The Fall of Dobbs and the Immigrants
I cried because as a member, relative and friend of the groups most vilified by Dobbs for so many years – Latinos and immigrants – I was inspired by the power of the movement to oust him.
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The Fall of Dobbs and the Immigrants
I cried because as a member, relative and friend of the groups most vilified by Dobbs for so many years – Latinos and immigrants – I was inspired by the power of the movement to oust him.
Obama and the Freedom of the Press
For the sake and the preservation of journalism, its media role should be understood as the watchdog of private, as well as public entities and officials, including its ability to denounce corruption and fraud when the occasion arises.
Talk Radio and Hispanic Los Angeles
Half of Southern California is Hispanic. How come more and more radio talk shows with antiimmigrant, xenophobic, ignorant messages are swarming?
Radio y política en Los Angeles
La mitad de los residentes de Los Angeles y sus alrededores son hispanos. Sin embargo, pululan cada vez más programas de radio AM de conservadores anti inmigrantes, racistas, xenófobos e ignorantes.
Obama Premio Nobel: ¿bueno o malo?
¿Quién lo hubiera pensado? El mundo, pues. Lo que aquí algunos llaman “los otros”. La gente de todos los países que lo vitorea de norte a sur y de este a oeste. Aquellos que ven en él a un salvador, alguien llegado de la nada para maravillar imbuir en quienes lo rodean los valores que antes parecían sobreentendidos.
Protect yourself from Notarios and Immigration Consultants
These consultants routinely make promises that are not legally feasible, take large sums of money, file papers with incorrect, incomplete, and often fraudulent information, leaving the client unaware of the content of the applications filed.
The magic of Os Mutantes: Influential Brazilian band visits California
The Brazilian band Os Mutantes reappears from the ashes, has a new CD and performs in San Francisco, California
Más tratados mal tratados
El dizque Tratado de Libre Comercio no es nada más que otro tratado simple de comercio. El “libre” se lo inventaron. Y nadie salió ganando. Si de verdad queremos un TLC -con Brasil, con Colombia- entonces adelante. Pero abran fronteras.
The Obama Vision: immigrant detention centers
President Obama appears willing to maintain and even expand a system of immigrant prisons that civil and human rights organizations across the country and around the world have criticized for the subhuman conditions and deaths found in that system.
Good cop, bad cop: America’s policy toward Honduras
If a recent report by COFADEH is any indicator, there has been an exponential rise in the number of human rights violations since the June 28 coup. The report documented over 1,100 cases of arbitrary detentions, attacks on the media, killings and other human rights violations.
Ya resucité
Intenté comunicarme con la Sra. Manzano a princios de año para actualizar una nota que hace dos años había realizado sobre el periódico, pero por distintos motivos fui postergando esta idea, hasta que hace unos días recibí un correo eléctronico de un amigo de Bakersfield anunciandome el fallecimiento de la Sra. Manzano. Quedé dolido y perplejo.
Our Man In Honduras
“If you want to understand who the real power behind the [Honduran] coup is” says Robert White, president of the Washington-based Center for International Policy, during a recent interview, “you need to find out who’s paying Lanny Davis.”
Sotomayor, Conservative Judge
With Sotomayor on the bench Obama fulfills two promises; to put the first Latino and the third woman on the Supreme Court.
Maybe he is also putting a Conservative there. Or maybe I am wrong.
