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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Having been born a year after the Civil Rights Act was signed, I’m disheartened that resegregation of our schools is now an established fact.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; In the 2006-07 school year, more than 50 years after the Supreme Court’s landmark desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education, approximately 40 percent of black and Latino students attended schools that were 90 to 100 percent minority.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; As Sacramento prepares to inaugurate Governor-elect Jerry Brown next month, much of the focus has been on the state’s looming budget deficit and how the legislature and Brown plan to bridge that gap.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; For years now, Californians have been told that we must choose between cutting public services and public service employees or budget armageddon.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Last weekend the Senate failed to pass the DREAM Act. It would have provided a path to citizenship for thousands of undocumented, foreign born American youth who have successfully graduated from U.S. high schools and wanted to either go to college or serve in the military.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The announcement this week of the 2010 Census population count didn’t tell us how many Latinos there were in the United States today, but it did tell us that Latinos are poised to became a powerful political force. Maybe.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; La semana pasada puse en relieve la importancia de las corporaciones no-lucrativas y las organizaciones no-gubernamentales en el momento de reivindicar los derechos de las personas afectadas por problemas sociales, jurídicos, políticos o económicos.</p>