The Better Angels of Our Nature: Responding to Arizona's Immigration Law

Those are two different things that you are talking about Romulus. In the first place, if a law is unjust, unfair and even unconstitutional, it must be condemned, i.e., when the abolitionists condemned slavery they did so on this basis -- so too did those that condemned the Japanese Internment camps during World War II, the trail of tears, Jim Crow. There is a long history of folks condemning unjust laws in this great nation. That argument is separate from the argument of coming up with solutions.
About Civil Rights
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Responding to Arizona's Immigration Law

Your statement begs the question did the steady drumbeat of "Bad, Racist Nazi Germany!" become quite tiresome as well?
About Civil Rights
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Responding to Arizona's Immigration Law

My second piece is now live on Yes Magazine.
Here's the teaser:

Arizona's new immigration law offers a choice between standing up for human rights or looking away while they're eroded. Which side will you be on?


http://bit.ly/atXUY1

The 21st Century Civil Rights Movement

Inspired by my very long post on the recent Arizona law, I've decided to do two shorter, crisper pieces for Yes Magazine.  

You can read the first one here.

The next one will follow shortly.

Here's the teaser:

Arizona's new immigration law has awakened a sleeping giant, with hundreds of thousands of people finding creative ways to stand in solidarity with Arizona's Latino community.

http://bit.ly/c3L3Sn

June New Media Seminar

I had such a wonderful time during this month's new media seminar and such a phenomenal response from the participants who have asked me to do more (a series).  I have decided to follow their advice and begin a series of new media seminars.  Stay tuned for more details regarding June's New Media Seminar.

Love, Marriage and Choice

Soon I will be a married woman.  I am engaged to the most wonderful man, as they say in Spanish mi media naranja and I feel incredibly blessed.  In him I have found a partnership like no other.  He compliments my weaknesses and affirms my strengths.  Over the time that we have dated he has forgiven my human imperfections and the fobiles of my character and by his side I have grown immensely as a human being, a world citizen, a woman and even as an American.  He is my life partner and I look forward to living out the remaining years of my life at his side. 

As he so often says, we have passed the porch test.  I am humbled that he has asked me to marry him.  I look forward to growing old with him by my side and to sitting on a porch some day,  somewhere watching the sunrise and/or the sunset.  He brings with him the two most amazing little human beings.  I am honored to welcome them into my life as a step mom and to have the chance to help to raise them.  I would have never imaginged this life as possible.  I would have never dreamed that I would feel as happy, safe and secure as I do or as at peace and confident in our future personally and professionally, together and interdependently.  I am grateful beyond words to him for who he is, who he has chosen to be and who he is choosing to be and to the universe, to Yaweh for bringing us together.

5/17 2 Hour New Media Training - In Real Life

Thank you for your overwhelming positive response!  Given the feedback that I have received to date, I will be conducting a New Media training in real life on 5/17 from 12-2pm (in Washington DC).  To RSVP for this training email me: kety.esquivel@gmail.com or DM me on twitter @KetyE. 

Learn the Keys to New Media

Learn the keys of how to engage New Media for your cause or organization in this participatory New Media workshop in which you will:

1. learn to think through a new media and social media strategy,

2. develop an understanding about how social media fits into broader strategy and how it can lead to results/success/ROI,

3. get practical advice on tactics/methods,

4. find out about jobs in social media

Led by: Kety Esquivel

Kety Esquivel is a New Media Entrepreneur with over fifteen years of experience in the non‐profit, private and political sectors. She directed Latino outreach for the Clark Presidential Campaign. Her work has taken her to China and Ethiopia with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. She worked as the New Media Manager for NCLR (the National Council of La Raza). She is the Vice Chair of Membership for LATISM (Latinos in Social Media) and the Interim Executive Director.  Her commentary has been featured and quoted in stories for the Wall St. Journal Online, HITN, PBS, XM radio, CNN, Televisa, Univision and Democracy Now.  She is a published author and a serial entrepreneur.  She blogs here and on the Huffington Post.

For more information you can reach Kety by email at: Kety.Esquivel@gmail.com or on Twitter: @KetyE.