Advertisement:

Posts tagged "Janet Murgia"

To boycott or not boycott Arizona?

To boycott or not boycott Arizona?
One of the nation’s leading Latino civil rights organization, the National Council of La Raza, announced that it was ending its boycott of Arizona. The group had initiated a boycott last year after the state passed S.B. 1070, the immigration law that has largely been held up in the courts. That it hasn’t advanced is... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
September 12, 2011 at 3:15 pm
• 1 comment

Health care, immigration reform and a day of protest

On Sunday, tens of thousands of people, perhaps more than 100,000 will march on Washington, D.C. for immigration reform. With them will be 120 busloads and 40 vans full of people from Illinois, an estimated 8,000 people traveling to the nation’s capitol to tell President Obama and Congress that we need to pass immigration reform... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
March 20, 2010 at 12:41 pm
• 1 comment

Drop Lou Dobbs

Lou Dobbs. You love him or you hate him. Personally, I can’t stand his show. I turn CNN off when he comes on the air. He’s clearly anti-immigrant and was recently was a guest speaker at a rally organized by the anti-immigrant group FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which the Southern Poverty Law... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
September 19, 2009 at 6:21 pm
• Leave a comment
Advertisement:

NCLR President Janet Murgia defends Sotomayor nomination

I had the opportunity to interview Janet Murgia, president of NCLR, the National Council of La Raza, this weekend in Chicago. This leading Latino civil rights organization has recently come under attack by right-wing conservatives attacking Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Former Congressman Tom Tancredo called NCLR a “Latino KKK without the hoods or the... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
June 8, 2009 at 11:10 am
• Leave a comment