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America is about to see what smart Republicans saw in Kamala Harris years ago
By: Dan Morain, Washington Post – August 11, 2020 at 1:19 p.m. PDT
Smart Republicans could see Kamala D. Harris coming years ago, and they tried to smother her early. Now that Joe Biden has chosen the first-term senator from California as his running mate, America is about to see what those Republicans could see long ago: Harris is a quick learner and gifted political performer with genuine star power.
It’s facile to compare Harris to former president Barack Obama, though the two are friends. Harris, 55, is the daughter of two academics, a mother from India and a father from Jamaica, who separated when she was 5. Harris and her younger sister were raised primarily by their mom... Read Full Article
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Update on our Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program
We are excited to share that the California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) has completed the initial selection phase of our Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program.
In a two-week period from July 15-19, 2020, the CMSC received a total of 210 applications from a diverse population of DACA recipients from various states and countries of origin.
From those initial 210 applicants, 30 decided not to pursue the application process after the July 28, 2020 Department of Homeland Security DACA Memorandum, and 76 were declined by the CMSC due to eligibility, legal issues and personal reasons.
Moreover, there are 104 applicants in-consideration, and 72 have already confirmed their participation and are enrolled in the program.
All confirmed participants will be assisted by CMSC staff to complete their Advance Parole (I-131 Form) application during August 17 to 28, 2020.
After completing and filing the Advance Parole applications, the CMSC will initiate our “pay it forward” mobilization of our Dreamers Advance Parole Network with local activities that will engage participants in promoting voter registration, counting Latinos by the U.S. Census, citizenship drives and getting out the vote for the November 3, 2020 elections.
In fact, our first activity to be organized next month involves recruiting LA-area Dreamers as volunteers for the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor Labor Coalition Food Distribution for 2500 families on September 7, 2020 to celebrate this year’s Labor Day.
To volunteer and for more information click here
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Entrevista de El Profe Armando sobre Dreamers
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Kamala Harris is NOT the First Person of Color to be Selected for Vice President, it was Charles Curtis (a Native American)
By Dr. Frank Garcia Berumen – 8/13/2020
In the euphoria of the moment, to celebrate Kamala Harris’s nomination for vice-president by Joe Biden, the media, as usual, has once again manifested its ignorance of Native American history.
The first person of color to be selected to serve as Vice-President of the United States; and to actually serve as such, was Charles Curtis, who was part Osage, Kaw, Potawatomi, and Euro-American. Curtis was elected as a Republican congressman (1893-1907) and then U.S. Senator (1907-1913, 1915-1929), for the state of Kansas.
However, Curtis believed in indigenous assimilation. During his term in office in the U.S. Congress, he helped pass the Curtis Act of 1898. The latter act extended the Dawes Act to the Five Civilized Tribes... Read Full Article
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Contact Governor Newsom to sign AB-1460
(916) 445-2841 / @CAGovernor / Website
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A tale of two ethnic studies proposals for California State University students
By: ASHLEY A. SMITH, EdSource – Aug. 12, 2020
With the debate settled on whether California college students must study ethnic studies, Gov. Gavin Newsom must decide soon what those courses will look like for students in the nation’s largest public university system.
One version, included in an Assembly bill approved by the state’s legislature and supported by the majority of ethnic studies instructors in the California State University system, could cost about $16.5 million and would stick to the more traditional types of classes that have dominated the field.
The second version, offered by the chancellor’s office and board of trustees, broadens the type of ethnic studies classes students would be required to take to graduate by including new “social justice” classes and cost significantly less.... Read Full Article
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California legislators urge Newsom to sign bill requiring CSU students to take ethnic studies
By: Ashley Smith ~ EdSource ~ August 4, 2020
Within the next 12 days, Gov. Gavin Newsom will decide which ethnic studies courses California State University students must take to graduate.
Advocates of a bill that would require students to take a 3-unit class in one of four ethnic studies disciplines gathered Tuesday to lobby Newsom to sign the bill by Aug. 15. The group included legislators, representatives of the California Faculty Association and some CSU students.
The bill, Assembly Bill 1460, would require students beginning with those graduating in 2024-25 to take a class in Native American studies, African American studies, Asian American studies or Latina and Latino studies.... Read Full Article
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At Least 97,000 Children in the U.S. Tested Positive in the Last 2 Weeks of July
By: The New York Times ~ August 9, 2020
Trump’s unilateral economic relief actions come under fire. Ohio’s governor urges use of rapid tests, but with caution after his false positive.
At least 97,000 children in the United States tested positive for the coronavirus the last two weeks of July alone, according to a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. The report says that at least 338,000 children have tested positive since the pandemic began, meaning more than a quarter have tested positive in just those two weeks.
The report comes as parents and education leaders grapple with the challenges of resuming schooling as the virus continues to surge in parts of the country... Read Full Article
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Más de 97,000 niños con coronavirus en dos semanas, cuando se acerca el inicio del curso escolar
By ESMERALDA BERMUDEZ, Los Angeles Times – AUG. 5, 2020
El regreso a clases en Estados Unidos estará condicionado por el aumento de casos de coronavirus en niños
Casi 100,000 niños dieron positivo al coronavirus en las últimas dos semanas de julio, según un nuevo informe de la Academia Estadounidense de Pediatría (AAP), que cita CBS News.
Un poco más de 97,000 niños dieron positivo al COVID-19 del 16 al 30 de julio, según la asociación, cuando Estados Unidos está a dos semanas del inicio del curso escolar.
De los casi 5 millones de casos de COVID-19 reportados en Estados Unidos, Michael George de CBS News informa que el grupo encontró que más de 338,000 son niños... Read Full Article
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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LATEST NEWS
- A new state ethnic studies proposal hits closer to the mark (Los Angeles Times)
- On the shoulders of our parents — the cooks, nannies and gardeners — we’ve traveled far (Los Angeles Times)
- Overlooked No More: Jovita Idár, Who Promoted Rights of Mexican-Americans and Women (NY Times)
- End Family Separation: COVID-19 and the Border
- Trump's attack on U.S. Postal Service is election sabotage amid COVID-19.
- Inside ‘Immigration Nation,’ the Netflix docuseries ICE didn’t want you to see
- Abrupt change to census deadline could result in an undercount of Latino and Black communities (Washington Post)
- Poll finds few Latinos use gender-neutral Latinx (Los Angeles Times)
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