Stories by Roberto Lovato
Roberto Lovato is a New York-based writer with New America Media. Read more of his work at Of América.
Alberto Gonzales, the first Latino Attorney General in U.S. history, was once endorsed by leading Latino organizations. Those same organizations now remain silent in the midst of the U.S. attorney scandal.
Posted on Mar 30, 2007, Source: New America Media
Battles between the city's black and Latino gangs are the outcome of a dismal racial and economic situation.
Posted on Mar 19, 2007, Source: The Nation
The war on terror is morphing into a war on immigration, with immigrants finding themselves on both sides of the conflict.
Posted on Jan 30, 2007, Source: New America Media
The new movie
Apocalypto should have left the Maya alone and instead looked for apocalyptic violence in the off-screen history of the Catholic-mestizo families of the Americas.
Posted on Dec 16, 2006, Source: New America Media
This election showed Republicans' staunch anti-immigration stance is finally coming back to haunt them.
Posted on Nov 16, 2006, Source: New America Media
A Democratic Congress offers only a thin hope of getting it right on immigration.
Posted on Nov 10, 2006, Source: TomPaine.com
Republican Congressman James Sensenbrenner's stock holdings include investments in companies that benefit from the work of undocumented immigrants, as well as firms contracted to build new border security measures.
Posted on Oct 7, 2006, Source: New America Media
Immigrant rights activists aren't just focused on legalization; they have a vision of helping create a more progressive nation.
Posted on Jun 1, 2006, Source: The Nation
The NSA's citizen-spying program -- and the release of records with friends' names on them -- made me wonder how the feds are tracking pro-immigration marchers.
Posted on May 15, 2006, Source: New America Media
Some Latino leaders feel today's immigrant rights boycott is too extreme, but they may have forgotten the extreme conditions of immigrant guest workers across the country.
Posted on May 1, 2006, Source: New America Media
Latin American leaders say thousands of immigrants will die if the U.S. Congress passes the Sensenbrenner immigration bill.
Posted on Mar 24, 2006, Source: The Nation
The great Latin jazz percussionist Ray Barretto helped push Latino music out of its silence and onto the radio waves.
Posted on Feb 24, 2006, Source: Pacific News Service
Latinos have a growing place in the criminal justice system as both prisoners and prison guards, defendants and prosecutors.
Posted on Jan 12, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
Why are many progressive organizations, as well as the Republican and Democratic parties, still so blindingly white?
Posted on Sep 16, 2004, Source: Pacific News Service
Immigration policy has been liberal on the podium and xenophobic in the hallways at the RNC.
Posted on Sep 2, 2004, Source: Pacific News Service
Terrorists who live and work among Americans with impunity aren't the ones the GOP is warning about.
Posted on Aug 30, 2004, Source: Pacific News Service
Their words are enough to make a hardboiled immigrant cry, but the actions (and inaction) of many a Democratic Convention speaker demonstrate neglect of immigrant issues.
Posted on Jul 29, 2004, Source: Pacific News Service
The consensus at the Boston Social Forum is that another world really is possible.
Posted on Jul 27, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Liberals and progressives don't know what they're up against with the militant evangelical movement.
Posted on Jul 19, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Having prayed and proselytized for his election in 1984 as a born-again 21-year-old homeboy seeking redemption, the author ponders whether America's 40th president will be among God's Elect in 2004.
Posted on Jun 11, 2004, Source: AlterNet
A new book calls Latinos 'the single most immediate and most serious challenge to America's traditional identity.'
Posted on May 18, 2004, Source: Pacific News Service
Mel Gibson's controversial film "The Passion of the Christ" is being used to widen the reach of evangelical media networks even as it decreases the distance between church and state.
Posted on Feb 25, 2004, Source: Pacific News Service
Unless great care is taken to clearly define "terrorist" and "terrorist organization" in current anti-terrorism proposals before Congress, the rights of all law-abiding Americans could be in jeopardy.
Posted on Oct 22, 2001, Source: Pacific News Service
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