Blogante Headlines for Wednesday - September 26th, 2007

Posted on: September 26th, 2007
Filed Under: [ Hispanic News ]
Tags: activist, Argentina, basketball, blog, Bolivia, book, border, Celia Cruz, Chicano, Cuba, Dream Act, Hollywood, Latina Lista, monterrey, Professor, Reno, San Bernardino, student, university of texas
Knowledge is Power!

The governor of New York sure is making some news lately, isn’t he? First licenses for undocumented immigrants and now the state will pay for chemo for them as well in defiance of the Feds. We are living in interesting times, no doubt.

I have including 2 days worth of news from the Latina section below because I wanted to highlight it and them. See you later - Tomás

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$17.2 Million Awarded in Grants to Help Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Immigrant cost study officially received by county board - San Diego - $101.5 million in 2006-07 fiscal year

Hope fades for passage of bill to aid young illegal immigrants

New York, Faulting U.S., Says It Will Pay for Cancer Care for Illegal Immigrants

Fence plans could change - Surveyors seeking consent to study border residents’ land

Those ‘aliens’ are everywhere - Pennsylvania’s “Alien Invasion PA” report - (I wish you could see me rolling my eyes)

My Picks (Tomás’ handpicked highlights) –» view: excerpts | section

Café Tacuba Tour Dates for the rest of 2007

Escuchá lo nuevo de la Bersuit - Laten Bolas - (Bersuit Vergarabat is a great band from Argentina in case U didn’t know)

Actions of Senate Democrats Beg the Question: How Deep is the Commitment to the Latino Constituency? (Latina Lista)

Racism’s toll may be physical

Yo no me escondo. by Ana Lydia Ochoa of padma media & marketing on “Brown is the New Green”

Watch Bolivian president Evo Morales on “The Daily Show” with John Stewart

New book celebrates rise of Latina-owned businesses

U.S., Mexican states seek common border solutions

‘Frida’ Makes Brief, Rare Mexican Visit - 16 years of waiting, Monterrey Museum of Contemporary Art, known here as “Marco,” finally hosts the city’s first exhibit - devoted entirely to Frida Kahlo.

New York musical salutes salsa legend Celia Cruz

Salata earns MVP honors at national tournament - (I didn’t know there was a National Hispanic Basketball Tournament)

Americas Majority Foundation Releases New Study: Border Wars: The Impact of Immigration on the Latino Vote

Fernandez helps West Side students reach new VISTAs by degrees - (a San Antonio pre-admissions program called “VISTA” which helps under-privileged Hispanic students apply and receive acceptance to college)

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There was a 2.4% decline per year in deaths from breast cancer between 1990 to 2004 for white and Hispanic women.

Fourth- and eighth-graders’ math scores increased, but white students are still scoring higher than their African American and Hispanic classmates, especially in California.

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“I’m disappointed for thousands of young people whose lives are just in limbo,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. added. “They want to move on with their lives and do good things, and unfortunately we haven’t been able to pass the laws to make that happen.” - in reference to the Dream Act

“This is very tricky, because undocumented students are desperate for some kind of legalization,” said Jorge Mariscal, director of the University of California San Diego’s Chicano Studies program and a longtime critic of military recruiting within minority communities. “I’m completely conflicted.”

“Nobody knows what’s going to happen. We’re all still waiting,” said 74-year-old Daniel Garza, whose Granjeno plot would be slashed in half according to documents the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released on Monday. - Border Fence

“In the Latino areas where candidates advocated a variant of ‘enforcement only,’” said Nadler, “support for Republicans dropped by more than 21 percentage points over a single cycle, and support for Democrats rose by an equivalent amount. But where Republican candidates supported comprehensive immigration reform - some combination of border control and guest-worker programs or earned legalization - the situation was quite different. There, Republicans lost roughly 4 percentage points, and Democrats gained 4 - a shift in line with national trends.”

Election 2008 –» view: excerpts | section

Nada hoy, so instead I am going to put the news that I have collected and put in the Latina section over the past 2 days because I don’t think many realize just how much is there and how great a lot of it is.

Yo no me escondo. by Ana Lydia Ochoa of padma media & marketing on “Brown is the New Green”

New book celebrates rise of Latina-owned businesses

Norma Saldivar named interim director of University of Wisconsin Arts Institute

University of Texas at San Antonio First-Year Faculty: Assistant Professor Anne-Marie Nunez - Interview

Ingrid Hoffmann on food, female chefs, being first

Did You Know? There was a 2.4% decline per year in deaths from breast cancer between 1990 to 2004 for white and Hispanic women.

Cholesterol and Hispanic Women: An Issue of the Heart

QUOTE: “I don’t think any young Latinos know about the humiliations we had to endure,” says Rita Moreno, the co-star of CBS’ “Cane,” who now lives in Berkeley. “People who were my employers looked right through me. Not a “Good Morning’ or a “Hello.’ It was really quite astonishing that they acted like I was invisible. And in a way I wasn’t there, because Latinos weren’t there.” - on her treatment in Hollywood

Franciscan educator Sister Gaeta dies at 85 - San Bernardino County

Did You Know? Some 400,000 Latina girls turn 15 each year in the United States, and the $400 million-a-year quinceañera industry is trying to keep up with the growing demand

Perfect quinceañera has right moves - The perfect quinceañera must have perfect dancers

Award-winning Latina Actress and Activist to Speak at Carleton College - Lupe Ontiveros - Minnesota