Monthly Archives: March 2012

The Health Care Law and You

Mar. 30, 2012 / By
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Latina Elders With Imprisoned Children Locked in Hard Times

Mar. 30, 2012 / By
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La Opinion/New America Media, News Feature, Araceli Martinez Ortega, Posted: Mar 30, 2012

Photo: Margaret Ibarra, 80, shows a photo of her son’s family before he went to prison...

Elderly Latino Parents Struggle When Children Are Behind Bars

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La Opinion/New America Media, News Feature, Araceli Martinez Ortega, Posted: Mar 26, 2012

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Former Nurse Finds New Way to Serve Community

Mar. 29, 2012 / By
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By Rogelio Montaño,

Coachella Unincorporated

When Lilia Rebollar came to the United States from Mexico, the only work the former nurse could find was in the agricultural fields of the Eastern Coachella Valley...

What Will Happen to California if Supreme Court Nullifies Health Law?

Mar. 28, 2012 / By
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New America Media, Question & Answer, Viji Sundaram, Posted: Mar 28, 2012

Photo courtesy of the National Partnership for Women and Families from their Supreme Court demonstration Tuesday on the health care reform law...

Review: A Better Life

Mar. 28, 2012 / By
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Written by John Oliver Santiago, VoiceWaves Journalist.

A film still from the film, A Better Life...

Dirty Crude Spells Dirty Air in California

Mar. 27, 2012 / By
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New America Media/InsideClimate News, News Report, Ngoc Nguyen, Posted: Mar 27, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO — California’s long-running campaign to reduce air pollution has indirectly helped create a new problem: its oil refineries now produce more greenhouse gas emissions than refineries anywhere else in the country...

The Beat Within

Mar. 27, 2012 / By
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The Beat Within’s mission is to provide incarcerated youth with consistent opportunity to share their ideas and life experiences in a safe space that encourages literacy, self-expression, some critical thinking skills, and healthy, supportive relationships with adults and their community...

Reader’s Voice: Jason Perez and Safe Spaces for LGBTQ Youth

Mar. 26, 2012 / By
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Jason Perez is a Youth Advocate and Community Organizer at BIENESTAR Long Beach. He facilitates the weekly Sabores Connect group for LGBT Youth every Tuesday. ..

Parents: The Missing Engine Behind School Reform

Mar. 26, 2012 / By
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New America Media, News Report, Khalil Abdullah, Posted: Mar 26, 2012
Modesto E. Abety-Gutierrez, President of The Children’s Trust (with the mic), along with other panel speakers, including (from left) Liz Looney, Service Manager with City Year Miami; Principal Pablo Ortiz with Miami Edison Senior High School; School Board member Raquel A...

Share Your Story on VoiceWaves

Mar. 26, 2012 / By
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VoiceWaves is an online community of many diverse people, ideas, and opinions. We imagine our website as a home for all people...

Wake Up: Learning Responsibility, Behind Bars

Mar. 26, 2012 / By
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The Beat Within, First Person, Ray Sanchez Jr., Posted: Mar 25, 2012


EDITOR’S NOTE: The author of this piece, Ray Sanchez Jr.,
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