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LatinaLista — Statements of support for the continuation of the fight for passage of the DREAM Act continues to pour in from advocates, supporters and sympathizers. Today, the President met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. According to a press…
By Natalia A. Bonilla-Berrios LatinaLista SAN JUAN — Seven days after students from five of the eleven campuses of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) declared an official strike, the state police intervened. On Monday, Dec. 20,…
LatinaLista– The DREAM Act may be history for this year but reaction to its defeat in the Senate on Saturday is far from over. While some politicians were outwardly smug in their defeat of it, the level of anger…
LatinaLista — When news arrived last night in my inbox that Sen. Harry Reid scheduled a vote on the DREAM Act for Saturday morning, I knew I would be receiving more “Call your Congressman/woman” pleas. I did. But I…
LatinaLista — A vote for the DREAM Act is expected to come any day now and as each day passes with excitement building and more Republicans digging in their heels, there is a hint of a backlash surfacing against…
LatinaLista — After the Democrats in the Senate decided yesterday to vote no against a cloture vote on the DREAM Act, several news outlets erroneously reported that the bill was dead. It’s not. In fact, it was the smartest…
LatinaLista — Actually, if GOP senators continue to play mean politics tomorrow and prevent passage of the DREAM Act, they will frankly be seen as far worse than the green-skinned outcast who eventually found his heart. A blockage by…
LatinaLista — Minutes ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the DREAM Act garnered 216 votes in favor versus 198 votes against it in the House of Representatives. As the debate waged in the House, speakers on both sides…
LatinaLista — Today, I received sad news that a colleague, Carlos Guerra, had died. Carlos was a former columnist with the San Antonio Express-News and after he left the newspaper he did what most retired or laid-off journalists do…
LatinaLista — Violence against women has increased throughout Latin America and Mexico. A recent report cites Argentina as emerging as a major center of human trafficking, with about 700 women from various countries forced into sexual servitude over the…
LatinaLista– Norma Cruz believes women in her native Guatemala should not be used as punching bags or be targets of violence. Not everyone agrees with her. Because of her work with her organization Fundacion Sobrevivientes (Survivors’ Foundation), a women’s…
LatinaLista — In response to the many “concerns” Republican lawmakers have posed that they say prevents them from supporting the DREAM Act, Sen. Harry Reid presented yesterday a new version of the DREAM Act with the changes Republicans have…
LatinaLista — The official countdown to Christmas is underway! For some, or most, it’s the official countdown to holiday debt. But not all gifts have to cost money. Sometimes, it’s just the act of re-gifting that can prove more…
LatinaLista — Next year, it will be 30 years that the world has lived with AIDS. Discovered in 1981, the disease, that doesn’t discriminate but relies on people being lazy about protecting themselves, has claimed 30 million lives since…
By Jennifer Barreto-Leyva LatinaLista CARACAS — Venezuela is making history with the very first transgender candidate who has applied to be a member of the Supreme Court. Her name is Tamara Adrian, and she exemplifies what it means to…
By Ivan Marte President of the Center for the Defense of Civil Rights & Equality in Rhode Island In this past midterm election, I couldn´t help but notice that there was one platform element shared by many politicians,…
LatinaLista– November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. According to the Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women website, up to 70 percent of women will be abused in their lifetime….
LatinaLista — At one point or another, most people want to know they made a difference in the lives of others. For young people involved in a unique program called City Year, that knowledge comes early in life. Founded…
LatinaLista — In 2009, the organization Shared Hope released the report The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: America’s Prostituted Children. A year after that report, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and Congressman Chris Smith, co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus…
LatinaLista — Momentum to pass the DREAM Act is accelerating. Today, the White House issued a statement saying that President Obama had met with several representatives from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) and he supported the strategy of the…
LatinaLista — One of the most shameful chapters in modern American history occurred in a small Texas town by the name of Three Rivers. It was in that town, sixty years ago, where the only funeral home refused to…
By REBEKAH ZEMANSKY Cronkite News Service PHOENIX – Arizona voters have approved a ballot measure to eliminate affirmative action programs in state and local governments. Unofficial returns showed Proposition 107 leading by a wide margin. Supporters said the need…
By Gustavo Martinez Contreras LatinaLista Guilty. It was a verdict the defendants, Brandon Piekarsky and Derrick Donchak, were not expecting. After all, Piekarsky had already been acquitted of third-degree murder and both were acquitted of ethnic intimidation during a…
LatinaLista — It’s been reported that Nevada’s GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle has raised a war chest worthy of intimidating her opponent, Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid. But she didn’t have to use any funds from that chest in…
