Mobilizing the Millennial Vote – According to data from the Pew Research Center, almost half of the more than 27 million Latinos eligible to vote this November are from the so-called millennial generation. In California, one of every three Latinos is a young adult under 30. If they were to come out to vote in big numbers, they could decide important races. In Kern County, California, local activists are trying to find creative ways to motivate young people to vote on November 8th. Our reporter Rubén Tapia was at a protest against an immigrant detention center in Bakersfield.
Latinos More Segregated than Ever – In a sad irony, the schools that have the name Gonzalo and Felícitas Méndez, pioneers of the cause to abolish school segregation, now have 100 percent Latino students. That’s what civil rights advocate Sylvia Méndez told Radio Bilingüe’s news director Samuel Orozco. As a child, Méndez protagonized the historic legal case that marked the beginning of the end of school segregation in the country. Seventy years after the legal battle of Mendez vs Westminster, Sylvia comments on the cause that her family took up to fight the existence of separate schools for whites and Mexicans.
Yaquis Fight for their River – The traditional authorities of the Yaqui indigenous tribe, in the north of Mexico, say the construction of a mega-aqueduct will leave the Yaqui River dry and their people without their ancestral sustenance. In retaliation for defending his people’s water rights, one prominent Yaqui leader spent a year in prison. Now free, leader Mario Luna continues at the forefront of the fight for water. He recently spoke on Radio Bilingüe. Marco Vinicio González has the story.
