Category: Social Justice
National voting rights campaign urges people to “Stand for Freedom”
LatinaLista — Saturday, December 10, is International Human Rights Day. While most of us think people in need of human rights live in Egypt, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc, it’s clear that the United States is not the first country that comes to mind. Yet, due to some new voting legislation that has passed various [...]
New kind of diner’s guide helps discriminated restaurant employees get a fair shake
LatinaLista — To say Latinos have a love affair with food would be an understatement. Food is enjoyed whether it’s in the family kitchen or out eating in restaurants. In fact, according to an article in FoodBusinessNews.net, the restaurant industry heavily depends on Latinos. According to Packaged Facts, without the influence of Hispanic spending and [...]
Delaware Recognized for Racial Justice Improvement Project Efforts
El Tiempo Hispano DELAWARE — The Delaware Courts, criminal justice agencies, and others were recog- nized for their leadership in efforts to implement racial and justice fairness initiatives during a conference sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Assis- tance (BJA) and the American Bar Association on October 21 – 22, 2011 in Washington, D.C. In [...]
Increase in hate crimes against Latinos is no random surge of violence
LatinaLista — Yesterday’s release by the FBI of their 2010 Hate Crime Statistics documenting how hate crimes against Latinos have jumped to 67 percent from 62 percent in 2009 underscores a simple fact — this is not a random surge of violence. If it was random, I think the numbers would be even higher and [...]
Misrepresenting the underrepresented
by Maria Ines Zamudio Extra News CHICAGO — After spending 12 days in an immigration detention center, Mario De la Rosa received welcomed news about his pending deportation case. Within three days of his release, Margaret Carrasco, who De la Rosa said introduced herself as an immigration attorney, went to the family’s house to talk [...]
New report shows sexual harassment takes its toll on Latino students
LatinaLista — A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll reveals that half of Republican primary voters don’t care about the charges of sexual harassment levied against GOP presidential nominee Herman Cain. It seems these adults are right in line with a new study on middle and high schoolers who don’t think sexual harassment is any [...]
Author Demetria Martínez to receive UCSB’s Luis Leal Literature Award
Amigos805.com SANTA BARBARA — Poet, novelist, and journalist Demetria Martínez is the recipient of UC Santa Barbara’s 2011 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature, the university reported in a media release. The award will be presented during a ceremony at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 27, in the campus’s Corwin Pavilion. The event [...]
New report shows low-income Latinos at-risk for poor quality of care at one-star hospitals
LatinaLista — When it comes to Latinos and healthcare coverage, there are just some indisputable facts that can’t be ignored: more Latinos are uninsured; too many Latinos are unemployed; and the healthcare coverage critical for low-income Latinos is Medicaid. These truths should already raise a red flag as to the quality of health among Latinos. [...]
Record Latino voter turnout in 2008 didn’t please everyone as new report shows increase in states change voting laws
LatinaLista — Record turnout among Latinos and youth during the 2008 presidential election was something that has been celebrated and talked about ever since it happened. Yet, the release of a new analysis by the Brennan Center of Justice at New York University School of Law, reveals that such a milestone in civic duty didn’t [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Protecting the rights of crime victims
LatinaLista — Being a crime victim can be the most helpless and lonely position a person can find themselves in. For the vast majority of crime victims, it is a new experience that creates a whole new range of emotions to be experienced and thrusts a person into a legal system most only know via [...]
