Archive for the ‘Latinos’ Category

Dolores Huerta: Organizing is the only answer

Longtime organizer and legendary Chicano Movement leader Dolores Huerta stresses the need for effective organizing and voter registration. Phoenix, Arizona. January 11, 2011 - Reached via telephone in her office in Bakersfield, California, organizer and Chicano Movement icon Dolores Huerta speaks about...

January 13th, 2011 | Featured, Latinos | Read More

Alessandra Soler-Meetze and Immigration in Arizona

Pictured in her office, Alessandra Soler-Meetze, Director of ACLU of Arizona, is proud of the work her organization has done in the community, and for the fact she is the first Latina to head the ACLU The director of the ACLU of Arizona shares her personal satisfactions and the difficult work of advocating...

December 3rd, 2010 | Immigration, Latinos, Politics, Women | Read More

ASU students rally to push passage of elusive DREAM Act

Tempe, Arizona – A coalition of Arizona State University students and activists rallied Tuesday in support of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act. If approved, the proposed legislation would allow thousands of undocumented students in the country to legalize their status,...

December 2nd, 2010 | Education, Featured, Latinos, Politics | Read More

Family values and journalism shaped ACLU of Arizona director’s life, leadership

Alessandra Soler-Meetze, director of the ACLU of Arizona, talks about her beginnings in journalism, her family influences, and her transition from a reporter’s job with a major daily to becoming the leader of an strategic affiliate of the national civil liberties organization. Phoenix, Arizona...

October 25th, 2010 | Featured, Immigration, Latinos, Organizing Latino Immigrants for Social Justice, US | Read More

“Cesar’s Last Fast”: An Interview with Producer/Director Richard Ray Perez

Richard Ray Perez produced and directed the seminal political documentary Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election, which The Los Angeles Times called “a riveting story about the undermining of democracy in America.” Also, Perez executive produced the multi-platform documentary series,...

October 21st, 2010 | Featured, Latinos, Politics | Read More

Latinos in America: Are they outsiders-within?

I was flying cross country in mid September when I noticed that the airline’s peanut wrappers and napkins announced the arrival and importance of National Hispanic Heritage month. While snacking I began to think about issues that prove important to members of this community, of which I am one. ...

October 1st, 2010 | Featured, Latinos, Racial Equity | Read More

One for the DREAMers

WE RETURN with a call for action! The DREAM Act is up for a vote. Despite the fact that as usual, politicians play cynical games of expediency with people’s lives, there is cause for enthusiasm and happiness. So get on that phone! Also featuring the vaunted political Beer Test. News With Nezua...

September 22nd, 2010 | Education, Featured, Immigration, Latinos | Read More

Red, Brown, and Blue: How our definition of whiteness has changed with each new wave of immigration

Destination Casa Blanca’s host Ray Suarez takes a look at a new history of immigration, and the opposition, in America…. One St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago, back when I was working as a television reporter there in the 1980s, I wandered up and down the famous parade route on Dearborn...

September 20th, 2010 | Featured, Latinos | Read More