07.11.10 Domingo Newsbytes...

In the last week I’ve had a few folks tell me that “summer is over”. How can I have missed summer? This can’t possibly be true, summer isn’t over. It reminded me that we need to be in the “now” to truly enjoy summer. It also dawned on me that between presentations, emails, texts,  phone calls and Facebook I haven’t been doing anything fun. Like most hyper-busy Latinas we get caught up in the hustle and bustle of our work and family life. So, I decided to be spontaneous and I went to the “Memory of Fire”...

5.16.10 Domingo Newsbytes:...

Proyecto Latina is tomorrow Monday, May 17 @ 7pm at Cedhalia’s Café. This month we plan to Speak up & Speak Out so, we’ve changed the format a little because we want to hear from YOU! Make sure to come out and bring your creative responses to Arizona recent legislation. Our Facebook feeds  and Twitter accounts was exploding this week as Governor Jan Brewer did it again by signing into a law an ethnic studies ban in Arizona. What does this mean? It means no funding for Latino/Mexican studies classes, Native American or African American. Did you take a Latinos in...

05.02.10: Domingo Newsbytes...

Its been a busy week for news that impacts Latinas and their families, particularly since Governor Brewer signed the immigration Arizona law SB1070 into law. Yesterday, was the immigrant rights march. In Chicago and other parts of the country Half –A- Million and Counting participated waving American flags, holding up signs that read “We Are Arizona,”  mom’s brought their children, teenagers hung around excitedly, for some of them this was their first march and I spotted an army of paleteros. Latina Lista is doing an amazing job keeping folks informed with the...