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HOPE Coalition of Orange County to host Dream Act Forum tonight, Jan. 28, in Anaheim

Dream Act Students

[ 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 [...]

Oakland stops impounding cars at DUI checkpoints – what about Santa Ana?

DUI Checkpoint

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 [...]

LULAC declares a crisis in education that is hurting Latino youth

LULAC Dream Act

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 [...]

17th Annual Apple of Gold Education Awards Dinner this Friday, Oct. 22

Manuel N. Gomez

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 [...]

Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez will give away a free book at Libreria Martinez this Saturday

Jumpstart's Read for the Record on Capitol Hill

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, [...]

Protest next year’s MLB All Star Game in Arizona, today at the Anaheim Stadium

Mickey Mouse at the All Star Game

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 [...]

Minutemen take over Independence Day event at Santa Ana Public Library

Minutemen take over the Santa Ana Library

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 [...]

Sheriff Sandra Hutchens wrecks Mexican-hater Bill Hunt!

Bill Hunt, Joe Arpaio and Barbara Coe

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 [...]

LULAC meeting set for June 9, in Garden Grove

LULAC Logo

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 [...]

LULAC elects new State Board

LULAC March

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 [...]

Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez finally co-sponsors the Dream Act

Tet Loretta Sanchez

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 [...]

Boycott Costa Mesa and don’t vote for Bill Hunt!

 
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 [...]

Is it time to make Santa Ana a Sanctuary City?

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 [...]

Brutal SAPD crackdown ruins Cinco de Mayo

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 [...]

Help Gloria get to Harvard’s Graduate School

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 [...]

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