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Posts tagged "National Council of La Raza"

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
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President Obama tells NCLR conference: no he can't change immigration laws

President Obama tells NCLR conference: no he can't change immigration laws
President Barack Obama spoke Monday at the National Council of La Raza conference in Washington, D.C. I watched via live webstream as the president address the leading Latino civil rights organization. I was surprised that Obama waited until he was halfway into his speech before he mentioned the DREAM Act or immigration reform. He talked... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
July 25, 2011 at 2:01 pm
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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
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Adios Lou Dobbs

Na na na na. Na, na, na, na. Hey, hey, hey. Goodbye. On Wednesday night Lou Dobbs announced that he was quitting CNN. There are rumors that he may go to Fox News. That is where he belongs at a network with an extremely right-wing agenda that doesn’t pretend to be objective like CNN. Dobbs... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
November 11, 2009 at 11:38 pm
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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
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La raza is not a dirty word

According to a recent Chicago Tribune story, some people are frightened by the name of the National Council of La Raza, (NCLR), one of the leading Latino civil rights organizations in the United States. They are holding their annual conference in Chicago this week. Literally translated la raza means “the race.” But the term refers... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
July 27, 2009 at 2:55 pm
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Leaders call for immigration reform at NCLR conference

I’m at the National Conference of La Raza (NCLR) Conference this Sunday morning in Chicago. This is one of the leading Latino civil rights organizations in the United States. It’s like a Latino version of the NAACP and has been around since 1968. Each year they hold an annual four-day conference in a different city... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
July 26, 2009 at 11:02 am
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Listen Limbaugh: Sonia Sotomayor is not a racist

The right-wing attacks against Sonia Sotomayor are out of control. Newt Gingrich has called Sotomayor a “Latina woman racist.” Rush Limbaugh called her a “reverse racist.” He said that about President Obama too. Former Colorado Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo on CNN called one of the group’s Sotomayor has been affiliated with, the National Council of... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
May 29, 2009 at 8:38 am
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