Sexual Assault on Campus

This is the link to an investigative journalism project of the Center for Public Integrity. Excellent resource for people working on stories about campus sexual assault, date rape, etc. "According to a report funded by the Department of Justice, roughly one in five women who attend college will become the victim of a rape or an attempted rape by the time she graduates. But official data from the schools themselves doesn’t begin to reflect the scope of the problem. And student victims face a depressing litany of barriers that often either assure their silence or leave them feeling victimized a second time, according to a nine-month investigation by the Center for Public Integrity."

Latino Organizations in Big Sugar's Pocket

LULAC and the National Hispanic Medical Association support the efforts of the Americans Against Food Taxes--a front group funded by the beverage industry (see PR Watch and Source Watch)--to derail a proposal in Congress for new taxes on sodas to help with the health cost of diabetes and other diseases associated with high calorie intake. See stories posted on the Center for Public Integrity and the Los Angeles Times about this topic.

Latino men have no excuse for IPV

It's not too much of a shock to read that multiple studies indicate that Latino men are arguably the highest culprits of battering their significant other. I find it disgusting that my ethnic demographic is quite possibly the most frequent batterer of Latina women. Of course, the legacy of machismo and male dominance towards female submissiveness still lingers in our demographic - but it does not make it any easier to accept or tolerate. The heart of the issue is not traditional male dominance in Latino households, but rather a severe problem of alcohol/substance abuse, and the deep ties to gang-member mentality. Latinos are arguably the most prodominant populators of street gangs, therefore, how can we expect them to completely change their violent ways just because they join a partner or have children in a certain union.