Category: Community Stories
Mexico’s poet, Javier Sicilia, calls for unity to help combat Mexico’s violence
by Deysi Cuevas Extra News CHICAGO — Since 2006, when Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderon, began a crackdown on drug cartels, over 34,600 people have been killed. On Tuesday, April 17, poet, novelist, journalist and activist Javier Sicilia spoke at the National Museum of Mexican Art regarding Mexico’s national emergency and the importance of mobilizing and [...]
Congressmen: Send surplus defense equipment to U.S.-Mexico border
By Raul de la Cruz Rio Grande Guardian McALLEN, TX – A request has been made to U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta that he sends surplus equipment returning from Iraq and Afghanistan to the Southern border with Mexico. The request comes from U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar and Ted Poe, along with 17 border sheriffs [...]
Medical Tourists Can Speed Through U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing
By Jude Joffe-Block Fronteras Desk MEXICALI, MX – The Mexican border town of Mexicali is making a push for more tourists from the American Southwest to visit that city’s dentists, surgeons and doctors. Starting April 30, medical tourists from the U.S. with the right documents will be able to skip much of the wait on [...]
Students Create One of the World’s Largest Domino Portraits in Honor of Cesar Chavez
La Prensa San Diego To be Presented to Chicano Park for Their Forty Second Anniversary SAN DIEGO — Cesar Chavez once remarked that, “Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?” – A very ambitious group [...]
California Act that would allow (undocumented) farm and labor workers to work lawfully moves ahead
By Dennise Rocha Bilingual Weekly SACRAMENTO, CA — AB 1544, the California Agricultural Jobs and Industry Stabilization Act of 2012 that would allow undocumented farm and service-sector workers to stay in California lawfully, was approved on Wednesday, April 18, in the California Assembly Committee on Labor and is now ready to move to the next [...]
Hundreds gathered outside Supreme Court for colorful, civil, SB 1070 protests
By VICTORIA PELHAM Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Pedro Lopez drove more than 41 hours from Phoenix to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he took part in a 48-hour prayer vigil this week asking God to strike down Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law. The 19-year-old was one of hundreds of singing, chanting – but mostly [...]
The struggle for ethnic parity in U.S. media started with the American Revolution
By Kristian Hernandez Borderzine EL PASO — A modern day champion for a free press, fighting to maintain and safeguard the lessons learned and taught by persons of color in the history of American journalism made his way south to this border city. Latino author and journalist Joseph Torres stood before students at the University [...]
Arte Público Press, Houston Public Library Celebrate El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
The Venture HOUSTON — April celebrates spring, books and children. The University of Houston’s Arte Público Press (APP) and the Houston Public Library, celebrated the 16th anniversary of El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros (Children’s Day/Book Day) with a day of storytelling, crafts, music and food. “Día at Discovery – A Sweet [...]
Viva La Familia! An update on one family separated by U.S. immigration policies
By Jeresia Noris La Voz Latina Editor’s Note: This update is provided by Richmond Hill resident Jeresia Noris on the immigration status of her husband, Jose Luis Noris, a Mexican-national who has faced the threat of deportation since September of 2010. In previous updates, Jeresia explains how her husband was first placed under an Order [...]
Tulsa, a xenophobic city?
Editorial Hispano de Tulsa Perhaps in the eyes of the world, xenophobic city is the appropriate term for Tulsa. Far, far behind is the title of “oil capital of the world,” and in danger is the absurd banner as the heart of the nation’s Bible belt.
