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United under a same mission, music super stars, Placido Domingo, Gloria Estefan, David Bisbal, Luis Fonsi, Arthur Hanlon, Wisin & Yandel and Enrique Iglesias amongst other Latin music stars, will become ambassadors of hope through this historic initiative; “Unete Con La Gota de la Vida, Benefiting City of Hope.” (Logo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091102/FL03041LOGO ) “The ‘Unete Con La Gota de la Vida, Benefiting City of Hope’ campaign was conceived to create awareness within the Latin community about the importance of bone marrow donation, and thus encourage the community to register with the National Bone Marrow Registry which City of Hope currently promotes. For the first time, a group of A-list Hispanic musical artists have joined the cause in an effort to launch an unprecedented campaign where they will record an epic song: ‘La Gota de la Vida,’” said Salvador Trevino, co-founder of the campaign to benefit City of Hope and Executive Producer of the project. “We’d like to thank these talented artists for their time, energy and commitment to the recording of ‘La Gota de la Vida’,” said Scott Loyola, Associate Vice President of Development for City of Hope, top center in the investigation and treatment of cancer in the United States and beneficiary of the project. “Through the support from the artists, recording labels and sponsoring companies, we can help ensure wider outreach to the Latino community and encourage more to join the ‘National Bone Marrow Donor Registry’ while raising funds for advanced research and treatment at City of Hope.” The large number of singers that are part of the group at this time will converge in Las Vegas this up-coming week of November 3-6 during the Latin Grammy 2009 celebration. Additional recordings will happen in Los Angeles and Miami to record the musical theme written exclusively for City of Hope by pianist and composer Arthur Hanlon. “The campaign ‘Unete Con La Gota de la Vida, Benefiting City of Hope’ has touched my heart like no other project throughout my career. The campaign’s image, a hand holding a drop of life-inspired the music and lyrics of the song. I feel honored to be part of such a noble cause,” shared Hanlon. The first epic recording session, where dozens of artists will unite to deliver their voices for this unprecedented cause, will take place in Las Vegas between November 3rd and 6th. Additional recording sessions will happen in Miami and Los Angeles. Besides the artists confirmed already, the list includes Aleks Syntek, Noel Schrajis, German Montero, Shaila Durcal, and Marcos Witt among others. During the same dates, the filming of the video clip will take place, led by talented director Simon Brand and produced by Mauricio Osorio from Aluna Films. The video will boost the circulation of the message, which, along with the song, will be spread to the world. Luis Medina is the Executive Producer of the “Unete Con La Gota de la Vida, Benefiting City of Hope” project. Medina is the President of UNO Productions, and two decades ago made history with a similar gathering of artists for a hymn written for UNICEF, known as “Cantare Cantaras.” The list of over 50 luminaries in Latin music included Julio Iglesias, Jose Luis Rodriguez, Vicente Fernandez, Miami Sound Machine and Placido Domingo. Luis Medina affirms: “I’m positive this epic recording will touch the world much the same way as ‘We are the World’ and ‘Cantare Cantaras’ did in their time, two projects which remain in people’s hearts forever.” Universal Music Group is the music label that will promote and distribute the song. All earnings generated from its sale will be donated to “Unete Con La Gota de la Vida, Benefiting City of Hope.” The song and video will have a special premiere in Los Angeles on February 11th, 2010. Today, history is about to be written through the historic collaboration of a countless number of Hispanic artists uniting for the first time for this noble cause. For more information, photos in high resolution and Interviews please contact: The Dream Team Agency susan@TheDreamTeamAgency.com lmc@TheDreamTeamAgency.com Contact: Phone 786 683 6749 “
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- December 5, 2009
- Ousted Honduran leader is trapped with few options – Manuel Zelaya
- Top 10 Migration Issues for 2009
- Obama Boosts US Image in Latin America
- Efforts to reduce obesity in the local Hispanic community will be the focus of a $360,000, four-year grant awarded to the Palm Beach County School Board. – Florida
- A groundbreaking multimedia theater performance created in an unprecedented collaboration between U.S. and Cuban artists was set to debut Friday in Havana. – La Entrañable Lejania (The Closest Farthest Away)
- Few Minorities Hold Positions as Court Law Clerks, Staff Attorneys in Texas – Hispanics fare slightly better than African-Americans, filling eight, or 4 percent, of the staff attorney positions and three, or 5 percent, of the law clerk positions at the 16 appellate courts, the OCA statistics show.
- December 4, 2009
- Mexico City police on Thursday freed 107 people who were forced to work under slave-like conditions in a clandestine factory making shopping bags and clothing clasps, authorities said.
- Naturalization and Integration: Repairing our Broken Immigration System
- “Illegal Immigration and Media Exposure: Evidence on Individual Attitudes” – Controlling for education, income and ideology, individuals watching Fox News are 9 percentage points more likely than CBS viewers to oppose the legalization of undocumented immigrants.
- Hispanic farmers deserve justice, too
- Bolivia elections: What to watch – (good overview)
- The new downtown Phoenix Latino arts center that debuts today could be a cultural milestone for the Valley, organizers say. – The Arizona Latin@ Arts & Cultural Center will feature Latino art, music, theater and dance. But supporters want the temporary 5,400-square-foot space at 147 E. Adams St. to help pave the way for a larger, $10 million facility.
- MillerCoors Líderes Unveils the 2009 Líder of the Year – Lizette Jenness OImos from LULAC named 2009 Líder of the Year – (I voted for her, did you?)
- December 3, 2009
- Missing: Black and Latino Boys – ‘Where are our young men going? Often, jail,’ says one alternative school principal – Chicago
- The Salvation Army says it will no longer ask for a parent’s social security number before giving Christmas toys to children at some local branches.
- Dropout Rate Up; Blacks, Hispanics Twice as Likely to Quit in Connecticut
- For Baby Names, Jayden Rises to the Top – Hispanics, specifically, seemed to have embraced the name with fervor in NYC
- Most Hispanic students value college but only half plan to go, study finds
- Election Report From Honduras: The People Say “We Didn’t Vote!”
- Behind Bars in Honduras: An Interview with a Women’s Rights Leader Before the ‘Free’ Election
- Lou Dobbs abandoned by major immigration group ALIPAC
- Thankful to have homes that they own – For tenants in a Mount Pleasant cooperative, buying the building adds zest to the holiday – Latinos in Washington DC
- Buying power of Hispanics growing – $9.4 billion up for grabs annually in Austin
- According to Some Charities, the Undocumented are on Santa’s Naughty List
- Have you heard – ¡Happy Birthday Guadalupe! by The Killers
- When It Rains Bolaño, It Pours Bolaño – Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview & Other Conversations
- New report shows financial industry has not done enough to meet the needs of low-income – Latina Lista on FDIC report
- Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that cartels are seeking to control territory by sinking drug money into political campaigns and buying off officials before they are even elected.
- El Salvador ended November with 333 murders, or an average of 11.1 per day, a decline with respect to October, when on average 14 homicides were registered per day
- Over 250 Hostages Killed by Kidnappers in Mexico Since 2006
- 6ta Parte de la Serie Especial – Legalización de Trabajadores Agrícolas: una necesidad compartida
- TOP Ten ways it would be different for Tiger Woods if he was married to a Latina
- December 2, 2009
- U.S. has bungled Honduran crisis – After condemning the June 28 coup, the U.S. has essentially allowed the de facto government to get away with it, causing a rift with strategic South American partners.
- New breast cancer screening guide will disproportionately hurt black and Hispanic women
- The number of blacks and Hispanics who took Advanced Placement tests in Montgomery County rose substantially last spring – Maryland
- Are We Super Negative Or Is George Lopez Not Funny? (We’re Willing To Accept Both.)
- Full List of Nominees Announced for 22nd Edition of Univision’s Prestigious “Premio Lo Nuestro” Latin Music Awards
- Arpaio protesters at ASU forum were wrong to shut down the event
- Peru’s police chief dismissed the head of his criminal investigations unit Tuesday amid suggestions that officers may have invented a story about a murderous gang of human fat thieves, perhaps to distract from allegations of police killings.
- The mother of the man Mexico’s government has identified as Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos has died at Mexico City’s airport.
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- December 5, 2009
- Cubans Hope, And Wait, For Flood Of U.S. Tourists
- December 4, 2009
- Cuba blasts US black leaders for charges of racism
- New Law Forcing State Employees to Report Undocumented Immigrants Causes Fear in Arizona
- December 3, 2009
- Focusing the Hollywood spotlight on fellow Latino artists turns a job into a mission – Bel-lissima! Latin Heat’s CEO and founder, Bel Hernandez, curtsied out of the limelight to promote Latinos in Hollywood.
- “Ringleader” Pleads Guilty in Long Island Bias-Attack Slaying – the Marcelo Lucero case
- Hispanics aren’t being aggressive enough about closing the academic achievement gap, a top education executive for the White House said Tuesday. – Juan Sepulveda
- U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, GOP attempt to get in front of White House signals on immigration reform
- A coalition of Hispanic church ministers from Rhode Island has voted to support a national boycott of next year’s census. The Hispanic Ministerial Alliance of Rhode Island represents dozens of Latino evangelical churches
- Nine Million US Households Have No Bank Accounts – 19.3% of Hispanic households are unbanked – – 24% of Hispanics are underbanked – per FDIC report
- Paraguay named an undocumented U.S. immigrant to run its consulate in New York, discovering his illegal status only when the man returned home to get his diplomatic papers and was denied a U.S. visa.
- The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles is six days away from canceling the registrations of nearly 45,000 vehicles driven largely by undocumented immigrants.
- Immigration Detention System Lapses Detailed – Growing numbers of noncitizens, including legal immigrants, are held unnecessarily and transferred heedlessly in an expensive immigration detention system that denies many of them basic fairness, a bipartisan study group and a human rights organization concluded in reports released jointly on Wednesday.
- Los Angeles Democratic Assemblyman John Perez appeared in line Thursday to become the California Assembly’s first openly gay speaker – a cousin of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa,
- December 2, 2009
- ‘La Opinion,’ ‘El Diario’ Training Local Bloggers in Reporting– and Sales – Impremedia
- The director of Hispanic ministries for the Archdiocese of Portland likens a raunchy new Spanish-language television station in Portland to a cancer that can attack consciences. – Raúl Velázquez is talking about Estrella TV,
- Amid mounting allegations of excessive police force, San Jose officials have agreed to pay a tire store owner and his nephew $97,500 to settle a lawsuit stemming from a 2006 confrontation that escalated from a minor traffic incident into an international dispute over officers’ treatment of Latinos.
- Obama still extremely popular among Latinos – But support could falter if there is no health care or immigration reform
- Some toy drives check immigration status – They don’t claim to know who’s been naughty or nice, but some Houston charities are asking whether children are in the country legally before giving them toys. – The Salvation Army and a charity affiliated with the Houston Fire Department are among those that consider immigration status, asking for birth certificates or Social Security cards for the children.
- Rubén Blades’ rousing return – “I’ve never made a pilgrimage to a religious shrine, but I imagine it must feel similar to what it was like to be at Rubén Blades’ comeback concert Saturday at the United Palace.”
- A group of prominent African Americans, traditionally sympathetic to the Cuban revolution, have for the first time condemned Cuba, demanding Havana stop its “callous disregard” for black Cubans and declaring that “racism in Cuba . . . must be confronted.”
- Rodolfo Macias, a Mexican who has lived in the United States illegally for 20 years, is used to taking on challenges – the latest is a hunger strike in front of the White House urging President Barack Obama to deliver the immigration reform that he promised before the end of the year.
- The Bank of Mexico said Tuesday that remittances to Mexico fell 36% to $1.69 billion in October from $2.64 billion in the same month last year.
- Children Made Up 35% of Guatemala Massacre Victims from the 1980s – Report
- December 1, 2009
- New report shows robust immigrant contribution to GDP – In the 25 largest metropolitan areas of the United States, immigrants are contributing to the economy in very close proportion to their share of the population
- 10 people were killed in Puerto Rico last weekend, raising to 830 the number of violent deaths to date in 2009,
- Denying health care to undocumented immigrants is just another version of a death panel
- Latinas are five times more likely to contract the HIV virus
- Growing ranks of U.S. citizens are heading to street corners and home improvement store parking lots to find day-labor work usually done by illegal immigrants. – The trend is most pronounced in regions where hot construction markets have collapsed, says Abel Valenzuela Jr., a professor of urban planning at UCLA
- November 30, 2009
- Arrests of illegal immigrants along border drop 25% – Bolstered enforcement efforts along the Mexico-U.S. border and the weak economy are cited. The trend is also apparent across the Southwest.
- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, flanked by key state legislators, reacted with shock Tuesday to a lawsuit by cities and towns and accused the local officials of coddling illegal immigrants at state expense.
- Cardinal Albert Pujols unanimously selected as National League MVP for 3rd time
- Immigrants, Criminalized – (editorial from NYTimes criticizing the Obama administration’s current immigration policies – worth reading)
- Hispanic-focused FuturoFund awards $50,000 – FuturoFund one of few philanthropies in country helping nonprofits that serve Latinos.
- Immigration activists diversifying ranks – Beyond the noisy town hall meetings, Tea Party protests and sky-is-falling speeches characterizing much of the health-care debate is a less visible but no less intense push to broaden the face of the immigration reform movement.
- At least 14 Indian municipalities in Mexico are among the poorest cities in the world and another 122 are on the verge of being included on the list prepared by the United Nations, the coordinator of the book entitled “Morir en la miseria” (Dying in poverty)
- Moderate Republican Abel Maldonado’s nomination to lieutenant governor makes both parties squirm in California.
- Retaining Hispanic votes a challenge for Obama – Poll finds 68% back president, but will that help in next elections?
- An 11-month-old baby boy was wounded in a shooting as the violence that has suffocated Cuidad Juárez for nearly two years continued with more than 20 killings over the weekend
- November 25, 2009
- TOP Ten signs you are at a Cholo themed Thanksgiving dinner
- November 24, 2009
- So do you think Lou Dobbs will get the Hispanic vote in 2012?
