By Rinku Sen Colorlines This week, the nation will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with events in Washington, D.C., and many other cities. A hot summer of race news — Moral…
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Guest Voz: Militarizing U.S.-Mexico border blocks more than just immigrants. It blocks the nation’s memory.
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By José de la Isla Hispanic Link News Service WASHINGTON, D.C. — Violent nature, like a gathering storm, knows no borders. Hurricane Katrina was like that. It made landfall eight years ago, Aug. 23, 2005 over the Bahamas bringing…
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Guest Voz: Defining Chicano identity means knowing the Mexican past within the context of U.S. history
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By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista For the past forty plus years, the question of Chicana/ identity has evoked passionate discussion. It got one of my favorite Chicano scholars, the late Dr. Ramón Ruiz, into hot water. Don Ramón, for…
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Guest Voz: Annual gathering of Latina academics explore the ever-changing roles of Hispanic women
Jul 26, 2013, 10:50 AM 0
By Veronica I. Arreola LatinaLista Columbus, Ohio is not the first place you would guess for an academic gathering focused on Chicana/Latina and Native American women studies with a feminist heart. But last week it was! The MALCS 2013…
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Guest Voz: Breathing In Our Dead and The Spirit of Immigration Reform
Jul 25, 2013, 2:08 PM 0
By Roberto Lovato Presente.org Of all our senses, the one that can most alter U.S. immigration history–and U.S. history itself–is our sense of smell. If we could, for example, magically bring the smell in the freezers of the Pima…
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Guest Voz: We are a better society when people are not quiet — Standing up for Trayvon Martin
Jul 19, 2013, 3:55 PM 0
By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista Why should Latinos support Justice for Trayvon Martin? It is not the first time that I have been asked that question about another group. Take care of the family first is always the mindset…
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Guest Voz: It is time for the EPA to step up protection of farmworkers
Jul 18, 2013, 2:07 PM 0
By Hector Sanchez LatinaLista How valuable is a man or woman? How valuable is a farmworker? How do you measure the value of a life? These are questions Cesar E. Chavez once asked us to consider. The revered labor…
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Guest Voz: Climate Change is Impacting Migrant Farm Workers
Jul 10, 2013, 10:40 AM 0
By Osvaldo Lopez Rio Grande Guardian The rhythm of the crunching dry soil slowed and eventually came to a halt with a big crash. The girl’s uncle heard and crossed through three rows to find her motionless body face-up….
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Guest Voz: States’ new abortion laws leave women continually defending the right to make their own decisions
Jul 8, 2013, 1:04 PM 0
By Lorena Garcia LatinaLista Newton’s third law of motion: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. With every victory preserving a woman’s right to choose, we are faced with a defeat. The movement to achieve reproductive…
By Myrna Pérez Brennan Center for Justice On Tuesday, the Supreme Court dealt a hard blow to the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 — a law that political leaders from both sides of the aisle have called the…
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Guest Voces: Constitutional Law Scholars sound off on Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action decision
Jun 26, 2013, 9:45 AM 0
LatinaLista — Affirmative Action has always been a contentious topic and the Supreme Court’s recent action in the Fisher v. University of Texas, at Austin doesn’t relieve the tension that surrounds it. In many ways, it just adds to…
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Guest Voz: Immigrant Workers Create Wealth in Our Society and it’s not Because of their Salaries
Jun 21, 2013, 12:44 PM 0
By EduardoStanley LatinaLista For years, those who oppose immigration have argued that newcomers don’t represent a positive addition to our society, because they drain public resources by receiving more benefits than the taxes they pay. One example provided is…
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Guest Voz: It’s time for a national song to unite Latinos
Jun 20, 2013, 10:35 AM 0
By Juana Bordas LatinaLista Way back in 1919 the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) adopted the song “Lift every voice and sing” as the Black national anthem. Since that time, the song has inspired hope…
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Guest Voz: Mermaids in America. Or, how does this Ecuadorian girl end up writing fantasy?
Jun 14, 2013, 11:10 AM 0
By Zoraida Córdova LatinaLista I’m Zoraida Córdova, and this post is a can of worms. I wish they were tequila worms, but I don’t think those are allowed in YA (young adult). (just kidding.) I’ve been starting and stopping…
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Guest Voz: Faced with foreclosure, the last thing to do is ‘do nothing’
Jun 12, 2013, 1:27 PM 0
By Joaquin Benitez LatinaLista Your worst nightmare has come true: the bank has threatened to take away your home. Now what?! The very last thing you needed at this point in time was for the bank to start harassing…
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Guest Voz: A new kind of housing bubble leaving Latino homebuyers with only dreams
Jun 7, 2013, 1:09 PM 0
By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista When I was growing up, relatives talked incessantly about retirement, which generally meant going to live with a daughter and her family. When social security kicked in some older relatives became more independent especially…
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Guest Voz: Chicano history reading more like a bad translation
May 17, 2013, 3:28 PM 0
By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista As we distance ourselves from the sixties, more and more Chicana/o monographs and dissertations are being written in translation. Many of the young scholars have never been involved in the civil rights movement, and…
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Guest Voz: Why the Obama Administration Must Do More To Help Working-class Families on Housing
May 13, 2013, 1:47 PM 0
By Brent Wilkes America’s Wire WASHINGTON- By many accounts, the economy is prospering again and the housing market is on the road to recovery. But, reality is nowhere near as comforting as fiction, and the facts point to a…
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Guest Voces: How much safer can the safest city get?
May 10, 2013, 10:51 AM 0
By Margaret Moran and Luis Torres LatinaLista For the past three years, El Paso, Texas has been ranked as the safest city in the country, according to a report from the CQ Press. The data used in the report…
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Guest Voz: The Case for a Young Adult Criminal Justice System
May 9, 2013, 12:00 AM 0
By Tracy Velázquez The Chronicle of Social Change The traditional view in the United States – which is codified in law – is that youths become adults when they turn 18. But the reality is that many young adults…
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Guest Voz: (Ret.) Ambassador Antonio Garza — Mexico promises high stakes but big opportunities for the U.S.
Apr 30, 2013, 10:53 AM 0
By Antonio Garza, U.S. Ambassador (Ret.) LatinaLista This week’s meeting between Presidents Obama and Peña Nieto brings U.S.-Mexico relations to center stage. This second face-to-face between the two leaders occurs at a critical time in each presidency. Domestic reform…
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Guest Voz: The Texas Recipe for Muting the Hispanic Voice in Public Opinion Polls
Apr 29, 2013, 2:30 PM 0
By Dr. Edward Rincón The Culture of Research If you are a tax-paying Texas resident, should your opinion matter in decisions related to publicly-funded programs or services in Texas? Of course, you may say, the opinions of all Texas…
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Guest Voz: Watching America — through the eyes of young immigrants
Apr 22, 2013, 7:21 PM 0
By Claire O’Brien Eléctrica in the Desert Two very small girls waited for a 4th of July parade in a small Midwestern city a few years ago. The city’s economy is based upon a large, fluid workforce from throughout…
By Eduardo Stanley LatinaLista On April 2, 2013, the Associated Press (AP), perhaps the biggest news agency in the world, announced it would no longer use the word “illegal” when referring to immigrants without legal residence or working permits….
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Guest Voz: In the political cycle the “young grow old” and forgetfulness sets in
Apr 12, 2013, 1:01 PM 0
By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista Rank and file Democrats are desperate for a turnaround of their political fortunes, and an end of the Robber Baron era — so much so that they see the recent elections as their deliverance….
