At this time of year, Community Shares of Wisconsin (CSW) celebrates its “Change-Makers Awardees”, three individuals in the community who have “made a difference”. This year is special because it’s the 50th anniversary of CSW, which was started in 1971 as a fund to bail out Madison protestors of the Vietnam War. This year’s award […]
Path to Citizenship Embedded in Federal Budget Bill
Buried in the fed’s 3.5 trillion dollar reconciliation budget bill is — finally — a path to citizenship for many U.S. immigrants. Voces de la Frontera’s Armando Ibarra tells us what they see in the bill.
Join in The Grand March for citizenship!
On day four of a nine-day march from Milwaukee to Madison to pressure Democrats to move forward with a plan for licensing and citizenship for 11 million people in the reconciliation budget, Armando Ibarra, author of the “The Latino Question” and Director of the U.W. School for Workers, talks about what this march means and […]
The Vital and Vulnerable Work of Latinx Laborers
“COVID-19 has fundamentally changed who we are—how we work, how we think about work, how we interact with each other—but it also exposes how interconnected we all are. We are dependent on rural areas as the rural areas are dependent on cities,” says Professor Armando Ibarra from the School for Workers at the University of […]
The Latino Question with Armando Ibarra
For today’s pledge drive episode, Allen is joined in the studio by Armando Ibarra, co-author of The Latino Question. They look at labor migration and the role of working-class Mexicans in U.S. history, the ideology and practice of empire, the significance of political economy to Latino politics, and how Latino politics could breathe new life into […]
Pledge Edition: Latinos Workers’ Project release new study
Today Allen Ruff talks with Armando Ibarra from the U.W. School for Workers; and Patrick Hickey, director of the Madison-based Workers’ Workers’ Rights Center. They’ll be discussing the newly released study of the Latino Workers Project coalition, “Struggling for a Better Life – The State of Working Latinos in Dane County”. Click here or visit […]
