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On Saluting and Resisting Like Unseen Immigrant Women Changemakers for International Women’s Day

The global celebration of International Women’s Day ignores the critical importance of immigrant women resisting oppressive systems to produce change today for tomorrow.

  • Mar 8, 2021
  • 9:46 AM

Rethinking Latino: What Many Are Missing (OPINION)

If these pan-ethnic labels were meant to celebrate the melding away of the numerous Latino cultures and identities, then the experiment has not gone so well.

  • Mar 3, 2021
  • 5:34 PM

It’s Detention if People Are in ICE Custody, No Matter How the Agency Rebrands It (OPINION)

Whenever people are in ICE custody, lives are in jeopardy.

  • Feb 26, 2021
  • 11:35 AM

Shutting Down Private-Run Immigration Detention Centers Is Complicated, But It Can Be Done (OPINION)

Whereas detention facilities rely on imprisoning immigrants, community-based alternatives offer holistic care.

  • Feb 23, 2021
  • 2:42 PM

Beyond Round One: What Biden Must Do Next on Immigration

We need a presidential administration that is prepared to dismantle cruel and inhumane detention and deportation policies and detention centers and reunite families who have been separated.

  • Feb 8, 2021
  • 3:21 PM

Biden’s Plan for Central America to Repeat Mistakes From the Past (OPINION)

The U.S. funding of security forces and support for private investment promoted as “economic development” created a climate of impunity for targeted attacks on environmental and land activists, causing many to flee in fear.

  • Feb 8, 2021
  • 12:21 PM

Why Gender-Based Violence Is Unequivocally Grounds for Asylum Protection (OPINION)

Although “death to asylum” was blocked, the incoming Biden-Harris administration must do more and propose a change to U.S. asylum law.

  • Jan 25, 2021
  • 5:06 PM

Puerto Rico Statehood Violates International Law (OPINION)

There is nothing progressive about that.

  • Jan 11, 2021
  • 5:42 PM

How COVID-19 Has Impacted NYC’s Latino Comedy Scene

The COVID-19 lockdown initially brought live stand-up comedy to a grinding halt, and some clubs have been shuttered indefinitely.

  • Jan 5, 2021
  • 3:33 PM

From Protest to Power: How the Latino Vote Flexed Its Muscles in 2020 (OPINION)

Many reporters and pundits have failed to report on one of the most important trends this election—the massive growth in the Latino vote that will reshape the political landscape of our country for years to come.

  • Jan 4, 2021
  • 12:33 PM

Survey: What Residents in Areas Most Affected by COVID-19 Want You to Know

The results show almost universal distrust of the government’s goal to protect them or their community, wariness about receiving the vaccine and an urgent need for more information.

  • Jan 4, 2021
  • 10:24 AM

It’s Time California Had Its First Mexican American U.S. Senator (OPINION)

Mexican Americans have been instrumental in building California, making it the economic powerhouse that it is today. Yet rarely have our contributions been recognized.

  • Dec 18, 2020
  • 4:14 PM

Learning the Lessons of the Latino Vote (OPINION)

Georgia will determine control of the Senate. The votes of Latinos, who have suffered badly during the pandemic, could be decisive.

  • Dec 17, 2020
  • 6:08 PM

‘No Possible Peace:’ Rising Construction Worker Deaths in New York and Tennessee

Advocates and workers are demanding change after years of high fatality rates in the construction industry. What can be done depends heavily on the labor organizing landscape in each state.

  • Dec 16, 2020
  • 1:10 PM

Guía antirracista para periodistas hispanohablantes en los Estados Unidos

El reclamo inició un proceso de redacción y edición colectiva a cargo de expertas afrolatinas que acaba de concluir.

  • Dec 3, 2020
  • 12:49 PM

The Fallacy of a Statehood Win in Puerto Rico’s Elections (OPINION)

The United States prefers to maintain the status quo and keep Puerto Rico a colony.

  • Nov 19, 2020
  • 6:25 PM

The Mexican Wall That Fell on Trump (OPINION)

Mexican Americans proved to be Donald Trump’s Achilles heel in this historic election.

  • Nov 17, 2020
  • 3:36 PM

The Wall and Why It Never Mattered (OPINION)

In the end, Trump never even needed a physical wall to prevent people from seeking refuge in the U.S.

  • Nov 17, 2020
  • 11:28 AM

The Barriers Latino Voters in North Carolina Are Facing in 2020 (OPINION)

Navigating arduous voter registration laws in a state like North Carolina is a complicated matrix for first-time voters, and first-time vote-by-mail voters.

  • Nov 2, 2020
  • 1:06 PM

Mobilizing Voters Starts With a National Child Care Movement (OPINION)

This election year, mothers, early childhood educators, and child care providers are part of intentional, relational organizing voter programs to connect with voters they know.

  • Oct 22, 2020
  • 1:24 PM

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