The November issue of Political Affairs focuses on the struggles of Latino in America.
Here are selected items posted to their website.
Why Latinos Want to Dump Bush (print edition)
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/294/1/36/As the November 2 election comes closer it is clear thatLatino voters will be a critical element of the growingforces opposing the Bush administration and Republicancontrol of Congress. At the beginning of 2004 anti-Bushforces were worried about the Latino vote because of supportfor Bush reported by opinion polls in the wake of 9/11.
No Where Else to Go: Latino Youth and the Poverty Draft(print edition)
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/295/1/36/Military recruiters are well aware that the economicsituation for Latino youth is relatively bleak and havetargeted Latino communities as one of the primary objectivesfor their efforts in coming decades. The targeting of Latinoyouth for military recruitment was initiated by formerSecretary of the Army Louis Caldera who once declared that"Hispanics have a natural inclination for military service."Hip Hop Roots: Interview with Raquel Rivera (print edition)
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/297/1/36/Raquel Rivera’s groundbreaking book New York Ricans fromtheHip Hop Zone is of the first works that seriously studiesthe impact of Latinos on hip hop music and culture andconversely of hip hop on Latinos. She is currently workingwith writer and visual artist Tanya Torres on a collectionof essays inspired by New York Puerto Rican artists andcultural workers, tentatively titled De un Pájaro Las DosPatas y Otros Ensayos or Two Feet of the Same Bird and OtherEssays.Finding Freedom: Puerto Rico's Struggle for Independence(print edition)
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/296/1/36/The struggle to get rid of the US Navy in Vieques grippedthe Puerto Rican communities in the US as well as in PuertoRico like no other issue has in recent times.This struggleshowed the connections of the Puerto Rican communities inthe United States with the Puerto Rican nation in PuertoRico.>From the regularly updated online edition find thefollowing: Bush's "Job-friendly" Economy isn't WorkerFriendly (online edition)
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/291/1/32/Tens of millions of workers have fought to survive over thelast 3 1/2 years of the anti-worker extremism of the Bushadministration. They suffered under rich tax cuts, budgetcuts, stripped safety and health protections, gutted wageprotections and union organizing rights, severe repressionof civil liberties, attacks on civil rights, dangerousenvironmental policies, and an endless illegal war that hasseen hundreds of thousands of working families torn apart.Hold the Booyah: SportsCenter Out of the Middle East!(online edition)
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/290/1/32/Has it come to this? Did SportsCenter really broadcastthis week from Kuwait? Are we inhaling our nightly dose ofbaseball, banter and "booyah" from a set designed by the USArmed Forces? Is the SportsCenter stage really designed tolook like a bunker, replete with camouflage netting,anchors' desks made out of sandbags and a Bradley tank?
