Chicago boy de la izquierda
December 21st, 2006
According to The Washington Post, Correa’s adviser at the University of Illinois, Werner Baer, supports his former student. “He appreciates the market to a certain point, but he knows that the market left alone concentrates wealth,” he said. “He is not going to do anything foolish… because he is a fairly open-minded person…
Calico Electronico
December 16th, 2006
Iowa needs more Hispanics
December 12th, 2006State policy must be more welcoming to immigrants if Iowa and two other Midwest states are to thrive economically, a trio of experts said Tuesday.“We need people in Iowa, and we need them now,” said Mark Grey, director of the Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration and a professor at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls.
Nada
December 6th, 2006Newspaper in English or Spanish
December 5th, 2006No question, reading and speaking English are crucial skills when it comes to prospering in the United States. That is, in part, why we publish a Spanish edition. And it’s also why immigrant populations do assimilate. By the second or third generation, English is the primary, if not only, language spoken.
Eric Estrada, Wee Man, and Latoya Jackson
November 26th, 2006There with Estrada was the dwarf from the show Jackass, Wee Man, and nearby was a very thin woman wearing a fur shawl. I didn’t know who she was until somebody told me it was La Toya Jackson.
Small town immigration enforcement
November 21st, 2006The trend started this summer in a small Pennsylvania town and swept across middle America, with at least 50 local governments considering immigration-related ordinances and roughly a dozen taking action. But nearly every local law aimed at barring illegal immigrants from working or renting homes has been stalled by a legal challenge.
No le toquen las palomas
November 17th, 2006
Mientras que a los Michiguanos no se les puede tocar la paloma, es importante mantener una población ignorante para mantener pisados a los latinos y otras minorías. Asi fueron los resultados de las recientes elecciones.
[Michigan voters spare state's doves]
New Hoosiers
November 9th, 2006The Brookings Institution says the number of Latinos in the Circle City grew 44 percent from 2000 to 2004. But the preceding decade was truly staggering with growth of 263 percent from 1990 to 2000. Indy’s Hispanic population now ranks as the fifth fastest growing in the country.
WISH-TV – Indianapolis News and Weather – Hispanics Making Indianapolis Home in Large Numbers
The middle of middle America turns to the Democrats
November 9th, 2006If you draw a line across the US, splitting its population, with 150m
people to the north of the divide and the same number to the south, and
then draw a second, east-to-west, line, the cross formed falls close to
Owensville, a hamlet in southern Indiana.
Rafael Romero en Plan B
November 6th, 2006With this post I’ll start a new category called “Latinohoosier“, that was my original intention in the first place. These posts will be about people that in one way or another (for better or for worse) have lived (or are still living) in Indiana and to which I will homage (like it or not) as Latinohoosiers.
Plan B es la ópera prima de Alejandro García Wiedemann, director de fotografía de amplia trayectoria en el cine venezolano (su último trabajo ha sido la dirección de fotografía de Elipsis).El filme cuenta la historia de un asalto y una posterior persecución que transcurre en el Cerro Ávila, montaña desde la que se domina la capital venezolana. Casi un 90 por ciento de la trama se desarrolla en esta reserva forestal.Plan B está protagonizada por Edgar Ramírez, Fabiola Colmenares, Rafael Romero, Luis Gerónimo Abreu, Javier Paredes y Paul Vega. Su estreno está pautado para el próximo 3 de noviembre de 2006.En la página de Maraca Producciones encontrarán más información.
Fuerza en Goshen
November 5th, 2006
The film, “Fuerza” or “force” subtitled in both English and Spanish, underscores the huge growth in Goshen’s Hispanic population in the last few years.
WNDU-TV: News Story: Documentary on immigration to debut in Goshen Theater – November 02, 2006
Jesus is black in “Colour of the Cross”
October 31st, 2006
If you go to China, Jesus is portrayed as a Chinese person; you go to parts of Africa, Jesus is portrayed as an African person; you go to Mexico, there are images of Jesus looking more Latino and Mexican. Black Americans are the only race of people on the planet that worship a Jesus outside of our own image.
Outrighting the Right–Democrats Go Anti-Latino
October 30th, 2006The tough border security message is carried mostly by Democrats in the South and the Midwest, where a surge of Hispanic immigration is transforming small towns and cities. In such communities, some candidates are deriding legalization as amnesty, proclaiming border security as their priority or criticizing Republican challengers as failing to stem the tide of illegal immigration.
Puerto Rican Power in Cincinnati
October 26th, 2006
it’s bringing DJs and bands from all over… the Midwest ! DJ Cisco from Detroit, MI; DJ TaZ from Indianapolis, IN; DJ Danny D, from Dayton; DJ Jimmy C from Cleveland; DJ Ray Arebalo from Columbus; and DJ Rudy Alvarez from Cincinnati!
Colosal debut de Cindy Valentín
October 26th, 2006Las ‘basketbolistas’ Cindy Valentín y Esmary Vargas presentaron este fin de semana sensacionales partidos respectivamente en las ligas de Israel y Alemania, para dejar establecido que la entrada de mujeres boricuas al baloncesto europeo está teniendo éxito.
Cuba y las tinieblas del racismo
October 15th, 2006
138 años después, el racismo sobrevive aún en la sociedad cubana a pesar de que a partir de 1959 fueron abolidas todas las prácticas institucionales, públicas y privadas, que de alguna forma sostenían este flagelo.
Freddy Fender
October 15th, 2006Born Baldemar Huerta in 1937 in San Benito, Texas, in the Rio Grande valley, his parents were migrant Mexican farm workers. He began working in the fields himself at the age of 10, and later described an early life in which he “worked beets in Michigan, pickles in Ohio, baled hay and picked tomatoes in Indiana . . . when that was over it was cotton- picking time in Arkansas”.
Invaders
October 10th, 2006It’s pathetic that 5 years after 9-11, thousands of invaders per day can just walk into our country! Once the fence system was built, the present numbers of Border Patrol Agents could be effectively employed watching the very finite fence for breaches. Today, they are in the hapless position of playing “Keystone Kops,” running around 100,000 square miles of desert, looking for thousands of invaders who simply walked into the country and disappeared into the scrub lands.
ESR | October 9, 2006 | Matthew Bracken on borders, books, and the future of freedom
Por La Boca Muere El Pep
October 9th, 2006Locos of Comedy
October 9th, 2006“He was the first Latino comic. There was hardly any Latino comics before that,” he said. “You had Bill Dana, who was coming off as Jose Jimenez in the ’50s and ’60s on ‘The Steve Allen Show,’ but there was really nothing until Freddie Prinze.”
Driving in Russian, Croatian, Chinese and Spanish.
October 8th, 2006The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles hopes to do the same for as many as15 ethnic groups whosepopulations are on the rise, said BMV Commissioner Gary A. Gibson.While Hispanics have been the fastest-growing group, the state standsready to translate the intricaciesof turning left at a stoplight into Russian, Croatian and Chinese,Gibson said.
Carpentersville
October 5th, 2006Estos carpinteros son bravos!
A small village in Illinois is “cracking down” on Latino immigrants and declaring English the “official language” of the town, called Carpentersville. Whatever happened to that sweet midwestern hospitality?
Small town racism in the midwest » VivirLatino
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El Football
October 1st, 2006Chicano, Latino, and Hispanic
September 29th, 2006What it means, Who uses it, Why it is controversial.
Hacienda drew criticism
September 25th, 2006
Critics said this week that the ad stereotypes Mexicans and contributes to a negative perception of them at a time when a contentious illegal immigration debate has heightened tensions against the Mexican community. They said this isn’t the first time the restaurant has produced an offensive promotion.
S-e-x-Oh
September 24th, 2006
The Bloomington Playwrights Project announces Border Lines: A Festival of Plays by Latino & Latina Writers! The festival of short plays will celebrate Latino culture and bring nationally-known talent as well as local talent together for a festival that explores border lines both literal and metaphorical. A TRIO of short plays will alternate with performances of S-e-x-Oh! by Chicago-based Teatro Luna. The Trio includes UNDERCURRENTS by Elaine Romero, FAREWELL TO HOLLYWOOD by Guillermo Reyes, and DEATH ON MY MIND by Raul H. Castillo. The BORDER LINES FESTIVAL runs September 14-30 at the Bloomington Playwrights Project, 107 West 9th. Bloomington, IN
Third World Farm Labor
September 20th, 2006This unimposing building, which serves as the headquarters of the North Carolina Growers Association, is the nation’s largest distribution point for Third World farm labor. Each year the warehouse receives and parcels out more than 10,000 Mexican men to farmers who need hands to pick tobacco, dig sweet potatoes, or harvest Christmas trees.
Catch Illegal Immigrants
September 20th, 2006Last week, The Michigan Daily reported that Morgan Wilkins, an independent contractor hired by the College Republican National Committee to rally Michigan college students, was considering holding “Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day” at campuses around the state.
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