THE ARIZONA BOYCOTT is about so much more than just one law. It is about more than just racial profiling, which already exists but which SB 1070 requires. This resistance to Arizona’s haywire approach to cultural change is about more than textbooks. It is about more than accents. It is about our América, which cannot be harmonious when we are all being so divided.
THREE THINGS immediately shock the conscious soul upon learning about the murder of Luis Ramirez. The simple manner in which he died is the first of those. His death was a gruesome and violent one, and inarguably racially motivated. And yet, that is not the most horrific part of the killing.
WASHINGTON DC —The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) President and CEO, Janet Murguía, will participate in a panel at NDN—one of the leading U.S. progressive think tanks and advocacy organizations—entitled, “Making the Case for Passing Immigration Reform this Year.” The panel is scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday, February 19 at 11:30 a.m.
HERE IS THIS WEEK’S VIDEO complement to the TMC blog I wrote Thursday. Articles covered include the many actions being taken across the nation as people demand movement on this issue. Also, I speak on why we need immigration reform and now. There will be a YouTube version, but from now on there will be a window of time after I post videos on the XOLAGRAFIK site.
CARMEN D: In 2004, President George Bush garnered 44% of the Latino vote and pundits everywhere declared that “Hispanics” were conservative, and might provide a growing base of support for the Republican party going forward. It was a reasonable hypothesis, I guess…
AS SADDENED AND CYNICAL as I have become about humankind in my life, I still nurture a belief in the human heart and the sense of Right. I still feel that in most cases of wrong being done, all it takes is thinking, feeling people getting the real facts of a situation. And the facts of this situation are shocking and revolting to a thinking mind and feeling heart.
FOLLOWING UP on John McCain’s growing Latino Problem, Kety Esquivel of The Sanctuary is interviewed on CNN. This appearance is a followup to Kety’s last interview, wherein she announced the questionnaire that her and the rest of our group at the Sanctuary prepared and gave to the Presidential candidates.
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