News (Noticias) Tagged ‘Jose de la Isla’

Word is out that PBS is providing funding for a two-hour documentary about Latinos in the military. “The War Within” is tentatively scheduled to air in 2010.

It’s welcome news. And still, it’s bittersweet for reasons that might seem recondite to some.

Gus Chavez, one of the co-founders of Defend the Honor, a leading pressure group, recently noted John Wilson, the PBS veep who oversees all of its programming, still refuses to recognize Latinos were wronged earlier in the documentary by Ken Burns about World War II. And Wilson refuses to acknowledge the new proposed documentary about Latino fighting men and women has anything to do with that other dustup.”*

“Sen. Hillary Clinton sees the human factor as topmost in confronting hemispheric trade and immigration issues.

In an exclusive interview with this correspondent the morning after she participated in the Univision-sponsored Democratic Party presidential primary debate here, Clinton took the opportunity to expand on these two issues of major interest to 49 million U.S. Hispanics and nearly 400 million more in some two dozen countries south of our border.

Clinton had shared the spotlight the previous night with six other aspirants for the Democratic nomination in front of a national television audience of 4.6 million.”

“For the past year, I have been editing a forthcoming book by Los Angeles educator Frank Garcia Berumen about former California Congressman Edward R. Roybal. Our discussions about that book often sought to balance the personal with the public side of Roybal’s life. The whole time, Frank and I knew we were racing against the clock. That clock ran out Oct. 24 when Roybal died at age 89.

In the coming years, the need for a monumental history may overtake our project about Roybal’s life and legacy. George Clooney’s movie “Good Night and Good Luck” will draw sympathetic attention to how he was vilified as a “commie” at Los Angeles City Hall in the 1940s. It’s the way some people are termed “liberals” in parts of the country now for standing for social justice and suggesting that government should act in the public interest.”

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