Category: Social Justice
Racial profiling proves to not be the strongest argument against AZ SB 1070 in the courts
LatinaLista — Today was the first day that a Phoenix judge, Judge Susan Bolton, heard the first of six lawsuits aimed at making the now infamous immigration bill SB1070 disappear. While it’s too early to say how Judge Bolton will rule, and she did concede that if she passed an injunction it would only block [...]
DREAM Act students journey to DC for inaugural class of DREAM University
LatinaLista — Washington DC is home to some of the country’s finest universities — Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, Howard — and it is also home to a new one christened DREAM University. DREAM University (DU) is for those students otherwise known as DREAM Act students — students either denied seeking a college degree or unable [...]
Spotlight Non-profit: Creating a home and a future for abandoned teens
LatinaLista — There were over 500,000 children in the foster care system in 2006, according to the most recent statistics. Forty-six percent of these children were in non-relative foster family homes. In 2006, 289,000 children exited the foster care system. While 53 percent of the children were reunited with family or a caregiver, 9 percent [...]
Guest Voz: The nation’s broken immigration system breaks the trust of immigrant women
LatinaLista — The horror stories of what happens to women who are illegally in the United States are the kinds of stories that evoke both sympathy and rebuke for the women. Sympathy for having to endure such torture and rebuke for putting themselves in the situation in the first place. Yet, as immigration attorney Kavitha [...]
Immigration issue lends itself to political posturing from all sides
LatinaLista — Altogether there are six legal challenges to Arizona’s SB 1070. A federal judge announced today that the hearing date for the federal government’s suit against Arizona will take place July 22 – seven days before SB1070 is to go into effect. Critics of the federal lawsuit pretty much agree on the same thing — [...]
Filmmaker resurrects 30-year-old film on Cesar Chavez
LatinaLista — The phrase “Si se puede” has been used so much in the last couple of years that it has become almost a cliche. Though most know the term originated with Cesar Chavez, most people have forgotten how or why — until now, thanks to a filmmaker named Rick Tejeda-Flores. In an e-mail to [...]
T-shirt company asks Brazil’s World Cup supporters to buy shirts benefitting Brazil’s street kids
LatinaLista — The 2010 FIFA World Cup Soccer matches are really starting to heat up as the quarterfinals begin. For fans that means going all-out to show their support. The most popular way for fans to support their teams is by wearing t-shirts sporting the team’s colors. Well, one clothing company is asking Brazilian supporters [...]
DC Latino leadership taking baby steps supporting immigration reform
LatinaLista — Finally, there’s some movement in DC regarding the immigration issue. I’m not talking about the President’s much anticipated speech, that word has it will contain nothing more than stressing accountability and clarifying what side of the wall he stands. Nor am I talking about any progress, or more like lack of it, in [...]
ACLU launches multimedia Arizona travel alert campaign
LatinaLista — Unfortunately, travel alerts have become all too common when it comes to traveling outside the United States. But inside the country? For immigrant and Latino travelers who just have to see the Grand Canyon or visit a spa in Sedona, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and 32 of its affiliates across the [...]
New poll shows majority of American public don’t want to see undocumented youth deported
LatinaLista — As much as the proponents of rounding up undocumented immigrants and sending them back across the border hate it, the majority of Americans have made it a point to publicly support one type of undocumented immigrant — the children. Newly released bipartisan poll about the DREAM Act. We have seen that whenever a [...]
