LatinaLista — 2010 may well be noted in history as the rise of non-partisan political movements in response to the partisan bickering that has sieged Washington ever since South Carolina Republican House Representative Joe Wilson screamed “you lie” to…
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 — Tomorrow, both the House and the Senate are expected to vote on the DREAM Act. While hope runs high that enough Republicans will join in granting these deserving young people a chance to make a true life…
LatinaLista — On Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010, Sen. Chris Dodd from Connecticut delivered his final remarks as a 30-year member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Earlier this year, Sen. Dodd announced his retirement from Congress which will take…
LatinaLista — As the GOP increasingly becomes “party non grata” to the Latino community due to their opposition of the DREAM Act and every other bill that seems to disproportionately adversely affect the Latino community, talk of creating a…
By Natalia A. Bonilla-Berrios LatinaLista PUERTO RICO — Representative Ivan Rodriguez Traverzo resigned Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 after being the subject of expulsion by the Puerto Rican House of Representatives. His decision came on judgment day — his legislative judgment…
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 –As talk of a cloture vote for the DREAM Act increases on the Hill, some Republicans, who actually have no political will to vote for the bill, are going on record continuing to make disingenuous demands. For example,…
LatinaLista — As the time draws nearer that Congress could vote on the DREAM Act, more and more supporters are coming forward: The Wall Street Journal published an editorial in support of it, as did: The Milford Daily News,…
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 — Over the last three months, I’ve traveled by air more often at any other time this year. Of those times, I’ve been asked to step aside for body patdowns a couple of times when something I was…
LatinaLista — “Hope springs eternal” is one of those sayings that can either be taken positively or negatively. In light of today’s announcement from Sen. Harry Reid that he will introduce the DREAM Act as a stand-alone bill after…
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– The results from the Pew Hispanic Center’s latest report, “National Latino Leader? The job is open,” underscored two realities that exist in the current Latino community: There is not an overriding issue that unanimously unites all Latinos and…
LatinaLista — The Washington political news site Politico reports this evening that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to push for a vote by next week for the DREAM Act. It’s not a surprising mandate. Whether it was Pelosi, Sen….
LatinaLista — A newly released Gallup Poll must be music to the ears of all conservatives who have laboriously hammered on the point of illegal immigration. According to the poll, four million U.S. Hispanics would leave the country permanently…
LatinaLista — A funny thing (read sad) has happened since the midterm elections — Republicans have claimed that the American people have voted them back into office because they miss GOP leadership. Hardly. Every exit poll published since the…
LatinaLista — “We’re a nation of immigrants.” It’s a fact that is invoked by politicians when they try to make themselves relevant to minority communities. Yet, if there is one lesson to be learned from the 2010 midterm campaigns, it’s…
LatinaLista — The initial analyses of Latino voter turnout in last night’s midterm elections are filtering in and there’s an overriding consensus being developed — Latino voters turned out, in some races, in unprecedented numbers for a midterm election…
LatinaLista — While women candidates were part of the casualty list in the 2010 midterm elections, there was history to be made also. The first Latina and Indian American governors were elected. In New Mexico, Republican Susana Martinez was…
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…
