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.
We saw Anne Trujillo and her accomplishments and success working with ABC 7NEWS. - read more
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]
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]
Its Ok To Use ethnic slurs, so long as you apologize?
The Racist from Boston Jay Severin Gets his Job Back.
The Racist from Boston Jay Severin is expected to apologize on the air when he resumes his weekday afternoon time slot on WTKK-FM, station officials said. The host was suspended April 30 after he called Mexican immigrants “criminaliens,” “primitives,” and “leeches,” dubbed Mexico an exporter of “women with mustaches and VD,” and said Mexicans were endangering US citizens with swine flu, among other comments.
“Jay regrets the remarks for which he was suspended and understands that his comments were indeed wrong and hurtful to the Mexican and Mexican-American communities,” the station’s managers wrote yesterday in a note on the WTKK website. “Accordingly, we feel it is time to end Jay’s suspension and welcome him back.” - read more
Obama Nominates “First Latina Sonia Sotomayor For Supreme Court Justice”
Following a thorough vetting process that drew down the number of potential Supreme Court nominees to four, President Barack Obama ultimately settled on his decision to nominate Sonia Sotomayor at 8:00 p.m. on Monday, senior administration officials said - [hp]
In a 2002 lecture, she said, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion”
“First Latina Sonia Sotomayor For Supreme Court Justice“
Latina Takes the Lead: Eva Longoria and “Sí TV”
by Kent Gibbons -Multichannel News
Sí TV has recruited top talent for its “Take the Lead” campaign: Desperate Housewives’ Eva Longoria appear in new public-service announcements with positive role models for the next generation of Latino leaders.
“I embrace the opportunity to be able to give other Latinos a platform and a voice,”.
Longoria says in her 60-second spot. Read more
A Mexico Travel Forum?
I just found a cool travel forum about [Mexico]
The end of innocence with Latinas acting Like whores in the city
The end of innocence in our Latino culture , after reading about sex in the city or should i say whores in the city and how some women feel empowered by the show and know [Movie] i found myself thinking if this whole [sex in the city] trash empowers women or men? id say it empowers men more then anything else becouse at the end of the day men will never pass-up a piece of ass. and if women feels empowered because they are being used for that moment , then feel proud of your stanky self. Read more
Hispanics to Live the Vida Digital Latina
Microsoft Inspires U.S. Hispanics to Live the Vida Digital Latina
At 44 million (1), Hispanics in the United States are now America’s largest minority (2). Comprising more than 14 percent (3) of the entire population, recent growth has seen their numbers grow by 25 percent between 2000 and 2006 (4) alone (accounting for more than half the nation’s overall population growth during this time (5)). By 2050, Latinos are expected to make up 29 percent of the US populace (6). Read more
Idaho student says teacher tossed his Mexican flag in trash
Idaho student says teacher tossed his Mexican flag in trash
A high school student says he may file a lawsuit against a physical education teacher who took a Mexican flag he had brought for Cinco de Mayo and put it in the garbage.
Clint Straatman denies Froylan Camelo’s version of events but said he took the flag Monday because “white kids” might have hurt the 16-year-old. He said he put it in a garbage can because he had no place else to keep it.
Camelo said he was changing into gym clothes at Minico High School in Rupert when Straatman told him, “Give me the flag.”
“I said, ‘What’s the problem?’” Camelo, speaking in Spanish, told The Times-News of Twin Falls. “He said, ‘The problem is that we are in the United States and not in Mexico.’ He grabbed it from me. He threw the flag in the garbage can.”