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Last time this came up there was no clear winner between Memin and Speedy?

For more than 60 years Mexicans have followed the adventures of “Memin Pinguin.” But the dark-skinned Memin’s exaggerated features in “Memin for President” came as a shock to Houston, Texas, Wal-Mart shopper Shawnedria McGinty.

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Gilchrist, a former California accountant, founded the project in October 2004. In two years, the grass-roots border-control group had grown to boast more than 200 chapters across the country.Today, Gilchrist says, a host of internal problems are bringing the movement to its knees.More than 20 chapters, including the Skokie-based Illinois Minuteman project, have disbanded, leaving fewer than 180 in operation.Dozens of chapters are fighting with one another and vying for attention, he said.

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According to a radio report on NPR yesterday, Latinos make up about five percent of the total population in Indiana. According to the same radio report, most of these Latinos are Mexican and Puerto Ricans.

The Face of Indiana Latinos » VivirLatino

Listen to a sincere man in Martinsville, Indiana go through the process of elimination

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Former Fort Wayne City Councilman Dr. Tom Hayhurst raised the most popular topic of the rally- namely, immigration. Candelaria Reardon said Obama offers the best hope to address immigration issues. She said Obama’s “priority is to safeguard the borders.”According to Candelaria Reardon said Obama favors a plan of “passion that does not separate families and does not take ten years to navigate.”She shared how difficult an issue this is for her. Candelaria Reardon said she is the “only Latino in the Assembly or Senate in Indianapolis.”I put aside that it (immigration reform) targets Latinos and I know it will apply to all,” she explained. “We have won small battles but we have not won the war.”Candelaria Reardon urged that action “at the federal level recognize that this is much bigger (than a Latino border issue).”

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Sen. Clinton’s ace could be Puerto Rico, whose 2.4 million registered voters will hold their first-ever presidential primary on June 1. Puerto Rico doesn’t have an electoral-college vote, but it does have 63 delegates to the Democratic convention and enthusiastic voters — 80% of them turned out in each of the island’s past four gubernatorial elections. Sen. Clinton is popular among Hispanics nationally, and her home state has the country’s largest Puerto Rican-immigrant population.

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The New World Cinema Series will present six independent Latin American films in 20 U.S. cities during 2009.The traveling festival will visit theaters throughout the country, screening a new film every other month and giving directors an opportunity to travel with the film to speak to the public and the press.Organizers plan to target markets that have both large Latino populations and crossover potential, like Los Angeles and Miami, but also smaller cities like Bloomington, Indiana and Tucson, Ariz.

“I think that those institutions that decide to run the model as it’s been so successfully run over the last decade and a half will see their admission rates go up,” said Kurt M. Thiede, vice president for enrollment management at Bucknell.Nationally, the population decline is projected to be relatively gentle, with the number of high school graduates expected to fall in the Northeast and Midwest, while continuing to increase in the South and Southwest.The number of white high school graduates will go down nationally, and the number of African-American graduates will remain relatively steady. But the number of Hispanic and Asian-American graduates will increase sharply, according to projections by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, whose demographic estimates are highly regarded by admissions officials.

MILWAUKEE is a striking example of how much America owes to German immigrants. The city is a paradise for beer-swillers and sausage-scoffers (it was the scene of the “sausage summit” between Bill Clinton and Helmut Kohl in 1996). The grandest hotel is the Pfister, the local theatre is the Pabst, and one of the main streets is North Teutonia Avenue. The phone book lists 40 pages of Schmitts and Schmidts.And yet today this frozen chunk of Greater Germania is being transformed by people from much sunnier climes. Milwaukee’s 80,000 or so Hispanics make up almost 15% of the population.

Fittingly, the first person to detect a faint signal in all the noise was the interpreter. The 33-year-old woman who worked for eight years working with Spanish-speaking patients at a medical clinic in southern Minnesota noticed something familiar as she translated the story of a young meatpacker last September.Earlier last summer, she had heard a version of it from two other workers at the same slaughterhouse, and had told it to their doctors, who were different from her current patient’s. When the consultation was over, she pointed this out.The interpreter’s insight set in motion a story, still unfolding, that may be making envious the ghost of Berton Roueche, the legendary chronicler of medical mysteries at the New Yorker magazine.

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Proponents of the bill claim Indiana’s estimated 85,000 undocumented residents cost taxpayers more than $200 million a year. At the same time, various studies credit Indiana’s estimated 300,000 Hispanics — documented and undocumented — with paying $200 million in state and local taxes and packing $4.8 billion in buying power.

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Allen County’s sheriff plans to crack down on crime by keeping an eye on illegal aliens. The sheriff wants to train officers to also do immigration enforcement. He believes it will reduce crime, but immigrants are concerned it could lead to racial profiling.Sheriff Ken Fries wants some of his officers to wear another badge. He hopes to make 10 to 20 officers immigration agents.

While historically concentrated in the Northeast, especially New York City, and the Midwest, the U.S. Puerto Rican population has not only increased but has become more dispersed during the last two decades.[5] In the 1990s the Puerto Rican population in Florida dramatically increased, making it the state with the second-largest concentration. Puerto Rican populations are also growing fast in other parts of the South, in smaller cities, and in suburban and ex-urban areas where a Puerto Rican presence is new. This new spatial distribution was accompanied by new patterns of migration from Puerto Rico and new professional and middle classes moving to these new areas, raising the potential for a new north-south economic polarization whose political implications are yet to be fully clear. This raises challenges to the more traditional stateside Puerto Rican political and economic narratives as a Northeast urban population loyal to the Democratic Party and New Deal policies.

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“Can’t we have a situation where race becomes a secondary factor?” Dickson asked.Miklos argued the defense was trying to control the racial makeup of the jury.There were eight Caucasians and four blacks sitting on the jury, Schlesinger said. Four jurors were Hispanic, but the law does not distinguish Hispanics as a separate race, he said.Justices are expected to make a decision on the case sometime next year.

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When they met, Ariza de Gomez and Gomez would talk on the phone. Soon, Gomez asked Ariza de Gomez if she wanted to go out sometime. But she said no.”I’m a lady,” she told him. “You have to marry me.”And so he did.His daughter was a witness at the short civil ceremony, but the couple does not remember much else. When you’re old, they explained, memories tend to fade. Afterward, they ate a shrimp dinner.

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“The strange thing is that (Gomez) made romantic music,” said Ildefonso Carbajal, editor of Indianapolis-based newspaper La Ola Latino-Americana. “When you hear about this kind of thing, it’s usually because someone got killed for singing ‘narcocorrido’ (music glamorizing drugs and guns). Supposedly, this guy never did that.”Mayraelisa Arroyo, on-air personality at Spanish-language radio station WSYW-AM (810), said Gomez moved from Chicago with his parents, siblings, wife and three sons to Indiana to live closer to relatives in the Alcauter family, who own and operate several locations of Merry’s Bakery.

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The draft regulations and the Senate bill assume that any remains found belong to federally recognized tribes, said Cleone Hawkinson, a founding member of the Portland, Ore.-based Friends of America’s Past. That includes remains from small bands of people who died out and left no descendants, and remains of indigenous ancestors to modern-day Latinos, including those who died just a few hundred years ago.”By changing the definition to include everything found as Native American, (the grave protection act) automatically applies to everything, before any scientific study. Then tribes can decide if they want to allow study,” Hawkinson said.

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Nearly 5,000 people (including 3,000 Iowans) braved a storm in the Midwest to pack an auditorium in downtown Des Moines and listen. Family farmers spoke of their community being invaded by the stench and pollution of industrial hog farms. Immigrants spoke of round-ups and police paying visits to kindergartens to yank children out of class. Longtime urban homeowners talked about the foreclosures and bankruptcies piling up in their neighborhoods. “Some things aren’t right and other things ain’t right,” said Barbara Anderson of the adjusted rate mortgages that had ensnared her Cleveland neighbors. “Predatory lending ain’t right.”

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The surveys show that fewer than one-in-four (23%) Latino immigrants reports being able to speak English very well. However, fully 88% of their U.S.-born adult children report that they speak English very well. Among later generations of Hispanic adults, the figure rises to 94%. Reading ability in English shows a similar trend.

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An abstract masterpiece by a Mexican artist that was found in the trash by a woman who knew little about modern art has been sold for more than $1 million.

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What I haven’t heard enough about is how this neglect hurts Hispanic voters. In politics, the surest path to irrelevance and powerlessness is to be taken for granted by one party and written off by another. That is the road Hispanics are on now, thanks to some major blunders by the Republicans running for president.

San Jose Mercury News - Latino voters pigeonholed by politicians

# Raul De Jesus, 20, Hartford, CT, Mayor: A first generation Puerto Rican-American who grew up in public housing in a poor family, at the age of 19 De Jesus was approved for a loan and bought his family their first house. Now 20, he is the youngest Latino to run for mayor in Hartford’s history.

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“The fact that I’m quitting the regents demonstrates my view that we need to stand up,” Salas said. “What we need is for all public officials to bring some reason to the table, to bring a discussion that is other than just demonizing the undocumented.”

JS Online: Regent resigns over lack of tuition benefit in budget

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Germany, Mexico and Austria were world’s top three searchers of the word “Hitler” while “Nazi” scored the most hits in Chile, Australia and the United Kingdom, data from 2004 to the present retrievable on the “Google Trends” Web site showed.

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“A lot of the gang members we’ve dealt with were born and raised in this country,” said Patrolman Rich Matteson, a certified gang specialist with the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Department.Detective Stephen Priem of the Goshen Police Department agreed.”It’s a criminal behavior issue,” he said. “It’s not an immigration issue.”

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When commercial ethanol production begins in Florida, which some experts estimate will occur in the next five years, E85 will be less costly than it is now.In Minnesota, for example, E85 is $1 less per gallon than gasoline, Stanek said.The first rail car with 30,000 gallons of corn-based ethanol arrived in Miami on Friday from Indiana, said Garner, whose company buys ethanol from 60 plants and distributes it in 10 states.

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Doctoral candidates will explore the historical and contemporary experiences of Chicanos and Latinos in social, cultural, political and economic contexts. Doctorate courses range from “Latina Feminisms” to “Globalization and Mexican Immigration to the United States.”The University of California, Santa Barbara, offers the only other doctorate focusing specifically on Chicano studies.Valdes said Michigan State’s relatively large number of Hispanic students and reputation for Chicano/Latino scholarship make the new doctoral program a logical fit. According to the provost’s office, 1,309 students are enrolled at MSU this fall – a 34 percent increase over 1997.

In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the City of Bloomington Community and Family Resources Department presents the second annual Fiesta del Otoño / Fall Festival on October 13th, 2007 at Bryan Park, from 12-4pm. This event is the closing celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month.

The Fiesta will promote cultural awareness and provide a venue for local Latino artists and community members to showcase their traditions and talents. Local businesses will host booths selling jewelry, stained glass, fair trade goods, gourmet coffee, and more. Performers include Bembe, Piel Morena, Valeria de Castro, and the dance stylings of Arthur Murray Dance Studio, Arturo Rodriguez and more. You’ll want to try something from every restaurant…authentic Latin foods brought to you by El Norteno, KRC Catering, La Charreada, and other vendors will have pan dulce, atole, empanadas, amd more for sale.

Services providers, businesses, and other community organizations are encouraged to participate at the event by providing information to the public on their services and programs. Interested agencies should complete a booth request form available online at: www.bloomington.in.gov/cfrd/latino.php

We also invite you to show your support of this event and the community’s commitment to cultural awareness and diversity by becoming a Fiesta sponsor. All levels of sponsorship are welcomed. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor or would like more information about the event, please contact me at 349-3860 or by email at brittonm@bloomington.in.gov by October 1st. Come join us in celebrating the Hispanic/Latino contributions to our heritage.

“There is no model for what we are doing — seeking user-generated content from a Web site to determine content at a public radio station,” said Daniel Ash, vice president of strategic communications at Chicago Public Radio.

Public radio eyes Net gains :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Sandra Guy

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On July 11, the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) reported to CDC two suspected cases of foodborne botulism in a married couple. The couple had onset of symptoms on July 7. Like the Texas children, the Indiana patients initially were evaluated at two different hospitals, where multiple diagnoses were considered. On July 9, after both were admitted to the same hospital, botulism was identified as the etiology of the shared symptoms. The man and woman were hospitalized with cranial nerve palsies and symmetric, descending paralysis typical of botulism and were placed on mechanical ventilation.

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