LOS ANGELES — El Congreso Latino Nacional celebrado en esta ciudad el 5 al 9 de octubre proyectó un plan de acción y programa para aumentar el voto latinoamericano de Estados Unidos en pos de tener un impacto decisivo durante las elecciones presidenciales y al Congreso programadas para el 8 de noviembre 2008. 
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| Oct. 27, 2007
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Mean. Vicious. Those words describe the 154 Republicans and two Democrats in the House who voted Oct. 18 to sustain George W. Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
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As we went to press, devastating wildfires sweeping southern California had forced at least half a million people to flee their homes, with close to 2,000 houses destroyed. Twenty-one firefighters and at least 24 others had been injured. Several deaths were reported.
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LAS VEGAS — Some 800 women (and a few men) stomped and cheered as they passed a resolution demanding an end to the war and the occupation of Iraq. They were delegates to the 14th biennial national convention of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), meeting here Oct. 10-13.
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Republican Bobby Jindal won election as governor of Louisiana, Oct. 20, with a campaign that evaded the issues while offering barely coded appeals to racism in the case of the Jena Six.
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NEW ORLEANS — A small sliver of downtown New Orleans has bounced back as a neighborhood of gleaming corporate office towers and a playground for the rich.
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WASHINGTON (PAI) — Despite strong lobbying by unions, health care groups, children’s groups and their allies, House Republicans mustered enough votes on Oct. 18 to uphold anti-worker President George Bush’s veto of children’s health care. Union leaders vowed the Republicans would receive retribution at the election polls a year from now.
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Unidos por la Paz y Justicia (UFPJ), la coalición antiguerra más grande en Estados Unidos, anunció que planean protestas masivas en 11 ciudades del país el 27 de octubre.
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NUEVA YORK — Poco antes de amanecer, bajo el brillo de reflectores, despiertan aterrorizados los residentes de un pequeño pueblo al oír el sonido de golpes en las puertas.
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CHICAGO — Sobre 200 personas se reunieron aquí el sábado 21 de septiembre en la iglesia metodista San Lucas para la inauguración del Instituto Afro-Latino de Chicago. Su misión es fortalecer y crear redes de activistas entre los latinos de descendencia africana en Estados Unidos.
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