HLADC-SF
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| Location | San Francisco, California, United States |
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| Introduction | In 2007, the NHMC joined forces with Dr. Marcos Gutierrez, a radio and TV personality in the Bay Area for the last 25 years, in the fight against hate speech in the media. In San Francisco last summer, Gutierrez assembled a group of American Latino community leaders, Human Rights organizations, pro-immigrant groups, volunteers Why the Campaign? The amount of ugly rhetoric against undocumented Latinos on radio and television seems to be growing in direct proportion to the amount of fear and instability reflected in the media about the tenuous U.S. economy. This may explain the verifiable increase in hate crimes against all Latinos. The most recent report from the Anti-Defamation League on this issue “Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves into the Mainstream” addresses how the strategy of blaming immigrants for all of society’s ills is now spreading to mainstream America. Click here to find the best resources on the web to fight Hate Speech. |