#roberto lovato

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books cristina read in 2021: unforgetting: a memoir of family, migration, gangs and the revolution in the americas - roberto lovato

“Forgetting begets forgetting begets ongoing mass murder.”

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A Salvadoran-American Assembles the Fragments of a Violent Cultural History

“Unforgetting,” by the journalist Roberto Lovato, examines the long and bloody relationship between the United States and El Salvador through the prism of his family.

Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas by Roberto Lovato https://amzn.to/2EU4C93

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Latinx Authors Find the Bookshelves Blocked - WhoWhatWhy

Latinx voices have been largely unheard in the publishing industry.

In order to get that broader variety of stories published, Latinx communities need to read the books that already exist for the publishing industry to see that these books are in demand. “If our people are not reading those books, if Latinx teachers are not getting those books in their classrooms, if Latinx librarians are not making sure that Latinx books are in their library, if Latinx booksellers are not making sure those books are prominently displayed in their stores, then we shoot ourselves in the foot,” explained Bowles.

For Lovato, #DignidadLiteraria had the greatest impact on Latinx people themselves. “We ourselves, waking up to the fact that we’ve been abused, ignored, marginalized, insulted by US publishing,” Lovato said. “You have thousands upon thousands of people who had an idea like, ‘Something’s wrong. I don’t see any books about me.’ Suddenly we come together and we realize we’re not alone. Over the long term, that’s the most important thing.”

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Dignidad Literaria and Minorities in Publishing Podcast Event - Crowdcast

Register now for Loyalty Bookstores's event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Friday February 05, 2021 at 6:00 pm MST.

If you missed the one-year anniversary Dignidad Literaria event on February 5th never fear, you can watch it on Crowdcast at the link! Transcription will be available in the coming week for this event as well, so please keep tabs on the MiP Tumblr page.

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Our Future of Cities special issue is here! 

In it: 

Sunil Yapa with radical and practical visions of what a future Port-au-Prince could look like.

Roberto Lovato on the meaning of terror.

Ten writers on the future of the cities they love.

City planner Theresa Williamson on what Rio’s favelas can teach global cities.

Cynara Vetch on Nairobi’s development boom.

Chicago-based urban design team Place Lab on rebuilding neighborhoods and gentrification.

Jave Yoshimoto on his art focusing on natural and manmade catastrophes.

Charlotte Cotton of International Center of Photography on surveillance, urban panopticons, and the selfie.

Fiction from Ted McCombs and Arthur Diamond.

Poetry from Cynthia Dewi Oka and sam sax. 

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The black-white binary keeps Latino voices out of public discourse and erases important stories from our history---and it's time to move on.

The black-white binary excludes Latino voices. Roberto Lovato on why it's time for a new conception of race in America.

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Obama’s Cuba Policy Shift Means Major Shifts in Latin America and Among U.S. Latino 'Américanos'

Obama’s Cuba Policy Shift Means Major Shifts in Latin America and Among U.S. Latino 'Américanos' by @robvato

To see my 92 year-old father’s morning face on waking up to news of President Obama’s announcement about U.S.-Cuban relations was to see the future of U.S. politics. “What?” he asked in the crackly, sleepy voice that’s taken on a sadder cadence since my mother María, his partner of 60-plus years, died last year.

“Obama normalizorelations with Cuba?” he again asked as he leaned his…

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Tired Before It Started: UStired2

En Español

A campaign calling itself “UStired2” was announced on November 17 through a Latino Rebels tweet. While they were the first to post the #USTired2 hashtag on November 17, other unreputable organizations joined into the promotional aspect of the campaign. Fox News subsidiary, Fox News Latino, published the first news story on UStired2 on November 19.

Spearheaded by Roberto Lovato and Julio Varela of the marketing group Latino Rebels, UStired2 effectively co-opts the cause of Ayotzinapa into one centered on the Latino identity. For instance, in the November 19 interview with Fox News Latino, Lovato claims “This is not just being limited to Latinos but it’s being led by Latinos and particularly Mexican-Americans.” Many organizations that have been working on Ayotzinapa already disagree. And despite Lovato’s claims, neither he nor Varela are actually Mexican or Mexican-American.

The connection with Latino Rebels is troubling due to its long-standing association with Charles P. Garcia, one of the co-founders and likely benefactor of the Latino Rebels Foundation. In a 2013 ABC-Univision profile of Julio Varela and the Latino Rebels, Garcia states that his political ideology was “formed at the U.S. Air Force Academy in the mid-West” and “in the jungles of Central America teaching counter guerilla warfare to militaries trying to shake off communist insurgencies in the 1980s.” In other words, aside from being a Republican donor (contributing at least $100,000 to George W. Bush in 2004), Garcia also proudly flaunts the fact he helped kill actual rebels during the Central American wars of the ‘80s.

It is unsurprising that marketing and counter-insurgency experts would engage in business together. Consider that Varela is part of a 100,000 member organization of professional marketers and PR reps named Latism, which is closely aligned with Fox News Latino and others. Given the use of the #Latism hashtag, we feel that the UStired2 campaign involves inauthentic leadership seeking self-promotion, legitimacy and prestige through association with the Justice for Ayotzinapa cause and broader Mexican protest movements. In short, the links between marketers and activists jeopardizes the links between Mexican activists on both sides of the border.

Although claiming to be a “new kind of Mexican solidarity movement,” the astroturf #USTired2 campaign is nothing but the latest attempt at the very old practice of exploiting the Mexican community.

Read: What Does #Latism Really Stand For? | Latino: the Manufactured Super Consumer

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