LatinaLista — Between coffee and tea, I really do like my coffee. So when I heard over the weekend about a new political movement called The Coffee Party, it caught my attention. When I heard the founder of the new movement, Annabelle Park, being interviewed on CNN, it piqued my interest further. And when I [...]
Latinos and blacks should be offended and angry over TX State Board of Education’s decision to dismiss minority contributions from school textbooks
LatinaLista — Democracy is a dying U.S. ideal — thanks to the Texas State Board of Education (TSBE). In a vote of 10-5, the board, dominated by social conservatives, preliminarily adopted a new Social Studies and history curriculum that includes replacing the word “democratic” in referring to the form of U.S. government and opting instead [...]
Waiting for bipartisan support before introducing immigration reform doesn’t sound too optimistic
LatinaLista — Politico is reporting that Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s architect on the latest Senate version of immigration reform, is feeling “optimistic” about producing immigration legislation this year. He and his congressional colleague, Sen. Lindsey Graham, are scheduled to meet with the President tomorrow after a series of scheduled meetings had been cancelled. Advocates [...]
Texas 2010 Republican Primary Election: Prejudice at the polls
LatinaLista –Incumbent Texas Railroad Commissioner Victor Carrillo should have won his bid this week for re-election, but he didn’t. In fact, he was soundly beaten — 61%-39%. Who was his opponent? A man by the name of Porter. According to Carrillo, that says it all. Though Carrillo spent $600,000 on his re-election campaign to Porter’s [...]
New report underscores the rise of a new national pastime — immigrant bashing!
LatinaLista — In 2008, it seemed an odd coincidence that there should be two murders, later deemed hate crimes, of Latino immigrants so close together. In July 2008, Luis Ramirez was beaten to death in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. Eventually six people were indicted for his death — four of them police officers. Four months later in [...]
President’s health summit illustrates the disconnect some in Congress have with the poor
LatinaLista — For some reason, the United Kingdom newspaper, the Guardian, is running a two-day poll on their online site asking their readers to vote on who gave the “best performance” in President Obama’s healthcare summit today. So far, Democrats are outpacing Republicans. Last I checked, and the poll counts the results every 60 seconds, [...]
