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Hero- Music Video
A little thing we did with a 35mm camera, Enrique Iglesias might be a little jealous.
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Barack Obama at Annual NCLR Conference
This past Saturday Barack Obama spoke at the annual NCLR (The National Council of La Raza) Conference
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New McCain Ad: Hispanic Immigrants Are "God's Children"
In a new ad, John McCain reaches out to Hispanic members of the Armed Forces.
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A Gozar (To Enjoy): An Introduction to Salsa Dancing
Venture into the world of SALSA DANCING! Salsa is much more than just a dance... watch and find out why.
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Gang Injunctions
San Francisco is experimenting with gang injunctions as a way to curb violence across the city. While gang injunctions can vary from city to city and neighborhood, they generally involve restrictive curfews for adult gang members in city-designated "safety zones". While injunctions usually result in quick drops in crime, the long-term impact is nebulous at best.
As of June 2008, San Francisco City Attorney, Dennis Herrera, has installed 3 injunctions in the neighborhoods of Bayview, Fillmore and Mission, all predominantly people of color districts.
In the Mission district, San Francisco's largest Hispanic neighborhood, ex-gang members are organizing at a grassroots level to combat the root causes of gang membership while also organizing against the injunction. They complain that the injunction criminalizes youth, legalizes racial profiling, and does little to address the root causes of gang membership. The City Attorney has remained an aloof figure to them and an easy target of their anger and disappointment with the city. San Francisco is experimenting with gang injunctions as a way to curb violence across the city. While gang injunctions can vary from c... more -
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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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 -
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 -
Danza Azteca
Aztec Dancing is not just beautiful and colorful, it's also a way for Hispanic people to keep in touch with their culture and a way to pass down their cultural heritage.
The dancing also unites people from other cultures such as Native Americans, who also share a passion for dancing.
We take a closer look at the dancers and their preparation and find out how it's more than just dancing, it's a form of meditation and and promotes health and spiritual well being too. Aztec Dancing is not just beautiful and colorful, it's also a way for Hispanic people to keep in touch with their culture and a way to... more -
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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1 in 100 U.S. adults behind bars, new study says
Incarceration rates are even higher for some groups. One in 36 Hispanic adults is behind bars, based on Justice Department figures for 2006. One in 15 black adults is, too, as is one in nine black men between the ages of 20 and 34.
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1 in a hundred doesn't sound bad compared with 1 in 9, blacks obviously have it way worse. This is institutionalized slavery.
When are we going to do something about this? Angela Davis, help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Incarceration rates are even higher for some groups. One in 36 Hispanic adults is behind bars, based on Justice Department figures for... more -
Would you like Jesus on your Tortilla?: Joe Bravo redefines Chicano Art
excerpt from the article:
"Bravo, 57, admits that he never consciously set out to do anything avant garde. the early 1970s, he was a starving art student at the University of California, Northridge. 'I didn't have the money to buy canvas,' he said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles, where he lives. 'I was looking at some tortillas in my kitchen and was just tripping on the textures.' So Bravo painted five tortillas with Mayan codexes and hung them as a mobile in a school exhibition..."
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Next Up for the Democrats: Civil War
Frank Rich on the Clinton campaign's "bigoted lie."
Last month a Hispanic pollster employed by the Clinton campaign pitted the two groups against each other by telling The New Yorker that Hispanic voters have “not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates.” Mrs. Clinton then seconded the motion by telling Tim Russert in a debate that her pollster was “making a historical statement.”
It wasn’t an accurate statement, historical or otherwise. It was a lie, and a bigoted lie at that, given that it branded Hispanics, a group as heterogeneous as any other, as monolithic racists. As the columnist Gregory Rodriguez pointed out in The Los Angeles Times, all three black members of Congress in that city won in heavily Latino districts; black mayors as various as David Dinkins in New York in the 1980s and Ron Kirk in Dallas in the 1990s received more than 70 percent of the Hispanic vote. The real point of the Clinton campaign’s decision to sow misinformation and racial division, Mr. Rodriguez concluded, was to “undermine one of Obama’s central selling points, that he can build bridges and unite Americans of all types.”
If that was the intent, it didn’t work. Frank Rich on the Clinton campaign's "bigoted lie." ... more -
Wedge Issue in 2008
Gay men and lesbians who survived the 2004 presidential election against republicans who successfully used same-sex marriage as a wedge issue in 11 states are relieved not having to fight this battle again. If polls are correct, this will be a democratic year and the gay community seems satisfied with either Clinton or Obama as president. In stark contrast to the republican race, this year will be a watershed year for the Democratic Party with potentially the first woman or African American party nominee/president, and the first gay-sponsored debate back in August, among others. Gays are an important voting bloc in states like New York, comprising between 5-13% of democratic voters. As the race tightens, Clinton and Obama are aggressively courting gay voters.
It is easy to forget past struggles when tides are turning in the gay community's favor such as more and more states are granting civil unions, in one state particular, Massachusetts, permits same-sex marriage, and recent passage of federal anti-discrimination laws to include sexual-orientation. While polls showing greater public tolerance and gay issues becoming non-issues, another group is increasingly being marginalized. This year's wedge issue will be immigration, and intrusive anti-immigration laws at the state and local level have torn families apart, and driven a myriad of Hispanics from their communities. Gays (and other minorities) must wage in the debate and cannot be complacent because of recent successes. At minimum, we are bound by one belief - the fundamental principle of human rights and dignity applies to all human beings regardless of citizenship status.
As pastor Martin Niemoller famously said during the Holocaust, "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me." The time to speak up is now. Gay men and lesbians who survived the 2004 presidential election against republicans who successfully used same-sex marriage as a wedg... more -
You Need to Know Gladys
Knowing Gladys Alard has enriched my life.
Here are five reasons why you need to know her too:
1) She's 81 and she dances better than you can.
2) She went to school with Fidel Castro.
3) She's an amazing story teller.
4) She's charming.
5) She'll teach you what she's taught me about enjoying a full, abundant life.
Knowing Gladys Alard has enriched my life. Here are five reasons why you need to know her too: ... more -
The complicated measure of being Hispanic in America
Are the terms used to classify Hispanics and Latinos too limiting? This articles seems to say yes. One could say that about every race. Being put in a box. I heard someone say once that there are more differences within a race than between different races. Do you think its true? Our society doesn't recognize that. You are this or you are that. Not some combination, or not even that at all, and maybe something entirely different. Why do we even have to categorize? Stupid census. "Hispanics and Latinos are described as the largest minority group in the United States, as a burgeoning force in the electorate and as an untapped frontier of the business market. Yet these descriptions belie the complexity of the 44 million people to whom they refer. Even the terms used to name them -- Hispanics, Hispanic-Americans, Latinos, Latino-Americans, the Spanish-surnamed -- too tightly package the people categorized by those definitions, some observers say." Are the terms used to classify Hispanics and Latinos too limiting? This articles seems to say yes. One could say that about every rac... more
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Homegirl Cafe
Ex-girl gangsters serve up Mexican cuisine at a Los Angeles eatery with a side of salsa and attitude.
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