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February 16, 2012

Para la mayoría de la gente, puede ser difícil imaginarse la época cuando el derecho a votar en las elecciones no era un derecho concedido para todos.

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Tags: Rev. Al Sharpton, votar

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February 16, 2012

En enero, el presidente Obama propuso un cambio administrativo, aunque pequeño pero importante en la manera en que inmigrantes indocumentados casados con ciudadanos estadounidenses pueden solicitar la residencia legal. Si la administración sigue adelante con el cambio, esto puede tener un impacto significativo en las vidas de casi medio millón de familias con estatus “migratorio mixto” en los Estados Unidos – incluyendo la mía.

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Tags: inmigración, obama

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February 15, 2012

Unity, Not Conflict, More Common After Civil Unrest

While the long simmering tensions between the Black community and the Los Angeles police were a flashpoint for the 1992 civil unrest, the social and economic conditions provided fertile ground for tensions to escalate among members of every racial group. Leer en español.

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Tags: 1992, AFL-CIO, Alexandra Suh, civil unrest, KIWA, Maria Elena Durazo, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, union-organizing, unity

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November 14, 2011

By Laphonza Butler

You don’t have to go far to see the struggles of the South Los Angeles community. You can drive up and down any street and see closed businesses, foreclosed homes and working families facing tremendous obstacles as they try to make ends meet. There is no doubt that the hardships of South L.A. families have deepened during the economic crisis.

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November 10, 2011

By Kamala D. Harris, California Attorney General
If you scan a list of the ten American cities hardest hit by mortgage defaults and foreclosures, you will find that eight are in California. Last year alone, more than 570,000 California homes fell into foreclosure. As a result, tens of thousands of families across the state have been displaced as this crisis has unfolded. Leer en español.

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Tags: banks, foreclosure, Kamala Harris, mortgage crisis

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November 10, 2011

By Jung Hee Choi
How bad is the job crisis still?
In our community, we have Depression-level unemployment. The national unemployment rate for African Americans is over 16% and around 19% in California. Leer en español.

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Tags: employment, jobs, Karen Bass, obama

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