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      	  <title> Lies, deception tanked Heritage report
 
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          <description><![CDATA[ The Heritage Foundation’s recently unveiled and long-awaited report on the Senate immigration proposal certainly brought the ultra-conservative think tank lots of attention. But it’s not the kind that’s likely to prove influential.
Republican leaders, including Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Sen.]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Heritages full range of outlandish beliefs

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          <description><![CDATA[ Last Friday, the Heritage Foundation announced that Jason Richwine, the co-author of their widely criticized immigration report, was no longer employed by the conservative think tank. Shortly after the immigration report was released, the Washington Post’s Dylan Matthews reported that Richwine’s PhD]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Nestle CEO: ‘Water is not a human right’

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          <description><![CDATA[ Is water a free and basic human right, or should all the water on the planet belong to major corporations and be treated as a product? Should the poor who cannot afford to pay these said corporations suffer from starvation due to their lack of financial wealth? According to the former CEO and now]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Memo to the xenophobe party

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          <description><![CDATA[ The xenophobia has already begun. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky) in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on April 23rd  urged him to reconsider immigration legislation because of the bombings in Boston. “The facts emerging in the Boston Marathon bombing have exposed a weakness in our current]]></description> 
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      	  <title> We are better than this
 
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          <description><![CDATA[ Americans will remember Monday, April 15, 2013 as a day in which unspeakable violence took the lives of three people and wounded at least 153 after bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon finish line. Thousands of miles away, Iraqis will remember this same Monday as a day in which violence claimed the]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Why today’s GOP will never win over minority voters

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          <description><![CDATA[ Nothing is more important to the future of American politics than the minority vote.  Here’s a primer on what to expect from these voters for the rest of the decade.
One thing that’s certain about the future of the minority vote is its continued growth, which has averaged about half a percentage]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Young and straight, but gay marriage is my issue too

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          <description><![CDATA[ I've never had any reason to think that I wouldn’t be able to someday marry the person I truly love. That's something that isn't true of many of my closest friends who are gay. So why should I care about the issue of marriage equality? After all, I’m not gay, and discrimination against gay people]]></description> 
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      	  <title> The gay tax that strains my family’s finances
 
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          <description><![CDATA[ As the Supreme Court considers two cases that could lead to unprecedented rulings on the right to marriage equality, I’ve been paying close attention. For me, the national conversation about this civil right hits especially close to home because I’m the daughter of two strong and courageous]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Listen to the children 
 

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          <description><![CDATA[ “My friends are dead. I saw the bad man. He was next to me when we ran out.” 
“I played ball with him. Now he is dead.” 
“My friend got killed cause she didn’t hide good enough.” 
“Do you think it is my fault?” 
These are some of the devastating voices of children from Sandy Hook Elementary]]></description> 
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      	  <title> The morality brigade

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          <description><![CDATA[ We’re still legislating and regulating private morality, while at the same time ignoring the much larger crisis of public morality in Am&#233;rica.
In recent weeks Republican state legislators have decided to thwart the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in “Roe v. Wade,” which gave women the right to have]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2339/the-morality-brigade]]></link> 
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      	  <title> USNS C&amp;#233;sar Ch&amp;#225;vez serves thousands at sea

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          <description><![CDATA[ Most of what is written on the late C&#233;sar E. Ch&#225;vez, one of the nation’s most beloved humanitarians, is about his life’s work advocating on behalf of farm workers.
It’s noted that Ch&#225;vez was drafted into the US Army at the age of 18 but he chose to serve with the US Navy through enlistment. He]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Thomas P&amp;#233;rez: Champion of working families
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          <description><![CDATA[ President Obama this week announced that he has chosen Thomas P&#233;rez, the head of the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, to be the next Secretary of Labor. Speaking in the East Room of the White House, the President introduced P&#233;rez, the son of Dominican immigrants and a lawyer who]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Ch&amp;#225;vez: Washington nemesis, Latin American hero
 
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          <description><![CDATA[ President Obama issued a brief statement that failed even to offer condolences, forcing a senior State Department official to patch over the evident callousness and breach of diplomacy by offering his personal condolences the following day. 
Within moments of Chavez’s death, commercial media and]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Organizing is the way to realize Gideon’s promise

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          <description><![CDATA[ Next week marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions this country’s criminal justice system has ever known – Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), which guaranteed criminal defendants the right to a defense attorney regardless of their ability to pay.
Yet half a]]></description> 
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      	  <title> UndocuQueer: ‘Unafraid and unashamed’
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          <description><![CDATA[ Two young advocates, Luis and Fernanda who are featured on this week’s cover are part of the UndocuQueer™ Book, a project of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance sharing the stories in the intersection of the queer and undocumented movements. 
The book is currently being written to share the]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2325/undocuqueer-unafraid-and-unashamed]]></link> 
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      	  <title> LGBT undocumented: Living in dual shadows	
 
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          <description><![CDATA[ When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jos&#233; Antonio Vargas came out as undocumented in an essay published in The New York Times in the summer of 2011, he was “coming out” for the second time in his life. The first time occurred when Vargas raised his hand in history class during his junior year of]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2323/lgbt-undocumented-living-in-dual-shadows]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Arms trade: A lethal business and an urgent treaty

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          <description><![CDATA[ While Americans debate President Barack Obama's gun control plan, a much bigger debate is going on worldwide that few Americans are aware of—whether to restrict the global trade in conventional weapons.
There are more laws governing the international trade of bananas and coffee than of arms,]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2316/arms-trade-a-lethal-business-and-an-urgent-treaty]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Hate crimes affect entire communities

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          <description><![CDATA[ This week, New York Magazine published an article explaining that the family of murdered Mississippi mayoral candidate Marco McMillian now believes his death was a hate crime. The family said they had received information from the Coahoma County coroner's office regarding the state of McMillian's]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2314/hate-crimes-affect-entire-communities]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Ontiveros denied membership to the Academy

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          <description><![CDATA[ Editor’s Note: The following is an open letter from Alex Nogales, President&#38;CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) to the Members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts&#38;Sciences regarding the late actress Lupe Ontiveros. NHMC is a media advocacy and civil rights organization.
I]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2311/ontiveros-denied-membership-to-the-academy]]></link> 
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      	  <title> GOP Senators plan to rig Electoral College
 
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          <description><![CDATA[ Earlier this year, Republican National Committee Chair urged Republican lawmakers in states “that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red” — i.e. blue states with Republican legislatures and governors — to enact a plan rigging the Electoral College so that it would be almost]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2309/gop-senators-plan-to-rig-electoral-college]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Year of the Kumätz: A Mayan perspective 

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          <description><![CDATA[ Last year, young couples across East Asia scrambled to get married and have babies in the auspicious Year of the Dragon. The same isn’t quite true of the current Lunar New Year, the Year of the Snake, which is being met with a more muted enthusiasm, due to the less favorable position held by the]]></description> 
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      	  <title> A better way to say I love you

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          <description><![CDATA[ “Why do American companies sell pesticides that are banned in the U.S. to my country?” my Colombian friend Luz asked me. I had no good answer.
Yet, this question lies at the core of the bouquet of roses you might give or receive this Valentine’s Day. Nearly all roses sold in the U.S. are grown in]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2291/a-better-way-to-say-i-love-you]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Working together for a stronger Am&amp;#233;rica
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          <description><![CDATA[ Editor’s Note: The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials issued the following statement regarding President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address:
We applaud the President for outlining his plan to tackle the economy and ‘accelerate’ job creation in the coming year. ]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2288/working-together-for-a-stronger-am-amp-233-rica]]></link> 
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      	  <title> GOP to introduce new election-rigging plan

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          <description><![CDATA[ Last month, Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus called up “states that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red” to rig future presidential elections by changing the way electoral votes are allocated. Under Priebus’ proposal, blue states such as Michigan, Wisconsin]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2282/gop-to-introduce-new-election-rigging-plan]]></link> 
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      	  <title> How I came to support marriage…for myself

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          <description><![CDATA[ Being at Creative Change this week put the issue of marriage equality at the forefront of my mind.  Our partners at Familia es Familia hosted a session aimed at educating attendees on the Latino community’s attitudes and thoughts on LGBT issues.  They’re positive attitudes, to be sure, but when you]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2272/how-i-came-to-support-marriage-for-myself]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Rep. Perlmutter to introduce updated Military Assault Weapons Ban
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          <description><![CDATA[ On January 24th, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter announced he will introduce the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 along with U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy in the House of Representatives and in coordination with Sen. Feinstein in the U.S. Senate.  Perlmutter spoke at a press conference today with Sens. Dianne]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2267/rep-perlmutter-to-introduce-updated-military-assault-weapons]]></link> 
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      	  <title> GOP claims LGBT are too powerful for equal rights

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          <description><![CDATA[ For nearly two years, House Republicans paid conservative super lawyer Paul Clement $520 an hour to defend the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act in federal court — and then sent the bill to the American taxpayer. In total Clement has now cost the American people up to $3 million for his efforts on]]></description> 
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      	  <title> What happened to the Violence Against Women Act?

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          <description><![CDATA[ Democrats and Republicans in Congress are having a hard time agreeing on anything these days. But there are some things that should never fall victim to partisan bickering. One of these is protecting women against domestic violence and sexual assault.
But for Republicans in Congress, apparently, it]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2265/what-happened-to-the-violence-against-women-act]]></link> 
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      	  <title> GOP leader blames gun violence on ‘welfare moms’

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          <description><![CDATA[ Rep. James Lankford (R-OK), the fifth-ranking House Republican, laid the blame for gun violence at the feet of an unusual suspect: the children of “welfare moms” who commit fraud.
In a meeting with constituents earlier this month in Oklahoma City, a woman asked the GOP congressman what he was doing]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2264/gop-leader-blames-gun-violence-on-welfare-moms]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Social paranoia feeds U.S. gun culture

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          <description><![CDATA[ The gun has an indelible presence in Am&#233;rica’s popular consciousness. The myth-making entertainment industry has embellished and magnified the gun’s prominent role in the narrative of the nation’s founding and rapid expansion across the continent over Indian lands and trackless wilds.
But reverence]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2261/social-paranoia-feeds-u-s-gun-culture]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Join President Obama in a National Day of Service
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          <description><![CDATA[ On January 21, 2013, our nation will celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (MLK Day), a national holiday during which we honor the legacy of the civil rights leader Dr. King through a day of service and volunteering. 
This year, MLK Day commemorations will coincide with the Presidential]]></description> 
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      	  <title> VAWA’s background: A historic victory

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          <description><![CDATA[ Passed in 1994 VAWA was intended to improve the criminal justice system by strengthening federal penalties for domestic violence offenders, training for officers and prosecutors, and services for victims. 
VAWA came to life in 1994 when then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) introduced the bill. It passed]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Senate reauthorizes warrantless wiretapping 
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          <description><![CDATA[ The Senate last week reauthorized the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, an unconstitutional spying bill that violates the Fourth Amendment and gives vast, unchecked surveillance authority to the government. The FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization Act (H.R. 5949), passed on a 73-23 vote, authorizes the]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2240/senate-reauthorizes-warrantless-wiretapping]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Elected officials speak out on assault weapons
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          <description><![CDATA[ 
Editor’s Note: Last week, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) announced plans to introduce a new, improved Assault Weapons Ban with Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (NY) when Congress returns in January. Perlmutter has been a champion of the AWB since he was a state senator in Colorado.  Following the tragic]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Latino workers on front line of Sandy recovery efforts

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          <description><![CDATA[ The first wave of destruction unleashed by Super-Storm Sandy overwhelmed our senses with the fury of its wind and the rage of its surging waters.
The second one, though, is a quiet yet potentially lethal menace: Sandy covered the devastated landscapes of the New York and New Jersey coastline with]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2232/latino-workers-on-front-line-of-sandy-recovery-efforts]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Padilla: U.S. Courts have denied recourse
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          <description><![CDATA[ The American Civil Liberties Union and Yale Law School’s Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic today filed a petition against the United States with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR) for the unlawful detention and torture of Jos&#233; Padilla, a U.S. citizen, whom the United]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2228/padilla-u-s-courts-have-denied-recourse]]></link> 
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      	  <title> US commitment to work closely with M&amp;#233;xico
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          <description><![CDATA[ Vice President Biden met with President Enrique Pe&#241;a Nieto of M&#233;xico while in Mexico City to attend his inauguration on December 1st.  The Vice President congratulated President Pe&#241;a Nieto on his election victory and inauguration and underscored the U.S. commitment to continue working closely with]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Will the Supreme Court dismantle Voting Rights Act?

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          <description><![CDATA[ Well, that didn't take long. Just three days after a diverse coalition of voters re-elected President Barack Obama, the Supreme Court announced that it's going to review the Voting Rights Act. The justices will look at Section 5 of the landmark legislation, which requires states with a history of]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Congress asks Feds to back down on marijuana prosecution

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          <description><![CDATA[ In light of the marijuana legalization measures passed in Colorado and Washington, 18 members of Congress are asking the Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration not to take enforcement action against any individual complying with state law, while two others introduced a]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Latinos put pressure on President and Democrats

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          <description><![CDATA[ Clearly, we Latinos love President Barack Obama. He garnered nearly three-fourths of our vote. In battleground states like Nevada, Florida, and Colorado, we helped catapult the incumbent president to victory.
Unlike African Americans, Latinos didn't always back Democrats by this kind of margin. In]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2204/latinos-put-pressure-on-president-and-democrats]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Next four years: focus on poverty, strengthen civil rights

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          <description><![CDATA[ President Obama was a good and a bad prognosticator about his future in 2009. In the first two weeks after he was sworn in for his first term, he told an NBC interviewer that if he didn’t deliver he’d be “a one term proposition.”
Obama knew better than anyone else that as the first African American]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Latino voters made the difference in election
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          <description><![CDATA[ For more than a year, the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) and others have said that the Hispanic vote would be the one to watch in the 2012 election. This was resoundingly confirmed by the results of last week’s election. With significant Latino presence in states such as Florida, Virginia,]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2195/latino-voters-made-the-difference-in-election]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Latinas played powerful role in 2012 elections

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          <description><![CDATA[ Latinas and other women of color played an historic role in last night’s election, helping President Obama secure key wins in swing states like Ohio, Virginia, Nevada and Colorado. While media analysts are noting the significant women’s vote, in fact Latina and women of color voters provided the]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2193/latinas-played-powerful-role-in-2012-elections]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Invest in education

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          <description><![CDATA[ Students and children scored major victories throughout the United States today, as voters took to the polls and made their point: it’s time to focus on what’s important here at home. In addition to reelecting President Obama, voters elected friends of education to every level of government and]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Does your e-vote now belong to the Romney family?

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          <description><![CDATA[ Through a closely held equity fund called Solamere, Mitt Romney and his wife, son and brother now have a direct investment stake in the electronic voting machines that may decide the November election.
The Romneys are major investors in an investment firm called H.I.G. Capital. H.I.G. in turn holds]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Remembering my friend Russell Means

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I wish I was there to talk with you in person and share with you the sorrow that I feel with the passing of Russell Means, my brother, my friend, and inspiration on many levels. Russell Means will always be an icon whenever the American Indian Movement is spoken of and whenever people talk about]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Romney campaign says Latinos ‘not well informed’
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          <description><![CDATA[ In an interview with Spanish news agency EFE this week, Otto Reich, a Mitt Romney campaign surrogate for Latin Am&#233;rica, attributed Romney’s low level of support among Latino voters to his belief that Latino voters "are not well informed." Reich further lamented that "We're not communicating (with]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Romney told 31 myths in 41 minutes

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          <description><![CDATA[ During the first presidential debate in Denver, Colorado Romney managed to tell 27 myths in his 38 minutes of speaking time. But at his second encounter with Obama in New York, the GOP presidential candidate — who has run a post-truth campaign from day one — outdid himself and crammed 31 myths in 41]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2166/romney-told-31-myths-in-41-minutes]]></link> 
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      	  <title> The problem with Craig Romney and his Padre

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          <description><![CDATA[ Mitt Romney's son, Craig, has become known as Mitt's ambassador to Latino voters. He stars in Spanish-language TV and radio ads for his father. He spoke directly to Latinos in Spanish at the Republican National Convention. He talks to Hispanic groups nationwide.
And what qualifies Craig Romney to]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Five practical reasons not to vote Republican 
 
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          <description><![CDATA[ There is no shortage of reasons not to vote Republican. The litany includes tax cuts for the rich, cutbacks in government programs, obstructing needed legislation, disregard for the environment, denial of women's and other human rights, military escalation.
But the following five reasons have to do]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Debate: Losing pizzazz or showing poise

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          <description><![CDATA[ During last Wednesday night’s debate, both Presidential candidates walked in with confidence, ready for the win; but both left without championship belts. Has Obama lost his pizzazz or was he demonstrating poise in the face of an unyielding attack? The articulate orator stepped into the ring with a]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Non-existent problem of "non-citizen" voter fraud
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          <description><![CDATA[ A wave of restrictive voting laws is sweeping the nation. The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law counts “at least 180 restrictive bills introduced since the beginning of 2011 in 41 states.” Bills requiring voters “to show photo identification in order to vote” were]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Chimney Rock becomes Colorado national monument 

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          <description><![CDATA[ President Obama designated spectacular Chimney Rock in southwest Colorado, last week, as our nation’s newest national monument, an historic step honoring a place rich in beauty, history and Native American culture.
With the strong support of the people of Colorado, from the congressional delegation]]></description> 
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      	  <title> President to establish Ch&amp;#225;vez National Monument
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          <description><![CDATA[ On October 8th, 2012, President Obama will travel to Keene, California to announce the establishment of the C&#233;sar E. Ch&#225;vez National Monument. Years in the making, the monument – which will be designated under the Antiquities Act – will be established on the property known as Nuestra Se&#241;ora Reina de]]></description> 
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      	  <title> A memo to Mitt and Ann: Helpful campaign tips

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          <description><![CDATA[ By now, Mitt Romney has offended just about every American group, except billionaires, morons, and robots. To stand a chance on Election Day, he must get his act together right now.
Pundits and experts can argue over whether Mitt's problem is biological, moral, or electrical. I think he just needs]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Democrats concerned about voter-suppression laws

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          <description><![CDATA[ With less than a month left before the election, Democrats who attended the Democratic National Convention (DNC) said that time is short to address voter suppression laws in critical states, acknowledging that it could hurt President Obama’s voter turnout in November.
“It’s going to be a big impact]]></description> 
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      	  <title> ‘It was a little bit of disrespect for us’
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          <description><![CDATA[ A BuzzFeed interview with Univisi&#243;n’s Maria Elena Salinas reveals the true story behind the boisterous audience at last week’s forum with Mitt Romney, and the far more reserved audience that welcomed President Obama.
Although both candidates had committed to a students-only audience during the]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Romney's losing bid to win the Latino vote

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          <description><![CDATA[ When I watched Mitt Romney on a candidates forum on Univision, the country's largest Spanish-language TV network, something about him looked different. He actually looked browner. At first I figured it was my imagination, but soon everyone from Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart to the]]></description> 
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      	  <title> The one percent Supreme Court 

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          <description><![CDATA[ Whether you're a Democrat, Republican, tea-partier, liberal, conservative, or in-between, you're experiencing an election season unlike any in U.S. history. That's because the rules on political spending have changed in a billion dollar way.
In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in the now-infamous]]></description> 
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      	  <title> An Obama Supreme Court vs Romney high court

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          <description><![CDATA[ The most important legal development in the last decade is the Republican Party’s wholesale abandonment of judicial restraint. Less than a decade ago, President George W. Bush campaigned against “activist judges” who seize the power to “issue new laws from the bench.” And Bush’s Supreme Court]]></description> 
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      	  <title> The latest battle in the war on voting

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          <description><![CDATA[ The Republican Party claims to be the party of small government — with the obvious exceptions of denying marriage equality and reproductive rights. But there's another kind of big government that the party has overwhelmingly and enthusiastically gotten behind: expensive and intrusive attempts to]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2136/the-latest-battle-in-the-war-on-voting]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Romney&amp;#38;Ryan plan: Losing Latino votes 
 
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          <description><![CDATA[ Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's running mate, received a rapturous welcome at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. The audience cheered as he assailed President Barack Obama's record. Ryan seemed boisterous and full of energy. He could almost pass for one of Romney's sons.
As a Latino voter, I was]]></description> 
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      	  <title> ‘Keep moving this great country forward’

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Over the past few years as First Lady, I have had the extraordinary privilege of traveling all across this country.
And everywhere I’ve gone, in the people I’ve met, and the stories I’ve heard, I have seen the very best of the American spirit.
I have seen it in the incredible kindness and warmth]]></description> 
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      	  <title> ‘It begins with re-electing Barack Obama’

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          <description><![CDATA[ Editor’s Note: The following is a speech by Juli&#225;n Castro, Mayor of San Antonio, Texas, at the Democratic National Convention on Sept. 4.
My fellow Democrats, my fellow Texans, my fellow Americans: I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold]]></description> 
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      	  <title> ‘Now we have to vote for the American dream’

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          <description><![CDATA[ Editor’s Note: The following is a speech by Charles Gonzalez, Member of the US House of Representatives, Texas, Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, September 4.
I'm proud to speak to you tonight as the Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2117/now-we-have-to-vote-for-the-american-dream]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Time to get a grip, Am&amp;#233;rica
 
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          <description><![CDATA[ Why do so many Americans feel disengaged, disillusioned, and disgusted with politics? Why is U.S. voter turn-out, on average, only a dismal 40%? Why do we feel like no matter how we vote, our values will not be reflected in Washington?
Because it’s true.
I happen to believe that Barack Obama]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2114/time-to-get-a-grip-am-amp-233-rica]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Romney's El Salvador death squad ties

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          <description><![CDATA[ On two occasions during El Salvador’s terrible war years, I had an inkling of being in front of an unusual experience. One was visiting El Salvador’s Cathedral, where Archbishop Oscar Romero officiated mass. He had been assassinated by one of the country’s death squads. I could almost feel, although]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Mi Viejito, my old dear friend

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          <description><![CDATA[ Editor’s Note: As part of a multimedia series called "Arriving and Becoming: The Silicon Valley Story as Told by Immigrant Elders", San Jose Spoken Word Artist, Yosimar Reyes writes about his grandfather in this piece "Mi Viejito" teaming up with Jean Melesaine with visuals of his words; the video]]></description> 
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      	  <title> True motivations behind Romney Spanish ad

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          <description><![CDATA[ Editor’s Note: On August 7th, a conservative group released a new Spanish-language ad targeting Latinos in Nevada and blasting President Obama as “Deporter-in-Chief” in reference to the President’s immigration enforcement record.  The group behind the ad, Nevada Hispanics, is associated with the]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Does Romney support suing President Obama?

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          <description><![CDATA[ Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is preparing to sue President Obama to stop his DREAMer relief policy.
If you don’t know him, King is one of the noisiest anti-immigrant characters in Congress.  But in the GOP, his policy views are standard fare -- all the way up to their nominee for President, Mitt]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Potential Latino voters are energized by recent events

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          <description><![CDATA[ With only three months until the presidential election, Latino voters are center stage in the political debate. Latinos already comprise at least 5 percent of the adult citizen population in almost half of all states and more than 10 percent in 11 states. Moreover, they are a key part of the]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Voter ID law battles brewing in battleground states

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          <description><![CDATA[ Election 2012 is not for another three months, but already, an existential struggle over state voter ID laws is brewing—one that could help decide who wins the White House and determine who is allowed to participate in American politics.
On one side stands groups like Mi Familia Vota and Voto]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2085/voter-id-law-battles-brewing-in-battleground-states]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Holmes: Too many unanswered questions

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          <description><![CDATA[ James Eagan Holmes was no joker, he was playing for real. Philosophers and social scientists have debated and contemplated for centuries about what drives a man to expeditiously change his character, transforming him from a gentle spirit with some semblance of rationality to a maniac or a savage]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2078/holmes-too-many-unanswered-questions]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Aurora: Country is thinking of you
President Barack Obama 


 
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          <description><![CDATA[ Good afternoon, everybody.  I want to begin by just thanking all the state, local, and federal officials who have responded magnificently to this tragedy.  
Governor Hickenlooper, who has already been dealing with a range of natural disasters here in the state, has been an extraordinary example of]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Uninsured victim may face $2 million in medical bills

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          <description><![CDATA[ Caleb Medley was shot in the eye in the Aurora movie theater shooting and remains in the intensive care unit in an induced coma. Medley sustained the terrible injuries only days before his wife Katie was due to give birth to a baby boy they plan to name Hugo. She now joins him in the same hospital —]]></description> 
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      	  <title> The cowardly lions of 'free speech'

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          <description><![CDATA[ In all the hullabaloo over the Supreme Court’s decision on health care, another of its rulings quickly fell off the public radar. Before deciding the fate of the Affordable Care Act, the Court announced it would not reconsider Citizens United, the odious 5-4 decision two years ago that opened our]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Still time for summer jobs

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          <description><![CDATA[ Earlier this week, I had the chance to attend the opening of a new smoothie shop in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, DC and meet a number of young people hired by Jamba Juice as part of our Summer Jobs+ initiative.
Seeing the shift manager Korie and the rest of her crew working hard]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Debunking the individual mandate ‘tax’
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          <description><![CDATA[ Having lost their Supreme Court fight against the Affordable Care Act, opponents of health care reform have in recent days been attacking the individual mandate provision of the law as a “tax” on the middle class. This line of reasoning only makes sense if you think penalties for littering,]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Dear M&amp;#233;xico, I apologize…

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          <description><![CDATA[ Dear Mexico, 
I apologize. There are so many things I could apologize for, from the way the US biotech corporation Monsanto has contaminated your corn to the way Arizona and Alabama are persecuting your citizens, but right now I’d like to apologize for the drug war, the 10,000 waking nightmares]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Alabama’s repressive laws sets back civil rights gains</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Last week’s 47th commemoration of the Bloody Sunday March of 1965 marks a new phase in the civil rights movement. It represents a turning point for people from all backgrounds, who are joining together, not only to remember our shared past, but also to fight for a shared future. It’s a moment of]]></description> 
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