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Sergio's White Hot Top 5: Latin Songs
Billboard's top Latin tracks are muy caliente. (That means very hot, Sergio.)
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Obama suggests offer maybe Clinton can't refuse
On Friday, Barack Obama publicly raised the possibility of helping Hillary Clinton pay off more than $25 million in debts, including the $11.42 million she loaned her own campaign to keep it afloat in recent months.
"Historically after a campaign is done and you want to unify the party, particularly when you've had a strong opponent, you want to make sure you're putting that opponent in a strong position so that they can work to win an election in November. So, obviously, I would want to have a broad range of discussions with Senator Clinton about how I could make her feel good about
the process and have her on the team moving forward."
Talking to reporters in front of a Mexican restaurant in Woodburn, Oregon, the Illinois Senator warned that such discussions are "premature right now. She's still actively running and we've still got business to do right here in Oregon and in other states."
The Clinton campaign dismissed out-of-hand any talk of Obama helping Clinton with her debts. "We are running a competitive primary race," said spokesman Phil Singer. "We have seen the dangers of declaring 'mission accomplished' before."
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Katie Couric is Becoming Lou Dobbs (Who Needs Facts When You've Got Prejudice?)
As if Katie Couric didn’t already have enough problems.
Weighed down by record-low ratings at the anchor desk of “CBS Evening News,” and by reports suggesting she will leave that post two years before her multimillion-dollar contract expires, Couric now has civil rights groups — mostly Hispanic — on her back.
And for good reason.
The CBS newscast that carries her name recently aired a one-sided and inaccurate report about illegal immigrant women who give birth to their children in the United States. The news story challenged the broader constitutional law of birthright citizenship and stated — without providing the correct context — that the births cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars annually. As if Katie Couric didn’t already have enough problems. ... more -
La Vida Verdadero: I'm An Illegal Immigrant
Sisters Bianca and Lorena were just ten and eleven years old when they made the dangerous trip across the US-Mexico border. They settled in Oregon with their mother so they could have everything that she did not: a life beyond marriage, better education, more career choices. Now, as they approach high school graduation, they have important decisions to make. But in the turbulent US sociopolitical climate, amid strong opinions about immigration and “illegal aliens,” will it even be possible for the girls to realize the potential that lies within them? Sisters Bianca and Lorena were just ten and eleven years old when they made the dangerous trip across the US-Mexico border. They sett... more
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Saludos de Asbury Park
It's not often you can get a passport made on a weekend at the Jersey Shore. So hundreds of Mexicans flocked Saturday, April 19, to this church basement in Asbury Park to get IDs made. Since Wednesday, more than a thousand Mexican citizens have taken advantage of the Consulate on Wheels program. It's not often you can get a passport made on a weekend at the Jersey Shore. So hundreds of Mexicans flocked Saturday, April 19, to th... more
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U.S. Stamp Commemorates Chicano Martyr
"Lost in the controversy over his death and the violent repression of the National Chicano Moratorium rally (attended by 30,000 people) against the Vietnam War – was the historic nature of [Ruben Salazar's] journalism. Clearly, he was a journalist before his time and what he reported in the El Paso Herald Post and the Los Angeles Times, from 1955 through 1970, still seems relevant to this day. He covered an unpopular war; Vietnam. He also covered Cuba, the Dominican Republic and the upheaval in Mexico in the 1960s. He also wrote about the anti-war movement, black-brown relations, police repression, the border, the inhumane treatment of migrants, the trouble in the lettuce fields, and social and educational inequalities...
While not an activist, his journalism brought the emerging Chicano civil rights movement to the nation’s attention. He defined for the nation – in language that mainstream society understood – what it meant to be Chicano."
"Lost in the controversy over his death and the violent repression of the National Chicano Moratorium rally (attended by 30,000 people... more -
Virgin Of East LA
The Virgin of Guadalupe is a 16th century Mexican icon of the Virgin Mary which appears on wall murals and tattoos around the streets of East LA. This pod by vc2 producer Carlos Aguilar explores this iconography with interviews of artists, academics and people from the community. The Virgin of Guadalupe is a 16th century Mexican icon of the Virgin Mary which appears on wall murals and tattoos around the streets ... more
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Chicanos Celebrate 40th Anniversary of 1968 Walkouts
"When Mexican-American teacher Sal Castro and organized college students declared "Blowout" at East Los Angele's Lincoln High School in March 1968, students from Lincoln and five other East L.A. high schools responded by hitting the streets in peaceful protest.
They were fighting for civil and human rights in the Los Angeles Unified School District, which treated Mexican-American children as barely an afterthought." "When Mexican-American teacher Sal Castro and organized college students declared "Blowout" at East Los Angele's Lincoln High School i... more -
MEChA Becomes More Inclusive, Less Radical
"For the past 40 years, the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan -- or, Movement of Chicano Students of Aztlan -- has been criticized as racist and radical. Members sparked riots. Key philosophies, such as "For the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing," even rejected non-Mexicans. But in 1999, the group declared Chicano a philosophy, not a nationality. All people are potential Chicanos or Chicanas, the national group decided at a conference in Phoenix, Ariz." "For the past 40 years, the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan -- or, Movement of Chicano Students of Aztlan -- has been critici... more
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Budweiser Chelada
Sounds sooo wrong. Read the review, you'll see what I mean. Have you tried it?
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DIRTY MEXICAN MOVIE
Along the lines of the TELENOVELA but way cooler!
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East LA Inc.?
Unincorporated East Los Angeles has poor media representation, one mainly stuck on the topics of poverty, crime and a broken educational system. As a precursor to an East L.A.-centric, immigration piece I'm working on, I thought the current cityhood movement deserved some attention.
East Los Angeles residents officially started a cityhood movement almost a year ago. Last month, the East L.A. Residents Association (ELARA) broke news that a financial feasibility report shows that East L.A. is sustainable as a city, generating $48 million annually. This short report from Saturday Oct. 13, 2007, was a benefit/awareness concert aimed at the youth of East Los Angeles, as organized by 'Cityhood for East L.A.' volunteers.
*Excuse the video quality, a result of YouTube! Unincorporated East Los Angeles has poor media representation, one mainly stuck on the topics of poverty, crime and a broken education... more -
"Usted padece de Pendejitis"
if you speak Mexican, you'll get a kick out of this.
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Guapa Luchadora
Kinga goes to Mexico City to study the 2nd most popular Mexican sport - Lucha Libre. We get an inside look at the training and culture as she tries to see if she has what it takes to be a Luchador. Kinga goes to Mexico City to study the 2nd most popular Mexican sport - Lucha Libre. We get an inside look at the training and culture... more
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