Latinos – Page 37 – People's World

Community protests immigration raid on elementary school

April 7, 2011 By John Rummel

Like a scene from a bad movie, agents from the Detroit Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, driving six large tinted-glass SUVs, surrounded an elementary school here March 31.

“We Are One” actions honor King and Chavez

April 1, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

Hundreds of thousands will join nationwide actions on April 4 under the banner "We Are One" to fight for all working people.

Georgia activists denounce anti-immigrant bills

March 30, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

Georgia state lawmakers are considering tough anti-immigrant bills similar to Arizona's draconian and controversial SB 1070, which passed last year.

Why Latinos depend on the Environmental Protection Agency

March 24, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

The role of the EPA, especially when it comes to the health and wellbeing of the Latino community, is extremely critical, according to a new report.

Labor & community join mercado workers’ struggle

March 21, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

OAKLAND, Calif. - Some 30,000 California workers, many of them in the San Francisco Bay Area, are employed by mercados - Latino, Asian and other ethnic grocery stores numbering many recent immigrants among both workers and...