Anarchist, Reconquista Babble:
La Raza launches campaign to stop anti-Latino hate

LA VOZ DE AZTLAN
Los Angeles, Alta California
January 31, 2008

The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) has launched a national campaign
targeting several newscasters and presidential candidates for what it
deems "rhetoric that demonizes immigrants and Hispanic Americans."

The National Council of La Raza, a coalition of 300 organizations, is set to
launch the campaign today which it titled "We Can Stop The Hate." The
campaign aims at curtailing the influence of anti-immigrant hatemongers like

CNN's Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck and MSNBC's political commentator Pat
Buchanan, among others. In addition, the organization is requesting for
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to renounce the
endorsement of the border vigilante Jim Gilchrist, a cofounder of the
anti-Mexican organization called the Minuteman.

Huckabee has no chance of winning the Republican nomination and the real
threat to immigrants and Mexican-Americans is Mitt Romney because of his
alliance with his good friend Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona. Sheriff Arpaio of
Maricopa County has been racially profiling Latinos and has made numerous
arrests of Hispanics simply on "suspicion of being illegal." Arpaio campaign
for Romney in New Hampshire.
(See http://www.aztlan.net/arrested_on_suspi ... llegal.htm

"There's a bully in the room," said NCLR President Janet MurguÃ*a, "and each of
these candidates has a choice. They can stand up to the bully or they can cater
to him. It is a question of courage or cowardice. To date, we have seen far too
little courage. The immigration issue deserves serious debate and serious
solutions. We cannot have that debate as long as hate has the floor."

La Voz de Aztlan was in the forefront to bring to the attention of the community
the disturbing "rise in anti-Mexican hate crimes" nationally. We are glad
organizations like the NCLR are now paying attention and taking action.
This publication has a report and many links concerning the problem at
http://www.aztlan.net/talk_radio_propaganda.htm

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