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	<title>Don't Get Me Started</title>
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	<description>a blog by EricaG...find me on twitter.com/EG10029</description>
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		<title>Puerto Rican veteran dies without Medal of Honor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sergeant First Class Modesto Cartagena (Ret.) died last week in Guayama, Puerto Rico at the age of 87. In the legendary 65th Infantry of Puerto Rico, Cartagena was known as the &#8220;one-man Army&#8221; and was considered by many to be worthy of a Medal of Honor.
More than 61,000 Puerto Ricans served in the Korean War, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericagonzalez.com/2010/03/puerto-rican-veteran-dies-without-medal-of-honor/</link>
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		<title>Wise rants on the No. 6 train</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the way to work this morning, a man sitting in the corner seats of the train—the seats my sister refers to as the anti-social section—just let out a stream of thoughts, some cliché, some not so. I had the typical New Yorker reaction at first—here we go—then I wound up jotting a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericagonzalez.com/2010/03/wise-rants-on-the-no-6-train/</link>
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		<title>Thick girls don&#8217;t cry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The annual West Indian Day Parade in New York City has plenty of bragging rights when it comes to creativity. No feather, sequin or color is spared in the elaborate and competitive costume-making, which is rooted in carnival traditions. But there is something more to this fabulous display of culture and ethnic pride.
Sure, there IS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericagonzalez.com/2009/09/thick-girls-dont-cry/</link>
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		<title>Wise Latinas of the World &#8212; throw your hands up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We know Judge Sonia Sotomayor is wise. But who are some of the other wise Latinas the rest of the world should know about?  Do share in the comments section.
Speaking of…decades ago, some wise women took on machismo in the Young Lords Party (YLP). This month, July, marks the 40th anniversary of the YLP&#8217;s establishment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericagonzalez.com/2009/07/wise-latinas-of-the-world-throw-your-hands-up/</link>
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		<title>The New Latino Movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New may imply that there is an old Latino movement. But veteran Latino activists shouldn’t take that as an insult. The drift here is that political networks have different origins and platforms in the age of social media. And yes, that another generation is stepping up to the plate.

Young Latinos were among the countless people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericagonzalez.com/2009/07/the-new-latino-movement/</link>
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		<title>Who is American?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much of the criticism of Sotomayor around her ethnicity has to do with who is perceived—or rather, not perceived to be— a “real” American.
In an insightful op-ed for the NY Daily News, scholar and filmmaker Frances Negrón-Muntaner lays out how the Supreme Court has played a central role in excluding the citizens of Puerto Rico [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericagonzalez.com/2009/06/who-is-american/</link>
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		<title>WTF &#8211; Coors&#8217; Rican parade ad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So does Coors think it&#8217;s being cute with its ad &#8221;Emboricuate&#8221; &#8212; a spin off the word emborachate, which means get drunk. What do you think about this ad?
And what is up with Heylatino&#8217;s ignorance: &#8220;Yea, the ad looks great but we mustn’t forget the fact that people will take it literally and another “Puerto Rican [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericagonzalez.com/2009/06/wtf-coors-rican-parade-ad/</link>
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		<title>Children should be seen and heard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this evening, 11-year-old Abigail Drach told a packed room
at St. Philips Episcopal Church in Harlem what she thought about the fact that domestic workers don’t have basic labor protections.
“I don’t think it&#8217;s fair that some babysitters are not treated fairly,” said Drach, who is cared for by a nanny.
A minute later, Brisas Larios, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericagonzalez.com/2009/06/children-should-be-seen-and-heard/</link>
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		<title>Fearless Judge, Fearful Conservatives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The nation has barely had a chance to meet the new nominee for the Supreme Court, but some are all too ready to resent a woman of such fortitude. The author argues that sexism is evident in the agenda of many of Judge Sotomayor’s opponents.
by Erica Gonzalez&#8230;
The Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor has been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericagonzalez.com/2009/05/fearless-judge-fearful-conservatives/</link>
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		<title>The Rat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I get a kick out of the big blow-up rat that unions use to call out employers. In this case, it&#8217;s Laborers Local 78 claiming that Muss Development and Gotham Stat are putting workers at risk of asbestos.
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		<link>http://www.ericagonzalez.com/2009/05/the-rat/</link>
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