Wisconsin’s Struggle Important To Latino Workers, Unions

It was 1966 when Mexican-American civil rights activist Jesús Salas et. al. founded “Obreros Unidos”, an independent farm labor union in Wisconsin. Their objective was to improve working conditions for migrant farm workers that traveled from Texas to Wisconsin yearly. They knew of a Wisconsin state provision that protected agricultural workers which was non-existent at the federal government level.
Mexican-American migrants first started settling in Southeastern Wisconsin as early as the 1920s with Puerto Ricans following in the 1940s.


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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]

Texas, U.S. Must Adjust To New Latino Majority

There is no longer an ethnic majority in Texas — or anywhere — at least not for very long. Recent Census figures show that in Texas, Latinos are 37.6% of the population and Anglos are about 45%. We know that, in the next 10 years, there’s a moment coming wherein these two percentages will slide past each other: “Hello, goodbye. Hola, adiós.”

It is a game changer in Texas, which serves as a symbol for how we can conceive of the rest of the country. There’s no turning back. Who knows what the future brings, no one can predict it, but it is a game changer, that is for sure. This is a game changer the same way, in the 1820s in Texas, whites became the largest ethnic group in Texas, to affect the history of that state for many generations to come.

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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]

Group Hopes To Save Ethnic Studies In Arizona

Save Ethnic Studies, Inc. is a non-profit organization that recently started in Arizona to help challenge HB 2281, the state’s new anti-ethnic studies (or, more appropriately, Chicano Studies) law that makes it a crime to teach ethnic studies.


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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]