Tag Archives: educacion
Men against domestic violence.
Boys who witness violence in their homes are more likely to perpetuate this behavior as grown men and abuse their partners or wives. A growing movement by men seeks to change harmful attitudes and break this dangerous cycle. In this edition, we talk with two experts about how to engage fathers, brothers, friends and compadres […]
Latino to Lead Arizona Schools? Also, Presunto Culpable.
Tucson, in Arizona, sparked widespread protests after it banned from public schools books by Chicano authors and a Mexican American studies curriculum. Statewide, Attorney General Tom Horne has stalled efforts to allow undocumented students pay in-state tuition. Now, a Latino professor vies for the top education post in the state: Superintendent of Public Instruction. What’s […]
GMO Tortillas on the Table?
Mexico’s staple food for thousands of years, maize, is at the center of a battle pitting agricultural giant Monsanto and local farmers trying to preserve the natural diversity of the plant and food in general. A Mexican judge recently suspended all planting of genetically modified strains of corn and blocked Monsanto field trials of GMO […]
Domestic Violence Shelters.
María del Socorro Pesqueira has recently been recognized in Chicago for her leadership in helping thousands of families break free from the yoke of domestic violence. She talks about her efforts to create a network of safe shelters where battered Latinas feel welcome and en familia. Pesqueira shares tips on how to overcome abusive relationships, […]
Factory of geniuses.
Factory of geniuses. Students of an impoverished elementary school that sits next to a waste dump near the U.S. border scored the best math grades in Mexico in a nationwide test. One of the students, 12-year old Paloma Noyola was declared a genius and the next Steve Jobs. The year before, students in the same […]
Latina victims of domestic violence.
On the hard road to overcome domestic violence, victims need to feel confident enough to seek help, open up about their problems or report abusers. Many Latinas who live with domestic violence never reach shelters, women centers, or authorities that could help them. Why? Guest: Mily Treviño Sauceda, Training Faculty, National Latino Alliance for the […]
The Will to Live.
CNN on-air personality Zoraida Sambolin faced a stark choice that changed her life forever. After being diagnosed with breast cancer, Sambolin underwent a double mastectomy and revealed it during her show. She says the hardest thing was telling her children, and how to guide them through that process. Sambolin and public health expert join this […]
ANCIENT FOOTPRINTS OF THE COLORADO RIVER.
Native sacred sites along the Colorado River are facing the worst threat ever from off-road vehicles, vandals and most recently, solar power mega-projects, says veteran activist Alfredo Figueroa. He argues in a new book that thousands of petroglyphs, geoglyphs and images, as well as the Mojave and Chemehuevi oral tradition, relate these sacred sites to […]
THE AMAZING STORY OF DR. QUIÑONES.
As a 5-year old boy in the Mexican border town of Mexicali, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa sold food to truckers at gas stations to help his family. As a teenager, he jumped the border fence to join family members in the U.S. Quiñones worked without documents as a cotton picker and other hardworking jobs. Quiñones worked his […]
MORE FUNDS TO SCHOOLS. ALSO CALIFORNIA DOMESTIC WORKERS BILL OF RIGHTS ADVANCES.
For the first time in years, public schools in California are receiving an influx of additional funds to improve classrooms and hire staff thanks to Proposition 30, a tax law passed by state voters last year. Community College administrators say Prop 30 is pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into their institutions. How are schools […]
