Oriel María Siu, oriunda de Honduras, es la autora de Rebeldita la Alegre en el País de los Ogros, obra para público infantil publicada por Izote Press en Los Ángeles, California
Se estima que más de un millón de inmigrantes pertenecientes a la comunidad LGBTQ (lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, transexuales y queer) residen en los Estados Unidos, de los cuales aproximadamente el 25% son indocumentados
Reclusas y exreclusas presentaron una demanda colectiva adicional en una corte federal contra el centro de detenidos en Irwin y el ginecólogo por operaciones efectuadas en sus cuerpos sin su conocimiento ni consentimiento
En una esquina nos reunimos a charlar, escuchar anécdotas y sobre todo aprender de las diferentes experiencias. Desde ese lugar y después de este primer encuentro, nos convocamos en lo que dimos a llamar “La Colectiva Feminista las Pibas de California”.
Muchos comentarios de mujeres blancas en las redes sociales, mesurados y hasta melancólicos, dejan claro que el dolor por la derrota de Hilary Clinton en 2016 todavía está presente
Es momento entonces, sí, de expresar satisfacción porque por primera vez en mucho tiempo hemos dado un suspiro de alivio. Sí, Trump está acorralado entre la inminencia de su segundo juicio y la transferencia del mando a manos de Joe Biden. Pero la alerta debe seguir.
En el partido Republicano todos están embarrados, incluyendo la plana mayor; se hacen los indignados por la violenta intentona de golpe de estado que Trump fomentó e incitó darían risa si las consecuencias de sus despreciables actos no fueran tan serias
Si tanto les disgusta la democracia, deberían considerar mudarse a alguna de las dictaduras que tanto defiende su líder Trump. Rusia no estaría mal, para empezar
Estas son imágenes frescas de los festejos espontáneos que iniciaron esta mañana frente a la Casa Blanca, en un espacio bautizado oficialmente por la ciudad como Plaza Black Lives Matter durante las recientes protestas y la plaza McPherson
He was trying very hard to set up military confrontations that you mentioned, martial law. It’s moving toward martial law. He might even be able to try to cancel the elections. There is no telling what he would do. He is completely desperate
I truly and honestly implore those of you in DC to do the right thing on the National ID Card idea: Repudiate and denounce it immediately as the ACLU and even libertarian and right wing groups have done.
This is the same climate in which President Obama and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano just announced the “Si Se Puede” of their continued and increased support for one of the most heinous Bush-era immigration policies:
With Sotomayor on the bench Obama fulfills two promises; to put the first Latino and the third woman on the Supreme Court.
Maybe he is also putting a Conservative there. Or maybe I am wrong.
Until recently, there were 20 immigration judges in Los Angeles; almost all of them had a case load of 1,500 to 2,000 cases, As a result, those entitled to a hearing had to wait between 1-2 years, and many times when their hearing day arrived, it had to be postponed for yet another year.
President Obama appears willing to maintain and even expand a system of immigrant prisons that civil and human rights organizations across the country and around the world have criticized for the subhuman conditions and deaths found in that system.
Faced with a growing movement of communities demanding that CNN drop his program, Lou Dobbs responded Friday with one of his favorite postures: the victimized defender of American virtue. "They ask CNN to fire me because I oppose illegal immigration" said Dobbs.
Dear Mr. Dobbs: Thank you for your invitation to appear tonight on the Lou Dobbs Show. I would be happy to accept under one condition: that alongside me appears CNN President Jon Klein as a participant in this important discussion.
Conflicting reports about a bullet that hit the top of Lou Dobbs' house in Sussex, New Jersey, are raising new and serious questions about the credibility of Lou Dobbs, CNN and its President, Jon Klein.
I cried because as a member, relative and friend of the groups most vilified by Dobbs for so many years - Latinos and immigrants - I was inspired by the power of the movement to oust him.
The ever-increasing spread and influence of the Spanish language in the US and its inevitable interaction with English has led to the emergence and daily use of a new dialect: Spanglish.
If we want to win back the right for same-sex couples to marry, we should forge strong partnerships with similar human rights movements seeking to protect the basic rights of people.
As the great Eli Wiesel, survivor of the horror of Auschwitz, taught us, we must use memory to fight against those who promote an intolerant agenda. In Arizona, more than ever, we need to exercise our historical memory and ensure that the mistakes of the past are not repeated.
I came because I lost my land. I came because of the Sandinistas. I came because I fell in love with a gringo. I came because I was a marielito in Cuba. I came because in Mexico I was robbed four times.
Elizabeth Burns es una activista a pesar de sí misma. Vive en un rancho de 38,000 acres en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México en el estado de Texas.
Es momento entonces, sí, de expresar satisfacción porque por primera vez en mucho tiempo hemos dado un suspiro de alivio. Sí, Trump está acorralado entre la inminencia de su segundo juicio y la transferencia del mando a manos de Joe Biden. Pero la alerta debe seguir.
En el partido Republicano todos están embarrados, incluyendo la plana mayor; se hacen los indignados por la violenta intentona de golpe de estado que Trump fomentó e incitó darían risa si las consecuencias de sus despreciables actos no fueran tan serias
I truly and honestly implore those of you in DC to do the right thing on the National ID Card idea: Repudiate and denounce it immediately as the ACLU and even libertarian and right wing groups have done.
This is the same climate in which President Obama and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano just announced the “Si Se Puede” of their continued and increased support for one of the most heinous Bush-era immigration policies:
With Sotomayor on the bench Obama fulfills two promises; to put the first Latino and the third woman on the Supreme Court.
Maybe he is also putting a Conservative there. Or maybe I am wrong.
Until recently, there were 20 immigration judges in Los Angeles; almost all of them had a case load of 1,500 to 2,000 cases, As a result, those entitled to a hearing had to wait between 1-2 years, and many times when their hearing day arrived, it had to be postponed for yet another year.
President Obama appears willing to maintain and even expand a system of immigrant prisons that civil and human rights organizations across the country and around the world have criticized for the subhuman conditions and deaths found in that system.
Faced with a growing movement of communities demanding that CNN drop his program, Lou Dobbs responded Friday with one of his favorite postures: the victimized defender of American virtue. "They ask CNN to fire me because I oppose illegal immigration" said Dobbs.
Dear Mr. Dobbs: Thank you for your invitation to appear tonight on the Lou Dobbs Show. I would be happy to accept under one condition: that alongside me appears CNN President Jon Klein as a participant in this important discussion.
Conflicting reports about a bullet that hit the top of Lou Dobbs' house in Sussex, New Jersey, are raising new and serious questions about the credibility of Lou Dobbs, CNN and its President, Jon Klein.
I cried because as a member, relative and friend of the groups most vilified by Dobbs for so many years - Latinos and immigrants - I was inspired by the power of the movement to oust him.
The ever-increasing spread and influence of the Spanish language in the US and its inevitable interaction with English has led to the emergence and daily use of a new dialect: Spanglish.
If we want to win back the right for same-sex couples to marry, we should forge strong partnerships with similar human rights movements seeking to protect the basic rights of people.
As the great Eli Wiesel, survivor of the horror of Auschwitz, taught us, we must use memory to fight against those who promote an intolerant agenda. In Arizona, more than ever, we need to exercise our historical memory and ensure that the mistakes of the past are not repeated.
I came because I lost my land. I came because of the Sandinistas. I came because I fell in love with a gringo. I came because I was a marielito in Cuba. I came because in Mexico I was robbed four times.
Elizabeth Burns es una activista a pesar de sí misma. Vive en un rancho de 38,000 acres en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México en el estado de Texas.