Archive for February, 2012
Marco Rubio’s continued opposition to DREAM Act fuels steam into new national movement
LatinaLista — If the rumors circulating on Capitol Hill are true, the GOP thinks they have an Ace up their sleeves on how to at least split the Latino vote in the November presidential election. Now that Mitt Romney has won both Arizona and Michigan, no matter how marginally, talk is that he’s pretty much [...]
New site creates one-stop resource to help Latinos advance both professionally and academically
LatinaLista — When it comes to finding out about scholarships, job openings, professional development opportunities, etc., there’s been many places online with these kinds of information — if you knew where to look. The problem is that, until now, there has been no single online destination where all this information was housed. Yet, two companies [...]
Congressman Gutierrez illustrates how Mitt Romney is out of touch with Latino issues
LatinaLista — Sadly, some of the GOP presidential candidates are still trying to show the extent of their conservatism to their political base by going on record saying anything — even when it insults a demographic that will someday soon be in the majority. Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have each conveyed their willingness to [...]
Guatemalan Government Launches Femicide Unit
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista GUATEMALA — When you open a newspaper in Guatemala you are invariably greeted by a series of numbers: • How many people were killed the previous day, • How many people have been arrested in conjunction with the crime. The answers are typically: high and zero. During the past decade, the [...]
In the news: New books by Sáenz and Aira, plus Cisneros, García Márquez
By Jessia DeLeon The Hispanic Reader New releases: • Coming out this week (Feb. 19-24): the young adult novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, about the friendship between two teenage boys, and Varamo by César Aira, about the making of an epic poem by a Panamanian bureaucrat. Latino [...]
Intrnl Video: Chilean student protester delivers political testimony with chart-climbing album
Last year’s massive student protests in Chile attracted world attention when students took to the streets causing work stoppages and the government to listen to the demands to provide equal access to a free education. One protester, Ana Tijoux, a young Chilean woman, took copious notes of her local revolution and began writing songs about [...]
Napolitano: It is Unfortunate Families Are Being Separated
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian SAN JUAN, TX — The head of homeland security in the United States says it is “unfortunate” that immigrants who have not committed a criminal act get separated from their families by ICE and Border Patrol. However, Janet Napolitano did not give any assurances that things would change when [...]
Latina Cubicle Confidential™ — Mentors and Sponsors At Work — You Need Both
By Dr. Maria G. Hernandez Latina Cubicle Confidential™ It should come as no surprise that successful people have mentors — someone who takes time to help you navigate your workplace and the career decisions that impact your future success. Some large corporations are even making the effort to formally provide mentors for new employees or [...]
PBS & AOL launch new site showcasing accomplished women
LatinaLista — In 2013, PBS will broadcast a 3-hour documentary about the Women’s Movement and its impact over the last half century. Yet, in a move that is new for PBS, the public television network isn’t waiting for the film’s debut to release a web site — it’s doing it now but in a very [...]
New report says student success depends on scrapping high school as society knows it
LatinaLista — Forget about it taking a village to raise a child, according to a new report, It takes a whole society opening up the learning landscape in the high school years, to educate a child — and the first step is a major overhaul of high school. The new report, released by the Nellie [...]
