Posted by Cristina Parker on January 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Editor’s Note: The following is a special guest post from Dr. Luis I. Quiñones. Dr. Quiñones is an educator with more than 26 years of experience in public school education and an advocate of dual language/cultural education. He is also an author and publishes Las Razas Peace & Historical Calendar. He is also a cultural musicologist. [...]
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Posted by Cristina Parker on September 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Some things are meant to be. Peanut butter and jelly. The tea party and racists. Out-of-state political contributions and Susana Martinez. KRQE in Albuquerque reports that the North Carolina-based, anti-immigrant political action committee, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, have New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez’s back in the legislative fight over driver’s licenses. From KRQE: Thousands [...]
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Posted by Cristina Parker on August 3, 2011 · 1 Comment
Possibly in response to the barrage of criticism over her identity-check lottery for foreigners, New Mexico Gov. Suana Martinez is expanding her flawed program. Martinez’s office announced Tuesday that the state would be opening a identity and residency reverification office in Las Cruces. In case you missed it, the governor sent 10,000 letters to foreign [...]
Posted by Cristina Parker on July 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment
LOS ANGELES, CA – When Diana Aviles received her crying daughter’s phone call last year, she couldn’t believe what she heard — her daughter had just suffered public harassment and racial discrimination by a teacher at Big Bear Middle School. Following the incident, school administrators allowed the student to spend the class period picking up [...]
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