examine the No Child Left Behind Act. “Our schools fail too many,” he said, in his inaugural address. One big reason for that is No Child Left Behind.
    Seven years ago, President Bush signed it into law, and there is probably no public school in the United States that h....
    ( 02/05/2009 3:11 PM EST )
  • Organize to fight for human rights
    So now we know the fate of Team Obama's thirteen-million strong e-mail list, that unprecedented netroots force that used social networking and new media technologies to put a one-time community organizer in the White House. President Obama is banking on the continuing support of his online constit....
    ( 01/29/2009 2:53 PM EST )
  • Nashville: Diversity not uniformity
    "Nashville listened to its leaders—the governor, the mayor, and a vast coalition of churches, businesses, and universities—and defeated an English-only measure by nearly 10,000 votes in Thursday's special election." That's the report from the Tennesseanthe day after the city referendum on an amend....
    ( 01/29/2009 2:52 PM EST )
  • End the immigration enforcement actions
    Dear President-Elect Barack Obama: We congratulate you on your election as the 44th President of the United States; we look forward to working with you and your Administration in the coming years to bring about the changes that are needed to improve the lives and safety of immigrant and refugee co....
    ( 01/15/2009 4:48 PM EST )
  • Allowing the destruction of Palestine
    This Tuesday’s New York Times highlights the plight of the Samouni family in Gaza who lost eleven of their members despite their calls to the Red Cross to help them evacuate from Gaza, and after the order from the Israeli military forces, who occupied their home, to relocate to another building. M....
    ( 01/08/2009 4:10 PM EST )
  • Few bad apples ... or a rotten system?
    Editor's Note: This review responds to an earlier review of Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, 2008).
    Since President-elect Barack Obama promised to deal with immigration reform in the early part of his presidency, the nation began g....
    ( 01/08/2009 4:10 PM EST )
  • Defeating giants on the ballot
    Ward Connerly, the anti-affirmative action millionaire from California, steamrolled into Colorado like a heavyweight champion. Like Clubber Lane from the movie Rocky III, Connerly and his Amendment 46 seemed unstoppable with prior statewide ballot victories in California, Washington, and Michigan....
    ( 12/18/2008 7:31 PM EST )
  • Fat cows and thin cows
    Just like in the Bible, our country is coming out of a dream, or rather a nightmare, in which we saw seven thin cows eating seven fat cows. The biblical fable, which announces seven years of prosperity, could well be suggesting that the end of the nightmare has a date, Jan. 20, 2009.
    And judg....
    ( 12/18/2008 7:28 PM EST )
  • Echoes of Argentina's 2001 worker uprising
    When the 250 workers at the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago were told that the plant was shutting down, they decided to take matters into their own hands. On Friday, December 5, the workers occupied their factory in an act that echoes the sit-down strikes of the 1930s in the US and t....
    ( 12/11/2008 6:08 PM EST )
  • Private prisons: ‘being consistently funded’ Part 2 of 2
    In a post-election conference to report third-quarter revenue increases, the Corrections Corporation of America’s -- the country's oldest and largest prison corporation, boasted that it enjoyed a $33.6 million increase in the third quarter over last year, while earnings rose 15% during the same p....
    ( 12/11/2008 6:07 PM EST )
  • President Obama's challenges on poverty
    An important aspect of President-elect Obama's message throughout his campaign was the need to attend to the needs of the middle class. But, as Ralph Nader correctly points out, the poor in América have much bigger needs, an issue that President-elect Obama has promised to address. Paramount among....
    ( 12/10/2008 5:44 PM EST )
  • Immigrants drive private prison profits Part 1 of 2
    Immigrants are behind one of América's fastest growing, most profitable industries. That shouldn't come as a surprise. Immigrants have always been a core factor in U.S. economic development.
    Mining, railroads, agribusiness, and, recently, construction have been among the many U.S. industries ....
    ( 12/04/2008 5:43 PM EST )
  • Operation Chihuahua’s human rights violations Part 2 of 2
    Echoing the August Creel incident, on Oct. 9 there was a massacre at the Rio Rosas bar in the city of Chihuahua. A seven-man commando group wearing hoods executed 11 people. Among them was journalist David García Monroy. Four of those murdered had criminal records. The rest just had something to d....
    ( 11/27/2008 12:59 AM EST )
  • New administration could alter embargo
    The new political landscape in Washington and Havana offers a unique opportunity to change a foreign policy decision that has been maintained for almost half a century and caused considerable suffering, the embargo against Cuba.
    Although lifting the embargo -or recognizing the Cuban regime- r....
    ( 11/20/2008 12:19 AM EST )
  • The failure of Operation Chihuahua Part 1 of 2
    What is happening in the State of Chihuahua, México is a living (or dead) illustration of the failure of the Mexican government in the improvised struggle against organized crime that President Felipe Calderón started at the onset of his term.
    Saturday, August 16: just before six o'clock in t....
    ( 11/20/2008 12:17 AM EST )
  • Immigration: Begin with justice, fairness Part 2 of 2
    For Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, comprehensive immigration reform should include a three-pronged strategy of strict enforcement, border security, and immigrant worker programs.
    Business groups, including the Chamber of Commerce, have objected to employee verification programs be....
    ( 11/13/2008 1:33 PM EST )
  • Tough times? Blame minorities!
    PULL QUOTE
    We're supposed to believe that impoverished Blacks and Latinos across our country brought down the titans of Wall Street with their wild-eyed dreams of owning their own homes, taking out mortgages they couldn't afford.

    Tough times? Blame minorities!
    J. Richard Cohen ....
    ( 10/23/2008 00:45 AM EST )
  • A big brother migration solution
    For perhaps at least the past generation, the so-called immigration
    debate has been code for scapegoating and getting rid of the
    "wetbacks" – which of course in this country is but another code word
    for Mexicans. Anybody brown, really. It could be called the hidden
    narrative, yet h....
    ( 10/23/2008 00:43 AM EST )
  • An eagle named Consuelo
    Not long ago, while preparing for the Law School Admission Test and
    while organizing against the relentless attacks against the Raza
    Studies Department – one day, Consuelo Aguilar woke up, barely able to
    speak. We all thought it was stress from studying for the test and
    stress from....
    ( 10/16/2008 00:17 AM EST )
  • Truth about ACORN's voter registration
    Election Day is less than a month away, and our efforts to make sure that low-income and minority voters have a voice and vote on November 4th are in full swing. Unfortunately, just as we've seen in previous election cycles, the more success we have in empowering these voters, the more attacks we ....
    ( 10/16/2008 00:16 AM EST )
  • Postville Hearings: Justice, lost in translation?
    I was one of 16 interpreters who served both weeks of the Postville, Mississippi hearings. Unlike judges, prosecutors, or attorneys, I was present at every step of the process. It is my duty as an impartial expert witness and officer of the court to ensure that the court is not misled, and to brin....
    ( 10/02/2008 11:56 PM EST )
  • Railroading immigrants and the Constitution
    Federal immigration officials swept into Postville, Iowa in May and detained nearly 400 workers at a kosher meat processing plant. Swiftly, local enforcement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency arrested, charged with crimes, extracted pleas, and sentenced 297 of these individuals b....
    ( 08/06/2008 10:48 PM EST )
  • Unified efforts needed for resolutions
    Recently, I had the opportunity to attend a round table with other Latino’s, discussing current events. The dialogue went from education, to the current immigration raids by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE). Once the meeting was over, I felt better about myself and felt I was doing my part ....
    ( 07/31/2008 4:00 PM EST )
  • Silence of Latino organizations on war
    I was in Washington cafe recently when hecklers from Code Pink interrupted Sen. John McCain no less than 3 times during a major speech to Latino voters and elected officials. Shortly after the event, several of protesters marched triumphantly into the coffeeshop I was sitting in on P Street after ....
    ( 07/18/2008 08:28 AM EST )
  • Mr. Ells, what about the farmworkers?
    In the press release announcing his company’s agreement to work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to improve wages and working conditions in its tomato suppliers’ fields, Burger King CEO John Chidsey said, “The CIW has been at the forefront of efforts to improve farm labor conditions, ....
    ( 07/18/2008 08:23 AM EST )
  • Barack Obama proposing real solutions
    Across this country Americans are hurting – struggling to cope with the soaring cost of gas and groceries. And they know that Washington hasn’t done enough to bring prices down or to end our dependence on foreign oil. And they certainly know that we haven’t done enough to help struggling families ....
    ( 07/03/2008 6:06 PM EST )
  • Meet Juan Crow
    The final days of Boubacar Bah's life read like an account of a political prisoner in a gulag.
    Bah, 52, was shackled to the floor of the prison's medical unit where he was left to moan and vomit until prison officials moved him to a "disciplinary cell."
    He would stay there for more than 13....
    ( 07/03/2008 6:04 PM EST )
  • Obama, McCain on immigration: Life vs. death
    A recent story by Maribel Hastings of La Opinión newspaper provides the most comprehensive analysis yet of the similarities and differences between John McCain and Barack Obama around immigration policy. According to Hastings, “Both candidates support construction of a wall at the southern U.S. bo....
    ( 06/26/2008 1:22 PM EST )
  • Raza Studies: A ceremonial discourse
    Atop the hills of the Nahuatl-speaking village of Ocotepec, Morelos,
    México, while a colony of red ants is carrying maiz kernels on their
    backs, an elder explains: "These are the ants of Quetzalcoatl."
    The sensation is magical. In a metaphorical sense, the ants are acting
    out a cos....
    ( 06/26/2008 1:21 PM EST )
  • State of Emergency: Bush’s last 6 months
    Unhindered by a neutered Congress and a compliant Court, President Bush has six months remaining to pursue his agenda of expanding the war in the Middle East and ensuring the continuation of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) beyond his tenure in office.
    The current administration has taken unto ....
    ( 06/26/2008 1:20 PM EST )
  • Migrant workers at bottom of food chain
    The recent story in the New York Times about the loot taken home last year by hedge fund managers provides us with the starkest – and most obscene – evidence yet about the growing disparity between the rich and the poor in our country.
    Topping the list was John Paulson, the founder of Paulson ....
    ( 06/26/2008 1:19 PM EST )
  • A primer on Plan México – Part 1 of 2
    On Oct. 22, 2007 President Bush announced the $1.4 billion dollar "Merida Initiative," security aid package to México and Central América. The initiative has fatal flaws in its strategy; instead of leading to a stable binational relationship and peaceful border communities, its military approach w....
    ( 06/12/2008 6:15 PM EST )


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  • Get-tough-on-crime creates future victims
    Doctors recommend people get the flu shot this time of year. And I recommend folks get inoculated for the get-tough-on-crime bug before the campaign season gets in full swing.
    The highly contagious mental malady prevents people from thinking clearly about crime and punishment. It’s how we get ....
    ( 12/06/2007 10:31 AM EST )
  • Kucinich for ‘realists’
    The conventional “realist” line on Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign goes something like: Great on the issues; terrible in the polls; can’t win; need to find another candidate. This logic may be okay - unless you’re actually seriously concerned with things like ending the war in Iraq or achi....
    ( 12/06/2007 10:29 AM EST )
  • Are you ashamed yet?
    In the last five years, we have watched silently as our constitutional rights have been taken away bit by bit in the name of patriotism.  Samuel Johnson said that patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.  He pretty much nailed it.  ?Since we were attacked on 9-11, we have managed to attack a c....
    ( 10/25/2007 2:35 PM EST )
  • The party of division
    According to the Republican Party leadership, Republican elected officials and their boisterous members, the Party is not against immigration – just illegal immigration. On the surface there is nothing wrong with that. But, it is not the policy that is objectionable – it is the slandering, insulti....
    ( 10/25/2007 2:34 PM EST )
  • Fight for memory of vets continues
    Eighty-seven year-old Carlos Alvarez remembers his first experience of war, when he dodged the bullets of Japanese gunners and airplanes in the Philippine jungles during World War II. Now, 60-plus years later, he’s on the front lines of a media war pitting grassroots Latino groups against the mult....
    ( 10/25/2007 2:32 PM EST )
  • Our shrinking middle class
    There are many conservative political pundits and radio commentators attacking immigrants at all levels for the social ills of América to its economic woes. From crime on the streets to work related concerns, most conservative talking-heads view immigration as the driving force behind América’s do....
    ( 07/13/2007 12:58 AM EST )
  • Gender savagery in Guatemala
    On the outskirts of Guatemala City the body of an 18-year-old woman of indigenous ethnicity was recently discovered by her frantic parents who had been searching long and hard. Forensic evidence showed that she had been repeatedly raped and tortured and that her head had been severed from her body....
    ( 07/12/2007 1:01 PM EST )
  • Children should have rights
    Does a defendant’s background matter for sentencing purposes? President Bush apparently thinks that it does, because he cited Scooter Libby’s background and service to his country as a reason to commute his sentence. I agree. I am a guardian ad litem, a lawyer for children in the abuse and neglect....
    ( 07/12/2007 1:00 PM EST )
  • A journey for humanity
    The other day I came out of my short retirement due to yet another Bush flagrant abuse of power. We decided that we would walk from Atlanta to DC to gather a people’s movement for humanity. The longer BushCo are in office the less chance we have of recovering the heart and soul of our nation, savi....
    ( 07/12/2007 12:59 AM EST )
  • Parar las redadas ya, reforma migratoria
    Mientras el Senado se apresta a  debatir nuevamente el proyecto de la reforma migratoria, la ola de redadas contra los indocumentados continúa su curso en todo el país. Desde octubre pasado, las redadas se han incrementado en fábricas, plantas y otros lugares de trabajo, adonde los agentes de Migr....
    ( 07/12/2007 12:59 AM EST )
  • Patzín: Lemons and the pits
    Patrisia Gonzales
    In Mexican Traditional Medicine, precious petals, leaves, seeds, rinds and even pits are medicine that should be put to use. While the girasol towers in gardens and on roadsides, we should not let the power of Sunflower go to waste. Sunflower seeds, leaves, bark and petals ma....
    ( 07/12/2007 12:57 AM EST )
  • Senate fails American people
    The Senate failed the American people last week when it voted to halt its work towards comprehensive immigration reform. While this vote ends prospects for S 1639, the movement for humane reform continues with more urgency than ever.
    The Senate’s vote effectively defends the status quo, an enf....
    ( 07/09/2007 10:14 AM EST )
  • Vote a setback, but not the end for reform
    The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) expressed deep disappointment with last week’s vote to end Senate consideration of comprehensive immigration reform.
    “Last week’s action is a victory for the status quo, and no one should be happy about that. But the Senate vote is a setback, not the deat....
    ( 07/09/2007 10:12 AM EST )
  • Time to start over with humane reform
    A failed vote on potential immigration reform legislation closed, for now, the possibility of critical improvements to the nation’s obsolete and broken immigration system.
    The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker peace and social justice organization, last week called on Congres....
    ( 07/09/2007 10:11 AM EST )
  • Ancient words: the migrant

    Your footprints are not always left in deserts, mountains or rivers. Like a shadow, they follow you everywhere. From México and Central América, and South América too, they follow you into El Norte.
    From your NAFTA-decimated fields and factories, your footprints follow you into toxic fact....
    ( 07/09/2007 10:09 AM EST )
  • Environmental challenges
    Are there organizations that specifically address the environmental challenges faced by poor and minority communities?
    When sociologist Robert Bullard began uncovering the
    proximity of hazardous waste sites to minority neighborhoods across the American South during the course of his gradu....
    ( 05/31/2007 11:21 AM EST )
  • Amnistía: una palabra maldita
    José López Zamorano
    Algunas palabras tienen una carga emocional más fuerte que otras. Para nosotros los latinos, la palabra “madre” puede ser la forma más alta de afecto, o la más vil de las ofensas, según la entonación con la que sea pronunciada.
    En el actual debate de la reforma migrato....
    ( 05/31/2007 11:20 AM EST )
  • NISN: Senate - White House immigration plan
    On Thursday May 17, key Democrat and Republican members of the Senate reached a compromise immigrant agreement with the President Bush after months of closed-door negotiations. The proposal is unacceptable and unreasonable. We wish to encourage everyone to call your Senators and the White House to....
    ( 05/31/2007 11:20 AM EST )
  • Immigration debate: them vs. us
    Is anyone old enough to remember the expression: “Go Back to Africa?” Can anyone remember when the lynchings of Blacks, Asians and the hunting down of American Indians and Mexicans were commonplace? Does anyone remember when Jews were turned away at this nation’s borders? How about the Chinese Exc....
    ( 05/31/2007 11:19 AM EST )
  • Starting point to fix broken system
    Editor’s Note: The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund issued the following statement in response to the introduction today of the Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy (STRIVE) Act of 2007 by  U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D....
    ( 03/29/2007 3:02 PM EST )
  • AFSC: gaps remain in proposed STRIVE Act
    Editor’s Note: The following is a statement from the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) regarding the newly introduced STRIVE Act.
    The  recently introduced STRIVE (Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy) Act of 2007, sponsored by Representative Luis V. Gutierr....
    ( 03/29/2007 3:00 PM EST )
  • Patzín: Abuela Luna, la mujer
    Abuela Luna exerts a powerful force on the Earth, particularly on women. La luna affects the tides, and therefore also the waters in our bodies. Water is also associated with emotions and human beings are significantly comprised of electricity, or light, and water. As women, it is important to und....
    ( 03/15/2007 1:08 PM EST )
  • El día Internacional de la Mujer
    De manera lenta pero con fuerza, aquellas mujeres que desde tiempo remotos han inspirado la letra de poemas y canciones y han dado vida a la obra de muchos autores, fueron trazando un espacio en la historia y reclamando sus derechos. Luchas que comenzaron a dar sus frutos en el  siglo XX cuando se....
    ( 03/15/2007 1:07 PM EST )
  • Parent involvement
    Latino education in the United States is a concern for all those involved in the educational community.  One of the hardest experiences for Latinos has been getting parents involved in their children’s education. Because of financial need, recently arrived immigrants tend to work overtime and into....
    ( 03/15/2007 1:06 PM EST )
  • Pelosi commemorates Women’s History Month
    Editor’s Note: Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement celebrating Women’s History Month: 

    In March, we celebrate Women’s History Month and remember the brave women who have contributed to the progress of our country.  We recognize those who are changing our communities tod....
    ( 03/15/2007 1:05 PM EST )
  • Is there no shame in Wisconsin?
    The Republican base in West Bend must be proud of their state senator. During a recent debate on the matter of enrollment equity at the University of Wisconsin, State Senator Grothman, ever the articulate statesman many of his supporters fancy him to be, blurted an openly bigoted comment many toda....
    ( 03/15/2007 1:04 PM EST )
  • When corruption is the norm
    Dr. Rene Vazquez Botet, a respected, skillful Puerto Rican ophthalmologist, seemed awkward as he hid behind a young black prisoner. Mr. Vazquez Botet was making sure that press photographers could not get a good shot of his shiny new handcuffs. Ironically, the young black man smiled unabashedly to....
    ( 02/22/2007 12:02 AM EST )
  • Reforma migratoria
    El ambiente que se respira en torno a la aprobación de una reforma migratoria integral es muy positivo; activistas, legisladores y analistas coinciden en que este es el año de la reforma.
    La voz de aliento viene de los legisladores que han estado apoyando la aprobación de una ley integral que ....
    ( 02/22/2007 12:01 AM EST )
  • Free trade, globalization, political unrest
    A lot has been written about a “march to the left” in Latin America. And in reality, while this is true, there has been a tilt in this direction for quite some time. If you remember, there was an active communist party in México until it morphed into the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) in the la....
    ( 02/22/2007 12:01 AM EST )
  • Bill Richardson should be next U.S. President
    The Democrats should be ashamed of themselves. Here they have their perfect Presidential candidate in Bill Richardson, but, so far, the polls are not favoring him in the least. On the contrary, he’s usually listed in polls as a “will also run.” While almost every Democrat is going gaga over Hillar....
    ( 02/22/2007 12:00 AM EST )
  • Money trumps peace
    It is always painful to watch George stumble his way through press conferences. He can’t get through a sentence without at least two or three “uhs,” his eye lids flutter up and down in what my daughter, Carly, calls the “liar’s blink” and just because it is painful that a human like that is ostens....
    ( 02/22/2007 11:59 AM EST )
  • Right-wing myths
    With the abolishment of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service in 2003, the Bush Administration succeeded to wrest the enforcement branch of immigration from civic minded managers and supervisors.  In the past, Regional Commissioners and District Directors managed both the enforcement of I....
    ( 02/15/2007 12:01 AM EST )
  • El mejor regalo
    Este Día de San Valentín, todos lo celebramos con esa persona especial. Pero tampoco te olvides de cuidar a quién más quieres: a ti misma. Este febrero, obséquiate buena salud.
    Ya has escuchado que las latinas presentan índices más altos de algunas condiciones o enfermedades. Esto también ocur....
    ( 02/15/2007 12:00 AM EST )
  • CIS exposes its true colors to the public
    Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), at what was dubbed a “think tank” meeting on January 26th to review immigration issues hosted by San Diego University’s Trans-Border Institute (TBI), called on the Department of Homeland Security to use eminent domain to p....
    ( 02/15/2007 11:59 AM EST )
  • Patzin: Yolpahtli – heart medicine
    Nuestro corazon es nuestra medicina. Our heart has medicine. Our antepasados believed our heart was the seat of intelligence. It was our house. What will we let in our casa? In ixtli, in yollotl, it is said in the huehuetlatolli, the old, old word, our original instructions, that a wise person had....
    ( 02/15/2007 11:59 AM EST )
  • América’s new manifest destiny

    America’s contemporary definition of manifest destiny is an extension of its grandiose collective self-image that is self-imposed at best which includes its responsibility to stop terrorism throughout the world. Coined just before the Méxican American War by John O’Sullivan, this ostentatious....
    ( 02/15/2007 11:58 AM EST )
  • La violencia doméstica
    Diariamente millones de mujeres en el mundo son víctimas de algún tipo de maltrato en el seno de su propio hogar, muchas aun, asumen  que la violencia es simplemente parte de su existencia, y viven su dolor con  resignación, otras, muy pocas aun, han roto la cadena del miedo y han iniciado un proc....
    ( 02/08/2007 3:24 PM EST )
  • Grannies doing heavy lifting
    My dear friend, Diane Baker, from Dallas-Ft. Worth who is a United Church of Christ Minister and fearless crusader for peace is also a grandmother, has a degenerative disease, and was sweeping garbage in DC for being arrested there this past October protesting the illegal and immoral war in Iraq: ....
    ( 02/08/2007 3:24 PM EST )
  • 36 signs that your empire is crumbling
    So. You’ve built yourself an empire, eh? Well, bully for you!
    What’s next, you ask? Well, now you’ve got to do what everybody does when they have an empire, of course. You’ve got to worry about it falling apart, mate!
    But how to tell for sure? Let me see if I can be helpful. Here are som....
    ( 02/08/2007 3:23 PM EST )
  • Urging priority spending for SCHIP
    Editor’s note: The following is a letter from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, written to President Bush asking that he submit a spending proposal separate from his upcoming emergency supplemental appropriations request to cover shortfalls in funding for the Stat....
    ( 02/08/2007 3:22 PM EST )
  • SEIU presses for reform
    Editor’s Note: The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced its agenda for comprehensive immigration reform recently, outlining its views in a detailed letter to Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA). The following are excerpts from that letter.
    Voters in the 2006 mid-term elections sent a ....
    ( 02/08/2007 3:21 PM EST )
  • Iraq escalation, accountability?
    With Republicans in the Senate blocking a debate on President Bush’s plan to escalate the war, Senate Democrats today joined veterans of the war in Iraq to demand the Senate be allowed to vote up or down on the single most important issue facing America today. Democratic Conference Secretary Patty....
    ( 02/08/2007 3:13 PM EST )
  • Action on reproductive rights
    American progressives’ fight for reproductive justice doesn’t begin in Tennessee’s state legislature and end in the South Dakota ballot box. Domestic abortion bans are only one part of the ongoing international battle for reproductive freedom. But while American progressives have built an effectiv....
    ( 01/18/2007 1:36 PM EST )
  • Miranda’s year in review – 2006
    Here we are!  Another year gone by and still Mark Belling stinks up Milwaukee’s airwaves with his racist rants. But that’s alright, because in 2006, we had a lot more things to worry about than Mark Belling and his crew of bigots.
    Indeed, in January 2006 the Pentagon released a study stating t....
    ( 01/18/2007 1:35 PM EST )
  • The minimum wage is just the minimum
    Hooray for Congress. The House of Representatives recently voted to raise the federal minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour by 2009. It looks likely that the Senate will do the same, soon.
    Mind you, this was the first adjustment to the minimum wage in ten years. Yet during that sam....
    ( 01/18/2007 1:33 PM EST )
  • Demanding an end to Bush’s war
    Last week, Bush the Decider announced his intention to throw gasoline on the inferno he ignited in Iraq. He will send in another 21,500 US soldiers, who will kill and injure many more Iraqis and may be killed themselves. Bush’s move shows total contempt for the demands of public opinion and the be....
    ( 01/18/2007 1:32 PM EST )
  • The immigrant and the progressive
    Progressives, as they prepare their New Year’s resolutions, should make waking up earlier a priority in 2007. Only by waking up earlier can you meet people like Juan, who I met at a naval base near New Orleans shortly after Katrina made clear the failure of government as we knew it.
    When I met....
    ( 01/18/2007 1:19 PM EST )
  • Freeing the spirit of the Américas
    Some might call what is happening on Turtle Island prophesy, whereas others will simply say that given the continent’s demographics, it was only a matter of time that the centuries-old process of de-Indigenization would begin to be challenged and reversed, commencing a process of re-Indigenization....
    ( 01/18/2007 1:15 PM EST )
  • The occupation project
    Jeff Leys
    On February 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered his infamous speech to the United Nations in which he set forth the deceptions about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction program. At the conclusion of his speech, no doubt remained: the U.S. invasion of Iraq was im....
    ( 01/11/2007 3:19 PM EST )
  • No more troops to Iraq
    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week sent the following letter to President Bush urging him to reject his reported plan to escalate the war in Iraq by increasing troop levels and delaying the ability of the Iraqi government take control of their own future.  The lea....
    ( 01/11/2007 3:18 PM EST )
  • For the sake of my son
    On September 11th, 2001, my son, Firefighter Timothy Welty, was lost in the line of duty at the World Trade Center. He died trying to rescue those trapped in the burning towers. He risked his life because of his commitment to preserving life, because he had a reverence for the value of every human....
    ( 01/11/2007 3:17 PM EST )
  • Latinas, un examen puede salvar sus vidas
    De por sí, ser latina y mujer representa ya una señal de alerta respecto al cáncer cervical.
    Y es que, al parecer, las latinas son más vulnerables a esta enfermedad: son diagnosticadas y mueren a causa de este cáncer con mucho más frecuencia que cualquier otro grupo étnico en los Estados Unid....
    ( 01/11/2007 3:16 PM EST )
  • Patzín: violence, memory and colonizing
    Patrisia Gonzales and Roberto Rodríguez
    Gonzales Grandma’s grinding stone echoes with the rasp and crackle of corn on the metate. Some things continue. Mamie Andrews’s story emerged during the holidays, a picture now hung among my memories as I grind corn on the last day of the year. I only kn....
    ( 01/11/2007 3:15 PM EST )
  • Repairing cracked mirrors
    2007 is gearing up to be a whopper of a year as public policy analysts and politicians pull out the bottles of glue to repair what seemingly is irreparable damage to the moral fiber of American society. They will debate hot legislative topics that will have implications on Latinos. On center stage....
    ( 01/11/2007 3:15 PM EST )
  • Por un año sin violencia
    Todavía recuerdo mirar incrédula la llegada del 2000; y aunque parece ayer, aquí estoy escribiendo mi primer artículo para el 2007. Increíble. Y haciendo un breve análisis mental de lo ocurrido en estos siete años desde el cambio de milenio, concluí que las cosas en sí no han cambiado mucho. Parec....
    ( 01/04/2007 12:01 AM EST )
  • Apocolypto: violent outlook on Mayans
    After watching Mel Gibson’s controversial film Apocalypto, I left the theater pondering the history of racism, pillage and apocalyptic war through my own blood and family history. Gibson, I concluded, would have been more accurate, his film more resonant, had he used another group of people, anoth....
    ( 01/04/2007 12:00 AM EST )
  • 2006: Toast to ten good things
    Medea Benjamin
    As we close this year on the low of a devastating conflict in Iraq and a President contemplating sending yet more troops to fight and die in an unwinnable war, let us not forget that it was a year of many positive gains for the progressive movement. Here are just ten.
    1. Fi....
    ( 01/04/2007 12:00 AM EST )
  • Ni el diablo puede parar a Chávez
    It was only a few years ago that Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez survived an attempted coup, which was supported by the United States government of George W. Bush. The coup failed after the people of Venezuela took to the streets demanding his return to power.
    This week, the people’s leader....
    ( 01/04/2007 11:59 AM EST )
  • Reading in red and brown
    Each of the following books deserves a full critical review, but time and space prevents this. Yet, each is highly recommended. One thing to be noted here is that though the books are seemingly unrelated, in truth, war, violence forced migrations and injustice permeates through virtually all of t....
    ( 01/04/2007 11:58 AM EST )
  • It’s not Bush’s world after all
    The people have spoken. They have voted a resounding no to Bushworld. Translated, this means: No to the Iraq war. No to a United States of Fear. No to corruption, and, Yes to the U.S. Constitution.
    In Bushworld, however, the president’s faith and delusion have not been shaken: His take on the ....
    ( 11/16/2006 4:33 PM EST )
  • Wedging of racial identities
    Part 2 of 3
    Roberto Lovato
    During a recent trip to San Antonio, I visited the Alamo and found among the thousands of tourists throngs of young cadets and soon-to-be deployed enlisted personnel and their families. Many of the cadets were, like the young fighter on Military Drive, local kid....
    ( 11/16/2006 4:32 PM EST )
  • No Más Silencio
    Me preguntan con frecuencia: ¿por qué el chico malo de las películas es un activista en contra de la violencia doméstica? ¿No se supone que ése es un asunto de mujeres?” Yo pienso que debería ser un asunto de todos.
    Una de las razones por las que yo rompí el silencio, fue cuando acudí a la pol....
    ( 11/09/2006 12:18 AM EST )
  • Homeland Security: good and bad Latinos
    If you want to understand how Homeland Security influences us, go to south Texas and take a walk around neighborhoods whose streets were paved by the “clash of civilizations” in cities and towns at or near the border. One such street is San Antonio’s Military Drive where, on any Friday, Saturday, ....
    ( 11/09/2006 12:17 AM EST )
  • ‘Puppet show is not the answer’
    Reactions to President Bush’s plan to militarize the border has sparked further frustration among Latinos and advocates for immigrant rights across the nation. Although, locally no surprises by Colorado’s Governor. Owens, unsurprisingly supports militarizing the border. “In fact, steps to increase....
    ( 05/23/2006 3:40 PM EST )
  • Bottom line: $716 billion in buying power
    Famed physicist Albert Einstein, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, and recognized activist Julio Cesar Chavez all had one thing in common – they were foreign-born immigrants. History shows that America has always benefited greatly when we have had policies that draw the best and the brighte....
    ( 05/04/2006 12:26 AM EST )
  • Organizations express extreme concern
    Editor’s Note: Four of the leading national Latino advocacy organizations in the United States recently released the text of a letter to Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) expressing their concern with his threat to bypass the Senate Judiciary Committee and introduce his own border security bill.
    ( 03/31/2006 3:18 PM EST )
  • Responsibility For Our Future
    Throughout the month, we have highlighted the life and accomplishments of the late César E. Chávez; and this Saturday we are set to honor this man who took the reins of leadership and inspired positive action among thousands of people.
    Reflecting on books I have read, documentaries I have watc....
    ( 03/31/2006 3:15 PM EST )
  • FDA rejects making EC available over the counter
    On May 6, 2004, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rejected a proposal to make emergency contraceptives (EC) available over the counter. The FDA rejected this recommendation in spite of the advice of two committees made up of scientific experts.

    In addition, more than 70 public heal....
    ( 10/14/2004 6:19 PM EST )
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