LatinaLista In areas across the country, a lot of people are looking forward to the month of March. Not because it heralds the arrival of Spring (March 20, 2010) but because they’ve been told that is when Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) will be introduced in Congress. The issue is mobilizing not just Latinos but like-minded [...]
North Carolina bilingual school secretary loses job for translating for Spanish-speaking parents
LatinaLista — One of the horror stories often told by Latino civil rights pioneers has always been the tale of how they were punished for speaking Spanish at school. Rightly or wrongly, it has become the standard for which to measure against how grossly violated a Latino’s civil rights are. Thankfully, since those days, schools [...]
New study on Latino voters shows the key to reaching many Latinos lies in the language of engagement
LatinaLista — If one thing is clear from a new report released today by America’s Voice entitled The Power of the Latino Vote in America: They Tipped Elections in 2008; Where Will They Be in 2010? it’s that no political party should underestimate the power of the Latino vote. According to the study, from 2000 [...]
Latina Lista partners with Voto Latino and iTunes to promote 2010 Census
LatinaLista — Filling out the U.S. Census is important. It’s a message that the US Census Bureau has been trying to get across since the news that certain religious Latino leaders were preaching against filling out the US Census to mostly their undocumented parishioners. At first, the reason given for the Census boycott was to [...]
Message to Democrats: Don’t obligate Latinos to feel grateful for just doing your job
LatinaLista — A lot has been written this week on this site and others about how Latinos have become disillusioned with the Democratic Party. It’s gotten to the point that the old strategies of engagement just aren’t working. In yesterday’s post, I laid out the guidelines, if you will, of how Democrats, and most importantly, [...]
How the Democratic Party can re-energize Latino voters
LatinaLista — Last week, I wrote a commentary about being left unimpressed, unmotivated and uninterested in setting up any neighborhood watch parties to watch the President’s State of the Union address. It’s not that I’m on the GOP bandwagon to derail Obama at any cost, it’s just that I’m not sure what the point is [...]
