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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."
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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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Would you like Jesus on your Tortilla?: Joe Bravo redefines Chicano Art
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"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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Immigration Rallies
Thousands of people in cities across the nation march and rally to protest U.S. immigration policy. Demonstrators want a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, hoping marches will spark Congress to act before the 2008 presidential election. Thousands of people in cities across the nation march and rally to protest U.S. immigration policy. Demonstrators want a path to citi... more
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