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Latino Commission on AIDS to Release Report Today
9:56 am By Maegan La Mala · Alabama| Georgia| Health| Mississippi| North Carolina| South Carolina · Comments Off
1 Dec 2008
Commemorating the 20th annual World AIDS Day, today at noon EST, the Latino Commission on AIDS will release a new report focusing on the state of HIV/AIDS prevention and care services for Latinos in the Deep South: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana. The report, Shaping the New Response: HIV/AIDS and Latinos in the Deep South, follows 2 years of fact finding.
Date: Monday, December 1st
National Call-In Press Conference: 12:00 PM EST ( English and Spanish). Dial-in number (888) 387-8686 password 4615450
In-Person Press Conference: 1:00 p.m. EST (English and Spanish) Latino Commission on AIDS at 24 West 25th Street 10th Floor, New York City (Bet 6th Avenue & Broadway)
For more information and to arrange interviews, call
Guillermo Chacón (212) 920-1611 or gchacon@latinoaids.org (Spanish)
Tim Frasca (917) 689-9475 or tfrasca@latinoaids.org (English)
For more information visit The Latino Commission on AIDS.
Meanwhile in South Carolina: ICE Marches On
12:06 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration| South Carolina · 1 Comment
8 Oct 2008
Two debates have come and gone without so much as a breath of the word immigration. It’s too easy to dismiss the issue by saying that it’s not important as the stock market continues to freefall and war in Iraq rages on. It’s too easy to say it’s not happening and the campaigns utter another i word: ignore. Pero it is relevant. It is happening. Yesterday ICE swooped down into a South Carolina chicken processing plant and changed the lives of 300 families.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin McDonald says the raid began shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday during a shift change at House of Raeford’s Columbia Farms plant.
Federal prosecutors and immigration agents have been investigating the plant’s hiring practices. McDonald says 12 people have been arrested in past months, and seven have pleaded guilty.
Pero, don’t anyone dare talk about it. After all what’s the value of 300 immigrant lives?
Obama Takes South Carolina and Gets Kennedy Love
8:24 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · South Carolina| US Presidential Race 2008| race · Comments Off
28 Jan 2008
What a political weekend! On Sabado, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama won the South Carolina party primary by a fairly large margin.
With 99 percent of the electoral precincts reporting, Mr. Obama had 55 percent of the vote, Mrs. Clinton had 27 percent, and Mr. Edwards had 18 percent.
In his victory speech, Obama tried to distance himself from being the “black candidate”.
“The choice in this election is not about regions or religions or genders,” Obama said at a boisterous victory rally. “It’s not about rich versus poor, young versus old and it’s not about black versus white. It’s about the past versus the future.”
The audience chanted “Race doesn’t matter”…
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