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As we bid farewell to a dreadful 2021, the CMSC Team is grateful for all of the blessings and support we received this year and the generosity from our donors' and sponsors’ financial assistance. But most importantly, we celebrate the accomplishments that we have reached thus far and the new challenges that we plan to confront in 2022 !!!
As we begin the 10th year of our newsletter next week, we urge you to please subscribe to “El Magonista” to stay tuned in and involved with our new initiatives, campaigns, and programs!!!
-El Profe Armando
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By Brittny Mejia | LATimes | DEC. 26, 2021
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CMSC spotlights one Latino family's struggle with profound loss, crushing grief and painful division in the wake of the Pandemic.
The nurse helped tie our isolation gowns before we stepped into room 416.
My sister Crystal Vargas and I were in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at Huntington Hospital. Staff watched a handful of patients on computer monitors, including our grandmother María Díaz.
Inside the room came the steady whoosh of air getting pushed into her lungs by an oxygen mask that obscured her face. The numbers on her hospital monitor signaled that her blood pressure had plunged to 79/46 mmHG.
We placed our purple, gloved hands over hers — the hands that fed us, bathed us and brushed our hair. They were cold despite the pile of blankets that enveloped her thin frame... READ MORE
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By Jean Guerrero | Photo credit: Genaro Molina | L.A. Times | DEC. 23, 2021
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Protect abuelita at Christmas and New Year's.
Younger Latinos owe it to our elders to be fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID this winter — or skip the matriarch’s “Nochebuena” party on Christmas Eve and other family gatherings.
But as Omicron races through our society, multiplying 70 times faster than Delta, there’s a dangerous gap in vaccination rates for Latinos under 50 compared with rates for older Latinos — a gap that’s bigger than in any other ethnic group in Los Angeles County. The age disparity, which applies especially to Latinx millennials and their children, could deepen the pandemic’s already-disproportionate toll on our families as breakthrough cases become the norm.
Latinos, who often live in multigenerational households, should err on the side of caution in the face of a mutating virus. We shouldn’t gamble with the lives of our elders who’ve sacrificed so much for us... READ MORE
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Por: Araceli Martinez Ortega | Foto: Paulina Herrera | La Opinion | DEC. 23, 2021
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"Era su gran ilusión que me hiciera residente de Estados Unidos."
Arturo Bello no podía tener mejor Navidad que la del 2021, ya que apenas hace unos días recibió su residencia permanente. Sin embargo, su felicidad no es completa porque quien más anhelaba que se hiciera residente, su madre, murió de covid-19.
“Me hubiera gustado tanto que ella estuviera con vida para que viera que por fin logré la residencia en Estados Unidos”, dice.
Su madre Guadalupe Mondragón Franco murió el 16 de enero, a los 54 años de edad, como consecuencia de covid-19 en un hospital de Los Ángeles, sin que su familia pudiera decirle adiós... LEER MAS
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The world mourns the loss of an icon of equality and civil rights.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of Cape Town who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his impassioned campaign against apartheid in South Africa while Nelson Mandela languished in prison, died early Sunday.
Tutu, 90, died of cancer at a care center in Cape Town, the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Trust said in a statement. He had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997 and had been hospitalized several times in recent years.
A moral beacon in a deeply troubled land, the impish priest in the purple cassock stood for decades as an inspiring symbol of courage, dignity and hope in a nation that at times seemed doomed to civil war. His fervent pleas for peace and racial justice... READ MORE
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EXCLUSIVE Editorial for El Magonista by Gonzalo Santos
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He was an indefatigable "prisoner of hope," a fearless and persistent "voice of the voiceless," a true champion of human rights for all - foremost his own black and coloured countrymen and women.
He was a believer in love and the possibility of reconciliation and restorative justice -- but only if truth is first allowed to shine in and expose all past injustices, and then allow the former oppressors to come forth, repent, and redeem themselves by apologizing, and atoning - a process that would then allow for their amnesty and social reintegration -, as well as extending reparations to the victims of apartheid.
Archbishop Tutu was a trailblazer in developing a theology of liberation for our times... READ MORE
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By Helen Iris Torres | LATimes | Dec. 29, 2021
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On May 26, 2009, President Obama made history by nominating Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. It was a pivotal moment in Obama’s relationship with us Latinas. His selection of Sotomayor to be the court’s first Latina justice communicated and acknowledged that Latinas play a vital part in our nation’s story and are key to the future of our democracy.
Today, Gov. Gavin Newsom is well-positioned to have his own “Sotomayor moment” by appointing the first Latina to the California Supreme...READ MORE
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Por: Araceli Martinez Ortega | Foto: Paulina Herrera | La Opinion | DEC. 22, 2021
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Los Op-Ed juegan un papel significativo en moldear la opinión pública, dicen los autores del reporte.
De acuerdo a un nuevo reporte de UCLA, las páginas de opinión del diario Los Angeles Times carecen de voces latinas en asuntos cruciales que afectan a esta comunidad, aún cuando se encuentran establecidos en un condado donde los latinos representan casi el 50% de la población.
La investigación de la Iniciativa de Políticas y Pólizas Latinas (Latino Policy and Politics Initiative) de UCLA, indica que en un periodo de 17 meses, entre enero de 2020 y mayo de 2021, que incluyó la elección presidencial en la que el voto latino fue crítico y la etapa en la que la epidemia devastaba a la comunidad latina, solo el 4% de los artículos de opinión publicados por el L.A. Times eran de autores latinos... LEER MAS
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