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Global campaign underway to fight human trafficking

Jan 12, 2011, 7:04 PM 0

LatinaLista.net — January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Yesterday, January 11, was Human Trafficking Awareness Day. It’s reported that 27 million people worldwide are enslaved today. Whether it’s prostituting children and women or forcing people to…

Education, General, Health

Forum to address why more Latinos don’t participate in medical research

Jan 11, 2011, 7:06 PM 0

LatinaLista.net — Today, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (UPSTF) released an update to its 2002 recommendations now recommending that all women ages 65 and older be routinely screened for osteoporosis. According to the UPSTF: Osteoporosis is more common…

Art, Education, Music, Online, Technology

Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum offers full slate of programs, exhibits and galleries — only a click away

Jan 10, 2011, 7:07 PM 0

LatinaLista.net — While debate is still raging on the feasibility of creating the National Museum of the American Latino in Washington, D.C., which would focus on American Latino art, history and culture, there is already a Latino museum open…

Education, Immigration, Palabra Final, Politics

Undocumented college student president target of hate website

Jan 5, 2011, 5:11 PM 0

LatinaLista — When the students, who are dubbed DREAMers, because of their undocumented status, revealed their citizenship status in the hopes of convincing members of Congress to pass the DREAM Act, many of us wondered what would happen to these…

Education, Palabra Final, Politics, Social Justice

Arizona’s new State Attorney General, Tom Horne, says “increased academic achievement for Latino students” violates new law

Jan 3, 2011, 5:02 PM 0

LatinaLista — Nobody can argue with the fact that when it comes to academic performance among Latino students, too many fail or drop out. To counter that dismal statistic, there are programs in place across the country specifically focused…

Education, Environment, Nonprofit

Spotlight Non-profit: Teaching a new generation the art of farming

Dec 31, 2010, 1:58 PM 0

LatinaLista — Rising food prices and rampant childhood obesity are two factors fueling a national surge in local communities exploring the idea of establishing community gardens. Yet for one group, the idea digs much deeper. La Semilla Food Center‘s…

Education, Immigration, Palabra Final, Politics, Social Justice

Backlash against GOP for failure to pass DREAM begins to be heard

Dec 30, 2010, 3:58 PM 0

LatinaLista — Something interesting has been happening since the Senate defeat of the DREAM Act before Christmas. It seems more columnists and constituents, who never wrote about the issue before, are writing about it now and all seem to…

Education, Immigration, Palabra Final, Politics

DREAM Act’s missing ally

Dec 27, 2010, 4:48 PM 0

LatinaLista — Now that a little time has passed since the Senate’s defeat of the DREAM Act, it’s easier to look back and see what went wrong. On the one hand, the Senate was able to repeal “Don’t Ask,…

Education, Immigration, Linking Latinas, Social Justice

USA: Former undocumented student shows what happens when DREAMS are realized

Dec 26, 2010, 9:51 PM 0

By Mariana D. Zamboni LatinaLista USA — Just three years ago, my friends and I gathered a compilation of different stories of undocumented immigrant students and titled it, “Underground Undergrounds: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students Speak Out.” Three years later,…

Education, General

New GED pilot program hopes to entice more Latino dropouts to take the test

Dec 23, 2010, 3:43 PM 0

LatinaLista — School may be out for the Christmas holidays but it’s already known that too many Latino students won’t be returning to school in the new year. The Pew Hispanic Center reports that 41 percent of Latinos ages…

Art, Education, General, Immigration, Palabra Final, Politics, Social Justice

In this case, a picture is worth over 40 million feelings

Dec 23, 2010, 10:16 AM 0

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Education, General

New report reveals more Latinos and blacks lack basic skills to pass Army’s qualifying exam

Dec 22, 2010, 12:48 PM 0

LatinaLista — It’s been long known that Latinos and black students aren’t benefiting like their white peers from the public education system. Now, a new Education Trust study reveals that with the kind of education Latinos and blacks are…

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

Steps to help DREAM students must be swift and bold

Dec 21, 2010, 5:34 PM 0

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…

Children, Education, Health, Women

New data shows Latina teen birth rates at lowest in two decades

Dec 21, 2010, 4:02 PM 0

LatinaLista — Finally, there’s some good news on the teenage pregnancy front. In a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), pregnancy rates among Latina teenagers, 15-19, are at…

Education, Global Views, Linking Latinas, Politics, Social Justice

Puerto Rico: Police attack protesting University of Puerto Rico students

Dec 20, 2010, 7:21 PM 0

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,…

Education, Immigration, Palabra Final, Politics, Social Justice

Leader of Somos Republicans says Latinos on “both sides of the political aisle have had enough”

Dec 20, 2010, 4:15 PM 0

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…

Education, Health

Latinas, and anyone else, can lose weight quicker if they do one thing

Dec 20, 2010, 1:34 PM 0

LatinaLista — Ever since the day after Thanksgiving, visions of tables covered with tamales, turkeys, hams, mole, buñuelos, churros, rompope, galletas, etc have been on the minds of just about everyone and anyone who associates Christmas with these traditional…

Education, Linking Latinas, Politics

USA: The Senate Must Pass DREAM Act

Dec 17, 2010, 1:32 PM 0

By Maria Pesqueira LatinaLista USA — As an immigrant brought to this country at a young age myself, I can relate to the stories of young men and women who desire better opportunities for themselves and for this country….

Education, Palabra Final, Politics, Social Justice

Outpour of support for DREAM Act reaches unprecedented levels

Dec 17, 2010, 11:37 AM 0

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…

Education, Palabra Final, Politics, Social Justice

Hispanic GOP backlash begins against politicians opposing DREAM Act

Dec 13, 2010, 4:45 PM 0

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…

Education, Immigration, Palabra Final, Politics, Social Justice

News of the DREAM Act’s death has been greatly exaggerated

Dec 10, 2010, 1:06 PM 0

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…

Education, Immigration, Palabra Final, Politics, Social Justice

House passes the DREAM Act!

Dec 8, 2010, 8:02 PM 0

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…

Education, Guest Voz, Palabra Final, Politics, Social Justice

Guest Voz: A dishonest debate rages on about the DREAM Act

Dec 1, 2010, 3:59 PM 0

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…

Education, Health, Social Justice

Gains in HIV prevention still elude Latino communities on 21st observance of World AIDS Day

Nov 30, 2010, 12:41 PM 0

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…

Books, Children, Education

Aztec Calendar coloring book brings dead language back to life

Nov 29, 2010, 5:03 PM 0

LatinaLista — For most Latino families, one way to keep a connection to the family culture is to speak Spanish in the home. Research shows that generationally-speaking, it gets harder and harder to do. Usually, people end up taking…

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