Linking Latinas
Argentina: Still mourning the death of folk singer Mercedes Sosa
By Cecilia Mansilla ARGENTINA: The death of the "voice of Latin America," Mercedes Sosa, was an Argentinean story. As a result, October 2009 was a really sad month for us. It was when we lost one of our biggest artists. She was best known for her great songs such as "Gracias a la vida" ("Thanks to life") and "Si calla el cantor" ("If the singer is silenced"). "I didn't choose to sing for people", Sosa...
The Final Word Blog Post
Federal Reserve economic report disputes claims of immigrants taking away jobs from Americans
LatinaLista.net -- A non-political report was released earlier this week that surprisingly received little media attention. It was published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and titled The Effect of Immigrants on U.S. Employment and Productivity. After reviewing the research, it's easy to see why it didn't make headlines -- it didn't support one argument conservatives use to justify drafting punitive immigration laws. According to the author: ...there is no evidence that immigrants crowd out U.S.-born workers in either the short or long run. Second, the positive long-run effect on income per U.S.-born worker accrues over some time. In the short run, small insignificant effects are observed. Over the long run, however, a net inflow of immigrants equal to 1% of employment increases income per worker by 0.6% to 0.9%. This implies that total immigration to the United States from 1990 to 2007...
Hometown News
Poll finds majority of Arizona voters favor key provisions of immigration law
By Jennifer A. Johnson Cronkite News Service PHOENIX _ Arizona voters overwhelmingly favor even the most controversial provisions within SB 1070, according to a poll released Wednesday Arizona State University's Morrison Institute for Public Policy. The electronic poll, conducted by the Morrison Institute and Knowledge Networks, sampled 614 Arizona voters regarding three of the most controversial measures in SB 1070: _ requiring people to produce documents verifying legal status; _ allowing police to detain those...
Newslist
- Immigrants, especially Hispanics, assimilating quickly, report says
- Seattle Officer, Shandy Cobane, Will Not Be Charged With Hate Crime for "Mexican Piss" Incident
- High Drop Out Rates Among Phila. Black, Hispanic Males
- Disney Channel Constructs New 'Handy Manny' Special For Hispanic Heritage Month
- Ohio restricting Puerto Rican birth certificates
- Police: Human smugglers kidnap 16 migrants in Mexico
- Police rescue kidnapped Cuban migrants
- Facebook page leads search for loved ones in Haiti
The Latina Lista Network
Caridad Svich is one playwright filled with "spirit"
Caridad Svich is a playwright, songwriter, editor and translator. Born of Cuban, Argentine, Spanish and Croatian parentage, this Latina brings her unique perspective when crafting plays.
In an interview published in the journal The Dramatist, Svich shares: "Literally and structurally, I think of plays as composition: theme and variation, point and counterpoint, melody line and rhythm line, image and counter-image, motion and stasis, silence and noise. Plays live in space and time, as music does. With some plays, I plan to write songs, but often, characters simply will start singing instead of speaking and I know then that the play will use music. It's a mysterious process."
One of Svich's latest plays is based on the novel by Isabel Allende, "The House of the Spirits." This year, it received a reading at the 2010 Colorado New Play Summit. In this Skype interview with the summit's organizers, Svich explains her creative process behind "The House of the Spirits."
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Handmade con Amor
Whether it's recycling, re-creating or re-painting, the theme of Handmade con Amor strives and accomplishes creating things the "old-fashioned" way and shares how to do it every step of the way....
Bookshelf
In Her Own Words: Cuban-American detective Lupe Solano's latest case takes a "Bloody Twist"
Carolina Garcia-Aguilera LatinaLista.net (Author Carolina Garcia-Aguilera provides Latina Lista readers with a special overview of what her latest mystery, "Bloody Twist," is all about -- in her own words.) Bloody Twist is the seventh novel in the Lupe Solano series. Two...
Hazlo/Do It!
Crafting a Route towards Creating a Business
Kathy Cano Murillo, otherwise known as the Crafty Chica, creates a one-woman enterprise through creative talent and persistence. Her legions of fans know her as the "Crafty Chica," and today craft entrepreneur, syndicated columnist, artist, book author and tv/web personality...
MediaCasts
Latino group creates Twitter newspaper to connect with members
LatinaLista.net -- It's often said that we live in a society of information overload. Drop social media into that mix and the statement becomes an understatement. For example, Twitter is packed with bytes of information ranging from the useful to...
