Por VIRGINIA BULACIO
EL NUEVO SOL
Las voces de tres inmigrantes, un activista y un fotógrafo hablan de los peligros del cruce, de cómo se puede ayudar a los migrantes y de la importancia de documentar ese viaje.

By TIMOTHY WHITFIELD and IAN TANG
EL NUEVO SOL—SALUD
Southern California’s remote or under-served areas tend to be areas without dental services available. This leaves many people to go without getting any dental care or attention.The Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC has been providing care for these areas since 1968.

Por Pedro Noé Hernández en colaboración con JACQUELINE GUZMÁN-GARCÍA
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De origen salvadoreño, Pedro Noé Hernández, de 26 años de edad, obtuvo su licenciatura de biología en la Universidad del Estado de California, Northridge (CSUN), y después decidió viajar al país natal de su madre, México, al ver que en Estados Unidos sería muy difícil asistir a la escuela de odontología. Pedro salió voluntariamente del Estados Unidos para poder lograr su meta: estudiar odontología, y lo está haciendo en la UNAM en México.

Por JACQUELINE GUZMÁN-GARCÍA
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Daniel, de 22 años de edad, vivió en Carolina del Sur por 13 años y decidío regresar a México en el 2007 después de graduarse de la preparatoria y darse cuenta que no habia posibilidades de que continuara una educación universitaria. Afortunadamente, fue aceptado en el Tecnológico de Monterrey en Mexico, donde este año obtendrá su licenciatura en Relaciones Internacionales.

By JUAN QUEVEDO and JACQUELINE GUZMÁN-GARCÍA
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I will leave you with the wise words of Senator Gil Cedillo, “The question is not whether comprehensive immigrant reform will happen. The question is will you be ready for it? Ready to take full advantage of the newly profound privilege?” To answer Senator Cedillos questions, I will be ready with a degree in my had and experience to back it up.

By PAUL MAVERICK
POLITICAL MUSCLE

Dining Hall workers and their supporters among students, alumni, and faculty hold a picket and rally at Pomona College in Claremont, California, outside the college administration building on Wednesday, August 3, 2011. The event included accusations of unfair labor practices, conflicting views on the proper way for workers to unionize, and an implicit critique of President Obama’s effectiveness on labor issues.

By Martha Maciel El Nuevo Sol Monica Vaca, 21, is currently attending the University of California San Diego and is double majoring in psychology and sociology. Vaca is part of the 35 percent of Latino high school graduates in  the age group of 18-24-years of age who are enrolled in college compared to  46 percent
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By Martha Maciel EL NUEVO SOL En español A simple breakfast that consist of organic eggs and fresh seasonal fruits is not the typical breakfast that children in low-income communities eat. Instead their breakfast might consist of sugary cookies or sugary cereal with whole milk and if lucky they might eat fruits, but unfortunately not
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The Latino representation in the Marines has increased considerably. More young Latinos are attracted by the idea to become part of the military industry. By Cynthia Lemus EL NUEVO SOL The Latino population in the United States has grown in the last decade, because of natural increase and immigration. The US Census Bureau reports that Latinos
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Civil rights pioneer Reverend James Lawson, Jr. – who marched with MLK and Cesar Chavez and who trained nonviolent resistors from the lunch counters of 1960 North Carolina to the college students of today – addresses the crowd at Cal State Northridge, as part of the statewide Day of Action for Higher Education, held on March 2, 2011. In the Governor’s new budget, Jerry Brown has proposed $500 million in cuts from the CSU system alone – public education is under assault! Rev. Lawson discusses the proper role of institutions in the life of a society, and exposes the government’s false claims that “we’re out of money.” He closes by encouraging students to make this day’s protest just one part of a meaningful life, filled with actions aimed at creating a better world.

By PAUL MAVERICK
POLITICAL MUSCLE
Cal State Northridge students, faculty, alumni, and their supporters rally & march for the future of public higher education in California. Governor Jerry Brown has just proposed $500 million in savage cuts to the CSU system alone, and a staggering $1.4 billion in cuts to education overall. The students respond by turning out in force for this Day of Action. They gain support from Reverend James Lawson, a living legend of the civil rights movement, who has spent the year as a lecturer in residency at CSUN, teaching theory and tactics for nonviolent direct action.

By MARINA SANDOVAL
EL NUEVO SOL

Each step counts in making a difference in a child’s education and Dream provides a quality education to children in the rural areas of the Dominican Republic.

By MARINA D. SANDOVAL
EL NUEVO SOL

Children through out Latin America and the Caribbean are with out proper education. They are unable to receive an education due to poverty, insufficient teachers, government and identity.

By JACQUELINE GUZMÁN
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Students participating on press conferences, vigils and protests a day before the Dream Act could be introduced in the Senate. The dream act is a bill that would give citizenship to undocumented students who attended at least 3 years of high school, and gradutaed or obtained the equivalent.

By SIGOURNEY NUÑEZ
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Bilingualism, when a person is fluent in two languages, can happen simultaneously. According to a Linguistics and Chicano/a Studies professor at California State University Northridge, Ana Sánchez-Muñoz, “Normally when parents speaks two languages, the child can acquire those two.”