Wisconsin’s Struggle Important To Latino Workers, Unions

[Editor’s Note: This is a repost from Pa’lante Latino and was written by Victoria Cepeda] It was 1966 when Mexican-American civil rights activist Jesús Salas et. al. founded “Obreros Unidos”, an independent […]

Protestors in Wisconsin spent a sixth day demanding that Republican Gov. Scott Walker negotiate before cutting unions’ powers to negotiate for workers. Unrest in the Middle East has caused oil prices to […]

[Editor’s Note: The following is a re-post written by Angelo Falcón with the National Institute for Latino Policy.] After factoring in voting age and citizenship status, in 2009 only 41 […]

I was wondering what he was up to. It’s just my natural journalist’s reaction, you can call it cynicism, I won’t debate the point. But when Newt Gingrich launched his […]

What do Catherine Engelbrecht and her notorious Houston “patriots” really want? by Paul Knight from the Texas Observer, where this story was first published. On opening day of the 82nd […]

Tan Nguyen ran as a Republican for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006 against then-incumbent Democrat Loretta Sanchez, and was just sentenced to a year and a day in […]

When Susana Martinez was elected Governor of New Mexico some Latinos and many Democrats slammed a metaphoric dammit-fist on their desk. They were undercut by those sneaky Republicans. Martinez is […]

[Editor’s Note: This story was written by the Texas Observer’s Michael May and published Dec. 20, 2010 and is reproduced here as part of our partnership with the magazine.] Praying […]

A group of conservative Arizona Latinos, Somos Republicans, is behind a move to recall that state’s senate president Russell Pearce. For those not in the know, this is the kind […]

I’m starting to think that the new leadership in Congress didn’t think their plan through very well; and by extension, neither did the people who voted for them. Case in […]