ALSCO-Industrial Laundry Facility has openings in 3 Depts. Washroom/Dryer, Soil, Flat Ironing
Washroom/Dryer Dept- Successful candidate must have a 9th grade education. Position requires pushing, pulling, stooping, overhead reaching, and standing all day. Must be able to lift up to 70 lbs. Responsibilities include loading & unloading of washers & dryers with the aid of an [...]

By David Maung
 The Expo Comida Latina food show held this week in San Diego, the largest industry tradeshow of it’s kind, brought together food producers, distributors, restaurants and others involved in the rapidly expanding race to satisfy the growing appetite for Hispanic food in the United States.
 Thousands of attendees got a chance to mingle among [...]

Editorial:
The Los Angeles fires are slowly, but surely, coming under control but not before becoming the largest fire, 150,000 acres, in county history. The fire was located in the San Gabriela Mountain area southeast to the mountains high above Pasadena, Sierra Madre and Monrovia, including campgrounds, trails, recreation areas and the Stony Ridge Observatory. The [...]

By Aaron Glantz
New America Media
 By the time President Barack Obama announced the end of the Cash for Clunkers program last Thursday, Americans had turned in more than 457,000 polluting cars and trucks for nearly $3 billion in government cash.
 The program was “successful beyond anybody’s imagination,” Obama said. “And we’re now slightly victims of success because [...]

By Karl Frisch
 By now, CNN’s Lou Dobbs, with his single-minded obsession over all things anti-immigrant and his bizarre embrace of the loony birther movement, is well known for trafficking in disturbing, misleading, and often inaccurate garbage. Escaping under the radar of many, however, are his close associations with an organization that has been described by [...]

Por José R. Uzal
                                                      
 Defender la ilegalidad es imposible en un país de leyes. Abogar a favor de los indocumentados solo ha causado ponerlos en peligro y aumentar la animosidad contra todos los hispanos.
 Los grupos políticos hispanos han estado usando a los indocumentados para ganar poder e influencia. Todos los que hemos sido indocumentados experimentamos en [...]

By Partha Banerjee

 Sen. Ted Kennedy did right by immigrants — and by Barack Obama.
 I met Kennedy in 2005, when a group of activists in the immigration reform movement went to Washington to huddle with the staff of our staunchest ally.
 As new citizens working to pass comprehensive reform, we felt his commitment and passion for the [...]

By Herman Baca, President
Committee on Chicano Rights
 Ninteen Hundred and Seventy Nine… as I prepared to journey to attend a National Mecha conference in Denver Colorado I remember walking into my living room and hearing a local TV news reporter interviewing a farmer in San Ysidro (along the U.S./Mexico border) as to why his cows were not [...]

Por: Herman Baca,
Presidente Comité Pro-Derchos Chicanos
 Recuerdo que en 1979, mientras me preparaba para atender una conferencia nacional de MEChA en Denver, Colorado, al entrar a mi sala, y escuchar a un local de televisión entrevistando a un granjero en San Ysidro, (junto a la frontera de E.U.A.-MÉXICO) el por qué sus vacas no estaban dando [...]

 By Gustavo Arellano
 I am a 22-year-old Mexican-American women, still living with my parents but going to college, working full-time and taking care of myself financially.  I grew up in a very traditional Mexican household, youngest of four kids, and we were all born in the United States. I’m unmarried but with a steady boyfriend I have been with for four [...]

Haciendo Alarde de Mayor Experiencia se Concreta el Nocaut
 Mexicali, B. C. — Aparentemente sin muchos problemas y haciendo alarde de mayor experiencia y un boxeo más efectivo el panameño Celestino “Pelenchin” Caballero retuvo sus cinturones supergallo AMB y FIB al derrotar por nocaut técnico en el octavo round a un competitivo Francisco “Frankie” Leal.
 En medio [...]

By John Philip Wyllie
 With what has been described as a particularly intense preseason training camp now behind them, the San Diego State coaches have selected the starting offense and defense  that will take the field (fires permitting) in the Rose Bowl on Saturday when the Aztecs open their 2009 season against the UCLA Bruins. Among [...]

By John Philip Wyllie 

 It has been an amazing and totally unexpected summer for the Zeros, a local punk band that formed in the late 1970s and reunited in June with all four original members for the first time in nearly 15 years. Often referred to as the “Mexican Ramones,” the Zeros (Javier Escovedo, Robert Lopez, [...]

First Person
By Al Carlos Hernandez
 I injured my shoulder while playing basketball with my sons and their friends. Despite the real threat of injury we obstinately persevered, all the while supplied by a library of don’t do it’s from my wife. Lucid others from my demographic implored me to be careful.
 Our Sunday afternoon hubris-filled, smack-talking-fueled three-on-three’s [...]

By Kent Paterson
Frontera NorteSur
 Brought to the New World in the Spanish conquest, cattle soon became an emblematic fixture of Mexican culture. The bullfight, trade fairs, cowboy attire and national cuisine all embrace the body and image of the cow. 
 After quickly crossing the Rio Grande, cattle trails extended from north to south and then south to [...]

Por Enrique Davis Mazlum
 En el Siglo XXI, estoy sorprendido que hemos retrocedido en temas de salud pública y equidad de género. El Congreso Local de Querétaro aprobó la Ley Antiaborto el 1 de septiembre de 2009 con 21 votos a favor de los 25 Diputados Locales. Con esta decisión ya suman 15 estados que en [...]

México del Norte
Por Jorge Mújica Murias
 Desde que Barack Obama dijo que tenía otras prioridades antes de poderle llegar a una reforma migratoria, un chorro de activistas de la inmigración se lanzó a la lucha con todas las ganas que no le han metido… precisamente a la reforma migratoria.
 Llevan meses y meses y meses “esperando” al [...]

By: Jessica Nicholas
 For Brenda Cortez-Gomez, going to college was far from her mind during her senior year. An honor student at Montgomery High School in San Ysidro, she had taken Advanced Placement (AP) and honors classes because she loved learning, but had never thought about taking her education any further than a high school diploma. [...]

 LOS ANGELES
— Families and individuals who receive medical services from Project Concern International will be the ultimate beneficiaries of specialized management training completed by the organization’s Project Director, Cal. Border Healthy Start, in National City, Maria Lourdes Reyes, one of this year’s 82 graduates of the UCLA/ Johnson & Johnson Health Care Executive Program. The [...]

Barbara Jimenez Appointed to Serve as Permanent Director

Barbara Jimenez has accepted the appointment as the Executive Director of First 5 San Diego, effective September 14, 2009. Ms. Jimenez has held management positions with the County of San Diego for nearly 20 years and currently serves as Program Director for the Office of Violence Prevention and [...]

Logan Heights Honors America’s Service Men & Women “Honor Them by Remembering”
 On Veteran’s Day, November 11, 2008, the Logan Heights Veterans Memorial (LHVM) Committee in partnership with the Chicano Park Steering Committee broke ground on the future site of the Logan Heights Veterans Memorial.
 The committee would like to extend an invitation to interested Artists in [...]

By Mariana Martínez
  They say power is in the numbers, and that is exactly the hope for family members of kidnapped and disappeared in Tijuana, who have signed a cooperation pact with the immigrant rights group and the search and rescue team of Desert Angels.
 The pact was sealed between the Citizen Committee against Impunity lead by [...]

Por Mariana Martínez
 Dicen que la unión hace la fuerza y esto es precisamente lo que esperan los familiares de desaparecidos en Tijuana y grupos de activistas y rescatistas de migrantes quienes acaban de firmar un pacto de colaboración binacional.
 La colaboración se formalizó entre la Asociación Ciudadana contra la Impunidad, liderada por Fernando Ocegueda y el [...]

Perspective
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
New America Media
 California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called Tedmund Hall and Arnaldo Quinones “great heroes.” The two firefighters were killed Sunday when their truck went off the road as they fled the raging flames. Moments before, the pair had valiantly shepherded nearly 60 California inmate firefighters to safety. The praise of Hall’s and [...]

 Raquel Ibarra’s properties became a refuge for former addicts seeking rehabilitation under the program Sober Living

By América Barceló Feldman

NATIONAL CITY – Undoubtedly, one of the biggest challenges for former addicts is the opportunity for a second chance. Unfortunately, a significant number of them fall back into their addictions finding no support to continue their recovery [...]

Raquel Ibarra convirtió sus  propiedades en el refugio de ex-adictos que buscan rehabilitarse bajo el programa Viviendo Sobrio
Por América Barceló Feldman
NATIONAL CITY – Sin duda, una de las etapas más difíciles para un ex-adicto es encontrar una segunda oportunidad; por desgracia, un número consi-derable de estas personas recaen en los vicios al no encontrar apoyo [...]

Washington, DC—Latino workers are the most likely to pay for violations of basic labor laws with their lives, according to a groundbreaking report released today by NCLR (National Council of La Raza), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States. In advance of Labor Day, NCLR released “Fractures in the [...]