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Thanks for everyone who supports the peaceful protest of the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in New York City on May 4, 2014. There are too many wonderful people to mention here! Thanks to the millions of people all over the world who want real change in the mental health system.

By Ariel Perez and Benita Mathew, Green Bay Press-Gazette   When Carlos Muñoz arrived in the United States in 1973, he was thinking only about vacationing. Family members who lived ...

New Hispanic and Latino arrivals are now able to find established multi-generational communities that offer them support networks, familiarity.

Lockdown and ‘looking after the grandmas’ may have kept the Rage Against the Machine guitarist away from recent protests – but he refuses to be silenced

Houston Residents here honored labor leader and United Farm Workers founder Cesar Chavez March 27 with a caravan through the East Side, led by over 25 motorcycles, dozens of Chicano lowrider cars and other cars with signs and union flags on them. They met up with a large contingent of marchers who had gathered on Cesar Chavez Blvd., led by children on bikes and walking with UFW flags. The Southeast Tejas Brown Berets organized the event, which ended with a rally at Magnolia Park, which was once...

As a little girl, Jessica Govea had become accustomed to rising early and making her way to the fields with her family. During the cotton season, you could find her family dragging sacks of cotton along the long rows of fields in Kern County, California. Her father had travelled a long way from Mexico. He first worked in the United States as a contracted guest worker through the Bracero Program and then later as a migrant farmworker. Portrait of Jessica Govea. Courtesy of the Govea family When ...

They want better drainage. >> no drainage, no street lights. basic services for most american neighborhoods, but not necessarily all of them. even if the residents are paying taxes. if theyre not legal there may not be lights. >> theyre old enough now, they have probably kids that are american citizens. they have grand kids that are american citizens. by them grouping together and asking for stuff that most people have, i mean, how can you not want to help the people? >> to have a huge group of ...

Now they have probably kids that are american citizens and have grand kids that are american citizen. by them grouping together and asking for stuff that most people have, i mean how can you not want to help these people? >> to have a huge group of people in this united states is sometimes struggling to get street lights? [ applause ] >> the one thing is that we find in organized the immigrant community, they are ready to be organized. but we have to somehow try to translate that power at a nati...