 Immigration Issue Brews Beer
The immigration debate has me rethinking my view on boycotts and other forms of economic pressure.
What changed my mind? Some ticked off Hispanics and one terrified beer company.
I liken boycotts to a temper tantrum. Whether it’s Southern Baptists calling on their flock to forgo Disney products, or the United Farm Workers union asking supporters not to buy grapes, or, more recently, a top Vatican official asking that Christians boycott the film, The Da Vinci Code, I’m not sympathetic to those who resort to economic blackmail to get their way.
From HISPANIC Trends Magazine - June / July 06
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On The Job
Americans are divided on immigration and the workforce, a new study suggests. The perception of immigrants’ effect on jobs in America is growing increasingly negative, however, more Americans also believe that Latino immigrants work very hard and are less likely to go on welfare.
From HISPANIC Trends Magazine - June / July 06
 Justice in the Works
While anti-immigrant sentiment grows in Long Island, Nadia Marin-Molina and the workplace project are fighting back.
Nadia Marin-Molina is in the midst of a battle. Soft-spoken and respectful, the 36-year-old Marin-Molina is executive director of the Workplace Project, or Centro de Derechos Laborales, a grass-roots organization that aids workers—regardless of their immigration status—in their fight for better wages and working conditions in the Long Island, New York area. The center, and Marin-Molina herself, have been at the epicenter of some of the most turbulent immigration and workerrights debates in the area’s recent history.
From HISPANIC Magazine - June / July 06
Out of Left Field
Once considered an upstart political interloper, leading political blogger Markos Moulitsas Zuniga is inching into the mainstream.
When diehard Democrat Markos Moulitsas Zuniga was just a kid, long before he became the political writer behind Daily Kos (www.dailykos.com), the world’s most popular political blog, he sat in front of his television set in El Salvador and watched armed men take over a local university.
From HISPANIC Magazine - June / July 06
 USHCC Supports Barreto at SBA
Small businesses are an important engine of job creation.
So what happens when there are cutbacks to the small business administration, an important source of funding? For the sixth year running, the Small Business Administration is finding its budget cut and its staff whittled.
During the Bush presidency, the SBA has been trimmed by about 31 percent, from a $900 million budget in 2001 to $624 million for fiscal year 2007. Staffing has followed at the same rate of decrease.
From HISPANIC Trends Magazine - May 06
Border Fence
Not a solution for U.S.-Mexico woes
Think of the U.S.-Mexico border as a critical artery between two nations. Nowhere is the interdependence between Mexico and the United States more apparent. Nowhere does the love-hate relationship between the two lands find a better staging for squabbles. Nowhere else does the best and worst of each country crash together with such daily fury. So it is no surprise this 2,000-mile sliver of land draws so much attention as the U.S. begins halting steps toward immigration reform.
To listen to many people, every reform effort should begin solely at the U.S.-Mexico border.
From HISPANIC Magazine - March 06
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