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Guest Columns

The Flawed Vision of Journalists
Who Cross the Border

Column No. 4199 HISPANIC LINK 03/06/06 Column 1
Length: 750 words  

How much can you, as a reader and viewer of U.S. mainstream media, believe what you read about what’s occurring in neighboring Mexico?


L.A.’s Chicano Walkouts as a History Lesson

Column No. 4200 HISPANIC LINK 03/06/06 Column 2
Length: 700 words  

You know you’re getting old when a movie covers an incident you were involved in and the flick is referred to as "historical." Well, I think I’m getting there.


ACLU Chief Scorches Pair of Fellow Latinos
At Journalists Banquet

Column No. 4201 HISPANIC LINK 03/06/06 Column 3
Length: 800 words  

Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, singled out a pair of fellow Hispanics as he lit into the Bush Administration’s civil rights record in a speech at a National Association of Hispanic Journalists banquet in New York City this month (Feb. 16).


On Capitol Hill, Hispanics Hold Fewest,
Lowest Jobs, Earn Less

Column No. 4202 HISPANIC LINK 03/12/06 Column 1
Length: 700 words  

Hispanic staff workers are becoming more rare in the U.S. House of Representatives, a survey by the Congressional Management Foundation has revealed.


Falling Between the Lines

Column No. 4203 HISPANIC LINK 03/12/06 Column 2
Length: 875 words For Op/ed or Sports Section

The date February 27, 2006, will always be bittersweet. On that day I participated in the election of the largest class of inductees to the National Baseball Hall of Fame: 17 Negro League players and executives were voted in through a special election.


Young ‘Veteraqn’ of Domestic Peace Corps
Pleads for its Survival

Column No. 4204 HISPANIC LINK 03/12/06 Column 3
Length: 600 words  

I am a 24-year-old Hispanic male from Boise, Idaho, and I have just completed my 10-month term of service for AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps, also known as the domestic Peace Corps.


(Obstacle) Course:
For Hispanics: How to Get a Job on Capitol Hill

Column No. 4205 HISPANIC LINK 03/19/06 Column 1
Length: 725 words  

What’s the best route to a job on Capitol Hill?


In Texas a Chulo Congressional Choice

Column No. 4206 HISPANIC LINK 03/19/06 Column 2
Length: 775 words  

The same week President Bush delivered the State of the Union in January, the administration filed a Supreme Court brief supporting a Texas redistricting plan designed by then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.


Will a Movie Cause History to Repeat Itself?

Column No. 4207 HISPANIC LINK 03/19/06 Column 3
Length: 675 words OK to use immediately

I sat with 2,000 members of the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE) at its annual conference in San Jose this month. The conference hall’s lights dimmed as the premiere showing of the movie “Walkout,” commenced. It will air on HBO March 18. Moctesuma Esparza, its executive producer, was eager to get the reaction of a live audience of educators.


Miguel and Beatriz, Citizens of Nowhere

Column No. 4208 HISPANIC LINK 03/26/06 Column 1
Length: 800 words  

The last time I saw Miguel Navarro, he was working in his summer vegetable garden. His wife Beatriz and their two children were there also.


Chavez Brought a Different Vision
To the Union Movement

Column No. 4209 HISPANIC LINK 03/26/06 Column 2
Length: 600 words  

When César Chávez began building the United Farm Workers on his 34th birthday, March 31, 1962, he had a different vision of what a union movement could be.


César Chávez,
An Unassuming Man Who Moved the World

Column No. 4210 HISPANIC LINK 03/26/06 Column 3
Length: 700 words  

His body was very tired and so he laid down that April evening in 1993 and he died.

 

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