BlueLatinos.org - Web site promotes young Latino (LIBERAL) activism

Houston Chronicle ^ | August 28, 2005 | SANDRA HERNANDEZ

[Cincinatus' Wife]

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. - The image on the brown T-shirt is simple, a colorful outline of the Southwest's craggy hills. The message under the picture — "New Mexico, Cleaner than Regular Mexico" — has galvanized thousands of Latinos, who are taking their protests from the streets to cyberspace.

"I was born in Mexico, so when people make comments about Mexico I take it personally," said Carime Hernandez, 24, of West Palm Beach, Fla.

Hernandez took action. She logged on to BlueLatinos.org and fired off an e-mail message demanding the chairman of Urban Outfitters, the retail chain that sells the tops, remove them from the store. About 6,000 Hispanics signed the cyber petition.

Targets twentysomethings

BlueLatinos.org is thought to be the nation's first online advocacy aimed at twentysomething Hispanics eager to speak out and challenge the notion they aren't cyber-savvy.

Its mission, according to the Web site, is "To organize progressive Latinos online and ... move voters, particularly Latino voters, toward progressive issues and action."

Since its launch in April, the Web site has gained 9,000 members, about 14 percent of them from Florida.

BlueLatinos takes its name from the color assigned to the states that backed John Kerry in last year's presidential election.

José Quiñonez, founder of BlueLatinos.org, said he hopes the site will appeal to a generation as likely to get its news from MTV as from the Internet.

"I'm just trying to translate some of the legislative issues to the street level for younger Latinos," Quiñonez said.

Cyber campaigns

BlueLatinos.org has led two other cyber campaigns: pushing to oust a CNN host and trying to get a Latino Supreme Court nominee.

In its latest drive against the T-shirts, would-be activists fill out the individual petition form and then click to forward it to Richard Hayne, Urban Outfitters' president and chairman.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel was unable to reach an Urban Outfitters Inc. representative for comment, despite repeated telephone calls to its Philadelphia headquarters.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The Chronicle always LINKS to a web site they endorse.

[ncountylee]

"I was born in Mexico, so when people make comments about Mexico I take it personally,"

And when Mexico craps all over the US by not respecting the border, I'm either silent or cheer.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The Chronicle always LINKS to a web site they endorse.

Trying to entice the Hispanic vote to come out and vote Democrat in time for the '06 midterm and the '08 general election. The Hispanic vote was nowhere to be found for the Democrats last November, most voted Republican.

[guitarnick40]

And to "Carime Hernandez, 24, of West Palm Beach, Fla.":

If it bothers ya too much, the border is wide open on the way back home......... just as it was on the way in.

[BigSkyFreeper]

José Quiñonez, founder of BlueLatinos.org, said he hopes the site will appeal to a generation as likely to get its news from MTV as from the Internet.

Anyone who get's their news from MTV or Comedy Central is a stooge.

[raybbr]

The president took 44 percent of the Hispanic vote on Election Day, up nine percentage points from 2000. Strategists say if that support continues to grow – reaching 50 percent or higher – it could equate to a Republican lock on the White House when coupled with the 62 percent support that the party enjoys among white male voters.

"The Willie C. Velazquez Institute put out their own poll showing that Kerry got 67 percent of the Latino vote, and Bush got 31 percent," said Maria T. Cardona, a Democratic strategist with the New Democrat Network.

Bush did not get "most" of the hispanic vote. Also, unless the the next republican candidate panders to hispanics what percentage do you think he will get?

[Read2Know]

I bet if you look deep enough into BlueLatinos web site, you'd find a hardcore leftist organization that is paying for the whole deal. This ain't no grass roots project.

[garyhope]

Like the Mexican government?

[Gondring]

Can I still get one of those T-shirts?

[Read2Know]

"Like the Mexican government?"

I don't know how to do deep research on an organization like this. However, I did find this on their site:BlueLatinos.org, P.O. Box 32154, Washington, DC 20007
Now you got to know, any organization based in Washington, has got to be connected politically to something bigger.

[AmericanChef]

-"New Mexico, Cleaner than Regular Mexico"-

Until the Mexicans take it over.

[Desron13]

"Its mission, according to the Web site, is "To organize progressive Latinos online..."

This is all I needed to read. Progressive always means communist. Just another communist front group. Nothing else to see here folks. Move along now.

[conservativeharleyguy]

"I was born in Mexico, so when people make comments about Mexico I take it personally," said Carime Hernandez..."


So now you know how we feel about the USA when people like Cindy Sheehan, Michael Moore, etc.. disparage America.