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Young Latino Professionals YLP for Obama is a network of Latino professionals all across the country who are committed to changing the political process by bringing necessary resources and attention to the Latino electorate in the United States. Join YLP and Obama supporters in DC to support this important movement

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From sbsun.com:

When Sal Castro looks back on the 40 years since he led historic walkouts with Chicano students in Los Angeles, he sees a mixed bag.

On the one hand, more Mexican-Americans are graduating from college, earning better wages and gaining business and political stature.

On the other hand, Chicano culture and history remain underplayed in the media and in educational texts, he said.

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Latino poets are hard to come by these days. Especially since the civil rights movement slowly died out.

From The Fresno Bee

Luis Omar Salinas, an influential poet associated with Philip Levine and other Fresno poets, managed a successful literary career and enjoyed the support of family in Sanger.

Mr. Salinas, 70, died Sunday of chronic pulmonary disease.

Levine taught Mr. Salinas as a young student at Fresno State College in the 1960s, and realized he was watching an incipient poet.

“He was a young undergraduate, recently out of the service,” Levine said Thursday. “This was in the 1960s, and he was giving me work enormously original, powerful.”

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Houston Latino History - 1977- 1978

A couple of months ago I asked some students in a cultural studies course if they knew anything about the Moody Park Riot of 1978. No one knew about the incident.

The problem was directly related to the death of a Vietnam veteran named Joe Campos Torres - the students didn’t know about him either.

Here is an article from The Economist on Campos Torres’ death. At the bottom of this dreamacttexas post is a recent story by KUHF, Houston Public Radio.

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A great cause and If you’re in SD, try and make it, show your support.

From: HispanicTips.com:

Nurturing the desire for college and keeping it on track is the purpose of Comienza con un Sueño ( It Begins with a Dream ), a major college outreach event taking place this month at UCSD. Aimed at Latino and Mexican American students, parents and families, this free event will be held Saturday, May 31 from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in various stages on Library Walk, Center Hall and Geisel Library terrace.

More than 700 attendees from San Diego and Imperial counties are expected.

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Seeing as how UCLA is (in my opinion) the nations pre-eminent Latino institution, the effects of a fee hike could be catastrophic to all minority students in general.  I applaud the actions of these brave students.

Student protesters were arrested on campus Wednesday afternoon soon after a committee of the UC Board of Regents approved student fee increases.

The Finance Committee, after much debate and deliberation, voted to increase student fees by 7.4 percent and to increase nonresident tuition by 5 percent for the fall term.

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CSU Channel Islands will open a library and launch programs in applied physics and Chicano studies this year.

San Francisco Weekly - His prose crackles with an intensity and verve that brings to life the working-class and Chicano laborers, lovers, drifters, and downtrodden, who inhabit his pages in some of the best contemporary fiction of the past few decades. In his just-released ...

Davis, for example. Academics have primarily classified Salinas as an ... important formative poet of the Chicano Movement; yet, while he may have...