By Matthew Stieglitz The events in Egypt and Libya recently are enough to warm the hearts of activists and revolutionaries everywhere. They have sent news pundits and diplomats into a frenzy trying to predict how expansive the domino effect will be, with most eyes probably fixed on Iran in hopes for similar change. From a [...]

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In the two and a half years since the beating death of Luis Ramirez, we have witnessed more hate crimes against Latinos. Two other notables being the shooting of Brisenia Flores (Shawna Forde was sentenced to death this week) and Marcelo Lucero. Well today, two young men involved in the beating death of Luis Ramirez [...]

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By Matthew Stieglitz I facetiously wrote in a previous piece that Arizona was making a daily case for exile from the union, which I now find myself entertaining as an intriguing notion. Birthright citizenship, something no one thought would ever be an issue, is currently being broached because of supposed, “anchor babies”. On top of [...]

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Today Arizona’s state senate appropriations committee passed a bill to change birthright citizenship within the state and will set up a Supreme Court case on the matter. This birthright bill will now proceed to the full Arizona state senate for a debate. VotoLatino has a blog post up describing how this Arizona birthright bill challenges [...]

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The Grand Canyon State is on the verge of wreaking havoc on the immigrant community again with SB 1611. I was sent a copy of the bill, which is scheduled to be heard tomorrow in the state senate’s appropriations committee. It’s reference title is “Immigration Omnibus” because it has a bunch of provisions aimed at [...]

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There is a new report that will be released this week from the Office of Independent Review examining documents related to the 1970 killing of journalist Ruben Salazar. The upshot of the new report is that there is “no evidence Ruben Salazar was targeted” in this incident. As many are probably aware, Ruben Salazar was [...]

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In the race for the Los Angeles City District 14 council seat, the LAPD badge that challenger Rudy Martinez possessed has been brought up by the incumbent’s campaign and widely reported in the media. Well, the badge issue has surfaced again today with the sister of the slain officer David Kubly asking the Huizar campaign [...]

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Many within the Latino community  have been following the Brisenia Flores murder case closely. I had intended on blogging about it earlier, but time and other tasks prevented me from doing so. A few years ago, 9 year old Brisenia Flores was shot point blank in her home by some Minutemen. It is an absolutely [...]

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