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UNIVISION & THE SOCIAL REVOLUCIÓN TEAM UP: GUTIÉRREZ NOMINATED FOR MOBILIZER AWARD

March 7, 2012 by 3 Comments

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Univision News Teams Up With The Social Revolucion at SXSW Interactive

First Official Latino Event Features Live Music and Digital Activations

This year, South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive goes Urban Latin Contemporary with a Latino Lounge, After Party and Revolucionario Awards, Monday, March 12, 4p.m. to 1a.m. at Carlos Santana’s Maria Maria. As part of its commitment to serving Latinos across platforms and creating interactive experiences, Univision News has teamed up with The Social Revolución to be the title sponsor of the first official Latino event at SXSW Interactive Festival. In addition to partaking in the Latino Lounge, Revolucionario Awards and After Party, Univision News will bring the latest coverage of the event and all the happenings at SXSWi.

“We are experiencing some of the most interesting transformations of our time, where content consumption is ubiquitous and our nation faces a new American reality,” said Fernando Rodriguez-Vila, Univision News editor. “And we are thrilled to have our Univision News team be a part of the ‘social revolución,’ while continuing to lead the efforts of engaging communities across platforms and during live events.”

The Social Revolución is an interactive movement of Latinos using social media as their platform to create and inspire change. Premiering as the first official Latino event at 2012 SXSWi, The Social Revolución features The Latino Lounge, Revolucionario Awards, and After Party all taking place at Maria Maria. Univision’s award-winning News division is committed to informing the country’s fastest growing segment across all media platforms, including TV, Radio and Interactive. Hispanics count with the latest and most relevant content that impact the community through its network and local programs; online and mobile coverage via Univision News Tumblr,UnivisionNews.tumblr.com/ and UnivisionNoticias.com as well as the latest updates in English via @UnivisionNews, and on facebook.com/UnivisionNews, and in Spanish via @UniNoticias and facebook.com/univisionnoticias.

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NOMINATED FOR THE MOBILIZER AWARD!

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Hola Revolucionario,

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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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JUNOT DIAZ: THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER AND OPRAH ENDORSED LATINO ICON RELEASES A NEW BOOK

March 1, 2012 by 1 Comment

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‘Oscar Wao’ author Junot Diaz announces new book

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It’s been five years since Junot Díaz’s first novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and more than 15 since his first book of short stories Drown. Oscar Wao was a literary sensation upon its release in 2007, topping several year-end best lists and racking up major prizes, including the Pulitzer.

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Díaz returns to the short story form and focuses on the topic of love in This Is How You Lose Her, scheduled for a Sept. 11 release.

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A description from Riverhead books:

The stories in This Is How You Lose Her, by turns hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts. They capture the heat of new passion, the recklessness with which we betray what we most treasure, and the torture we go through – “the begging, the crawling over glass, the crying” – to try to mend what we’ve broken beyond repair. They recall the echoes that intimacy leaves behind, even where we thought we did not care. They teach us the catechism of affections: that the faithlessness of the fathers is visited upon the children; that what we do unto our exes is inevitably done in turn unto us; and that loving thy neighbor as thyself is a commandment more safely honored on platonic than erotic terms. Most of all, these stories remind us that the habit of passion always triumphs over experience, and that “love, when it hits us for real, has a half-life of forever.”

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WHO IS THE HISPANIC ASTRONAUT RUNNING FOR UNITED STATES CONGRESS?

February 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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FOX NEWS LATINO SPEAKS WITH JOSE HERNANDEZ: CLICK HERE OR ON HIS IMAGE TO WATCH & LISTEN TO HIM SPEAK OUT ABOUT RUNNING FOR U.S. CONGRESS

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Jose Hernandez knows all about launches: The former NASA astronaut is helping to kick off the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute (USHLI)’s conference at the Sheraton hotel in Chicago Thursday, hoping to inspire thousands of students to reach for the stars.

As a child, Hernandez and his family toiled as migrant farm workers. He remembers clearly his father’s words after a hard day of picking cucumbers.

“He said, how do you kids feel right now?” said Hernandez. “Of course, after a hard day’s work, we answered, we’re tired. He said, remember this feeling because you kids have the privilege of living your future now.”
That meant going to school and getting an education. And Hernandez had a goal: to become an astronaut. He applied to the program several times.

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Future NASA astronaut & US Congressman Jose Hernandez,f ar right, with his brothers Gil, left, Chava and sister Leticia, didn't learn English until he was 12.

“I didn’t get accepted the first time, second time, third time, It took 12 years to get accepted, 12 years, so that’s perseverance.”

In 2009, Hernandez took flight onboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.

Latino Leadership Initiative participants met with astronaut Jose Hernandez photo via CNN

“I was raised by a single mother,” said Adeyanira Escuadra, Whitney Young High School junior. “We come from a low-income family. I think seeing other people start off from a small place and they were able to prosper in life, it’s a very high inspiration for us.”
Chicago is just one stop. The U.S. Hispanic Leadership Institute announced Thursday that student events, like the one being held in the city this week, will be held in more than 20 states this year. The ultimate goal for every Latino family?

“In every household, and there are millions of them, we have to work towards this – we have to ensure in every household there is a diploma – for high school graduation, for post secondary education or training,” said Dr. Juan Andrade, United States Hispanic Leadership Institute.That’s an important message for the young minds who are looking ahead.

“Anything is possible in this country,” he said. “If folks are willing to work hard, get themselves a good education, anything is possible.”

Jose Hernandez announces his run for the 10th Congressional District seat during a ceremony at the Tracy Transit Station Tuesday afternoon. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press
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Hernández announced at Pacific Union College on September 29, 2011 that at the urging of President Barack Obama he was considering a run for the U.S. House of Representatives and would announce his decision on October 11, 2011. He announced his candidacy as promised on October 11 via Twitter by linking to his campaign website. Hernandez made his first public campaign appearance on January 14, 2012, at a Democratic Candidate Forum in Tracy at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites.

UPDATE & FOR UPDATED BLOG ABOUT THIS STORY CLICK HERE: In March 2012, Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, a law firm with links to the California Republican Party, sued in Sacramento County Superior Court to block Hernandez from describing himself as an “astronaut/scientist/engineer” on the June ballot.

WATCH US ASTRONAUT JOSE HERNANDEZ IN SPACE…CLICK HERE OR ON HIS IMAGE BELOW

The lawsuit stated that “astronaut is not a title one carries for life”; the election code requires the description be accurate for the previous calendar year. “Allowing a candidate out of nowhere to use the profession of ‘astronaut’ when he hasn’t served in that profession recently is akin to allowing someone to use a title of ‘sailor’ when they no longer own or operate a ship,” said Jennifer Kerns, a California Republican Party spokeswoman. On March 29th, a Sacramento County Superior Court judge ruled that Hernández may be described as an astronaut on the June 5 Democrat primary ballot.

Photo Credit: NASA

FOR MORE ABOUT JOSE HERNANDEZ VISIT HIS PAGE AT HTTP://JOSEFORCONGRESS.COM

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WHO WAS THE HISPANIC WARREN MORROW?

February 16, 2012 by 1 Comment

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Latino advocate Morrow dies at age 34

Warren Morrow, an advocate for Latino businesses who founded a Clive company that helps credit unions attract Hispanic members, died early Wednesday, his wife, Christina Fernandez-Morrow, said.

Morrow, a graduate of Grinnell College, was chief executive of Coopera Consulting, a firm built on the belief that by targeting Latino customers, financial institutions can both make money and help improve quality of life for the population.

He died suddenly Wednesday morning, just as his efforts in Iowa and around the country were beginning to bear fruit. A valve in his heart malfunctioned and his heart stopped, his wife said. He was 34.

Morrow was born in Mexico City to an American father and Mexican mother, and moved to Tucson, Ariz., in elementary school. His mother, a well-educated woman, struggled with the transition to American life and felt she had to work her way up from the bottom, leaving a strong impression on Morrow as he went off to college.

While at Grinnell, he founded a nonprofit called the Latino Leadership Project to help young Hispanics go to college. He eventually realized that the problem he was trying to address was at its root caused by financial instability in the Latino community. For instance, his wife said, a young Latino might forgo college to work and help pay the family’s bills.

“I came to realize that the disparity in education was a symptom of a larger problem,” Warren Morrow told the Register in 2011. “The root issues are the disparities in access to assets, access to wealth, economic stability in the household.”

Read More: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120216/BUSINESS/302160052/1030/BUSINESS01/?odyssey=nav%7Chead

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HISPANICS WIN NATIONAL HUMANITIES MEDAL AWARDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA & HOW LATINOS ACCOUNT TO 74% OF LABOR FORCE

February 14, 2012 by 1 Comment

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In a ceremony held on Monday at the White House, President Barack Obama awarded the National Humanities Medal to nine honorees. Among them were two Latino academics, Professors Teófilo Ruiz and Ramón Saldívar.

To read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/02/14/latino-scholars-awarded-national-humanities-medal_n_1276071.html

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The number of Latino workers in the United States continues to rise every decade, according to a new study released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

The BLS study expects Hispanics to account for 74 percent of the growth in the nation’s labor force over the next ten years.

Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/02/14/latinos-expected-to-lead-labor-force-growth-over-next-10-years/#ixzz1mOFpfBo4

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