Leadership

Salud participants among youth arrested in DC DREAM Act protest
Tuesday, almost two-dozen young people began sit-ins at the offices of five powerful senators.   The youths are demanding passage of the DREAM Act, a bill that... read more
Image Gallery of DC DREAM Act Sit-in
Undocumented students from around the country demand the passage of the Dream Act outside the White House, despite the threat of arrests and deportation. The... read more
Teatro Americano After School Matters Summer Session
Teatro Americano is happy to inform you that Emmanuel Gutierrez has evolved from a youth actor to one of TA's Co-Artistic Director and is currently... read more
The President's Remarks on Immigration Reform
....immigrants have always helped to build and defend this country -– and that being an American is not a matter of blood or birth.  It’s... read more
Why Stories Matter for Health
We have all heard health statistics—and then promptly forgotten them.  We have all experienced powerful emotions during medical encounters that have prevented us from asking the “right” questions... read more
Once struggling to learn English, student now heads for Harvard med
"Next stop, Harvard University in August. Carlos also was accepted at Madison, the Medical College and the University of Chicago. He hasn't decided on a... read more
Courage in Arizona
Four students risked everything to urge passage of an immigration reform bill. Too bad nobody in Washington has been able to muster the same kind... read more
Tania Unzueta, New Routes Leader, Community Leader
As many of you know, I am in Arizona at the moment. I, along with 4 other community leaders, participated in a civil disobedience action.... read more
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HEARMe Producers Interview Egal Shidad Producers (In Somali)
Hussien Mohamed and Abdiqadir Sagaar, producers from the HEARMe project, interview Egal Shidad producer Mukhtar Gaaddasaar and radio host Zuhur Ahmed about the 30-minute... Listen to audio

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Meet Juan Cuba, an Abriendo las Cajas New Routes Leader
Juan Cuba, who teaches people how to use media to tell stories, talks about the need to be strong, media sterotypes, and his sense of... read more
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Tell the women they should never feel scared: Domestic violence and digital storytelling
By Jen Gilomen, Lead Developer of Strategic Initiatives, Bay Area Video Coalition “I am telling a story that had a great impact on my family. Something we... read more
FBI Honors Mpls Somali Community Leader
Saeed Fahia, executive director of the Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota, is among more than 50 people nationwide who were honored by FBI Director... read more
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Linea Abierta (Open Line) Talk Show: Immigrant Health Reform (En Español)
IMMIGRANT HEALTH REFORM. Under proposed health reform legislation, undocumented immigrants are being banned from purchasing health coverage in the insurance exchange market. In addition, legal... Listen to audio

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Salud New Routes Leader Judith Landeros - "becoming creative, imaginative and open-minded"
Judith Landeros is a student at Northwestern University, with a double major in Social Policy and Latina/o Studies. Her parents are Mexican immigrants whom she... read more
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SALUD New Routes Leader Edy Dominguez - "leadership and teamwork"
Since Edy Dominguez began participating at Radio Arte, he has graduated from Northeastern Illinois University with a major in Communication, Media, and Theater with a... read more
A Decade of New Youth Activism
They may not call themselves "activists," and you've probably never heard their names, but a new generation of young people is using high-tech communications to... Visit website
Immigration Policy Center's Top 10 Resources of 2009
Labor data debunked, census data remixed, worksheets on the economic impact of immigrants, citizenship facts and stats, and a YouTube video. Visit website
Domestic Workers Go on Offensive with Ad Campaign, Conference
La Colectiva de Mujeres (Women's Collective) in San Francisco has launched a media campaign unveiling striking posters, billboards, bus ads and postcards depicting domestic workers... read more
Our Towns: A Year After an Immigrant’s Death, Signs of Hope
In Patchogue, N.Y., where an Ecuadorean man was killed in 2008, politicians seem to want to be seen as on the side of reconciliation as opposed to... read more
San Francisco board overrides mayor's veto of sanctuary expansion
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to override a recent veto by Mayor Gavin Newsom and expand the city's controversial sanctuary policy. The board... Visit website
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Wheat or White?
For two hours every Monday morning the cultural barriers that separate me from the nearly invisible Latin American newcomers fall away.  Rocío is learning English,... read more
ZeroDivide Coordinates Partners Across 13 States in Proposal for Broadband Stimulus Funding
ZeroDivide is taking an innovative approach towards securing a share of the federal stimulus funding for its communities by coordinating a proposal to the Broadband... read more
Grantcraft Case Study: "New Routes is a meta-communications project to cultivate other communications projects"
"When people say community media, they often mean the local news. But at New Routes to Community Health, community media means participatory media," says Karen... read more
Afghan Immigrant to Deliver Speech at UCLA Commencement
"She was born in Afghanistan. Now she's student body president at UCLA." That is the featured headline on the UCLA Web site to announce Homaira... read more
The Rev. Gérard Jean-Juste, Champion of Haitian Rights in U.S., Dies at 62
The Rev. Gérard Jean-Juste, a Roman Catholic priest who championed the rights of Haitians in the United States and was twice imprisoned in Haiti for... read more
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