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Guest commentary: Lessons from Arizona
Editor’s note: Amigos805 welcomes guest columns, letters to the editor and other submissions from our readers. All opinions expressed in submitted material are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the viewpoint of Amigos805. Mas sabe el diablo por…
Guest commentary: The 1% Cacique Democracy
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Guest commentary: Thinking critically. Is a victory really a victory?
Obama’s immigration order and ethnic studies. If it stinks light a match Editor’s note: Amigos805 welcomes guest columns, letters to the editor and other submissions from our readers. All opinions expressed in submitted material are those of the author and do not…
Guest commentary: I am thankful my Chicano sons are alive
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Guest commentary: Political Graffiti Part IV — Historical truth matters. Normalistas ‘Mexico is a Mass Grave’
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UCSB Multicultural Center to present the Cup of Culture film screening of ‘Documented’ on Nov. 12
SANTA BARBARA — The UCSB Multicultural Center will present the Cup of Culture film screening of “Documented” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12 at UCSB. In 2011, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in…
Commentary: Yes, our national nightmare is almost over. Voting Day is here. Pew Research Center reports on Hispanic voting trends
By Frank X. Moraga / Amigos805 The 2014 election season is rapidly coming to a close. Soon the repetitive television attack advertisements will cease and the growing forest of campaign signs on street corners will disappear — at least until…
Guest commentary: Political Graffiti Part II — Latino groupies
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Guest commentary: Political Graffiti Part I — I am my sister and brother’s keeper
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Guest commentary: Civility or Social Control
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Guest commentary: The Domestic War
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Office of Ventura County Supervisor Zaragoza recruiting for El Rio resident advisory council
VENTURA COUNTY — The Office of Ventura County Supervisor Zaragoza is accepting applications to serve as an alternate member on the El Rio Del Norte Municipal Advisory Council, also known informally as the El Rio MAC, Zaragoza’s office reported in…
Guest commentary: Vampires at the border
Keeping the lower 50 percent in their place Editor’s note: Amigos805 welcomes guest columns, letters to the editor and other submissions from our readers. All opinions expressed in submitted material are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the…
Supervisor Zaragoza to attend Gov. Brown’s luncheon Aug. 25 to honor Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto
SACRAMENTO — Ventura County Supervisor John C. Zaragoza will be traveling to Sacramento to attend a luncheon on Aug. 25 hosted by Gov. Jerry Brown and First Lady Anne Brown in honor of the President of the United Mexican States,…
Guest commentary: The Chicana/o legacy
Gaining traction but still No. 9 Editor’s note: Amigos805 welcomes guest columns, letters to the editor and other submissions from our readers. All opinions expressed in submitted material are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the viewpoint of…
Guest commentary: Why menudo is white?
Francisco R. Almada — Search for knowledge Editor’s note: Amigos805 welcomes guest columns, letters to the editor and other submissions from our readers. All opinions expressed in submitted material are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the viewpoint…
Guest commentary: Sometimes you cannot stay quiet
The border and the Middle East Editor’s note: Amigos805 welcomes guest columns, letters to the editor and other submissions from our readers. All opinions expressed in submitted material are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the viewpoint of…
Rep. Capps to host Santa Maria forum on DACA on Aug. 9
SANTA MARIA — Rep. Lois Capps (D-Santa Barbara) will host a forum where people can receive an update and review from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials on their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) renewal application and information on…
California LULAC applauds Gov. Brown for nominating Mariano-Florentino Cuellar to serve on California Supreme Court
Confirmation would add only Latino serving on the California Supreme Court in a state with the largest ethnic group being Latino CAMARILLO – The California State Council of the League of United Latin American Citizens – LULAC, applauds the Governor…
Guest commentary: How do we fight back? Turning the other cheek? Take a Toke?
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Guest commentary: On being a Chicano intellectual …
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Guest column: EI Diablo Nunca duerme so play on!
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Guest commentary: Identity — Are you a Mexican or an American first?
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Guest commentary: Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel
Time for a Latino president Editor’s note: Amigos805 welcomes guest columns, letters to the editor and other submissions from our readers. All opinions expressed in submitted material are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the viewpoint of Amigos805.…
Bilingual commentary: Presidents just can’t win
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Guest column: Our politicos have sold us out
Selling public space. The chickens will come home to roost Editor’s note: Amigos805 welcomes guest columns, letters to the editor and other submissions from our readers. All opinions expressed in submitted material are those of the author and do not necessarily represent…
Bilingual commentary: Immigration and the GOP
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Guest commentary: Academe as a plantation — A false consciousness
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Guest commentary: Cops in OSD schools
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Bilingual report: PODER to voice opposition to Santa Barbara gang injunction on April 22
SANTA BARBARA — PODER (People Organized for the Defense and Equal Rights of Santa Barbara Youth) will gather with other community members to voice opposition to the gang injunction prior to City Council’s first-ever public vote on the matter at 4…
Poder and the Coalition of Sustainable Communities to hold documentary screenings, forums on immigration on April 1
SANTA BARBARA — Poder and the Coalition of Sustainable Communities will hold a series of free documentary screenings and forums in Spanish to address the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement expansion of detention centers in Santa Barbara and Santa Maria from…
Bilingual commentary: Fighting with Finesse
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UCSB Conference on Feb. 21-22 to examine the historiography of the Chicano Movement
Special guest panel will discuss ‘The Blowout Generation and Sal Castro’ By Andrea Estrada / UCSB In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools to protest decades of inferior or discriminatory education…
Guest commentary: Obamacare — Greed and Health Care gap
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Bilingual report: Rep. Brownley reports on $1.5 million in overdue federal benefits delivered to Ventura County
THOUSAND OAKS – In the year since Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Westlake Village) took office, Brownley and her staff have successfully delivered $1.5 million in overdue federal benefits to her Ventura County constituents, Rep. Brownley reported Friday in a media release.…
Guest commentary: The word Neo is not new. The age of the billionaires
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Bilingual report: Rep. Brownley’s bill benefitting Ventura County sent to president’s desk
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate sent to the President’s desk on Dec. 20 legislation passed last week by the House that includes a provision spearheaded by Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Westlake Village) that will directly benefit Ventura County. Brownley originally introduced the…
Guest commentary: Supervisor Zaragoza reports on progress in 2013
OXNARD — It’s been a great year at the County of Ventura. In the fall of 2013, construction began on the new Ventura County Medical Center Hospital wing. In addition to meeting earthquake safety standards, this new hospital wing will…
Guest commentary: ¡Tierra y Libertad! Articles 27 and 28 of the Mexican Constitution. Does History Matter?
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Rep. Brownley announces $850,000 in funding for Clinicas del Camino Real to improve health access
VENTURA COUNTY — Clinicas del Camino Real Inc. will receive more than $850,000 in funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Community Health Center Program, Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Westlake Village), reported in a media release. Through its 13…
Guest commentary: Identity Crisis — An Arrested Development
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UCSB to present talk on race, government on Nov. 13
SANTA BARBARA — The UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center will present Kenneth Prewitt, author of “TALK: What is Your Race? — And Why the Government Should Ask,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13 at the Mosher Alumni House. Prewitt is a Carnegie Professor of…
Bilingual commentary: Republican obstinacy
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Panel discussion examines plight of ‘Out of Status’ students throughout history on Oct. 15 at UCSB
SANTA BARBARA — They are among California’s highest achievers. High school graduates — in many cases their class valedictorians — community volunteers and now university students. They are hardworking seekers of their own version of the American Dream. They are also…
Government shutdown, debt ceiling talk set for Oct. 12 at Oxnard Public Library
OXNARD — LULAC Youth — Ventura County and “The David Cruz Show” will present “What You Want to Know About the Government Shutdown and the Debt Ceiling” from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12 at the Oxnard Main Library,…
Guest commentary: The illusion that education is the stairway to whiteness. Waiting for the next Sputnik moment
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Guest commentary: The Problem with American Exceptionalism
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Capps takes to House floor in support of Comprehensive Immigration Reform
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Lois Capps (CA-24), along with several of her colleagues, spoke on the House floor on the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 25 about the need for comprehensive immigration reform. Capps spoke about the economic benefits of comprehensive…
Bilingual report: Rep. Brownley releases video statement to commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month
Click on image above for the full video WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Westlake Village) released the below video commemorating the start of Hispanic Heritage Month. Full text of the video statement is below. Since the founding of our country,…