Latinos & Hispanics

October 13, 2022

Tidbits – Oct. 13, 2022 – Reader Comments: Los Angeles City Hall Racism; Segregation; Amazon Workers; Ukraine War Dissent; COVID-19 Protocols and Feminist Ethics of Care; Abortion Access-A Workers’ Issue; Cartoons; Announcements; More;

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Reader Comments: Los Angeles City Hall Racism; Segregation; Amazon workers; Alabama PaperMill Workers; Ukraine War dissent; Covid-19 Protocols and Feminist Ethics of Care; Abortion Access-A Workers' Issue; Cartoons; Announcements; more;

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March 13, 2022

'Sesame Street' actor, Emilio Delgado, dies after a battle with blood cancer

Mandalit Del Barco NPR

Delgado was the coordinator of the Sesame Workshop's Bilingual Talk Force, helping to add bilingual content to the beloved children's show. As the first human character in the Muppet world, he introduced audiences to Spanish words and Latino culture

January 20, 2022

Latino Dems Warn About Midterm Fall-Off

Sabrina Rodriguez Politico

Latino Democrats are increasingly worried that time is running out to do anything that would make a significant difference ahead of the 2022 midterms, when the party needs a robust Latino turnout to preserve its slim majorities in Congress.

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December 24, 2020

Whitewashing the Great Depression

Sarah Boxes The Atlantic

The preeminent photographic record of the period excluded people of color from the nation’s self-image. This collective portrait contributed to the misbegotten idea, still current, that the soul of America, the real American type, is rural and white

November 24, 2020

Dispatches From the Culture Wars - More Loose Ends

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Lots of unanswered questions and quirky shifts as we move into a crisis-ridden era

November 9, 2020

Turning Arizona Blue: On the Ground in Maricopa County

Peter Olney The Stansbury Forum

The heroes of this election season are the millions of citizen volunteers who texted, phoned and post carded, but perhaps the biggest contribution nationally was the work of the beleaguered HERE which lost 80% of its members due to COVID impacts.

September 29, 2020

Dispatches From the Culture Wars - September 29, 2019

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Can you explain “peaceful transition"? Where is the “Red Menace”? Is there a “Latin vote”? Why does “crazy” = “evil”? Another week, harder questions

September 21, 2020

The U.S. Needs a New ‘Good Neighbor’ Policy Toward Latin America

Medea Benjamin, Leonardo Flores Foreign Policy in Focus

Progressive groups are pushing a potential Biden administration to base its policies toward the region on non-intervention, cooperation, and mutual respect.

April 11, 2020

Soledad ‘Chole’ Alatorre, pioneering labor organizer and Latina activist, dies at 94

Gustavo Arellano Los Angeles Times

Alatorre remained active even as she turned 90, participating in amnesty marches and holding citizenship classes. To the end, she insisted that activists forsake their differences as well as glory to work for el pueblo.

February 17, 2020

The Shame of Child Poverty in the Age of Trump

Rajan Menon Tom Dispatch

young girl holding cardboard sign "Please Help"

...according to the Children's Defense Fund, kids now constitute one-third of the 38.1 million Americans classified as poor and 70% of them have at least one working parent -- so poverty can’t be chalked up to parental indolence.

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