This article talks about LULAC organizing to voice opinions of the healthcare and how Latinos in the United States would like to see reform. Healthcare is probably the number one topic right now among American politics and will continue to be so all the way through the presidential elections. It makes sense for Latinos to mobilize their efforts to put their two cents into this topic. If new healthcare reform is every reached, which it likely won't be any time soon, it is crucial for latinos to participate because if new reform is ever reached I am sure that there will be a conflict between illegal immigrants and legal immigrants wanted to have access to healthcare.
Latino Leaders Launch Effort to Make Their Voices Heard In National and State HealthCare Debates.
LULAC Joins Forces with Health Groups to Discuss Universal HealthCare
April 17, 2008
For more information, contact:
Javier Dominguez, 202-833-6130 ext. 12
Vivian Todini, 917-747-7980
Latino leaders from the Northeast will gather at the first “Latino Voices in Universal Heath Care, A Regional Action Summit,” designed to bring Latino voices to the healthcare reform debate. The Universal Healthcare Summit will take place on Saturday, May 3rd, 9:30 am to 4 pm at the Sheraton 4-Points, at 275 Research Parkway, Meriden, Connecticut. LULAC members and friends are encouraged to participate. The Summit is free and open to the public.
The purpose of the Summit is to provide a forum for our nation’s fastest growing segment of the population to discuss policies important to their community. There is much at stake for Latinos. In Connecticut alone, while Latinos are 10 percent of the state’s population, they constitute 40 percent of the uninsured. These numbers reflect nationwide trends. The summit will feature various U.S. Senators who will join a large group of Hispanic students from around the U.S. to discuss the critical issues facing their communities in the areas of immigration, education, civil rights, judicial system amongst other issues. Latino leaders will identify opportunities for organizing and building state and national coalitions to advance the universal health care for all.
For more information, please go to http://www.latinosnhi.org/events.php or Register HERE.
Universal HealthCare Foundation of Connecticut and Latinos for National Health Insurance are the cosponsors of the event. The Host Committee includes: the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), District Council 37 (AFSCME), NY Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, The Connecticut Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission, Columbia University Center for the Health of Urban Minorities, Hispanic Center of Excellence Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Universal Health Care Action Network, NYU Center for Latino Health, National Hispanic Council on Aging, and Healthcare NOW.
The League of United Latin American Citizens advances the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health and civil rights of Hispanic Americans through community-based programs operating at more than 700 LULAC councils nationwide.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Sunday, April 13, 2008
MySpace's Latino portal exits beta, announces new partnerships
When looking at the title of my article you might ask yourself: why did he right about myspace and what does that have to do with the course? Well, it doesn't really relate directly to the course material. However, I think that this new version of myspace could help introduce young latinos to the American politics. Yeah, politics is a topic that usually puts kids to sleep, but with how popular myspace is I could so how young latinos may be interested in exploring new things over the net. Whether it is discovering something new about politics or just communicating with friends, it is essential that the number one online friends community adheres to not just the english speaking population, but to the only spanish speaking population as well.
MySpace's Latino portal exits beta, announces new partnerships
Posted by Caroline McCarthy | 4 comments
MySpace has unveiled the full version of its bilingual MySpace Latino homepage, which has been in a beta test phase since last year and includes content in both Spanish and English. In conjunction with the launch, MySpace additionally announced deals with a number of content partners to kick-start new interest areas on the site.
Unlike MySpace's array of internationally-focused brands, MySpace Latino is geared toward bilingual users in the U.S. The social-networking site, which has been owned by News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media since 2005, has 9 million Hispanic members among its U.S. users.
The new "entertainment partners" in the MySpace Latino launch include the Spanish Broadcasting System, Hispanic news outlet ImpreMedia (which is powering a soccer news site, TodoFutbol), Gibson Guitar, local events site Remezcla.com, and Billboard.
Consistent with MySpace's roots as a music-based community--and perhaps to emphasize its content and media offerings as it loses ground in the social-networking sphere to smaller rivals like Facebook--the new MySpace Latino will offer interviews with Latin bands and "Secret Shows" concerts much like its English-language sibling.
MySpace's Latino portal exits beta, announces new partnerships
Posted by Caroline McCarthy | 4 comments
MySpace has unveiled the full version of its bilingual MySpace Latino homepage, which has been in a beta test phase since last year and includes content in both Spanish and English. In conjunction with the launch, MySpace additionally announced deals with a number of content partners to kick-start new interest areas on the site.
Unlike MySpace's array of internationally-focused brands, MySpace Latino is geared toward bilingual users in the U.S. The social-networking site, which has been owned by News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media since 2005, has 9 million Hispanic members among its U.S. users.
The new "entertainment partners" in the MySpace Latino launch include the Spanish Broadcasting System, Hispanic news outlet ImpreMedia (which is powering a soccer news site, TodoFutbol), Gibson Guitar, local events site Remezcla.com, and Billboard.
Consistent with MySpace's roots as a music-based community--and perhaps to emphasize its content and media offerings as it loses ground in the social-networking sphere to smaller rivals like Facebook--the new MySpace Latino will offer interviews with Latin bands and "Secret Shows" concerts much like its English-language sibling.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
McCain Stakes Claim in New Mexico
It is really interesting that McCain is making an early stride to try and influence Latino voters. However, I think it is a great strategy on the republican side to initiate an attempt to sway the general latino public. The democrats are still undecided in nominating a candidate, so McCain could solidify some Latino votes since the democrats can't get on track. I know that generally Latinos tend to vote democrat, but this could be different. If McCain sincerely wants to appeal to Latinos he should continue to broadcast messages in spanish on spanish programming. He should also lay out his plan for dealing with immigration so Latino voters know where he stands on issues that will directly affect them. What do you guys think? Could McCain really win the Latino vote over Clinton or Obama?
McCain Stakes Claim in New Mexico
While the media is busy catering to the press releases on Gov. Bill Richardson's astonishment and surprise that the Clintons are angry with him (Breaking News: Top Politicians Share Angry Words Over Key Endorsement!!!!!) John McCain is sticking his red white and blue flag in the "Aztec Ruins" of New Mexico. I guess it was easy for most of the mainstream and not so mainstream media to miss the "movida" because McCain is making his claim on New Mexico in Spanish.
Last week America's media sweetheart, John McCain, released an ad for Spanish language TV in Gov. Bill Richardson's backyard. The ad is the same as the English language ad currently airing only the narrative is in Spanish. McCain's secret internal polling must be whispering to his advisors what the public polling has been screaming to anyone that will pull their head out of the Democratic sand: McCain has a real play among Latino voters.
While everyone may debate who the Republican Party really wanted to run against in November, one thing is clear: McCain realizes the potential advantage of an Obama campaign that still has not devoted the necessary efforts to get Latinos to warm to his candidacy.
McCain is very attuned to garnering Latino votes. In fact the road to St. McCains presidential nomination was already paved by Latinos. McCain owes his vitally important Florida win to Repub Latino voters who made up 12% of the turnout and picked him by wide margins in that state.
The scary part about the understated New Mexico effort is that it is smart and indicates that he still knows what he is doing. Usually a direct translation of any marketing ad from English to Spanish is awkward and ill-advised. Not this time. The McCain bio ad that touts his Vietnam experience will play extremely well with Latinos. Latinos have a deeply held commitment to military service and a highly patriotic inner chord that the McCain lobbyists/consultants strike with the ad. In fact the ad may play better in Spanish than in English.
But the real reason that Democrats should worry is that the GOP presidential campaign seems to know the issues that resonate with Latino voters. McCain press secretary Brooke Buchanan recently said about her candidates Latino outreach: "His positions on issues like education, the economy and others resonate with Hispanic voters and we continue to ask for their vote and we will campaign aggressively for it." Education and the economy are key issues for Latino voters and have been for as long as Latinos have been polled. McCain knows it. Do Democrats?
To his credit, DNC Chair Howard Dean has done the best job in DNC history of addressing the Latino electorate. That being said, Dean is not in the position to single-handedly construct the serious effort it will take to stop McCain's encroachment into the Latino voter base. It will take real effort from the DNC but Deans team will need to be bolstered by independent efforts of 527's and yes even the eventual nominee.
The current media dust up on Richardson being dissed makes for entertaining chatter. But while the Clinton /Richardson chatter echoes through the blogosphere McCains words are echoing through the native ruins, canyons, and cliffs of New Mexico.
McCain Stakes Claim in New Mexico
While the media is busy catering to the press releases on Gov. Bill Richardson's astonishment and surprise that the Clintons are angry with him (Breaking News: Top Politicians Share Angry Words Over Key Endorsement!!!!!) John McCain is sticking his red white and blue flag in the "Aztec Ruins" of New Mexico. I guess it was easy for most of the mainstream and not so mainstream media to miss the "movida" because McCain is making his claim on New Mexico in Spanish.
Last week America's media sweetheart, John McCain, released an ad for Spanish language TV in Gov. Bill Richardson's backyard. The ad is the same as the English language ad currently airing only the narrative is in Spanish. McCain's secret internal polling must be whispering to his advisors what the public polling has been screaming to anyone that will pull their head out of the Democratic sand: McCain has a real play among Latino voters.
While everyone may debate who the Republican Party really wanted to run against in November, one thing is clear: McCain realizes the potential advantage of an Obama campaign that still has not devoted the necessary efforts to get Latinos to warm to his candidacy.
McCain is very attuned to garnering Latino votes. In fact the road to St. McCains presidential nomination was already paved by Latinos. McCain owes his vitally important Florida win to Repub Latino voters who made up 12% of the turnout and picked him by wide margins in that state.
The scary part about the understated New Mexico effort is that it is smart and indicates that he still knows what he is doing. Usually a direct translation of any marketing ad from English to Spanish is awkward and ill-advised. Not this time. The McCain bio ad that touts his Vietnam experience will play extremely well with Latinos. Latinos have a deeply held commitment to military service and a highly patriotic inner chord that the McCain lobbyists/consultants strike with the ad. In fact the ad may play better in Spanish than in English.
But the real reason that Democrats should worry is that the GOP presidential campaign seems to know the issues that resonate with Latino voters. McCain press secretary Brooke Buchanan recently said about her candidates Latino outreach: "His positions on issues like education, the economy and others resonate with Hispanic voters and we continue to ask for their vote and we will campaign aggressively for it." Education and the economy are key issues for Latino voters and have been for as long as Latinos have been polled. McCain knows it. Do Democrats?
To his credit, DNC Chair Howard Dean has done the best job in DNC history of addressing the Latino electorate. That being said, Dean is not in the position to single-handedly construct the serious effort it will take to stop McCain's encroachment into the Latino voter base. It will take real effort from the DNC but Deans team will need to be bolstered by independent efforts of 527's and yes even the eventual nominee.
The current media dust up on Richardson being dissed makes for entertaining chatter. But while the Clinton /Richardson chatter echoes through the blogosphere McCains words are echoing through the native ruins, canyons, and cliffs of New Mexico.
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