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. […]
For the sake and the preservation of journalism, its media role should be understood as the watchdog of private, as well as public entities and officials, including its ability to denounce corruption and fraud when the occasion arises. […]
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. […]
If a recent report by COFADEH is any indicator, there has been an exponential rise in the number of human rights violations since the June 28 coup. The report documented over 1,100 cases of arbitrary detentions, attacks on the media, killings and other human rights violations. […]
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. […]
The Brazilian band Os Mutantes reappears from the ashes, has a new CD and performs in San Francisco, California […]
Running two wars in the Eastern hemisphere and possessing an unaccomplished task list, it seems that in peace matters, nothing has been tangibly achieved. […]
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 Obama administration has trouble defining Hasan’s actions as a terrorism act, under the argument that it could be seen as demonizing Islam. In fact, mainstream media has followed that trend. […]
Al Qaeda is testing the Obama administration from many fronts and eager to use any resources. We can see it by just analyzing their willingness to utilize a confused, on the verge of depression, 23-year-old kid, in an operation far from the sophistication of the 9/11 attack. […]
It is true that undocumented immigrants have violated laws when they crossed the border without a visa, but this situation cannot be fixed by attacking the weak link in the chain. […]
One in three Hispanics does not have health coverage. Thirty two percent of all the uninsured are Latinos. […]
Leslie Coche had been detained aboard the Tri-Rail -a local train system in Florida, from Miami to Palm Beach County, as she was going to class. What was her crime to justify her being picked up without any respect to her rights?
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