Commentary:
By Rodolfo F. Acuña
The day the Supreme Court handed down its decision Arizona’s SB 1070, I received about a dozen text messages saying, “We won!”
Knowing the history of the Court and dealing with this sort of wrongheaded thinking since the Bakke Case of 1978, I knew that I had to be skeptical and quickly read the incoming news, which using boxing jargon said that it was a split decision, that the court had struck down three key provisions of the law and kept one.
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>