National Latino Events in 2009-10
2010 Conferences and Events
2010 Call for Papers
JOINT NATIONAL CONFERENCES
National Association of African American Studies
National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies
National Association of Native American Studies
International Association of Asian Studies
February 8-13, 2010
Crowne Plaza Executive Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
http://www.naaas.org/call.html
National Hispanic Medical Association's 14th Annual Conference "Health Care Transformation to Expand Prevention and Health Promotion for Hispanic Communities"
March 25-28, 2010
Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Washington, D.C.
http://www.nhmamd.org/Save-The-Date
NACCS XXXVII (National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)
Chicana/o Environmental Justice Struggles for a Post-Neoliberal Age
Seattle, WA
April 7-10, 2010
http://www.naccs.org/naccs/General_Info_EN.asp
NALIP 2010: NAVIGATING IN A SEA OF CHANGE (National Association of Latino Independent Producers) 11th National Conference
April 9 - 11, 2010
Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel in Santa Monica, California
http://nalip.org/
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities’ 15th Annual National Capitol Forum on Hispanic Higher Education
April 18-20, 2010
The Madison Hotel
Washington, D.C.
http://www.hacu.net/hacu/Capitol_Forum3_EN.asp?SnID=418323442
18th Annual Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility Symposium: The Power of Hispanic Inclusion
May 17 - 20, 2010
San Francisco, California.
http://www.hacr.org/events/eventID.8/event_detail.asp
2010 National Council of La Raza Annual Conference and the National Latino Family Expo
July 10 - 13, 2010
San Antonio, Texas
http://www.nclr.org/section/events/conference/
National Association of Hispanic Nurses 35th Annual Conference
to be held in our nation’s capitol, Washington D.C.
July 22 – 24, 2010
http://www.thehispanicnurses.org/?page_id=1288
American Public Health Association 138th Annual Meeting and Exposition
The APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition is the premier Public Health Educational Forum! Learn from the experts in the field, hear about cutting edge research and exceptional best practices, discover the latest public health products and services, and share your public health experience with your peers. The world of public health is in continual motion, and there is no better way to stay abreast of the research and learn about emerging issues.
Denver, CO
November 6 – 10, 2010
http://www.apha.org/meetings/
NATIONAL NEWS
US Census: Stand up and be counted?
By Laura Trevelyan
BBC News, New York
2010 is census year in America - and there is a lot riding on this drive to count everyone in the country. Some $400bn (£251bn) of federal money is allocated according to the population in each of the 50 states, and so are Congressional seats.
However, immigrant communities are often suspicious of the census, fearing the information could be used to deport those in the US illegally. Some Hispanic leaders are even calling for a boycott of the census, as I found out on a snowy morning in New York. A troupe of dancers were braving the cold outside the Bronx Borough Hall, trying to drum up interest in the 2010 census.
Welcome to the Census Bureau road tour: census officials are criss-crossing the US with their signature blue trailers between now and April, targeting communities where traditionally people have been reluctant to be counted.
In the Bronx, just 56% of people returned the census in 2000, a "horrible" result, according to Bronx Borough president Ruben Diaz Jr. He says the Bronx lost federal dollars and even seats in Congress because of undercounting. Ligia Jaquez of the US Census Bureau is here to persuade people it is worth their while to fill out the form. "It's the benefits that you bring to your community," she says. "The government and the state use that data, for funding for new roads, new schools, for emergency services. When your community isn't counted properly then the funding will be low." But not everyone wants to be counted.
Take the estimated 12 million people who are in the US without the right legal documents, eight million of whom are thought to be from the Hispanic community.
Many fear that if they fill out the census, the information will be given to the immigration service and they will be deported.
Ruben Diaz Jr insists that those who are undocumented have nothing to fear from the census.
"We're telling them no-one is going to come knocking on your door, this is not about the Immigration and Naturalization Service, this is confidential. So all of those people, if you want better services, allow yourself to be counted, I am guaranteeing that nothing bad will happen to you," he says.
To view the rest of this article visit http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8497275.stm
To view a sample of the 2010 census visit: http://2010.census.gov/2010census/how/interactive-form.php
To view the Census Calendar visit: http://www.hispanicfederation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96