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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.... |
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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.... |
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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.... |
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Mexicans in U.S. fear violent México
Poverty and joblessness aren’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 “war on drugs” launched by President Felipe Calderón.
Of th.... |
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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.... |
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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.... |
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Minority businesses locked out of stimulus loans
Loans handed out to struggling small businesses as part of President Barack Obama’s stimulus package have largely shut out minority businesses -- especially those owned by Blacks and Latinos -- according to data provided by the federal government’s Small Business Administration (SBA) to New Am.... |
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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.... |
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Adios, Lou Dobbs -- Sí 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.... |
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Over 100 Democrats push Obama on immigration reform
Is immigration reform back?
Hoping to jump-start a major legislative drive on immigration reform in the U.S. Congress, more than 100 pro-reform House Democrats signed a letter reminding President Obama of his administration's commitment to overhaul immigration.
The letter was clearly meant to nu.... |
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Mexicans don’t have an ‘illegal immigration hormone’
The book, Into the Beautiful North is an immigration story with a difference. Nayeli leaves her village in México and crosses the border illegally into the United States. But she’s not coming here for work as a house cleaner or in a poultry factory. All the men have left her home town one by on.... |
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Serpent and the Sun premiers in Denver
Over 500 years ago the great Aztec empire ruled all of México City and beyond. Could it be possible that the descendents of the Aztecs are still alive today and continuing their ancestral traditions? What if their story could be told through one of their last great medicine men?
Elizabeth Romero.... |
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Wilma Mankiller: First woman Cherokee Chief
“The watershed event in my life was when native students occupied Alcatraz in November 1969,” recalled Wilma Mankiller, who went on to become the first woman chief principal of the Cherokee Nation.
Mankiller, 63, looks back 40 years later on how events and mentors -- including such luminaries .... |
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Unprocessed Files
As Mexicans debate last week's Supreme Court ruling vacating the conviction of 20 men for the Acteal massacre, newly declassified documents from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) describe the army's role in backing paramilitary groups in Chiapas at the time of the killings. The secret cab.... |
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Latinos across nation demand CNN drop Dobbs
Citing his links to extremist groups and his ongoing promotion of dangerous anti-Latino and anti-immigrant rhetoric, organizations from the 25 U.S. cities with the largest Latino populations this week joined forces to mount a national technology-driven campaign to demand that CNN drop Lou Dobbs fr.... |
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