Hundreds Brave Rain to March for Cesar Chavez in Sacramento

The 11th annual event honored Chavez's work on behalf of farmworkers, but with labor unions across the country under siege – from efforts in Wisconsin to eliminate collective bargaining to general attacks on pensions for public employees – the Sacramento march and subsequent rally took on even more urgency

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Field Poll: Pluralities Say Immigration Hasn't Hurt State or Their Neighborhoods

California is home to 10 million immigrants, but most voters say new immigrants haven't altered the quality of life in their neighborhoods, according to a new Field/UC Berkeley poll.

Some intervied give their opinons on Mexican immigrants.


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Tulare to Move to District Based Voting to Represent Latino Voters

TULARE, Calif. -- Tulare officials will be changing how the city conducts its elections after reaching a settlement with attorneys representing Latino voters.

After agreeing to settle a lawsuit Monday, the city will move away from so-called at-large elections to a district-based voting system.


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AZ Senate Says NO to Immigration Bills

I read the reports twice, just to make sure, then I went back to read them again.
There were five bills dealing with stringent measures that would add spikes to Arizona’s notorious SB1070, tee’d up for a vote, and all of them were rejected. News Taco reported on the Arizona immigration bill conveyor belt yesterday, and conventional thinking was that they’d all be approved. But when it came time for the actual vote the conservative legislators didn’t have the numbers.

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OFFENSIVE AGAINST ARIZONA-TYPE LAWS GAIN MOMENTUM

Last week’s defeat of five stringent immigration bills in the Arizona legislature was no fluke.
Ever since that state’s notorious SB1070 was signed into law, Arizona has become the focus of the national immigration debate – if for no other reason than for the extreme recourses that it took against undocumented workers. Backers of the bill celebrated what they called the “toughness” of the new law that was signed by Governor Jan Brewer but has been stalled through court challenges. It could be that they over-celebrated.

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DREAMERS: The New "Coming Out"

The term has been synonymous with the gay rights movement, but recently college students have appropriated the idea and applied it to their immigration status. It’s become a deliberate “thing” that aims to put faces and names on the controversial DREAM Act issue.
Southern California Public Radio published a story describing the movment where college kids are outing themselves as a show of unity and defiance.

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