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ROMNEY’S “MODEL” BEHAVIOR: YOU HAVE TO WORK HARD TO OFFEND 50 MILLION LATINOS

February 29, 2012 by Jessica Marie Gutierrez 4 Comments

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CONGRESSMAN LUIS GUTIERREZ makes Latinos proud!

Watch the video! Thank you Mr. Congressman 4 being a great voice to our Latino community!

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SXSW’s SOCIAL REVOLUCIÓN NOMINATES GUTIÉRREZ FOR THE MOBILIZER CATEGORY

February 29, 2012 by Jessica Marie Gutierrez 20 Comments

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SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST PRESENTS

Hola Revolucionario,

You have been nominated for The Revolucionario Awards! The awards are taking place as part of The Social Revolución – An interactive movement of Latinos using social media as their platform to create and inspire change.

As a nominee, you have the opportunity to win the Revolucionario Award for The Mobilizer category.

The Mobilizer
An interactive movement of Latinos using social media as their platform to create and inspire change. These ambitious individuals are using hashtags, pixels, and live updates to spread ideas, foster communities, and inspire their worldwide audience into action. These are Latinos with international and local causes using social media as a strategy to mobilize their audience.

Awards will be announced soon and will be presented at The Social Revolución Latino Lounge at SXSWi on March 12, 2012.

Check out your nomination Jessica Marie Gutierrez with The Hispanic Blog, Los Comandantes (the official judges), and The Other Revolucionarios creating and inspiring change.

Congratulations once more and don’t forget to share the news.

¡Que Viva La Revolución

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WHICH PR NEWSWIRE SERVICE DO HISPANICS TURN TO?

February 29, 2012 by Jessica Marie Gutierrez Leave a Comment

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With new leadership comes new energy and ambition, making this a year for continued growth for the Hispanic Public Relations Association, Los Angeles chapter (HPRA-LA) as it announces the new incoming board and welcomes new members. With the new board, HPRA-LA will build upon strategic partnerships and strengthen its commitment to provide PR professionals and students the resources to thrive in this evolving Hispanic public relations industry.

“Our commitment to fostering key strategic partnerships and increasing our membership continue to be significant goals for the organization in 2012,” said Delia L. Lopez, HPRA-LA president. “Building on our history and on our principle of serving as a resource to PR professionals, HPRA-LA will continue to be a platform for advancement and enrichment for those in Hispanic PR and those seeking expertise in the Hispanic market.”

HPRA-LA executive board members include:

Delia L. Lopez (President): bilingual Communications Consultant with more than 12 years of experience in the field of strategic public relations, having worked with large national and regional brands, and specializing in the Hispanic market.

Jacqueline Quintanilla Aker (Vice President): senior vice president, Health & Multicultural Marketing at Edelman, has more than 12 years of experience leading award-winning campaigns for LIVESTRONG®, the California Department of Alcohol & Drug Programs and Nestle®.

Leslie Smith (Secretary): senior vice president of Business Development and Marketing, Leslie is responsible for all new business opportunities at New American Dimensions, a Los Angeles based Marketing Research and Consulting Firm that focuses on multicultural research.

Hilda Delgado (Treasurer): Western Region communications director for Coca-Cola Refreshments where she oversees and implements internal and external communications and public affairs campaigns for California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Hawai’i.

HPRA-LA also welcomes the following board committee chairs:

Programs – Chalena Cadenas, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

Marketing – Mariluz Gonzalez, Vesper Public Relations

Social Media Integration – Jose Xicohtencatl, Edelman

Membership – Chuck Sifuentes, PR Consultant

National Chapters – Stephen Chavez, Chavez Marketing & Communications

Scholarship/College Outreach – Denisse Montalvan, Ketchum

In addition, HPRA-LA is strengthening its leadership with the addition of Oralia Michel, President of OMAGEN Marketing & PR, as senior advisor. Michel’s 30-year career in Hispanic marketing will provide expertise and thought leadership to expand programs and resources to Hispanic PR professionals. Michel, a seasoned PR practitioner and former journalist, believes the tenets of journalism are core skills that all communicators would be well served to embrace and practice, while keeping a pulse on the ever changing technology that makes marketing communications an exciting and always evolving profession.

“Public relations and marketing communications continue to evolve making our industry ever energizing,” says Michel. “Augmenting and forging new partnerships will enable HPRA to provide our members with the best learning from the best minds. Our members’ insights are also highly valuable and we will drive thought leadership that better serves the Hispanic market. In this era of integration, strategic messaging capabilities will continue to be king and we must be the leaders in delivering the right messages via the best channels.”

A large initiative this year for the board is the Association’s partnership with Hispanicize. Now in its third year, Hispanicize will be held in Miami on April 10-13, 2012. PR-focused sessions at the conference will spotlight HPRA 2011 PRemio award-winning programs/case studies from some of the nation’s most renowned multicultural PR professionals. The annual event focuses on Latino trends and brings trendsetters together in PR, social media, entertainment, marketing and media. More details and information about Hispanicize is available on the HPRA website.

For more information on HPRA-LA, Hispanicize and to become a member, visit our website at http://www.hpra-usa.org and like us on Facebook/HPRA USA.

About Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA):

Founded in 1984, the Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA) is the foremost organization of Hispanic public relations practitioners in the U.S. HPRA is a resource for communications professionals and for those seeking Hispanic market expertise. It is dedicated to the recognition and advancement of Hispanics in public relations through year-round programs and hosts one of the industry’s most anticipated events: the PRemio Campaign of the Year Awards and Scholarship Gala in the fall. To date, HPRA has awarded a quarter million dollars to college and university students of Latino descent pursuing careers in communications. With a solid record of achievement and a committed membership, HPRA continually strives to increase the value of public relations as the industry increasingly gains clout and expands. For more information please visit www.hpra-usa.org.

DID FEDERAL JUDGES FINALLY APPROVE TX REDISTRICTING MAPS?

February 29, 2012 by Jessica Marie Gutierrez 2 Comments

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A federal three-judge panel in San Antonio on Tuesday issued the last remaining sets of Texas political maps that had been at the center of a redistricting dispute, appearing to end uncertainty over the state’s long-delayed primary elections.

The judges released new interim maps for Congressional and State House districts. It had issued a State Senate district map this month.

The legal wrangling over the three sets of maps had thrown much of the state’s political machinery into limbo, as the judges twice pushed back the date of the primary and lawmakers and candidates struggled to campaign without viable electoral maps.

Joe Cardenas III Former TX State Director of LULAC and one of the main leaders of the Latino Task Force

Minority groups and Democratic lawmakers sued the state in federal court over the maps drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature, arguing that they discriminated against blacks and Hispanics. Lawyers for Greg Abbott, the Texas attorney general, who is representing the state, have argued that the maps were drawn to help Republicans maintain power, not to discriminate.

At a hearing earlier this month, one of the judges said the primary, which had been set for March 6 and then April 3, would most likely be on May 29. Jacquelyn F. Callanen, the elections administrator for Bexar County, told the judges that elections officials statewide would need the maps by March 3. With all of the maps having been issued before March 3, May 29 appears to be the primary date, though the judges have yet to make the date official.

The court’s new Congressional map is based in large part on a compromise map that the state and lawyers for some of the minority groups had recently agreed to. The court’s map gives blacks and Hispanics three of the state’s four new Congressional seats, but it also appears to weaken the minority voting strength in three other seats that blacks and Hispanics had been competitive in, experts said.

“It clearly is better than the state’s map, but arguably it doesn’t go as far for minorities,” said Michael Li, an election law attorney in Dallas who has followed the case’s developments on his Web site, Txredistricting.org.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has served as the 50th Attorney General of Texas since December 2, 2002. Prior to his election as Attorney General, he was a Justice on the Texas Supreme Court and a State District Judge in Harris County.

The attorney general said in a statement that the new maps reflect the intent of the Legislature, and he applauded the court for leaving numerous districts as they were drawn by the state and rejecting “the demands by some plaintiffs to draw drastic and overreaching interim maps.”

The federal judges had previously drawn a set of maps that differed from the Legislature’s maps and benefited minorities, but the attorney general asked the Supreme Court to intervene. The Supreme Court ruled in January that the San Antonio judges had not paid enough deference to the Legislature’s maps and sent the case back to the lower court.

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IS ALABAMA “LIGHTENING UP” ON HISPANICS?

February 28, 2012 by Jessica Marie Gutierrez 2 Comments

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On March 1, the ACLU will be in court challenging the constitutionality of both Alabama and Georgia’s discriminatory anti-immigrant laws. Of the five Arizona-inspired laws to pass, only Alabama’s has had significant provisions go into effect. The result: divided communities and devastation to the State’s economy and reputation.

Five months have now passed since those parts of Alabama’s law, H.B. 56, went into effect, and Alabama’s immigrant and Latino communities remain in a state of terror. Although tens of thousands fled Alabama in those first few days and weeks, others have committed to staying in their communities, hoping the legal challenges and basic human decency would prevail. People have held out hoping they would not have to uproot their families and leave their homes, notwithstanding the clear message that they were no longer welcome, at least by those in charge of the State government.Creator of The Hispanic Blog

Several realities are missed or ignored by those in favor of coercive policies like H.B. 56, that are meant to force immigrants to “self-deport.” One is the incredible resourcefulness of the community they have targeted. People don’t leave their home countries and travel thousands of miles to escape violence, repression, and grinding poverty without a willingness to endure hardship and to overcome obstacles that would persuade those of less resolute spirit to turn back. Having put down roots in Alabama and made contributions to their local communities, many immigrants are therefore willing to take a wait-and-see approach, and tolerate — at least for a while — outrages that are far out of place in 21st-century America.

Alabama is fertile ground for outrage for anyone with a conscience. Although arrests and detentions of foreign auto executives make headlines, the everyday lived experience of H.B. 56 involves far more commonplace affronts to human dignity. Indignities like being denied water service for six weeks, even while your 9-year-old U.S.-citizen child falls ill for lack of running water in the home; or being told that without a valid Social Security number, you can’t have electricity at your home, receive emergency dental care, take classes at the local community college, or renew your lease — even though you are willing and able to pay just like the next person. Other frequent affronts to human dignity include being told that even though your family qualifies for federal food stamps or emergency medical care, you can’t have those services because the state has decided otherwise; or being warned that if you offer a neighbor a hand by providing a meal or a ride, you could be prosecuted for the new state crime of harboring; or being arrested by local police, not for any crime, but because the officer wants to check your immigration status — and besides, you were standing on the sidewalk for too long anyway.

Not all of these consequences are actually mandated by H.B. 56, but such things happen when you enact a broadly worded law that, in the words of Rep. Micky Hammon, one of its sponsors, “attacks every aspect” of the lives of an entire community, in the hopes that “they will deport themselves.” It signals and gives license to those who think they either can or are now required to discriminate (and it doesn’t help when Rep. Hammon openly uses “Hispanic” and “illegal immigrant” interchangeably).
And so those who look or sound “foreign,” even though they are U.S. citizens, are collateral casualties, looked upon with suspicion and harassed — asked if they have “papers” — when they buy groceries, go to school or a restaurant, or attempt to return a blouse to the local department store.br />
photo of beyond anti-immigrant Gov Brewer of AZ & Gov Bentley of AL

Some recent reports have noted that amongst the thousands who fled Alabama last fall, some have returned. And it’s true: there has been a slight rebound in some places. Some have decided that even though life is far more difficult in Alabama than other places, it’s still their home. And so they will have faith that the State will come to its collective senses and remedy what has become a colossal self-inflicted injury; we’ve seen some state lawmakers calling for repeal, while others are considering measures that would try and mitigate the law’s widespread harms. Many families are counting on the courts and the compassion of their neighbors (immigrant, Latino, or otherwise) so that they can carry on with the lives they have built in Alabama. In short, despite all evidence to the contrary, some immigrants in Alabama continue to have faith in the American values they have come to respect and love as their own. I just hope their faith is not misplaced.

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