Guest Contributor

The global celebration of International Women’s Day ignores the critical importance of immigrant women resisting oppressive systems to produce change today for tomorrow.

If these pan-ethnic labels were meant to celebrate the melding away of the numerous Latino cultures and identities, then the experiment has not gone so well.

Whenever people are in ICE custody, lives are in jeopardy.

Immigrant detention has become big business.

Whereas detention facilities rely on imprisoning immigrants, community-based alternatives offer holistic care.

We need a presidential administration that is prepared to dismantle cruel and inhumane detention and deportation policies and detention centers and reunite families who have been separated.

The U.S. funding of security forces and support for private investment promoted as “economic development” created a climate of impunity for targeted attacks on environmental and land activists, causing many to flee in fear.

Although “death to asylum” was blocked, the incoming Biden-Harris administration must do more and propose a change to U.S. asylum law.

There is nothing progressive about that.

The COVID-19 lockdown initially brought live stand-up comedy to a grinding halt, and some clubs have been shuttered indefinitely.

Many reporters and pundits have failed to report on one of the most important trends this election—the massive growth in the Latino vote that will reshape the political landscape of our country for years to come.

The results show almost universal distrust of the government’s goal to protect them or their community, wariness about receiving the vaccine and an urgent need for more information.

Mexican Americans have been instrumental in building California, making it the economic powerhouse that it is today. Yet rarely have our contributions been recognized.

Georgia will determine control of the Senate. The votes of Latinos, who have suffered badly during the pandemic, could be decisive.

Advocates and workers are demanding change after years of high fatality rates in the construction industry. What can be done depends heavily on the labor organizing landscape in each state.

El reclamo inició un proceso de redacción y edición colectiva a cargo de expertas afrolatinas que acaba de concluir.

The United States prefers to maintain the status quo and keep Puerto Rico a colony.

Mexican Americans proved to be Donald Trump’s Achilles heel in this historic election.

In the end, Trump never even needed a physical wall to prevent people from seeking refuge in the U.S.

Navigating arduous voter registration laws in a state like North Carolina is a complicated matrix for first-time voters, and first-time vote-by-mail voters.

This election year, mothers, early childhood educators, and child care providers are part of intentional, relational organizing voter programs to connect with voters they know.