Written by Sara Inés Calderón of NewsTaco.com There’s already controversy surrounding the 2010 Census, even though it hasn’t even been fully released. Along the U.S.-Mexico border, where Latinos are concentrated, poor neighborhoods known as colonias were severely undercounted. Colonias are heavily immigrant neighborhoods, very poor and seem to have been afterthoughts to those who organized the […]
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Archive | February 21, 2011
Advocating for Blue Collar Workers
February 21, 2011 
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Written by Victoria Cepeda It was 1966 when Mexican-American civil rights activist Jesus Salas et. al. founded “Obreros Unidos”, an independent farm labor union, in Wisconsin. Their objective was to improve working conditions for migrant farm workers that traveled from Texas to Wisconsin yearly. They knew of a Wisconsin state provision that protected agricultural workers which […]
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