Tag: underrepresented
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We held a special private screening of The Migrant Child Farmworkers-Now High-Profile Professionals © on July 22nd at the Hill Center in Washington, DC where six of the ten professionals featured in the film attended: Congressman Raul Ruiz, Lisa Ramirez, Fernando Mendoza MD, Ramon Resa MD, former Congressman Tony Cárdenas and Enrique Diaz. Also in attendance…
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People ask me why I made The Migrant Child Farmworkers-Now High-Profile Professionals ©, a film about people of color who were homeless, hungry, abused, discriminated against, former child farm laborers and immigrants. What could I possibly have in common with them? I’ve asked myself countless times over the ten long, arduous and self-esteem-eroding years it’s…
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We all saw the video of California Senator Alex Padilla being strong-armed out of press conference room, taken out to the hallway, shoved face-down onto the floor and handcuffed behind his back. We saw how he clearly stated his name as they shoved him out the door, “I’m … Senator … Alex .. Padilla,” as…
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Arguments rarely change opinions; stories sometimes can. Maureen Dowd, in her New York Times piece, “Donald Trump, Our Foundering Father“, describes how she and her Trump-loving brother recently visited the “Founding Friends, Founding Foes” tour at Monticello where people could explore their divergent, fraught political relationships as Jefferson and Adams did back in the day.…
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BY: John J. Pitney, Jr., Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics at Claremont McKenna College. On January 2, 1855, New York Mayor Fernando Wood wrote to President Franklin Pierce: The disease and pauperism arriving here almost daily is, of itself, a sufficient evil; but when to it is added crime, we must be permitted…
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Society Got It Wrong! Watch Now – RAMON RISING Film: Abandoned Boy to Doctor | Dr. Ramon Resa | Talks at Google The Migrant Child Farmworkers-Now High-Profile Professionals© documentary began as a film about Dr. Ramon Resa’s inspiring journey from abandoned boy to pediatrician. It was then entitled, Ramon Rising. This Talks at Google episode…
