Youth Organizers in South Texas Embracing Past, Shaping Future
Raj Jayadev | Special to Equal Voice News
Teenagers in South Texas’s Rio Grande Valley can dance to anything – even two songs at the same time. Last week, Silicon Valley De Bug paid a visit to La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), a community-organizing powerhouse created in 1989 by César Chávez. LUPE’s building is…
Stronger Together: A Powerful and Equal Voice for Families on May 20
Kathy Mulady | Equal Voice News
On May 20 Myeisha Hutchinson is giving up part of her Sunday off to join tens of thousands of American families throughout the country who plan to participate in the 2012 Equal Voice Online Convention. At the convention, which will be broadcast over the Internet, families will determine, and…
Disaster After the Storm
Kathy Mulady | Equal Voice News
On Patricia Jones’ wedding day, her father pulled her aside, holding her arm firmly and speaking so urgently that she stopped hugging her guests to listen closely. “Buy a house as soon as you can,” he told her. “A house is your wealth, your future, for you, for your…
Governor Eyes More Cuts as Calif Deficit Swells
Judy Lin | Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s sputtering economic recovery is putting a heavier-than-expected drag on state tax revenue, leading Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday to propose deep budget cuts across an array…
Postal Service: Will keep Rural Post Offices Open
Hope Yen | Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service sought Wednesday to tamp down concern over wide-scale cuts, revealing it will seek to keep thousands of rural post offices open with…
♦ Seifert: CompañerosMichael Seifert | Rio Grande Valley Equal Voice Network
Compañero. The word means “companion,” and is from the Latin, meaning “the one I share bread with.” A compañero, then, is someone with whom you share the bread of life—be it the bread of the day’s hopes and dreams, struggles and disappointments, or blessings and bounding happiness, which, experienced alone, remain incomplete. (Read More)
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