Anne Trujillo working with ABC 7NEWS.
La Vida Latina alive and kickin’ in 2009
The personalities and events that have touched our readers this year have taken shape through the exposure of Latinos in different settings.
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The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is Harassing Chicanos
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is currently serving search warrants on the organization, Chicanos Por La Causa, at its headquarters, 1122 East Buckeye Road, Phoenix.
Deputies are taking boxes of files from the Chicanos Por La Causa buildings at 11th Street and Buckeye Road as the group’s supporters prepare for a possible anti-Sheriff-Joe-Arpaio demonstration. 
Bernarda Duarte, (left) the Raza fund’s marketing officer, says she’s appalled by the Sheriff’s Office’s timing of the raid, which appears to be is tied to the indictment of Mary Rose Wilcox. Not only was the conference scheduled for today, but it’s also International Human Rights Day, she says.[http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com]
Latino Internet use grows fast!
Internet use grows fast among Latinos
Latino adults are increasing their use of the Internet faster than other ethnic groups, according to a new survey from the Pew Hispanic Center and the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Between 2006 and 2008, the percentage of adult Latinos in the U.S. who used the Internet grew to 64 percent from 54 percent, according to the survey. Among whites, Internet use increased to 76 percent from 72 percent. Blacks saw the smallest overall gain — two percentage points to 63 percent.
Latinos who were born in the U.S. were much more likely to go online than those born outside the U.S. This gap persisted even after accounting for differences in education levels, household income and English proficiency, the report said.
Poor Latinos went online less than those with higher incomes. But overall, groups that traditionally have had low rates of Internet use were increasingly embracing the Web. In 2006, for example, 31 percent of Latinos without a high school diploma reported ever going online. In 2008, this number grew to 41 percent. [google.com]
Hate Crimes in Pennsylvania
The police chief in a small town in Pennsylvania and two of his officers are being held in prison accused of having organised a cover-up following a brutal attack on an illegal Mexican immigrant by a group of white high school students which ended in the Mexican man’s death.
The indictments bring the full weight of US federal law down on Shenandoah, a declining rustbelt town of about 5,000 people 80 miles north-west of Philadelphia. The allegations also cast light on the relationship between senior officers and the teenagers they were supposed to be investigating. [bp]
Myspace creators partner with Quepasa.com
Interactive Design and Technology Firm to Accelerate the Social Application Strategy at Leading Online Latino Social Community. Quepasa Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: QPSA), (http://quepasacorp.com), which owns and operates the popular Latino social networking site Quepasa.com, has partnered with the interactive design and technology firm speakTECH, which played a vital role in the successful development of MySpace, to build out Quepasa’s OpenSocial framework and significantly broaden Quepasa’s selection of social applications. “As social networking continues to resonate with people across the globe, Latino online communities like ours are aiming to become more standardized and to offer similar applications, widgets and other interactive features,” said John C. Abbott, CEO of Quepasa.
He continued, “We selected speakTECH not only for their wide range of experience implementing social computing sites, but also for their ability with OpenSocial and OpenID. These technologies are currently considered to be industry standards, and speakTECH has been working with them from the beginning of their social computing practice.”
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WTF? Latinas born in the United States to immigrant parents
The Latina Population Boom!
Nearly one-in-four Latinas born in the United States to immigrant parents has a child before age 20. Only immigrant Latinas have a higher teen pregnancy. WP
Dave Gibson is The Racist at examiner.com?
Pointing out isolated incidents and showing no real references or government reports for his rants.
although he did use “Violent Crimes Institute” as the only resources. and so i went to that website and it’s from Dr. DSK “Deborah Schurman-Kauflin” Charging $400.00 fee for 30 min and thats just for talking. and btw most of her writings are very much right wing.
So , by using fuzzy math like “sex offenders comprise of two percent of illegals apprehended” according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) records , she comes up with speculation that approximately 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders currently residing in the United States.
Do you think Dave Gibson is racist for using fuzzy math and speculation to push anti immigrant xenophobia?
Latino In World War II
Latino In World War II
from: http://www.latinalista.net
It’s estimated that anywhere from 250,000 to as many as 750,000 Latinos and Latinas served in the armed forces during World War II. Yet, their stories were never known outside their immediate families. The U.S. Latino & Latina World War II Oral History Project has changed that.
Dobbs suffers from Superior White Man Syndrome
I found this nice article about Lou Dobbs , very much worth the read.
from: irishcentral.com
By Niall O’Dowd
Lou Dobbs doesn’t need a new platform. He needs psychiatric help. Dobbs suffers from Superior White Man Syndrome (SWMS).
He hits all the checkpoints; paranoid, yes; delusional, yes; irrational hatred, yes; unreasonable prejudice, yes; delusions of grandeur, even now that he is departing and hinting at a political career, yes.
Prescription? Lots of rest, Valium and three weeks in Mexico to study history, demography and the real lives of people instead of the manufactured lies he has used for years.
The ranting and raving, the finger-pointing and hate speech, and the complete lack of rational analysis has made it clear for some time that Dobbs is ill, and definitely in need of a good shrink.
Hate-filled speech did not come naturally to Dobbs, who was once a deeply respected economic commentator and a trailblazer on CNN, the network he just quit. read it all at [irishcentral.com]
Tom Tancredo Fans Anti Immigrant Xenophobia in Colorado
First 9/11 was used as excuse to attack immigrants and now they are using unemployment as an excuse to harass immigrants. racist will ultimately go after immigrants at any given opportunity. from denverpost.com: Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo wants every Colorado business to verify that new hires are U.S. citizens, a proposal that immediately prompted cries of racism from critics. [read more]
“I can’t think of a better time to bring this forward,” Tancredo said. “The fact that we’ve got high unemployment is enough to make people more sensitive to people working here illegally.”