The Libro-Traficante Caravan Hits The Road
The Libro-Traficante Caravan Hits The Road
By Belinda Acosta Librotraficante Caravan: Day 3—El Paso to Mesilla and Albuquerque, New Mexico It’s really quite amazing what a couple of laptops, three cell phones, an operational hotspot and […]
Why Latinos Should Go See “Casa De Mi Padre”
By Jose Cruz, OurTiempo.com There has been no question to how this site has felt about this Friday’s release of the new film Casa De Mi Padre. Even before the first […]
“USA” Becomes Anti-Latino Chant At HS Basketball Game
Of all the cheers and taunts that you think you could hear at a high school basketball game (“We’ve got spirit, yes we do!” and such), “USA! USA!” wouldn’t be […]
It’s Time For All Of Us To Move Past SB 1070
By Cristina Tzintzún, Executive Director of Workers Defense Project The recent decision by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton to uphold the constitutional rights of day laborers in Arizona and block the implementation of […]
Stop SB 458, Georgia’s Anti-DREAM Act
By Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of GALEO Matters concerning the prosperity and future of our state and those concerning children should be absolutely void of political theatrics. Unfortunately, some Georgia […]
Latino Students React To Racism At UCLA
MEChA de UCLA recently held a demonstration on campus in a response to discrimination at the university. Earlier in the week, racial and sexist slurs were scrawled on a door of […]
Marchers In East Haven Promote Respect For Immigrants
By Melinda Tuhus, Public News Service EAST HAVEN, Conn. – Hundreds of Latinos and their allies staged a march and rally in East Haven on February 27, in response to the arrest […]
DeathStar Built By Undocumented Immigrants
And now an editorial cartoon from El Guapo of The Daily Refried.
Alabama’s Law Backfires, Creating A New Civil Rights Movement
By Eliseo Medina, SEIU Alabama’s show-me-your-papers law, HB56, threatens to turn the clock back to a time when hardworking men and women were persecuted because of the color of their […]
Georgia’s Immigration Law Highlights Reality Vs. Politics
By Christopher Rangel Georgia’s Latino population growth ranked the state tenth nationwide for the 2000-2010 decade, with a Latino population of about 854,000. The state also ranked sixth in the number of unauthorized immigrants […]