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LATINOPIA WORD – “TRUMP: MAKING AMERICA UNGREAT”

Dr. Alvaro Huerta is a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona. In his recent book, Defending Latina/o Migrant Communities in the Xenophobic Era … [Read more...]

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December 8, 2019 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS WITH ALVARO HUERTA 8.11.19 “THE MEXICAN: AN ENDANGERED SPECIES”

Mexicans have officially become members of an endangered or hunted species in the U.S. (I’m not referring to our enormous demographics, as we’ll continue to multiply in el norte—where individuals of … [Read more...]

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August 11, 2019 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS with DR. ALVARO HUERTA “THE WAY OF LEO: 5 LESSONS OF ACADEMIC MENTORSHIP”

I have been practicing academic mentorship since I was a 17-year-old freshman at the University of California, Los Angeles (many moons ago). Once accepted into UCLA, I started to mentor high school … [Read more...]

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June 29, 2019 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS with DR. ALVARO HUERTA 01.26.19 “MR. PRESIDENT , WE DON’T NEED YOUR STINKING WALL.”

As of January 20, 2019, the United States government remains partially shutdown for one month due to President Donald J. Trump’s insistence of $5.7 billion from Congress to fund his racist and … [Read more...]

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January 26, 2019 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS with DR. ALVARO HUERTA 1.20.19 “BRIEF HISTORY NOTES ON MEXICAN IMMIGRATION TO THE US”

The historical ties of Mexican immigrants to the U.S., specifically the Southwest, distinguishes people of Mexican origin from other immigrant groups, especially those from Europe. While Mexican … [Read more...]

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January 19, 2019 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS with DR. ALVARO HUERTA “REMEMBERING LEO ESTRADA” 01.12.19

In November, the urban planning community in general and Latina/o community in particular experienced a devastating blow with the death of Leo Estrada. As one of the few Latina/o urban planning … [Read more...]

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December 24, 2018 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS with ALVARO HUERTA 5.13.18 “LATINA/O POLITICS IN THE RACIST ERA OF TRUMP”

President Donald J. Trump represents an existential threat to immigrants in the United States. Trump’s immigration rhetoric and policies consist of racist, xenophobic, enforcement-only and … [Read more...]

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May 20, 2018 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS with DR. ALVARO HUERTA 4.22.18 “I AM NOT YOUR WETBACK.”

I Am Not Your “Wetback” “Anti-Mexicanism is a form of nativism practiced by colonialists and their inheritors. —Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones (2017) To borrow—more like steal—from the great James … [Read more...]

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April 21, 2018 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS with DR. ALVARO HUERTA 1.28.18 “NO DEAL ON “S—HOLE” BORDER WALL!

If Democratic leaders make a deal with President Donald J. Trump on his "s---hole" border wall, they will secure his re-election in 2020. (Here, I’m borrowing a word, "s---hole" or “shithole,” from … [Read more...]

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January 26, 2018 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS with ALVARO HUERTA 1.21.18 “DEMANDING A CLEAN DACA BILL, NOW!”

Democratic leaders should unite and stand firm against President Donald J. Trump—“Racist-in-Chief” and “Hustler-in-Chief”—and the complicit Republican leaders on passing a clean DACA bill. A clean … [Read more...]

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January 20, 2018 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS with DR. ALVARO HUERTA 8.27.17 “A CHICANA/O MANIFESTO”

A Chicana/o Manifesto on Community Organizing: Reflections of a Scholar-Activist As an urban planning and ethnic studies scholar with an extensive background in community activism—over the past … [Read more...]

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August 27, 2017 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS WITH DR. ALVARO HUERTA 8.06.17 “RACIST POLICIES IN THE TRUMP ERA”

The "War on Immigrants": Racist Policies in the Trump Era President Donald J. Trump and his administration’s immigration agenda centers on draconian, enforcement-based policies and executive orders, … [Read more...]

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August 6, 2017 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS with DR. ALVARO HUERTA 5.07.17 “THE HUSTLER 2.O”

On September 15, 2016, in an essay titled “The Hustler: Trump and the Mean Streets of East Los Angeles,” I argued that then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump was hustling the American public. … [Read more...]

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May 7, 2017 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS with ALVARO HUERTA 01.29.17 “I AIN’T NO ANCHOR BABY!”

I'm the son of Mexican immigrants, but I ain’t no anchor baby. My late father, Salomon, first migrated to the United States during the 1950s via the Bracero Program, in which more than 4.6 million … [Read more...]

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January 29, 2017 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS 11.20.16 2016 ELECTION RESULTS -MEXICANS WILL SURVIVE TRUMP PRESIDENCY”

After failing to predict the 2016 U.S. presidential election, I recently attended and returned from our monthly Mexican meeting in Los Angeles, California. At these monthly meetings, all individuals … [Read more...]

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November 20, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS with DR. ALVARO HUERTA 10.16.16 “THE DAY I LEARNED I WAS MEXICAN AND POOR”

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. ― Friedrich Nietzsche When you grow up … [Read more...]

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October 16, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS with ALVARO HUERTA 8.21.16 “THE DAY MY FATHER MET CESAR CHAVEZ”

My late father, Salomón Chavez Huerta, first arrived in this country as an agricultural guest worker in the mid-1900s, during the Bracero Program. The Bracero Program represented a guest worker … [Read more...]

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August 21, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS with ALVARO HUERTA 8.14.16 “URBAN PLANNERS OF THE WORLD UNITE AGAINST TRUMP”

As an urban planning scholar and a son of Mexican immigrants, I implore all planning scholars, practitioners and students to stand up and take a position against Donald Trump—the Republican nominee … [Read more...]

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August 14, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS with ALVARO HUERTA 5.15.16 “FROM SHAME TO PRIDE IN MY MEXICAN IMMIGRANT PARENTS”

When I first applied to UCLA, I wrote in my personal essay that I didn’t have any positive role models in my violent neighborhood. Having grown up in East Los Angeles’ Ramona Gardens housing … [Read more...]

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May 15, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

FIERCE POLITICS BY ALVARO HUERTA 4.17.16 “GLOBAL MIGRATION A UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHT”

“Global Migration Represents a Universal Human Right”  In life, as the saying goes, nothing is certain except for death and taxes. I propose another: migration. Migration represents a … [Read more...]

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April 17, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA WORD – “TRUMP: MAKING AMERICA UNGREAT”

December 8, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Dr. Alvaro Huerta is a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona. In his recent book, Defending Latina/o Migrant Communities in the Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond, he challenges hateful myths of the Latinos as rapists and criminals. Alvaro believes Trump has set our country back fifty years. […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 12.08.19 “INSPIRACIÓN”

December 8, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Se mueve la vida de momento en momento. Hay algunos pocos de exaltación y entusiasmo, cuando todo toma velocidad y empuje, se exacerba la imaginación y se enciende la productividad. Algunos lo llaman “inspiración”, otros le dicen “musa”. Es una epifanía o descubrimientos que nos hace vibrar de entusiasmo. Suelen alternarse con esos tiempos de […]

ROMO DE TEJAS 12.08.19 “WHY THEY LEAVE: CENTRAL AMERICAN ACCOUNT”

December 8, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Why They Leave: A Central American Account In the last decade more immigrants arrived at the U.S. borders from Mexico and Central America than from any other region of the world. The arrival of immigrants on our southern border has been the subject of numerous print and television stories, and the migration story has been […]

TALES OF TORRES 12.01.19 “THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS”

December 1, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Thanksgiving Day has come and gone, leaving lots of leftovers – both actual and metaphorical. Above the din of football game crowds emanating from the nonstop television in the next room, there were conversations. Conversations about family chisme (gossip), politics and the very issue of what Thanksgiving is really all about. Leftover conversations continue days […]

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