News

                
  • Church leader: Let us be arrested!

    Church leader: Let us be arrested!

    March 31, 2006

    DALLAS — Church leaders in North Texas participated in a press conference on March 23 at the Guadalupe Cathedral here. They spoke in favor of reasonable immigration reform legislation, and strongly against the “enforcement-only” proposal of...

    Read more
  • Over 500,000 rally in L.A. for immigrant rights

    Over 500,000 rally in L.A. for immigrant rights

    March 31, 2006

    LOS ANGELES — The over half million immigrant rights supporters who rallied in Los Angeles March 25 sent their fellow Americans and their government a clear message: We are Americans, we are workers who build up...

    Read more
  • Forum reports Venezuelas advances

    Forum reports Venezuelas advances

    March 31, 2006

    CHICAGO — The dynamic, grassroots character of Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution under President Hugo Chávez was vividly depicted at a forum here March 16 through words, music, slides and photos. The program featured eyewitness reports by Shelby...

    Read more
  • Senate panel yields to marching millions but more battles lie ahead

    Senate panel yields to marching millions but more battles lie ahead

    March 31, 2006 By Rosalío Muñoz

    WASHINGTON — The surging movement for immigrant rights hit Congress like a political tsunami last week, splitting Republicans and pressuring Senate Democrats to fight back against harsh anti-immigrant measures in a hotly contested election year

    Read more
  • BOOKREVIEW: True family values shine in Cuban 5 book

    BOOKREVIEW: True family values shine in Cuban 5 book

    March 25, 2006

    Cuban poet Nancy Morejon provides an introduction for this slim volume of letters, poems, drawings, photographs and diary excerpts exchanged between five U.S.-imprisoned men and their family members in Cuba. Readers, she predicts, will cross a...

    Read more