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Feed aggregatorActivists See Irony in Calderons Speedy Response to American Killings
Activists say the Calderon administration came running after the Americans were killed, yet has failed to react with the same urgency to the many murders that have plagued Mexicans in Juarez for years.
My Wheelchair Cant Hold Me Back, But Budget Cuts Can
A sixth grade education, an accident that left her a paraplegic, could not hold back a Mexican immigrant from her dream of getting a higher education. Now poised to go to university, she finds California's budget cuts might be the real roadblock.
Marching for CA's Future Through Today's Desolation
As the March for California's Future heads up the San Joaquin Valley toward Sacramento, participants are coming up hard against the reality of the economic crisis in rural California. Marchers are finding that valley communities are among those that feel the effects of state budget cuts most strongly.
New Immigrant Rights Campaign to Mount Largest March of Obama Era
National immigrant rights leaders are escalating a pressure campaign that will feature the largest march of the Obama presidency in Washington, D.C., on March 21.
Navajo Nation Feeling Effects of New Mexico Budget Crisis
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson signed a bill that froze roughly $6 million in state funding for projects on Navajo lands.
America's Disappeared
In a series of editorials this week, El Diario/La Prensa looks at conditions within immigration detention, the lack of accountability for gross neglect, and the profits made by private corporations contracted by the federal government.
Why One Undocumented Student is Walking the Trail of Dreams
Carlos Roa, 22, has been in the US for twenty years without papers. Now he is walking 1500 miles from Miami to Washington D.C. asking politicians to move on the Dream Act which would give thousands like him to get a shot at college and legalization.
African Media Must Protect World Cup
The FIFA World Cup in South Africa has been at the receiving end of hostile publicity from the Western media, but the media in Africa can dilute such negatives by jealously guarding the tournament through objective reporting.
After Protests, Education Activists Strategize
Ten days after statewide actions against budget cuts to Californias schools and colleges, activists gathered to strategize next steps.
The St. Patricks Day Flood of 1936
Each year on March 17, I remember my mothers birthday and think of her at 25, left alone on a houseboat with three small children in the St. Patricks Day flood of 1936. It was the middle of the Great Depression, and my family lived on a houseboat on the Allegheny River at Aspinwall, upstream from the old Highland Park Bridge and Wicket Dam.
Dancing through Southeast Asia
On the opening of their latest season, Brenda Way, head of the ODC Dance Company, talks about being one of three dance companies traveling through Southeast Asia at the invitation of the State Department. ODC Downtown is at Yerba Buena's Novellus Theater from March 12-28.
How a Filipino Couple Re-Invented Selves in U.S.
Winning the lottery was a fantasy; putting up a business without the capital and the know-how was madness; working a double job was a big physical risk. Lets go abroad, they decided, and lets go together.
In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee
Chi-hui Yang is the Festival Director for the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, and Deann Borshay Liem is the director/producer of In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee. The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival is running now through March 21st.
Georgia Worries About Uptick in H1N1 Cases
Concerns about H1N1 might be ebbing but at a recent briefing in Atlanta, Georgia health officials expressed their concerns about rising numbers of hospitalizations. H1N1 is still there warned health officials.
Fresno Widens Medical Safety Net for Poor
The Medically Indigent Services Program is meant to provide basic medical care to those who cannot qualify for Medi-Cal. But Fresno county kept the eligibility level so low that many of its indigent could not even qualify. Now after a lawsuit that safety net is being expanded.
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