The PAFF Film Institute will run February 10-13, 2012 in the community room at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza (next to Sears), located at 3650 W Martin Luther King Jr. in Los Angeles. During the day, the film institute will host various workshops and panel discussions, and end the evening with a "Conversation With" keynote discussion by key figures in the industry.
“Immigrant-owned growth businesses are hugely important to strengthening local economies, as well as providing jobs essential to economic recovery,” said report author Marcia Drew Hohn, director of the Public Education Institute at The Immigrant Learning Center, Inc.
Vanni Wang’s design talents bridge the beauty and science of fashion design with her experience in operating large-scale luxury apparel businesses in China. For over two decades, she operated design studios and manufacturing facilities producing luxury goods for the leading global fashion brands High-fashion apparel for French, Italian and American fashion companies.
The judge on Tuesday upheld the determination by Tucson Unified School District Superintendent John Huppenthal that Tucson's ethnic studies programs "promote resentment against a race or class of people," and are designed primarily for one ethnic group and "advocate ethnic solidarity instead of treating students as individuals."
The numbers reflect not only the state’s growing Latino population, but also the impact of early education programs that are paying off with more Latinos graduating from high school and pursuing higher education. Out of 665,000 applicants to the California State University (CSU) system, Latino students made up 33.3 percent of prospective freshmen and transfer students, while 31.2 percent of the applications came from white students.
“Good night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,” intones a pint-sized, pink-cheeked Kelly Park, reciting a soliloquy from the leading role in Romeo and Juliet. Park, 11, who was born in Incheon, Korea, diligently delivers her lines on the stage of the Coconut Grove Auditorium, the same spot where Vivian Leigh once stood to accept a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Gone with the Wind. Seven decades later, the stage is filled with mostly Korean, Latino and Filipino students performing an earnest rendition of Shakespeare’s classic.
Living with two friends in a small, one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco, Magana says he’s grateful that they were willing to house him until he gets on his feet. “If I didn’t have this offer from my friend, I don’t think I would be able to look for the jobs I’m looking for now... because if you’re not in the immediate area, some jobs won’t even call or consider you,” he explains.
There is plenty of evidence that immigration helps to fuel the U.S. economy, just as it has throughout our history.
About 50 members from the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), which works to support Chinese workers, turned out alongside several hundred others to protest a financial system gone awry in fueling the nation’s growing wealth gap, with continued unemployment and record-high foreclosures. Chinese protestors declared that they, too, are part of the 99 percent “suffering in America.”
LOS ANGELES – In its on-going effort to keep the Department strong, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in cooperation with the Los Angeles City Personnel Department will present a Latino Job Fair and Hiring Seminar at the Ahmanson Recruit Training Center, 5651 West Manchester Boulevard, near LAX on Saturday, October 8 beginning at 9 a.m.
