Derechos civiles
Sida: la lucha continúa después de 25 años
Hoy ofrecemos pruebas de VIH/HEP-C, tratamientos de salud mental, servicios de prevención de abuso de drogas a las comunidades LGBTQ, latinas y otras comunidades desatendidas […]
latinos
Especiales
El Inglañol o Spanglish es inevitable, pero…
Tales palabras y el intercalar términos ingleses se han incrustado en el habla coloquial hispana en EE.UU., incluso entre quienes dominan con soltura el castellano. Porque que tire la primera piedra el latino que no dice: “mañana tengo un appointment con el médico”. […]
Derechos civiles
Protección a los jóvenes LGBTQ que viven en la calle
Los jóvenes LGBTQ son la población en mayor riesgo de caer en el desamparo, y tienen el doble de posibilidades de carecer de vivienda comparado con jóvenes que no son LGBTQ […]
Donald Trump
El Plan Maestro de Trump
Son tiempos en que hablar en español en público también puede dar pie a algún ataque verbal o incluso físico de parte de racistas que se han envalentonado gracias a que el ocupante de la Casa Blanca ha normalizado el prejuicio […]
Los Angeles
¿Qué es Los Angeles?
Para algunos, el lugar en donde los empleos abundan, los refrigeradores se llenan mágicamente de alimentos y hasta los niños de pecho manejan su carro. […]
Sociedad
No sólo por amor nos casamos
Cuando Giovanni la vio a Carlota por primera vez en una fiesta en una casa en Reseda, California, dice que se enamoró en el momento. Al principio no sabía que ella estaba allí, pero apenas […]
Lenguaje
El Quijote según Ilán Stavans
In un placete de La Mancha of which nombre no quiero remembrearme, vivía, not so long ago, uno de esos gentlemen who always tienen una lanza in the rack… […]
English
Arizona Casts Obama as ‘Frenemy’ of SB-1070
Until the President acts decisively to eradicate these programs at the root of the SB-1070 problem plaguing the country, activists should and will continue actions-protests, boycotts, vigils, and other community based actions-that will increasingly target also Washington and Obama. […]
English
Origin and perspective of Spanglish (I)
Spanish, the second most common language in this country, represents a linguistic mosaic to which the original Hispanic presence as well as the subsequent migration flows, have contributed. […]
English
A National ID Card System?
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. […]
English
Immigration Reform: a Voice of Reason
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: […]
English
Sotomayor, Conservative Judge
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. […]
English
Immigration: Humanitarian and Just
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. […]
English
The Obama Vision: immigrant detention centers
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. […]
English
Lou Dobbs plays the victim
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. […]