David Houser admitted to fabricating a story when he blamed a self-inflicted gunshot wound on a Latino man, prompting a manhunt.
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Hispanic Americans
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent: Eduardo Galeano
Book Description
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.
Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe.
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Money can move across borders.
Raw materials can move across borders.
Manufactured goods can move across borders.
People (especially the poor) are highly restricted from moving across borders.
People should have the freedom and liberty to move where the resources and jobs are located.
Sheets of Blood Streets of Pain
“Racism is not dead in this nation. Shame on any of us for trying to bury the inherent and blatant racism of the United States and its people, it has always been part of our makeup and it has come roaring back in its full and awful glory in the past decade…”
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Torn Apart: Immigration and the American Family
We are a compassionate nation. We look back with sadness and horror at parents and children separated in centuries past, and then turn our heads when it happens in our day. The separation of parents and children is not confined to history.
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American history is replete with stories of parents and children forever separated. Slaves were sold as individuals and families were wrenched apart to suit their owner’s needs. The tide of 19th century European immigration brought children to America on their own or parents without their kids hoping that family members would one day follow.
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Immigration is surely a political issue, but it is also a parenting and family issue. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, approximately 17 million people live in families with an undocumented family member. About 4.5 million children who were born in the US have at least one undocumented parent.
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Academics from Harvard and NYU wrote in the New York Times, “The extraordinary acceleration in the dismantling of these families, part of the government’s efforts to meet an annual quota of about 400,000 deportations, has had devastating results. Having a parent ripped away permanently, without warning, is one of the most devastating and traumatic experiences in human development.”
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
San Diego Border Community Rallies to Support Jose Gutierrez
Community Village‘s insight:
“Shena Gutierrez, the wife of Jose, released this statement on behalf of their family:
“Three years ago, our lives completely changed when Jose was handcuffed and taken from us to be deported to Mexico, a country he had not seen in over 3 decades. We did not think things could get any worse until March 30, 2011, when Jose was brutally beaten into a coma by Border Patrol agents. For 3 years we have been fighting for justice. The release of four names out of the eleven agents involved in the beating of my husband is not good enough! We want ALL names released! We want justice, accountability and transparency!”
Since the incident occurred three years ago, Shena Gutierrez has become an outspoken advocate in defense of her husband and other border families who have been affected by border brutality and abuse of power. On a few occasions, she has traveled to Washington D.C. to speak to members of Congress who have been made aware of the lack of accountability and oversight within the nation’s largest law enforcement agency.
Last June, she joined with the families of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas and Valeria Munique Tachiquin in a video asking their Senator to equip Border Patrol with body worn-cameras, which CBP has committed to, but has not yet implemented. Last week, the request was once again raised, this time to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
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Latinas vastly underrepresented in elected offices
A new report by the group, LatinasRepresent shines a light on the underrepresentation of Latinas in elected offices. The data show that Latinas represent just 1 percent of elected officials nationwide…
Community Village‘s insight:
2014 – “No Latina has ever been elected to the U.S. Senate”
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Jesus Huerta 17 died from ALLEGED self-inflicted gunshot WHILE HANDCUFFED in the back of a police cruiser
“The Durham Police Department says Huerta died on November 19 from a self-inflicted gunshot while handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser.”
Community Village‘s insight:
A similar incident happened to Chavis Carter a 21-year old American male who was found dead from a gunshot while handcuffed in the back of a police patrol car on July 29, 2012
The police car’s recording device in the Carter case had “problems” and didn’t record the sound just before and at the time of the shooting.
See on www.cnn.com
Wall of silence surrounds killings by border agents
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Black & Hispanic students get fewer advanced classes and science labs at city high schools
An analysis of Education Department data from the 2011-12 school year found that on average, white and Asian students attend high schools with twice as many Advanced Placement courses and almost twice as many science labs as schools attended by black and Hispanic students.’
See on www.nydailynews.com
CESAR CHAVEZ Movie Trailer (2014)
CESAR CHAVEZ Movie Trailer. In theaters April 4th, 2014 Join us on Facebook http://facebook.com/FreshMovieTrailers Directed by Diego Luna, Chávez chronicles …
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