Richmond Pulse South Kern Sol The Know Fresno[Translate] JOHNNY FLORES/Coachella Uninc It happened. Michael Sam is the first openly gay player to be drafted to the National Football League. The University of Missouri defensive end and Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Year was drafted by the St. Louis Rams earlier this month. He was picked far lower than projected – number 249 out of […]
[Translate] Editor’s Note: California Senator Ricardo Lara’s (D- Huntington Park/Long Beach) Health For all Bill (SB 1005) – it would make all Californians, regardless of immigration status, eligible to purchase insurance – advanced out of the Senate Health Committee on Wednesday, April 30, and will go to the Senate Appropriations Committee before being moved for a vote. Under […]
[Translate] The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 31: Why Citizenship? Citizenship is one of the most important rights in this country; so why is there talk of denying this to an entire population? Republican members of Congress recently unveiled their “Immigration Standards,” a lengthy list of requirements that undocumented immigrants must meet in order to become legal residents […]
[Translate] The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 30: Living Unconquered “César Chávez: An American Hero” opens in theaters today, bringing to the big screen the story of the beginning of the United Farm Workers. The film will inspire dialogue – that can help or not help — the farm worker rights movement. Discourse around farm workers by media, […]
[Translate] Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of three reports on the DREAMer movement. Part one can be read here and part two can be read here. The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 29: The Dreamer Chronicles, Part 3 Approved for DACA, Mayté and Lamber Can Finally Pursue their Dreams I first […]
[Translate] Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of three reports on the DREAMer movement. The first part can be read here. The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 28: The Dreamer Chronicles, Part 2 SALINAS — By the time Alma Torres turned 12, her father had been back and forth between the family’s home in […]
[Translate] Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of three reports on the DREAMer movement The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 27: The Dreamer Chronicles, Part 1 It was 2010 and the Immigration movement was at a crossroad— continue advocating for comprehensive immigration reform, or support the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors […]
[Translate] The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 26: Five Generations of Sinaloa My great grandmother, Maria, never wrote anything down. Her stories came with laughter and dance as she told me about her mother, who died at 100 years of age, and her father, a small indigenous man from the sierras of Chiricahueto, Cosalá, Sinaloa, who shrunk year […]
[Translate] The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 25: A Familiar Scene in Bakersfield Bakersfield, CA –The movement for immigration reform brought over 1,000 supporters to Bakersfield last week to put public pressure on House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy – the new “whipping boy” on immigration as Politico newspaper has so dubbed him. We gathered in Bakersfield to […]
[Translate] Editor’s Note: This commentary was submitted by Josh Bunce, a member of the Vet Voice Foundation. JOSH BUNCE/Vet Voice Foundation I am proud to be a veteran of the U.S. Army. I served in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2006 and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in 2008. I’m home in California now, studying mathematics and philosophy at the […]
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