Brisenia Flores

Cristina Costantini

Anti-Latino Hate Crimes Spike As Immigration Debate Rages

HuffingtonPost.com | Cristina Costantini | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Arizona SB1070, Video, Hate Crimes, Raul Flores, California, Juan Varela, Arizona, Anti-Latino Hate Crimes, Latino Hate Crimes, Shawna Forde, Hate Against Latinos Rises, Hate Crime, Brisenia Flores, Sb 1070, Minutemen, Latino Crime Spikes, George Gascon, Latino Voices News

Juan Varela was shot in the neck in his front yard in Phoenix, Ariz., last May by his neighbor Gary Kelley. Moments before killing Varela in front of ...

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Elise Foley

Anti-Immigration Vigilante Sentenced To Death

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Murder, Shawna Forde, Raul Flores, Minuteman, Anti-Immigration, Death Penalty, Arizona, Brisenia Flores, Arizona Immigration Law, Minutemen, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Shawna Forde, whom a jury convicted last week of murdering nine-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father, Raul Flores, was sentenced to d...

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Brisenia Flores Was a Victim of Border Vigilantes and Media Indifference

Raul A. Reyes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cnn, Immigration, Border Vigilantes, Brisenia Flores, Latino, Arizona Politics, Hispanic, Media News
Raul A. Reyes

Brisenia Flores was an ordinary American girl in a dusty border town in Arizona. Nine years old, she loved Belle from Beauty and the Beast and playi...

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Arizona's Death Row: Wisconsin Aside, Here's the Final Showdown Over the American Dream

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit, Immigration Reform, US Border, Gov. Jan Brewer, Mexico, Jon Stewart, Colbert Nation, Immigration, Arizona, Brisenia Flores, Radical Right, School, Tea Party, Russell Pearce, Arizona Immigration, Shawna Forde, Politics News
Jeff Biggers

An anti-immigrant activist received the death penalty today for murdering 9-year-old Brisenia Flores. The Arizona legislature, meanwhile, considered a bill that would prevent undocumented immigrants from obtaining legal damages in court.

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Weekly Diaspora: Justice for Brisenia as Minutemen Leader Convicted of Murders

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The American Prospect, Robert Krentz, Minutemen, Tom Horne, Feet in Two Worlds, Roger Barnett, Immigration, Arizona, Fair, Alternet, Tapped, Campus Progress, Colorlines, Anti-Latino Hate Crime, Jan Brewer, Shawna Forde, Nativist, New America Media, Raul Flores, Brisenia Flores, Hate Crime, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Days after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and Attorney General Tom Horne filed suit against the federa...

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Elise Foley

Anti-Immigration Vigilante Convicted Of Killing 9-Year-Old Girl And Her Father In Arizona

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shawna Forde, Minutemen, Arizona Anti-Immigration, Anti-Immigration, Arizona, sb1070, Raul Flores, presente.org, Brisenia Flores, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- An Arizona anti-illegal immigration activist was convicted on Monday of killing two Latinos during a 2009 raid: nine-year-old Brisenia F...

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Weekly Diaspora: Why Sexual Violence Against Latina Farmworkers is a Hate Crime

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shenandoah, Immigration Reform, Luis, Colorlines, Minutemen, Shawna Forde, New America Media, change.org, Southern Poverty Law Center, Merced Farm Labor, Brisenia Flores, Fair, Hate Crimes, Maria Jimenez, Alternet, Farm Workers, Politics News
The Media Consortium

by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger This week, two high-profile trials involving the racially motivated murders of Latinos in Pennsylva...

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From Ground Zero To Gays In Uganda: A Millennial Response To Modern Moral Crises

Chris Stedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uganda, Lgbt, Atheism, 9/11, Immigration, Groundswell, Common Ground Campaign, Auburn Theological Seminary, Sikhism, Muslim, Balbir Singh Sodhi, National Prayer Breakfast, Millenials, David Kato, park51, Brisenia Flores, Rhetoric, Gay Rights, Religion News
Chris Stedman

Our generation can no longer afford to cede authority to the angriest voices, whether they broadcast from down the street or across the ocean.

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