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Celebrate Latino Heritage through Music and Advocacy
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Celebrate Latino Heritage through Music and Advocacy

By Grace Bastidas | 08/13/2010 - 08:00 | 1 Comment

Listen up! The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) has joined forces with the Dolores Huerta Foundation and the Mexican Heritage Corporation (MHC) to organize a series of concerts in California that not only honor Latino culture but also spread awareness about the need for immigration reform. That’s...

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Tougher Immigration Laws than SB 1070 Proposed in FL

By Mariela Rosario | 08/12/2010 - 17:30 | 10 Comments

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum proposed a sweeping immigration reform bill in his homestate this week that trumps even Arizona's notorious SB 1070 and would give Florida the distinction of being the state with the harshest stance on immigration...

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Hispanic Media Turns on Obama
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Is President Obama Losing the Faith of Latinos?

By Elayne Fluker | 08/12/2010 - 08:00 | 0 Comments

Heavyweights who cover politics in Latin media are weighing in with discontent on President Obama's failure to propose important immigration legislation as he advocated during his campaign. And the sense is that the president is, as a result, losing support within the Latino community. Univision’s Jorge Ramos, an anchor on the Spanish-language television network, told...

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Activist Dolores Huerta on Immigration Reform, the Dream Act and Why Immigrants Come to the US

By Angie Romero | 08/11/2010 - 11:30 | 0 Comments

You’re a big supporter of Zack de la Rocha’s SoundStrike campaign. What’s he doing right?

He’s raising money for legal organizations that are fighting the Arizona law like MALDEF and ACLU, but he’s also helping out the junior community...

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Republicans Pushing to Change 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

By Mariela Rosario | 08/06/2010 - 08:00 | 0 Comments

Republicans have renewed the call to revise the 14th amendment of the constitution, which guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the United States. Though ratified 140 years ago and listed as one of the...

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SB 1070: What To Do If Police Pull You Over

By Mariela Rosario | 08/04/2010 - 09:00 | 16 Comments

Although many of the most offensive sections of the proposed new SB 1070 legislation were blocked from going into effect last Thursday, July 29th, some local Arizona authorities are taking the law into their own hands. We spoke to...

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Watch: Lady Gaga Slams SB 1070 at Arizona Concert

By Mariela Rosario | 08/02/2010 - 13:30 | 3 Comments

Although Lady Gaga did not join the long list of artists recruited by Zack de la Rocha's Sound Strike in boycotting her performances scheduled for Arizona, the eccentric pop star took a moment to speak out...

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What Does the Ruling Against SB 1070 Really Mean?

By Mariela Rosario | 07/30/2010 - 18:00 | 17 Comments

Latinos celebrated a victory on Wednesday as U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton placed an injunction against many of the most crucial sections of the new SB 1070 legislation. We asked Nina Perales, a lawyer for MALDEF who helped to win the crucial injunction against SB 1070, to explain what’s next, and what the ruling really...

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