Editorial:
For most of South San Diego, you may not have know it, but last Saturday we were living in Al Alvarado’s world. On June 23, Al celebrated his 80th birthday and the City of San Diego, National City, and Chula Vista, along with a Congressional Proclamation declared it “Al Alvarado Day.” There was quite an impressive list of dignitaries who honored Al. He was even named an honorary police officer of National City.
Commentary:
By Mike Aguirre
Over fifty years ago John and Robert Kennedy exposed collective bargaining and pension abuses and pushed through effective legislative reforms. The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act and the Welfare Pension Plan Disclosure Act prohibit management and union officials from making or accepting pay offs, protect pension and union assets from theft or misuse, require annual financial disclosures, and guarantee the democratic rights of union members and pensioners.
Supreme Court Immigration Ruling strips 50 million Chicanos/Latinos of Rights!
Immigration or a Historical Labor Issue?
Commentary:
By Herman Baca
President Committee on Chicano Rights
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<p>A friend made a comment on my latest piece on Sisyphus where he raises a fair question: “Con mucho respecto pero, what the hell is so virtuous about pushing Chicana/o Studies to the top of that damn Capitalist hill? I expected never to make their grade—defined by their stupid, racist, exploitive notion of who we are. Why not stop trying to make horizontal democracy out of vertical Capitalistism?”</p>
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<p><strong>Dear Mexican: Barrack Hussein Obama, how you dare deprive Mexico of its young, educated people. These illegal aliens in the U.S. are the only hope for Mexico and you want to keep them here in the U.S. They could start businesses, create jobs, and improve the standard of living for the people of Mexico. Yet you want to be selfish and deprive Mexico of these talented youth. SHAME ON YOU!</strong><br>
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<p>During the Fourth of July celebrations, Revolutionary War general and hero, George Washington is often referred to as “the father of our country.”</p>
<p>Maybe it’s time we take nominations to find the mother of our country.</p>
<p>One name, seldom uttered by historians, history professors and Americana buffs, is Polly Cooper, the English name given to an Oneida woman whose people were one of the five founding nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, in the area of upstate New York.</p>
Still Much to Do to Ensure Reforms Reach All Who Need Coverage, Greenlining Institute Says
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA – Today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding nearly all of the Affordable Care Act is good news for the African American, Asian American and Latino communities that have disproportionately lacked health coverage, policy experts at the Greenlining Institute said today.