Posted by Maggie Rivera on November 26, 2008 at 12:20pm
May you enjoy this thanksgiving holiday al lado de todos sus familiares y otros seres queridos and don't forget to give thanks for all that you have been bless with this past year specially health and work. Pidan por la reunificación familiar a través de una reforma de inmigración justa para todos. God Bless and don't forget to laugh a lot it's good for the soul!
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A disporportionate number of black and Latino students are stuck in the city's worst schools, a Daily News analysis shows.
About 30% of students in schools given "report card" grades last month are African-American, yet blacks make up 41% of the classroom rosters in schools rated D or F.
Similarly, Latinos are 39% of the population in the graded schools - but they make up 47% of the kids in those with the lowest rankings. READ FULL STORYRead more…
President George W. Bush couldn't fix it. Neither could several sessions of Congress.
But several groups in the Bay Area are already sending their immigration policy suggestions to President-elect Barack Obama, hoping he can break the stalemate that for years has prevented lawmakers from enacting comprehensive immigration reform.
"Immigration is going to be kind of sticky, but I know he's going to do something," said the Rev. Marvin Webb of Richmond's Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church.
Webb paid a visit last week to Washington, D.C., part of a delegation of East Bay faith leaders who led a prayer rally outside the U.S. Treasury and met with Melody Barnes, a member of Obama's transition team, to talk about foreclosures and immigration. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Barack Obama's election as U.S. president has provoked a rise in hate crimes against ethnic minorities, civil rights groups said on Monday.
Hundreds of incidents of abuse or intimidation apparently motivated by racial hatred have been reported since the November 4 election, though most have not involved violence, said the Southern Poverty Law Center.
White supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Council of Conservative Citizens have seen a flood of interest from possible new members since the landmark election of the first black president in U.S. history. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Barack Obama borrowed more from the immigrant labour movement than just a slogan.
Just as Latinos historically had marched for worker rights to the chants of "Yes, we can," ("Si, se puede"), they organised and stumped by the thousands this year to help elect Obama.
Although they initially leaned more toward Hillary Clinton, Latinos threw support to Obama by 67% nationwide, increasing their turnout, delivering several key states and gaining clout in the Democratic party. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Yolanda Cuevas is living proof that the American dream is obtainable.
Founder, president and CEO of Cuevas Distribution Inc., a laboratory, medical and safety supply distribution company in Fort Worth, Cuevas is recognized as a pioneer in her industry and has captured nearly every top honor for her business acumen. Region III of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Texas Association of Mexican American Chambers of Commerce and the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce have each named her Hispanic Business Woman of the Year. READ FULL STORYRead more…
The smell of spicy meat permeates the tiny grocery store on Main and Racine streets.
Brimming shelves offer canned goods with brand names such as “Goya” and “La Morena,” along with spices and produce you don’t find at your average grocery store.
Customers murmur “perdoname” or “excuse me” as they squeeze through the narrow aisles to order chorizo sausage from the butcher or pick up some fresh tomatillos.
Soccer jerseys and piñatas hang gaily from the ceiling, welcoming patrons to this little slice of Hispanic culture.
Janesville’s handful of ethnic grocery stores—most of them Hispanic—have found a niche offering unique products and proving gathering spots for immigrant communities and fans of international cuisine. READ FULL STORYRead more…
An informative brochure about breast cancer, written in Spanish and English, has been produced to reach a growing young Latina audience in Marin County.
The effort is a collaboration between Zero Breast Cancer, a Marin-based nonprofit organization, and the Novato Youth Wellness Collaborative.
The target audience, said Zero Breast Cancer's Susan Schwartz, is Latina students and young women who might not know about preventative health practices and cancer risk factors. READ FULL STORYRead more…
With the election of former Democratic Sen. Barack Obama as president of the United States with overwhelming support from communities of color – 95 percent among Black voters and over 65 percent among Latinos – many Black Republicans, in contemplating their future, also are reflecting on their place in a party that critics say has always marginalized them.
Leading the way is former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele who has decided to run for chairman of the Republican National Committee which provides national leadership for the Republican Party. The committee is responsible for developing and promoting the Republican political platform, as well as coordinating fundraising and election strategy. It is also responsible for organizing and running the Republican National Convention.
Steele was the only African American given a prominent speaking role – “drill, baby, drill” was his most memorable line -- at this year’s Republican National Convention held in St. Paul, Minn. Only 36 of the delegates were Black, representing less than 1.5 percent of the total delegates and a 78.4 percent decline from four years earlier. READ FULL ARTICLERead more…
More than three-fourths of young women, those ages 18-29 and known as Generation Y, want incoming President Barack Obama to make civil rights and racial justice top priorities of his administration, a survey says.
While Obama's election as the nation's first black president was interpreted by many as a sign of racial progress, findings in the survey done for YWCA USA suggest that much work remains to be done.
The survey, which was to be formally released Monday, also found a generational divide among women. READ FULL STORYRead more…
In a Pennsylvania coal-mining town last July, four high-school football players were accused of shouting ethnic slurs at a Mexican immigrant before a brawl erupted and Luis Ramirez, 25, was killed.
Three of the teens were charged with ethnic intimidation, and the attack became part of a growing category of crimes reported in the U.S.: hate attacks against Hispanics.
Attacks on Hispanics grew 40 percent from 2003 to 2007, outpacing the estimated 16 percent increase in the Hispanic population in the U.S., according to FBI statistics. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Michigan has the highest outbound migration of any state in the country, and at 8.5 percent claims the nation's highest average annual unemployment. Commerce overall has posted dramatic losses, yet business within the state’s Hispanic community is flourishing. READ FULL STORYRead more…
19 de noviembre, 2008Barack Obama no es aún el Presidente de Estados Unidos, pero las especulaciones ya crece sobre las decisiones que tomará. El país no sólo se encuentra en una de las crisis económicas más graves de su historia, sino que también está entre dos guerras.Los demócratas llevan ocho años esperando volver a liderar el Gobierno y remediar el desastre que dejó el presidente George W. Bush. Empezarán por la economía y la política fiscal, la guerra de Irak, el seguro médico garantizado, y el plan nacional de energía. Estos temas progresarán lentamente en el Congreso pero por muy rápido que se legislen, no entrarán en vigor sino hasta 2011. La economía tardará en recuperarse, el desempleo está en el nivel más alto en 14 años y crecerá más en 2009.Bajo este escenario, Obama no promulgará la legislación para la reforma migratoria integral durante sus primeros años por temor a la fuerte oposición, y la pospondrá por varios años, quizá hasta su segundo mandato. Aún así, Obama podrá cumplir algunas promesas sobre Inmigración y pedir que cesen las redadas nacionales y las deportaciones que separan a las familias. Al mismo tiempo, podrá frenar el proyecto del muro fronterizo por el cual votó.En julio pasado, en la convención del Consejo Nacional de la Raza, Obama dijo: "la reforma migratoria será una prioridad en mi primer año como Presidente".El Presidente electo buscó captar el voto hispano, y los latinos le cumplieron. Pero, para él hay intereses más poderosos. Varios sindicatos, que fueron parte central de su campaña electoral, se oponen a la reforma migratoria. Alegan que los programas laborales para inmigrantes deprimirán los salarios de los trabajadores estadounidenses.Por otra parte, el futuro jefe de Gabinete, Rahm Emanuel, ha tenido roces con líderes hispanos. Según varios periódicos nacionales, existen tensiones entre Emanuel y varios miembros del Comité de Congresistas Hispanos (CCH). The Washington Post dijo en 2006, que algunos miembros del CCH y del Comité de Congresistas negros se habían quejado de que Emanuel mostraba poca sensibilidad hacia las minorías raciales. También se ha reportado que Emanuel llevó la propuesta migratoria a un punto muerto en la Cámara de Representantes para proteger a miembros del partido.En 2007, Emanuel dijo que la reforma migratoria no sería posible en el primer término del próximo Presidente, pero en septiembre, formó parte de un grupo de 20 congresistas que se comprometieron a trabajar por la reforma. El compromiso publicado en su portal oficial, pide compasión para los 12 millones de indocumentados a quienes se les pediría cumplir con requisitos para legalizar su estadía. Emanuel, al igual que Obama, dice oponerse a la separación de familias y a las redadas.Quizá esto signifique un cambio de opinión. Emanuel es un político reconocido por su astucia y determinación. Si vuelve a estimar que el seguimiento de la reforma migratoria es demasiado polémico, no querrá arriesgar ni el futuro de su partido ni otro término presidencial de Obama.Mientras la economía siga estancada, habrá poco respaldo para la legalización de los indocumentados. Hasta que el desempleo, los impuestos, y las guerras dejen de ser la gran preocupación, la reforma migratoria no saldrá adelante. Si Obama representa un cambio de era, mantendrá su palabra y cumplirá con la reforma inmigratoria en su primer año en el poder.•Rebecca Sanchez
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We all know someone like Marcelo Lucero—an immigrant who was working hard, sending money home to help his family in Ecuador, dreaming of returning to the country he left but already long settled and accustomed to a nation that has benefited from generations of men and women like him.
This was lost on the gang of youths that hunted for “a Mexican,” as reported, surrounded Lucero and who one of them killed last Saturday in Patchogue, Long Island. READ FULL STORYRead more…
They're soldiers like any others, enduring the grind of military life and sometimes risking their own as peacekeepers in hot spots like Afghanistan. But these troops defend a flag that is not their own.
Spain has struggled to recruit soldiers since it abolished the draft in 2000 and created an all-professional army.
At one point it even lowered the IQ threshold for enlistees, although it later raised it again, and eventually opened up the military to immigrants.
Today, such foreigners — most of them young Latin Americans — make up nearly 7 percent of the military's 80,000-member force. READ FULL STORYRead more…
In July, during an address to the annual meeting of the National Council of La Raza, Barack Obama promised to make comprehensive immigration reform "a top priority in my first year as president."
Don't hold your breath.
Just a few days before the election, CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked Obama to rank in order of priority five issues -- tax cuts, health care, energy, education and immigration. Obama made up his own list, appropriately adding the economy as his No. 1 priority and dropping immigration altogether.
For Latinos who assume that helping to elect Obama president guarantees them another shot at comprehensive immigration reform, his selection of Rep. Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff is not a good sign. As Speaker Nancy Pelosi's enforcer in the Democratic-controlled House, Emanuel was -- in the last two years -- a major stumbling block to achieving an immigration package. READ FULL STORYRead more…
The men who coined the phrase, "The Burrito as Big as Your Head", are branching out of the restaurant business.
LaBamba Restaurant owners will soon unveil a new Hispanic foods grocery store in Bloomington.
Many people are familiar with LaBamba's "burritos as big as your head", but now LaBambas Restaurant owners are opening one of the largest Hispanic grocery stores in Central Illinois.
Six brothers started the LaBamba Mexican food chain in Champaign back in 1988. The business has since grown, and Wednesday, they will open their 26th restaurant, but this one will be within their new Hispanic Grocery Store. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Latina women who prefer speaking Spanish are more likely than other ethnic groups to express regret or dissatisfaction with their breast cancer treatment, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Despite receiving similar treatment, Latina women were 5.6 times more likely than white women to report high levels of dissatisfaction and regret about their breast cancer treatment decision. READ FULL STORYRead more…
When Juan Shutte began feeling heat and pains in his face and back, he went to a clinic, but doctors told him they couldn't find the problem.
That's when Shutte, a Peruvian immigrant who owns a cleaning business, read about Dr. Melissa Robinson in a Spanish-language newspaper.
Robinson's practice, Natural Solutions for Health, uses nutritional counseling, diet and exercise planning, thermal massage and dietary supplements to heal the body without prescription drugs or invasive surgeries.
Shutte, a pot-bellied man who looks much younger than his 70 years, decided to try it. Within two months, his blood pressure lowered and his symptoms significantly subsided, he said.
"I had gone to the clinic for a few months and I didn't feel any different," Shutte said. "Now I'm coming here, and I feel a little better. The medicines she gave me helped calm the pain a lot."
Robinson, one of many doctors in the small but growing field of naturopathic medicine, has helped build her private practice in Stamford by offering her services to the Hispanic community at affordable rates. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Texas will need an additional 40,000 doctors by 2025 to keep up with a growing population, particularly among Hispanics, the San Antonio Express-News reports. About 20,000 of the 37,000 doctors currently practicing in Texas will have retired or left their practices over the next 17 years, READ FULL STORYRead more…
