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Latinos and blacks should be offended and angry over TX State Board of Education's decision to dismiss minority contributions from school textbooks
Mar 12, 2010 3:03pm
LatinaLista.net -- Democracy is a dying U.S. ideal -- thanks to the Texas State Board of Education (TSBE). In a vote of 10-5, the board, dominated by social conservatives, preliminarily adopted a new Social Studies and history curriculum that includes replacing the word "democratic" in referring to the form of...
Immigration grassroots activists who met with Obama reveal what went down at the White House
Mar 11, 2010 3:19pm
LatinaLista.net -- President Obama should be especially tired today. Between the GOP's constant attacks on his healthcare bill and two meetings with immigration reform advocates pressing him to do something, he should be feeling like one of those rubber Gumby dolls -- pulled in all different directions. Yet, after a...
Waiting for bipartisan support before introducing immigration reform doesn't sound too optimistic
Mar 10, 2010 3:34pm
LatinaLista.net -- Politico is reporting that Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Senate's architect on the latest Senate version of immigration reform, is feeling "optimistic" about producing immigration legislation this year. He and his congressional colleague, Sen. Lindsey Graham, are scheduled to meet with the President tomorrow after a series of scheduled...
Tea Party and NumbersUSA strategize on defaming Mexican women and Latino immigrants to foil immigration reform
Mar 9, 2010 11:22am
LatinaLista.net -- It's been no secret that all who sympathize with undocumented immigrants and are tired of waiting for Congress to tackle immigration reform are planning to descend on Washington DC on March 21 for what is billed as We March for America!. People -- immigration reform activists, students, families,...
Comprehensive Immigration Reform needed now to stop suffering of undocumented women and their families
Mar 8, 2010 3:15pm
LatinaLista.net -- Today is International Women's Day, a day that celebrates the strides women have made and the hardships they still endure. When we think of those hardships, those of us who are middle-class, college-educated or have good jobs, tend to think of the women in third-world countries or countries...
The sad state of Latino unemployment
Mar 5, 2010 3:03pm
LatinaLista.net -- Everyone is suffering in this economy but until the Bureau of Labor Statistics' February report spelled it out in numbers, the high degree of unemployment in the Latino community wasn't truly appreciated. While national unemployment stands at 9.7 percent, Latino unemployment is at 12.4 percent and blacks suffer...
Texas 2010 Republican Primary Election: Prejudice at the polls
Mar 4, 2010 1:33pm
LatinaLista.net--Incumbent Texas Railroad Commissioner Victor Carrillo should have won his bid this week for re-election, but he didn't. In fact, he was soundly beaten -- 61%-39%. Who was his opponent? A man by the name of Porter. According to Carrillo, that says it all. Though Carrillo spent $600,000 on his...
New report underscores the rise of a new national pastime -- immigrant bashing!
Mar 3, 2010 3:05pm
LatinaLista.net -- In 2008, it seemed an odd coincidence that there should be two murders, later deemed hate crimes, of Latino immigrants so close together. In July 2008, Luis Ramirez was beaten to death in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. Eventually six people were indicted for his death -- four of them police...
Latinos comprise largest share of "Below Basic" literacy rates
Mar 2, 2010 3:18pm
LatinaLista.net On the heels of the President's address of the dismal dropout rates, the nation is supposed to be observing today Read Across America Day 2010. For those students who have dropped out of school or who are struggling academically, poor reading skills are a big part of their problem....
President's dropout recovery plan lacks four components to help Latino students
Mar 1, 2010 10:23am
LatinaLista.netPresident Obama outlined a plan today to reduce the high school dropout rate. He deserves kudos for understanding that this educational crisis goes beyond local communities and state jurisdictions, and has serious national implications for the future. According to the President's statistics: Every school day, about 7,000 students decide to...
Guest Voz: Esther Chavez Cano Added Up the Devastation of Gender Violence
Feb 26, 2010 2:18pm
By Theresa Braine Esther Chavez Cano died in Juarez, Mexico in December 2009 after losing a battle with cancer, but Esther fought another battle that to many seemed like she was losing but had achieved a victory to the dismay of her critics -- international attention to the murders of...
President's health summit illustrates the disconnect some in Congress have with the poor
Feb 25, 2010 3:46pm
For some reason, the United Kingdom newspaper, the Guardian, is running a two-day poll on their online site asking their readers to vote on who gave the "best performance" in President Obama's healthcare summit today. So far, Democrats are outpacing Republicans. Last I checked, and the poll counts the results...
National campaign to launch calling on Obama administration to stop expansion of immigrant detention
Feb 24, 2010 1:46pm
LatinaLista.netThe issue of Comprehensive Immigration Reform is complex. Basically, because it involves so many different components that must be examined and reformed. One component is immigrant detention. While small strides have been made by the federal government to improve the quality of the conditions, the basic objection remains as to...
Senate resignations underscore need to address immigration reform before Sept.
Feb 23, 2010 3:39pm
Ever since I posted the news that there is a massive march planned for March 21 in Washington by supporters of comprehensive immigration reform, response has been mixed. Some have supported it and others not -- not too surprising. But what was surprising was that people, who normally support such...
When it comes to Latina teen pregnancies, California's doing something right
Feb 22, 2010 1:53pm
LatinaLista.netSomething good is happening in California. For a state more accustomed to bad news -- a broke state economy, a slashing of public services, an increase in health premiums by the state's largest health insurer, rising college tuition rates, escalating home foreclosures, crime, etc. -- today's news that the state's...
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