[ January 28, 2011; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]
HOPE Coalition of Orange County to Host Forum on “Generations of Lost DREAMS: Finding Solutions”
Friday, January 28 in Anaheim
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Person: Minerva S.G. Stone
714-376-8065 (cell) / E-Mail: gomez_minerva@yahoo.com
The newly formed Hope Coalition of Orange County recognizes that it has been several weeks since the U.S. Senate failed to take decisive steps to vote on [...]
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Tags: anaheim, dream act, Education, HOPE Coalition of Orange County, Latinos, students 
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Oakland is now abstaining from impounding unlicensed drivers’ cars – and from the hundreds of thousands of dollars the controversial seizures generate a year, according to California Watch.
An investigation by California Watch and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism last year found that sobriety checkpoints across the state were increasingly [...]
Press Release: Friday, December 3, 2010 Time: 10:30 AM
Contacto: Denis O’Leary: (805) 4071987 and Thomas Gonzalez (562) 397-8118
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Moscone Center
747 Howard Street,
San Francisco, CA 94103
The League of United Latin American Citizens has declared there is a crisis in education and calls for immediate legislative reform to advance the majority Latino population in [...]
Posted in california, Education, Latino Leaders, Latinos, Santa Ana, Youth Tags: crisis, Education, Latinos, lulac, Youth 9 Comments »
Manuel N. Gomez, retired UCI vice chancellor for student affairs, pictured with Susan V. Bryant, retired UCI vice chancellor for research and professor of developmental & cell biology
PRESS RELEASE: October 12, 2010
Contacts: Dr. Juan Lara 626-390-0176
John Palacio 714-856-5214
Shelley Hoss 949-553-4202
For [...]
Posted in anaheim, Charities, Education, Entertainment, Latinos, Santa Ana, Youth Tags: 17th annual, anaheim, apple of gold, college, Education, heef, john palacio, juan lara, Latinos, manuel n. gomez, patricia rendon-cardenas, roselinn linn lee, scholarships, shelley hoss, students, vivian bottino No Comments »
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez will be giving away a free congressional book this Saturday, at Libreria Martinez, here in Santa Ana, located at 216 N. Broadway, in the Artists Village, from 12 noon to 12:45 pm.
Take an hour of your day, have some fun and get your children reading!!!
Click here to RSVP on Facebook.
Bookstore, art gallery, [...]
The 2010 Major League Baseball All Star Game arrives with much fanfare today in Anaheim, where Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz won the Home Run Derby yesterday.
I expect that some of Orange County’s wealthiest elite will be there, along with folks who bought season tickets and a lot of out of town visitors. There [...]
Posted in anaheim, Civil Rights, immigration, Latinos, mexico, Orange County, Racism, republican party, Santa Ana, working families, Youth Tags: anaheim stadium, arizona, bud selig, immigration, Latinos, Lupe Moreno, major league baseball all star game, mexicans, minutemen, phoenix, protest, racial profiling, sb 1070 No Comments »
Oh my. It looks like the Independence Day event that was held today at the Santa Ana Public Library was chock full of Mexican-bashing Minutemen. Imagine that.
Lupe Moreno, a former member of the Santa Ana Public Library Board, apparently invited her fellow Minutemen to the event. Moreno is also active in the OC GOP, and [...]
Posted in Civic Affairs, immigration, Independence, Latinos, Literature, Politics, Racism, republican party, Santa Ana, working families Tags: immigrants, Latinos, lucille kring, Lupe Moreno, minutemen, oc gop, racists, Santa Ana, van tran 8 Comments »
Did Latino voters put Sheriff Sandra Hutchens over the top? I think it was a factor. She trashed racist Bill Hunt, who now presumably will have to move to Arizona and perhaps become Joe Arpaio’s personal driver.
Hutchens ended up with 51.9% of the vote. Hunt only got 28% of the vote. Adios Hunt!
Click here to [...]
Posted in elections, Orange County, Politics, republican party, Santa Ana Tags: bill hunt, Latinos, sandra hutchens No Comments »
Garden Grove LULAC June 9, 2010 Meeting
Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Location: Coco’s Bakery & Restaurant 12032 Harbor Blvd, Garden Grove, CA
Dear Friends,
We want to remind you about our Wednesday, June 9, 2010 Garden Grove LULAC council meeting. We are very please of inviting you because your are a member of our council [...]
Posted in Entertainment, garden grove, Latinos, Santa Ana Tags: benny diaz, garden grove, Latinos, lulac No Comments »
LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
P.O.Box 2607
Garden Grove, CA 92842
Phone (714) 357-4328, Fax (714) 636-7770
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Gil Flores Phone: (714)803-6362 June 2, 2010
CALIFORNIA LULAC CONVENES ITS 2010 ANNUAL CONVENTION
New state executive board elected
ORANGE COUNTY, CA: The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), State of California, held its 63rd Annual State [...]
Posted in california, Latinos, Politics, Santa Ana Tags: benny diaz, gil flores, Latinos, lulac No Comments »
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez has finally decided to co-sponsor the Dream Act, according to Gustavo Arellano, at the OC Weekly, and the Don Palabraz blog.
Click here to see her name on the record at the Library of Congress as a co-sponsor.
Here is an excerpt from Arellano’s post:
I’ve received much criticism from local Democrats over the past [...]
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As if we didn’t have enough reasons to not vote for Bill Hunt, he appears in the video above, giving his support to the racist “Rule of Law” statute passed by the Costa Mesa City Council this week.
“This week’s resolution follows an April news conference in which Mayor Allan Mansoor called for stricter regulations to [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Costa Mesa, Latinos, mexico, republican party, Santa Ana Tags: allan mansoor, bill hunt, Costa Mesa, immigrants, Latinos, mexicans, rule of law No Comments »A new Facebook group has formed in support of making Santa Ana a Sanctuary City. The group’s page states that “In Santa Ana we have the numbers to make Santa Ana a Sanctuary city but we act like a minority . We must fight back!”
An effort to do this died in 2008, after Council Member Michele [...]
I just heard from a friend that the Santa Ana Police Department went completely nuts tonight, shutting down several streets in an unprecedented Cinco de Mayo crackdown. My friend reported seeing dozens of vehicles being towed away.
He also said folks were being stopped for having tinted windows and for driving while brown. The cops seemed to [...]
The haters will tell you that Mexicans cannot amount to anything – the truth is that our young people are just as capable as anyone else.
In the video above, you will meet Gloria Montiel, a graduate of Santa Ana High School. She was accepted into Harvard – and she finished an undergraduate degree. Now she [...]
Posted in dream act, Education, immigration, Latinos, mexico, Santa Ana, working families, Youth Tags: dream act, Education, gloria M, gloria montiel, harvard, immigrants, Latinos, mexicans, Santa Ana, santa ana high school, undocumented 5 Comments »
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