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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; La crucifixión y la muerte de Jesús el Nazareno, durante el dominio del Imperio Romano, es uno de los episodios más comentados de la historia de la humanidad.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; In the mid-sixties, I attended a lecture by Dr. Ernesto Galarza. Someone in the audience asked him why politicos and those in social movements didn’t care about Mexican Americans. Galarza responded that most elected officials that were Democrats cared about Mexican Americans but that we were never their number one priority or even close to it on their do list.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Reflecting on the 2010 Census results and the dramatic increase in the U.S. Latino community, I ask myself how we once again find ourselves in the same predicament as ten years ago, with no national sense of urgency to fix Latino education when it has significant implications for our future workforce.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Thousands of Mexicans took to the streets last week to protest violence related to drug trafficking and the Mexican government’s inability or unwillingness to prevent it.&nbsp; U.S. and international activists who want to show solidarity with the people of Mexico must recognize that the most effective step we can take is to bring the war on drugs to an end.</p>

Redistricting being manipulated by a few

   If you attended the [re-districting] meeting last night (April 19) at the Malcolm X Library – tell me, was not the behavior of those holding political and economic power in City Council District 4 not illustrative of institutionalized racism?

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Republicans in Washington, D.C. continue to push for cuts to housing assistance for veterans, cuts to Medicare, cuts to Social Security, cuts to children’s health, and cuts to job training programs all so that they can keep giving tax breaks to oil companies and the richest Americans.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; As California faces a severe fiscal crisis at the state and local level, my Republican colleagues in the Legislature have suggested a range of “solutions” for California’s budget crisis including instituting a spending cap, repealing environment regulations and reforming our pension system.&nbsp;</p>