By María Gabriela Córdova InfoSur Hoy About 150,000 children from throughout Panama have taken part in the Neighborhood World Cup soccer tournament since 2001. PANAMA CITY, Panama – Héctor Brands is using an unorthodox method to fight violence: soccer. Brands, the founder and director of the NGO Movimiento Nueva Generación (Movement for New Generation), has [...]
New Latina’s Bible: Getting Un-stuck
By Sandra Guzman The New Latina’s Bible Which of these are you, today: Someone who is making things happen. Someone who is watching things happen. Or someone who is wondering WTF is happening? The world is waiting for your big idea to be born. From thought to action there is an ocean to journey and [...]
Children’s Book Diversity: News Highlights
CBC Diversity March 7th – March 14th, 2013 ON OUR RADAR HarperCollins and Lee & Low create winning proposals for First Book’s Stories for All Project The Diversity in YA Tumblr, managed by YA authors Cindy Pon and Malinda Lo, is back! On Goodreads: Best YA Books with Non-White Protagonist Lovely interview with Grace Lin [...]
Guest Voz: Making the case for Texas Latinos to not endure second-hand smoke
By Juan Flores LatinaLista Every day, thousands of Texans’ lives are put in danger as a result of second-hand smoke exposure in the workplace. Texas Latinos, which constitute 41 percent of the state’s population, and 35 percent of the labor force, often work in the food industry where only one third of workers are protected [...]
US Chamber of Commerce pushes for passage of immigration reform with new website
LatinaLista — If members of Congress didn’t feel the pressure of compromising on immigration reform before, most surely they do now with the launch of the latest immigration reform advocacy push — this time, by the US Chamber of Commerce. “As the process moves forward and draft legislative proposals are introduced, we will continue to [...]
How Twitter, social media impacts Mexico’s drug war
Sara Inés Calderón Más Wired Austin, Texas — Twitter, but increasingly Facebook and YouTube, are becoming essential elements to the way ordinary people in Mexico protect themselves from the war on drugs, according to experts sitting on a panel at South By Southwest Interactive called, “Life on the Line: Tweeting the Drug War.” Panelists included [...]