El Semanario - Periodico para Hispanos en Denver y Colorado

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	UFW challenges US citizens to take farm jobs With the majority of U.S. farm workers undocumented, the United Farm Workers UFW) is launching a national campaign challenging U.S. citizens and legal residents to replace immigrant field laborers. To survive, the agricultural industry would need at least half a million citizens or legal residents....

	The Mothers of May: The Difficult Democratization of the Genocidal State in Brazil "My son's name was Edison and he was 29 years old. He was killed on the streets. He just went home for some medicine and to put gas in his motorcycle. We lived in Baixada Santista, a working-class neighborhood in Sao Paulo. On May 15, the police followed him and killed him, 500 yards from the gas ....

	Pregnant and Shackled: Hard Labor for Arizona's Immigrants Miriam Mendiola-MartÃnez, an undocumented immigrant charged with using someone elseâ€™s identity to work, gave birth to a boy on Dec. 21, 2009 at Maricopa Medical Center in Arizona. After her C-section, she was shackled for two days to her hospital bed. She was not allowed to nurse her baby. And ....

	Seven years later, SuÃ¡rez family soldiers on Itâ€™s been seven years since Fernando SuÃ¡rez del Solar buried his son, JesÃºs. Seven years since March 27, 2003, when just one week into the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Lance Corporal JesÃºs SuÃ¡rez del Solar stepped on a piece of unexploded ordnance and came home in a flag-draped coffin. When he die....

Friends expand on legacy of Jaime Escalante The family of famed teacher Jaime Escalante, 79, announced that he passed away on March 30 at 2:27 pm. The cause of death was coronary and respiratory failure, precipitated by cancer. A native of La Paz, Bolivia, and the son of two elementary-school teachers, Escalante came to AmÃ©rica in 1963 at ....

Denver hosts 9th annual CÃ©sar ChÃ¡vez celebration The CÃ©sar ChÃ¡vez Peace and Justice Committee began a tradition honoring the late leader in 2002. On Saturday, March 27, the ChÃ¡vez commemoration will begin with a 10am Mass at St. Josephâ€™s Church (6th Ave. & Galapago). Immediately following the mass, a march will proceed to El Centro Su Teat....

Why undocumented student is walking Trail of Dreams Four students who were brought to the United States by their families when they were young and are still undocumented are walking 1,500 miles from their homes in Miami, Fla. to Washington, D.C., to ask for immigration reform. Carlos Roa, 22, is one of the five Trail of Dreams walkers who are calli....

Latinos gearing up for new election cycle With significant issues such as the Census, immigration reform, and the state's economic recovery at stake, Latino voters will once again be a key demographic in the 2010 election cycle. Latino civic engagement organizations -- Mi Familia Vota, Latina Initiative, Democracia USA and Reform Immigra....

Counting migrants on farms a challenge to census Although fear of deportation within migrant worker communities played a role in past census undercounts and will certainly be a big factor again in 2010, farm worker advocates say their primary concern is that migrant workers may never even get an opportunity to fill out the census form. Officials....

Mexicans in U.S. fear violent MÃ©xico Poverty and joblessness arenâ€™t the only factors keeping Mexican immigrants in the United States from returning to their home country. Now they have another reason -- panic over the high levels of violence, a result of the so-called â€œwar on drugsâ€ launched by President Felipe CalderÃ³n. Of th....

Report shows mistreatment of range workers Throughout much of rural western Colorado, a virtually unknown and recognized workforce toils alone in extreme cold or heat, making approximately $2 per hour. These workers are migrants, legally employed by Colorado ranchers to herd their livestock. A report released last week found that more than....

93 days, 99,000 miles around the world for peace An unprecedented attempt to bring global peace began with an international team of marchers who set off from Wellington, New Zealand on October 2nd beginning the World March for Peace and Nonviolence -- a three-month worldwide march involving more than one million participants. Their goal is to c....

Minority businesses locked out of stimulus loans Loans handed out to struggling small businesses as part of President Barack Obamaâ€™s stimulus package have largely shut out minority businesses -- especially those owned by Blacks and Latinos -- according to data provided by the federal governmentâ€™s Small Business Administration (SBA) to New Am....

Church conceals revered Guadalupe vision At this time of year, many of us celebrate the feast day of our Lady of Guadalupe and remember the first time we saw the mural of the patron saint painted on the wall behind the altar at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in North Denver. Today however, the mural painted over thirty years ago by Carlota....

Adios, Lou Dobbs -- SÃ se pudo Presente.org is a relatively new organization, yet it played a prominent role in the campaign against Lou Dobbs. What can you tells us about Presente's origins and purpose? Presente.org is born of the need to help the Latino community use media and technology to advance its agenda, and to build i....