Is Arizona Racially Profiling Latinos To Deny Them Civil Rights?

Is Arizona Racially Profiling Latinos To Deny Them Civil Rights?

Mary Mata February 28, 2011

Arizona political leaders seem to be targeting Latinos to prevent them from exercising their civil rights by banning them from the state Capitol. Two things immediately pop into my head […]

Arizona’s Population Collision With Latinos Leads To Silencing Of Critics

Mary Mata February 25, 2011

[Editor’s Note: This story was written jointly by myself and Pa’Lante Latino’s Christina Saenz] Carlos Galindo, a 51-year-old Latino in Arizona, was at the state senate building Wednesday when he was […]

Brisenia Flores Update: Shawna Forde Gets Death Penalty

Mary Mata February 22, 2011

The woman who organized the robbery that ultimately left 9 year-old Brisenia Flores dead has been sentenced to death by an Arizona jury. She had previously been found guilty, for […]

Justice For Brisenia Flores Poster From Presente.org

Mary Mata February 14, 2011

Presente.org has created a poster to try to bring attention to the Brisenia Flores trial, currently being deliberated by a jury. We have written about the trial previously, and are […]

NewsTaco To Go: Obesity, Abortions, Mexico Deaths, Labor and Arizona

Mary Mata February 8, 2011

Arizona wants to undo the Constitution, there’s a labor shortage of skilled workers, childhood obesity is bad, a U.S. teen was killed in Mexico, the government is cutting programs and […]

Latinos Lash Out At Lady Gaga’s Lyrics

Mary Mata February 7, 2011

Here’s how it breaks down. Lady Gaga recently released the lyrics of her upcoming single “Born This Way” and some of the lyrics were found to be offensive to Latinos […]

Native Americans Won’t Enforce Arizona’s SB1070

Mary Mata February 4, 2011

Leaders of Native American tribes in Arizona are charging that the laws written in that state didn’t take their sovereignty into account, and so, they passed a resolution to continue […]

U.S. Guns Used In Mexico To Kill Border Patrolman

Mary Mata February 3, 2011

Guns purchased in Arizona and illegally smuggled into Mexico were among those used to kill a Border Patrol agent in that state in December. This information came as part of […]

Group Hopes To Save Ethnic Studies In Arizona

Mary Mata January 31, 2011

Save Ethnic Studies, Inc. is a non-profit organization that recently started in Arizona to help challenge HB 2281, the state’s new anti-ethnic studies (or, more appropriately, Chicano Studies) law that […]

Minuteman Vigilante on Trial for Murder of 9 Year Old Latina

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Here’s a story that has been recently getting attention because of its lack of attention. The story of Brisenia Flores, a nine year old girl killed during a home invasion […]