Estudiantes orientan a estudiantes

Hoy sábado 6 de marzo, estudiantes de preparatorias del Condado de Monterey que forman parte del programa migrante, llevarán a cabo una conferencia en la que alrededor de 100 alumnos de diferentes escuelas secundarias podrán acudir para aprender sobre temas de importancia.

Los exponentes en esta conferencia serán: Ramón Anaya, maestro de recursos del Programa Migrante de la Escuela Alisal quien hablará de los requisitos y trámites para poder ingresar a la Universidad. Shy Cota, del programa Second Chance, tratará el tema de las pandillas y la drogadicción y Rosario Aguirre, de la oficina de Salubridad del Condado de Monterey, tocará el tema de las consecuencias de los embarazos en los adolescentes.

http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20100306/NEWS05/100305031/-1/newsfront2/Estudiantes-orientan-a-estudiantes

Posted by Jeanette Pantoja

'Army of Peace' marches in King City

About 30 members, led by Mohorko, gathered at San Antonio Park in King City ready to hand out the Peace Now fliers. The piece of paper includes a phone number for residents to call if they need counseling and support. The fliers are being distributed to ease tension and get more residents involved in reporting crime, Mohorko said.

Since the year began, King City has seen four shootings, two of them fatal. No arrests have been made in any of them. For lifelong King City resident Frank Valladarez, 40, becoming a Peacemaker — as the group's members are called — is his own way of taking his community back. "We know police are understaffed, so if this is what it takes then so be it," he said. "I want to make a difference to stop these senseless killings over a piece of land that doesn't belong to anyone or over some color."

http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20100305/NEWS01/3050317/-1/newsfront2/Army-of-Peace-marches-in-King-City

Posted by Jeanette Pantoja

Hispanic Farmers fight to sue USDA

In Texas and across the Southwest, Hispanic farmers have been fighting the Agriculture Department for close to a decade.

The farmers say the department's Farm Services Agency discriminated against them — denying or delaying loans, and refusing to investigate when they cried foul.

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Modesta Salazar stands in front of what's left of the farm in Pearsall, Texas, that her father bought in 1952.

The government settled a similar complaint brought by African-American farmers for $1 billion. And while the claims of discrimination and other factors are almost identical, the Hispanic farmers have gotten nothing.

'Always No'

Noe Obregon, 47, looks exactly like the South Texas farmer he's been all his life: cowboy hat, blue denim shirt, jeans and cowboy boots. Obregon says that in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, it didn't matter what you looked like or how good of a farmer you were. If you were Hispanic in Texas, getting a farm loan from the USDA was like the quest for the Holy Grail.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.Php?storyID=113730694

Posted by Victoria Bell

Money wired to Mexico from Sacramento has plunged

The flow of cash from Mexican immigrants to their families back home continues to dry up in the Sacramento area and nationwide as tough economic times and a beleaguered housing sector have taken their toll on paychecks and pocketbooks.

Locally, the movement of money south has been curtailed by the disappearance of construction jobs in a battered housing sector, a major employer of Mexican labor, said Carlos González Gutiérrez, Mexico's consul general in Sacramento.

Immigrants are "waiting for the economic crisis to go away, but they don't have the resources they had before and are sending less," González Gutiérrez said. "What the global (economic) crisis has shown us is that the host society and the homeland move in sync." (March 6, 2010)

http://www.sacbee.com/2009/12/14/2393159/money-wired-to-mexico-from-sacramento.html

Posted by: Uriel Lopez