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<p>On the way to Tucson’s Freedom Summer, I’m driving with a few friends. We speak of several topics and at one point, someone laments that over the past several years, former state school’s superintendent, Tom Horne, his successor, John Huppenthal along with TUSD superintendent, John Pedicone, had managed to bury Tucson’s highly praised and highly successful Mexican American Studies (MAS) department.</p>

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<p>A little more than a week after Mexicans went to the polls, conflict and controversy swirl around the July 1 elections. Almost everywhere-in the halls of Congress, on the Sunday talk shows, in bars and cafes and on the streets-the results are the hot topic of conversation. And claiming fraud, a growing citizen’s movement is crossing borders and transforming the elections into an international issue.</p>

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<p>Los soñadores de la ciudad donde vivo se anotaron otro triunfo. Lograron que el semanario alternativo en inglés Creative Loafing, de Charlotte, Carolina del Norte, dejara oficialmente de utilizar el término “ilegal” para definir a los indocumentados.</p>
<p>El anuncio de la decisión del Creative, lo hizo la publicación copando totalmente la portada de su más reciente edición, que está ilustrada con las siluetas de los “dreamers” y las camisetas con el logo de la campaña “Drop the i-Word”.</p>

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<p><strong>LAS VEGAS, NV</strong> — In a first-of-its-kind endorsement, twenty-one of the nation’s leading Hispanic organizations announced Sunday at the National Council of La Raza’s (NCLR) annual conference in Las Vegas, Familia es Familia dot org, a comprehensive public-education campaign aimed at strengthening Latino voices to build support within the Latino community for acceptance of LGBT family members.</p>