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Regents endorse fee increases

Amidst vocal student and faculty protest Faced with a state funding gap of $1.2 billion next year, a UC Regents’ committee...

They’ve Killed Ellacuria

By Mary Jo McConahay New America Media Editor’s Note: This week marks the 20th anniversary of the murder of six Jesuit priests,...

Janet Napolitano Predicts Immigration Reform in 2010

By Khalil Abdullah New America Media WASHINGTON — Timing is everything in the arts of war or politics, according to Homeland Security...

Farm Workers Rights Group Honors San Diegans who Educate

At its Annual Tardeada Gala on November 7, 2009 California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. (CRLA) recognized San Diegans for their...

Transcending Trauma, Reclaiming Humanity

Perspective By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez New America Media November 7 marked 30 years since I won my first police brutality trial in...

Homeless veterans find counseling, camaraderie and calm at shelters

By Cindy Von Quednow Scripps Howard Foundation Wire WASHINGTON — On the day of the presidential inauguration, Marguerita Clarkson, who injured her head...

Protesta se transformó en debate de libertad de expresión

Por Mariana Martinez La Unión Americana de Libertades Civiles (ACLU) se sumó esta semana a las voces en protesta por los...

Protest transforms into free speech debate

By Mariana Martinez The American Civil Liberties Union has sent a public letter to Southwestern College about the incident where a...

Mar Vista High NJROTC Students Save the Day

Emergency Training Aids Classmate When a student athlete fainted in class, she was lucky enough to be surrounded by Navy Junior...

San Diego – Land of Day Laborers, Farm Workers and Guest Workers

OCEANSIDE - In Oceanside, Carlsbad, Del Mar and north San Diego County, immigrant day laborers wait by the side of the...

The Browning of American TV

Vida en el Valle Fifteen percent of the U.S. population is of Latino descent, but Latinos remain underrepresented on English-language television. Only...

Todos tienen el derecho de pedir ayuda en una emergencia

Durante los incendios del Sur de California de octubre 2007, seis inmigrantes indocumentados huyeron de sus casas, sólo para encontrarse...

Everyone Has the Right to Seek Help in an Emergency

During the Southern California wildfires of October 2007, six undocumented immigrants fled from their homes, only to find themselves being...

National City business-owner: “The city keeps taxing the poorest”

By Pablo Jaime Sáinz Herman Baca has been a small-business owner in National City for 40 years. Every year, he has...

Over 100 Democrats Push Obama on Immigration Reform

By Marcelo Ballvé New America Media Is immigration reform back? Hoping to jump-start a major legislative drive on immigration reform in the U.S....

Daddy, where do guns come from?

By Mariana Martinez Authorities in charge of gun control in the US have long been in the shadows in the international...

Latinos Face Cancer Scourge

By Christina Hernandez With the Latino population set to triple by 2050, the already alarming number of cancer diagnoses in the...

Sincretismo continuo: la historia de la celebración del Día de los Muertos

Por Kristina Millikan ¿Cómo es posible que la muerte y la colorida celebración sean dos caras de la misma moneda? Este noviembre...

Continuous Syncretism – The Story of the Days of the Dead Celebration

By Kristina Millikan How is it that the event of death and a joyous celebration are two sides to one coin? This...

El Buen Vecino

Por Emily Alpert Patty Cueva se molestó cuando nadie sabía el nombre del difunto. Su familia había finalizado temprano sus rezos aquella...

Proposed census change would reveal undocumented immigrants

By Emily Mullin Scripps Howard Foundation Wire WASHINGTON — Representatives of 29 civil rights organizations gathered on Capitol Hill Tuesday to express...

Margarita Diaz saving the local beaches one clean-up at a time

Environmental activists to be recognized as the “Coastal Community Defense Champion” By Mariana Martínez Human borders have no meaning to air, earth,...