Latino youth urges Pico Union residents to participate in the presidential election
As the summer reaches its peak, California youth continue making efforts with the Salvadoran-American Leadership Educational Fund (SALEF) to help educate the Pico Union Latino community for the upcoming elections.In June, SALEF once again launched the Leadership Involvement & Development through Empowerment & Representation (LIDER) Program, led by Program Director Delmy Ruiz and Youth Organizer Fermin Vasquez, targeted at high school and college students wanting to make a difference in the Los Angeles area, which is predominately populated by Latinos.
LIDER’s mission is to increase the political and civic participation of the Latino youth and future leaders of California and help them spread the word out to the entire Latino community. Currently, a majority of the Latino population is drastically under-represented because, unfortunately, most of the residents living in the Pico Union area are ineligible to vote.
For this reason, LIDER has made it one of its missions this summer to launch two community projects that will hopefully educate Pico Union residents about the presidential election and get them excited about participating.
The first project, led by Laura Flores, revolves around voter registration and getting most registered voters. LIDER’s goal is to recruit 1,500 new registered voters in the Pico Union area and 500 volunteers to help.
The second project involves the California Dream Act. Those participating in the project are also a part of the Pen Campaign, a symbolic form of protest where thousands of pens are being collected and sent to Governor Schwarzenegger urging him to sign the California Dream Act bill. The project is also collecting petition signatures for the cause.
Well into the summer, the youth participants involved in LIDER have demonstrated an immense amount of courage and effort to push both projects forward. Although the voter project has hit some very rough terrain considering its location in one of the most immigrant populated areas in California, it is pushing forward yet another event that will help educate the community.
Come November, their efforts will truly reveal their colors.
Posted by SalviQueerScholar @ 8/16/2008 03:32:00 PM
5 Comments:
LIDER writes, "the Los Angeles area, which is primarily populated by Latinos...unforunately, most of them are not eligible to vote" so Latinos are "under-represented." Gawd, all we need is more of them voting -- that Dream Act giving illegals priority over citizens from Arizona would only be the start for them. They want free healthcare for illegals, beyond what they're already getting at clinics and ERs which don't ask legal status. They're already 3/4 of LAUSD, but object they have to learn irrelevant stuff like English lit and math instead of Aztec stuff.
The Mexicans on Council are 5, counting Garcetti, who's half- Mexican but always votes with them. They think they should add a few more to get a majority, so they want Cindy Montanez, who's being paid almost $300,ooo of taxpayer money for two p/t gov't jobs, to move to CD2 to take Wendy's seat. They're waiting to see if Chick will go there first, but with the Candidates for CD5 so weak, some want her to run there instead.
Then Reyes/Cardenas/Alarcon with help from their friends at state, Nunez/ Fuentes/ Padilla, have created this horrible affordable housing boondoggle to force people in Brentwood and Sherman Oaks to absorb more of their Latinos. If the illegals get naturalization from Obama, they will take over the whole city district by district and finish trashing what's left of it.
5:30 Quit complaining about Latinos and get your ticket to Bavaria or Uruguay where other white people will love you for what you are
I have a dream as well.
It involves me not paying for the college education of LA's vast illegal immigrant population and their anchor babies.
Wasn't K-12 enough?
Don Quixote's comment at 9:05 is to be expected. His clever quips are usually rendered for his own self-satisfaction. It's his personal form of public indecent exposure. Forgive a fool.
"Although the voter project has hit some very rough terrain considering its location in one of the most immigrant populated areas in California..."
Translation:
Although the voter project has hit some very rough terrain considering its location in one of the most illegal alien populated areas in California..."
And that's too bad considering Pico Union is filled with huge old historic homes and was once filled with Americans. Same with MacArthur Park.
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