Dolores Huerta

As soon as President Obama announced his support for marriage equality earlier this month, pundits and Republican strategists started speculating that the president's pro-equality stance would cost him among Latino voters. They figured that most Latino voters are Catholic, therefore they must be willing to vote against the President because...

Last Tuesday at the home of a community organization in South Central Los Angeles, some of California's brightest political minds took an extraordinary step that will send shockwaves clear to Sacramento. It wasn't a setting that most power-brokers would consider important. There were no lobbyists, expensive hors d'oeuvres, or fancy...

Ms. Henry:

When I first learned you would become SEIU's new President, I was filled with hope that you would change SEIU for the better. I am relieved that you have just last week signed an agreement to cease hostilities against Unite Here, putting an end to...

As expected, Judge Sonia Sotomayor was easily confirmed to the Supreme Court. Also as expected, she received unanimous support from Democrats and only a smattering of votes from Republicans.

But ultimately the vote count had less to do with Sonia Sotomayor and more with the unseemly political machinations of...

This week I'm joining St. Joseph Health System workers, Attorney General Jerry Brown, Father Eugene Boyle, actor Ed Begley Jr, and community and religious leaders to call upon the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange to make peace with their workers.

For decades, the Sisters of St. Joseph of...