Comments on: Corona Beer… Our pride? http://latinopoliticsblog.com/2008/06/20/corona-beer-our-source-of-pride/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=corona-beer-our-source-of-pride Where La Raza comes to discuss its leaders, where you can learn about issues in Latino politics. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:31:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anna http://latinopoliticsblog.com/2008/06/20/corona-beer-our-source-of-pride/comment-page-1/#comment-30297 Anna Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:38:09 +0000 http://latinopoliticsblog.com/?p=206#comment-30297 Miller is just trying to advertise its product and buy off Latino advocacy groups. If they receive money from alcohol companies they won't speak out against them. I read once about a group in Los Angeles that ran workshops in elementary schools teaching children how to decipher alcohol advertising. One advertisment featured picture of a woman dressed in a bathing suit wearing a sash of bullets similar to that worn by Emilio Zapata. The ad was trying to make the statement that to drink their liquor was to stand up for yourself, to fight for your rights. Of course that's false. Alcohol has the opposite effect. It makes them easier to control and more likely to commit crimes and end up in prison. I wish I could remember the name of this group. Miller is just trying to advertise its product and buy off Latino advocacy groups. If they receive money from alcohol companies they won’t speak out against them.

I read once about a group in Los Angeles that ran workshops in elementary schools teaching children how to decipher alcohol advertising. One advertisment featured picture of a woman dressed in a bathing suit wearing a sash of bullets similar to that worn by Emilio Zapata.

The ad was trying to make the statement that to drink their liquor was to stand up for yourself, to fight for your rights. Of course that’s false. Alcohol has the opposite effect. It makes them easier to control and more likely to commit crimes and end up in prison.

I wish I could remember the name of this group.

]]> By: Wendy Carrillo http://latinopoliticsblog.com/2008/06/20/corona-beer-our-source-of-pride/comment-page-1/#comment-15455 Wendy Carrillo Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:09:16 +0000 http://latinopoliticsblog.com/?p=206#comment-15455 hmmm... i dont know... i mean, sure i understand your argument, but corporate responsibility is also important...miller is not going to disappear. i like that at least there is an attempt on their part to spend money on organizations that (allegedly) aim to educate/empower Raza. Who is the culprit here? Miller who in their minds are doing a good thing… or NCLR for not being the progressive org some wish it to be? hmmm… i dont know… i mean, sure i understand your argument, but corporate responsibility is also important…miller is not going to disappear. i like that at least there is an attempt on their part to spend money on organizations that (allegedly) aim to educate/empower Raza. Who is the culprit here? Miller who in their minds are doing a good thing… or NCLR for not being the progressive org some wish it to be?

]]> By: Tim Chavez http://latinopoliticsblog.com/2008/06/20/corona-beer-our-source-of-pride/comment-page-1/#comment-15358 Tim Chavez Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:43:28 +0000 http://latinopoliticsblog.com/?p=206#comment-15358 Excellent points. I'm not a big NCLR fan. LULAC is more to my passion and ideals. And what you're telling me about Miller Brewing Co. and Coors makes me less so. Please let me know what more you find out. I'll join you in calling on NCLR to reject alcohol-product businesses. Every time we have a fatal accident in Nashville, I pray it is not a Latino, particularly an undocumented worker. Those kind of accidents that resulted in the traffic deaths of native Tennesseans were the excuse the local sheriff here used to put us under the heinous 287(g) deportation program. NCLR needs to know about that and the more than 3,000 Latinos who have been deported the past year to the crowing delight of the anti-immigrant crowd. Thank you for sharing your awareness, Tim Chavez www.politicalsalsa.com Contributing columnist, Hispanic Link News Service, Washington, D.C. Excellent points. I’m not a big NCLR fan. LULAC is more to my passion and ideals. And what you’re telling me about Miller Brewing Co. and Coors makes me less so.
Please let me know what more you find out. I’ll join you in calling on NCLR to reject alcohol-product businesses. Every time we have a fatal accident in Nashville, I pray it is not a Latino, particularly an undocumented worker. Those kind of accidents that resulted in the traffic deaths of native Tennesseans were the excuse the local sheriff here used to put us under the heinous 287(g) deportation program. NCLR needs to know about that and the more than 3,000 Latinos who have been deported the past year to the crowing delight of the anti-immigrant crowd.

Thank you for sharing your awareness,

Tim Chavez
http://www.politicalsalsa.com
Contributing columnist, Hispanic Link News Service, Washington, D.C.

]]> By: XP http://latinopoliticsblog.com/2008/06/20/corona-beer-our-source-of-pride/comment-page-1/#comment-15270 XP Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:32:02 +0000 http://latinopoliticsblog.com/?p=206#comment-15270 "One of the sponsors of this year’s National Council of La Raza Conference in San Diego is Miller Brewing Company. Miller probably wants to protect its investment in the Latino community, but does the largest Latino rights advocacy organization need the money that bad?" I dare you to post this in Brownhouse. In fact, I double dog dare you. That is just the tip of the iceberg. There are a lot more red flags people should know about the largest Latino rights advocacy organization and their affiliates. “One of the sponsors of this year’s National Council of La Raza Conference in San Diego is Miller Brewing Company. Miller probably wants to protect its investment in the Latino community, but does the largest Latino rights advocacy organization need the money that bad?”

I dare you to post this in Brownhouse. In fact, I double dog dare you.

That is just the tip of the iceberg. There are a lot more red flags people should know about the largest Latino rights advocacy organization and their affiliates.

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