Diversity makes us stronger: "BEIJING (AP) -- Henry Cejudo, the 21-year-old wrestling prodigy who had wrestled in only one world-level senior tournament before Beijing, has won the Olympic gold medal in men's freestyle 55-kilogram wrestling." More

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Short term memory is what we all suffer from. More than three months after the raids in Postville some of us are starting to forget the devastation and struggles of a small community in Iowa. Read More

A recent De Moines Register article reported that scores of people from Somalia have arrived in Postville, Iowa to work at the Agriprocessors plant that was recently raided. Read More

New Press has announced the publication of Judith Adler Hellman's "The World of Mexican Migrants." In her groundbreaking book "Mexican Lives," Judith Adler Hellman profiled fifteen Mexicans, both poor and rich, each of whom was struggling to survive the radical economic and political shifts of Mexico in the 1990s.

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On Friday, August 15th, 2008, project SALUD: Healing Through the Arts, will showcase a summer of preparation and collaboration in two exciting performances that feature both lighthearted and more serious themes centered on health literacy, community leadership, empowerment, and the immigrant experience. Read More

Yesterday The New York Times published a long, poignant article that centered on the plight of Luis Alberto Jiménez -- an undocumented immigrant who was injured in a car accident in Florida and treated at a community hospital, which eventually sent him back to Guatemala.

Though it is a sad story to read, I felt happy to see it published on the front page of the Sunday edition and given so much space to convey the complicated issues involved. Read More

The Philadelphia New Routes project, "Media partnerships for community engagement in Southeast Asian health," was highlighted at a national conference in San Francisco, CA. The session, held on 7/24/2008, was entitled, "Increasing the Voice of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders through Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and Community-Based Participatory Programs (CBPP)." This was part of a 3-day meeting, The Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Cancer Survivorship Conference: Dispelling Myths, Reducing Disparities & Providing Hope (APIA Health Forum and API National Cancer Survivors Network). Read More

I got a personal boost when Melissa Gonzalez of Latinos Progresando (LP) told me that LP had been awarded 4 days of media training from the fabulous youth media organization, Global Action Project in New York City. Read More

Some of the thousands of Liberians living in New York appear to have brought some of their country’s volatile politics with them. New York Region. Read More

ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) increasingly relies on local government to identify and report "criminal" illegal immigrants to federal authorities.

The trouble is, of course, in the definition of "criminal." For undocumented immigrants, their very being in the USA is, under current law, "criminal." Therefore the effect of the ICE partnership is that local law enforcement can turn in any illegal immigrants to ICE, even if the infraction that brings them to local authorities' attention is as minor as jaywalking. Read More