El Semanario - Periodico para Hispanos en Denver y Colorado - Bilingual Latino newspaper:From the Editor

We are always searching for new ways to inform our communities on how to get involved and to understand what we are up against. It appears there will always be unjust action in our world, but never a lack of determined humanitarians to guide our moral compass towards justice and equality for all

Time, faith, unity will eventually get us there

It has been one year since President Obama was officially inaugurated as President of our country. The nation’s people had elected a man who offered solutions to our troubled nation.

It has been a long time since people were drawn together for a common cause in changing a hopeless

What do we do now?

Growing up in the 60s and 70s, and through my parents’ activism, I was exposed to the actions of the various civil rights movements – understanding them to a point, but I was still quite young and didn’t fully understand the depth of the human crisis.

Finally as an adult, I thought I had a