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Economy, General, Government, Money, Palabra Final, Social Justice

Unsettled case of Hispanic farmers underscores lack of DC Latino leadership and concern from Obama

Feb 4, 2010, 6:25 PM 2

LatinaLista After ten years, tomorrow should have been the day of reckoning at the Supreme Court for a group of Hispanic farmers who filed a lawsuit against the USDA for systematically denying them needed loans and credits to sustain…

General, Government, Politics, Technology, Youth

Latina Lista partners with Voto Latino and iTunes to promote 2010 Census

Feb 3, 2010, 3:17 PM 0

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…

General, Government, Health, Human Rights, Immigration, Local News, Southwest, Women

Leaders call attention to untold stories of human trafficking victims

Feb 3, 2010, 12:08 PM 0

By MELANIE KISER Cronkite News Service PHOENIX — Perhaps law enforcement’s biggest roadblock in combating human trafficking in Arizona and elsewhere is a conspicuous absence of victims, a group of officials and advocates said Monday. Intimidation, coercion and manipulation…

General, Global Views, Government, Linking Latinas

Puerto Rico: Gov. Fortuño’s State of the Union deals with same issues as Obama’s plus one: country’s status

Feb 3, 2010, 9:10 AM 2

By Natalia A. Bonilla-Berrios LatinaLista PUERTO RICO — Governor Luis FortuÃ±o announced this week in his State of the Union address the activation of the National Guard as a preventive action against crime. “While we take the time to…

General, Government, Palabra Final, Politics

Message to Democrats: Don’t obligate Latinos to feel grateful for just doing your job

Feb 2, 2010, 6:16 PM 17

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…

Economy, General, Government, Money, Women

New report shows unemployment rate highest in 25 years for single female households

Feb 2, 2010, 3:40 PM 0

LatinaLista — The Institute for Women’s Policy Research released a report this week underscoring the inequality of the labor force when it comes to men and women. Aside from pay differences that still exist between the sexes, we now…

Education, General, Global Views, Government, History, Human Rights, Linking Latinas

Chile preserves its tortured past in new museum dedicated to country’s victims of human rights abuses

Feb 2, 2010, 10:10 AM 0

By Pamela Morales LatinaLista SANTIAGO, CHILE — Some 20 people stood silently in a small, black-walled room staring at a dozen television monitors playing testimonials from torture victims. One woman remembering bleeding from her nose, ears, mouth, vagina and…

General, Government, Palabra Final, Politics

How the Democratic Party can re-energize Latino voters

Feb 1, 2010, 5:48 PM 15

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…

General, Government, Politics, Transcripts

President Obama’s State of the Union Address

Jan 27, 2010, 8:11 PM 5

Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Our Constitution declares that from time to time, the President shall give to Congress information about the state of our union. For two hundred and twenty…

Economy, General, Government, Money, Palabra Final, Social Justice

USDA Sec. Vilsack would rather help Afghan farmers than Hispanic farmers here at home

Jan 26, 2010, 5:50 PM 3

LatinaLista — One of the most well-documented cases of ongoing discrimination against minorities at the federal level has to do with the case of Hispanic farmers being denied access to farm-credit programs run by the United States Department of…

Economy, Education, General, Government, Language, Money, Online

Bilingual gov’t site helps Latinos understand the concept of money managment

Jan 25, 2010, 1:20 PM 0

LatinaLista — While headlines tout how Latinos are the hardest hit in this recession, one report show that prior to the economy’s downfall, Hispanics had more of a disposable income. According to Latinum Network, while non-Hispanic consumer spending from…

General, Government, Immigration, Money, Palabra Final

Supreme Court’s loosening of campaign finance laws may help Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Jan 21, 2010, 7:00 PM 18

LatinaLista — Columnist Paul Bedard of U.S. News & World Report lists, in his Washington Whispers column, the 10 Keys for Democrats to Avoid Election Disaster. #4 is immigration reform: Push through immigration reform that will tell Hispanics the…

Environment, General, Global Views, Government, Linking Latinas

Guatemala: A national natural treasure is almost lost because of government indifference

Jan 21, 2010, 10:50 AM 4

By Mayra Beltran de Daetz Guatemala — Lake Atitlan, located in the Department of Solola¡, has one of the most beautiful landscapes found anywhere in Guatemala. Its beauty has been compared with Switzerland’s lakes. Along the margins of…

General, Government, Palabra Final, Politics

Grading Obama’s first year in office proves to be an incomplete review

Jan 20, 2010, 4:10 PM 30

LatinaLista — Everywhere we turn in the media today, there are three stories that are dominating the headlines: Rightfully, the Haiti earthquake and the ongoing rescue efforts; Naturally, the Republican victory and what this means for healthcare reform and;…

Children, General, Government, Human Rights, Immigration, Nonprofit, Youth

Spotlight: Unaccompanied immigrant children find a KIND hand to help them in court

Jan 15, 2010, 5:01 PM 0

LatinaLista — The United States doesn’t just attract the illegal entry of adults looking for work. This country is also a beacon to more than 8,000 children every year, from as young as toddlers to teens, who illegally enter…

Children, Education, General, Government, Palabra Final, Politics, Youth

TX Governor puts the needs of state’s Latino students behind his power-play of party politics

Jan 14, 2010, 4:25 PM 1

LatinaLista — Texas is a majority-minority state. Of the minorities that call the Lone Star state home, 8.9 million are Latinos — making Texas only second to California in having a high Latino population. Along with that distinction is…

General, Government, Palabra Final, Politics

New Pew survey reveals Latinos’ hopes for change under Obama are fading

Jan 13, 2010, 5:51 PM 3

LatinaLista — The Pew Research Center released a report today meant to evaluate how blacks view the state of “black progress,” especially since Barack Obama was elected president. Not surprisingly blacks responded favorably to most of the survey questions….

Education, General, Government, Palabra Final, Politics, Social Justice, Youth

Latino leadership needed to counter TX State Board of Education’s attempt to write minorities out of history

Jan 12, 2010, 12:49 PM 8

LatinaLista — The Southern Education Foundation released a report last week, “A New Diverse Majority,” that found, that for the first time in history, more than half of all the students attending public schools in the 15 Southern states…

General, Government, Immigration, Palabra Final, Politics, Social Justice

The Obama administration can jumpstart promise of immigration reform by overhauling ICE

Jan 9, 2010, 7:35 PM 1

LatinaLista — While the story that broke in the New York Times over the weekend Officials Hid Truth of Immigrant Deaths in Jail, may have been a wake-up call for the Obama Administration and countless politicians, law enforcement officials…

Causes, Economy, General, Government, Human Rights, Immigration, Social Media

Deported military veterans plead to be classified as “non-citizen nationals”

Jan 8, 2010, 4:52 PM 13

LatinaLista — The plea appearing on the Latina Lista Facebook page this week was simple: Will you PLEASE help us bring to light and expose this unjust and unfair treatment of U.S.Military Veterans.THANK YOU. The person who posted it…

Environment, General, Government, Health, Nonprofit

Spotlight: Community residents band together to fight impact of big industry’s pollution

Jan 8, 2010, 12:41 PM 1

LatinaLista — A sad and all too often ignored fact is that the people who are on the frontline of Corporate America’s environmental abuses are low-income and/or minority neighborhoods. In 2001, residents of the Commerce/East Los Angeles area were…

General, Government, Palabra Final, Politics

Latin American governments finalize 11-point plan to present to Congress for U.S. immigration reform

Jan 7, 2010, 5:32 PM 11

LatinaLista — It wasn’t until the 2008 presidential election that most U.S. Americans saw just how much the rest of the world feels they have a say in our internal politics. During the presidential campaign, a day didn’t go…

General, Government, Palabra Final, Social Justice

9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals finds Washington judicial system guilty of racism

Jan 5, 2010, 7:38 PM 1

LatinaLista — The popular saying of “If you do the crime you must pay the time” is a fair statement. But what if the people who are doing the time didn’t commit the crime? Aside from being punished for…

Children, Education, General, Government, Palabra Final, Youth

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