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California Children Sentenced to Die!
By Raoul Lowery Contreras
The world watched with horror as a monstrous fire killed 47 children in a government sponsored childcare center in Hermosillo, Mexico, a few days ago.
This disaster highlight...
Changing Our Ways With Water
By Jerry Sanders
On June first, the City kicked off new restrictions designed to preserve our limited, and increasingly strained, supply of water. The new mandatory water use restrictions will require...
Tezozomoc Speaks
The CDA (Chicano Democratic Association) came out with their early endorsements for the 2010 elections. Hijole hombres … this is way beyond early, candidates don’t even file their papers for City of S...
The Budget and California’s Future
By Assembly Member Lori Saldaña
With this year’s unprecedented drop in state revenues, policymakers were forced to confront the problem of preserving programs and services that the public values – lik...
Cultural Competency is Critical to Health Reform
By Jason Leon
Foreign travel can be quite frustrating if you don’t know the language. Ordering food can resemble a game of charades, replete with wild hand gestures and grunting noises. Simply getting...
Open Markets, Improve Economy
By Israel Ortega
It’s no secret that our economy is hurting. Here in Washington, the response has been predictable: increase federal spending. Beginning last fall and continuing through the spring, Co...
Attacks on Sotomayor unwarranted
By Alvaro Huerta
I’m baffled that some Republicans have viciously attacked Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Too often I’ve heard Republicans talk about the lack of the so-called Protestant work ethic in minorit...
America’s racism runs deeper than a Philly pool
By David A. Love
When a suburban Philadelphia swim club kicked out a group of black and Latino kids on June 29 because of their skin color, the incident generated much outrage throughout the country.
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The Criminalization of America
By Sal Osio, JD
A week ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the venue of Harvard University, Harvard Professor Henry Gates, Jr. was arrested in his home by a veteran local police officer, Sgt. James Crowl...
TEZOZOMOC SPEAKS
Sweetwater Union High School District supertinendent, Jesus Gandara finally got it right with his welcome back to school speech. Last year he spent thousands of dollars renting a big old church and ov...
Get ready, Barbara Coe is after the children again
By Patrick Osio
In 1994, Barbara Coe from Orange County, California got her 15 minutes of national attention as the founder of California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR). She was a co writer ...
The “Grapes of Wrath” Today
By Raoul Lowery Contreras
I have never watched the movie “Grapes of Wrath” from beginning to end. I ran across it this afternoon and watched some of it.
Not having lived through the 1930s most of us h...