Democratic Presidential Candidates Denounce Environmental Racism – With Hurricane Dorian lashing the Caribbean and the east coast of the United States, ten Democratic presidential candidates are making the fight to halt climate change a top priority. They coincided in questioning President Trump’s decision to leave the Paris Agreement, reiterated their support for the “Green New Deal,” and several also denounced the existence of environmental racism. José López Zamorano reports.
Work Stoppage Threatens Large Supermarkets in California – Fifteen years after the last work stoppage, which lasted four months and was considered the longest in the country’s history for supermarket workers, employees of several chains across California are preparing to go on strike if negotiations fail this weekend. Ruben Tapia reports from Los Angeles.
Fear of Losing Power, Behind El Paso Massacre – Unlike other times when Latinos were used as scapegoats and blamed for the country’s economic woes, the current anti-immigrant backlash and the El Paso massacre aimed at Mexicans happens in a time of economic growth. Speaking with Radio Bilingüe’s Samuel Orozco, political analyst David Ayón, from Latino Decisions, explains that, for the first time, the anti-Latino backlash reveals purely political animus, fueled by a fear of loss of power by whites.
