This episode covers the high-stakes 2020 Georgia runoff election, which could provide Democrats a majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. This would give President Elect Biden an important advantage in implementing the agenda he and Vice-President Elect Harris have set forward for our country.

Featuring:

Hector Flores, Las Cafeteras (a Chicano band from East Los Angeles)

Susana Duran, Georgia State Director for Poder Latinx and a former LCLAA Trabajadoras Fellow

Maria Rosario Palacios, Director for Georgia Familias Unidas

Hosts:

Jose Vargas, LCLAA Executive Director

For the past few years, the current administration has attempted to terminate the Obama-era program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which shields undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation.

On November 14, 2020, New York Attorney General Letitia James ruled that Chad Wolf was not lawfully serving as Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security when he signed rules that limited the number of applications and renewals for DACA, therefore invalidating his suspension to the program.

Across the nation, DREAMers and immigrant rights advocates celebrated this ruling. But what does this ruling really mean particularly taking into account the results of the recent elections?

Featuring:

Natalie Vargas, DREAMer, and former LCLAA Intern

Karen Reyes, DREAMer and AFT member

Shannon Lederer, AFL-CIO Director of Immigration Policy

Letitia James, New York State Attorney General

Hosts:

Jose Vargas, LCLAA Executive Director

This episode focuses on the importance of civic engagement, union efforts to increase voter turnout, and the crucial role that Latino voters played this election cycle. We also reflect on the importance of keeping our communities civically engaged in order to achieve a more equal and just nation.

Hosts:

Jose Vargas, LCLAA Executive Director

COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted black and brown communities and highlighted racial and economic inequalities. We discuss these inequities and their intersection with the Black Lives Matter protests inspired by the murder of George Floyd.

We also discuss the role of the Latino community in the BLM movement and the precautions Latinos participating in this movement can take in order to ensure their health.

Featuring:

Janella Hinds - UFT Vice President Academic High School

Esmeralda Flores - Immigrant Rights and Binational Affairs

Advocate ASLU San Diego

Hosts:

Jose Vargas, LCLAA Executive Director