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Editorial: Wisconsin Republicans pulled a legal maneuver that did not require a quorum, this past Wednesday, and stripped the Unions of most of their rights to collective bargaining. The State had come to a standstill while thousand of Union supporters protested outside of the capital for the past three weeks.    In the meantime 14 [...]

Commentary: By Willie L. Pelote Sr.    In California, the state government currently spends more than $34 billion a year paying private contractors to do jobs that civil servants can perform for half the cost. Another $900 million of taxpayer funds is wasted annually propping up the state’s failed enterprise zone program. Common sense dictates [...]

Commentary: By Labor Secretary Hilda Solis    I was “raised union.”    My mother, who immigrated to the United States from Nicaragua, worked the 3 p.m. to midnight shift at a toy factory after the birth of my younger twin sisters. She was a member of the United Rubber Workers, which later merged with the [...]

Comentario: Por Javier Sierra    Vivimos momentos que hubieran enorgullecido a César Chávez. Por primera vez en décadas, los trabajadores del país han dicho “¡basta!” y exigido el respeto de quienes los emplean.    En ésta nos jugamos todos los que no somos ricos o superricos nuestro futuro económico y nuestra capacidad de frenar a [...]

The Battle for Arizona and Wisconsin Commentary: By Rodolfo F. Acuña    A reader responded to my article on the Arizona and Wisconsin connection that ‘“the Koch brothers are just the tip of the iceberg”— a statement with which I totally agree.    The Phoenix resident predicted that the corporate takeover of the state and [...]

 Perspective By William O. Beeman New America Media     The protests in Wisconsin and Ohio are all about eliminating collective bargaining, which is at the core of freedom of choice, one of the most sacred of American cultural values. They have little to do with money.     Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan said it right the [...]

Editorial: In Madison, Wisconsin, a drama has been unfolding between Republi-can/Tea Party Governor Scott Walker and the Unions.  The governor has proposed to cut workers’ pay and benefits. But more alarming is his proposal to end the right of the Unions to represent state employees through collective bargaining.     The governor says that cuts are [...]

By Alejandra Matos Scripps Howard Foundation Wire     Hispanic-owned businesses are booming across the United States, specifically in the South.      Arkansas had a 160 percent increase in Hispanic-owned business, growing from 2,094 businesses in 2002 to 5,457 in 2007, according to a study released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.     “Our Hispanic community [...]

Por: Paco Zavala     Cada año el día 30 de abril, está dedicado a celebrar al icono que representa la alegría y el futuro de los hogares mexicanos y de otros países: El Día del Niño. El niño que es amenazado constantemente por la situación inestable del mundo y de noticias y profecías establecidas desde [...]

By David Bacon Shafter, CA – As the March for California’s Future left Bakersfield, marchers trudged past almond trees just breaking into their spring blooms. From Shafter and Wasco across dozens of miles to the west, white and pink petals have turned the ground rosy, while branches overhead are dusted with the delicate green of [...]

Por Kevin R. Johnson Traducido por: Marvin F. Pineda y Xochitl Arellano California tiene una historia controversial en cuanto a inmigración. Inmigrantes Chinos en California, eran vistos como personas inferiores que no podían asimilarse a la sociedad californiana. Estos sentimientos de los críticos ocasionaron que el Congreso aprobara una serie de leyes incluyendo la ley [...]

By R. Thomas Buffenbarger More than 31 million Americans have been idled to some degree by this Grave Recession. That number is shockingly high. But when you’re out of work, it’s easy to feel alone. And it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that millions of Americans share the strains of unemployment: the sleepless [...]

 La serie de un año de Radio Bilingüe “Frente a la Crisis”, una cobertura a fondo sobre el deterioro económico y su impacto entre los latinos, sale de gira con cuatro horas de transmisión en vivo desde El Centro, en el Valle Imperial de California, y desde Yuma, en el condado de Yuma, Arizona, áreas [...]

  OCEANSIDE – In Oceanside, Carlsbad, Del Mar and north San Diego County, immigrant day laborers wait by the side of the road, hoping a contractor will stop and offer them work. Alberto Juarez Martinez slings his jacket over his shoulder while he waits. His hands show the effect of a lifetime of manual work, [...]

Inmigración, atención médica, educación, pobreza y vivienda parte de la agenda Obispos ofrecen principios de enseñanza social católica para ayudar al debate público WASHINGTON — En una serie de reuniones con congresistas demócratas y republicanos de ambas cámaras, una delegación de obispos hispanos de diferentes partes del país presentó a los legisladores cuatro áreas de [...]

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 [...]