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The country’s largest online Latino advocacy group condemned President Obama’s proposed Syria strike Tuesday and encouraged members of Congress to vote down Obama’s Syria resolution. Some 81 percent of members of Presente.org voted against Obama’s proposed Syria strike, according to the organization’s internal polling. “We join Latino Congress members in calling on Congress to obey the will of most Latinos and of most people in the United States by voting down the proposal to attack Syria,” Presente.org executive director Arturo Carmona said. “Latinos are disproportionately represented in the lists of war casualties and do not want to send more of...

The death of Trayvon Martin has sent racial shock-waves through the country, and while the focus has largely been on anger from the black community, the fact remains that the alleged shooter, currently in hiding from vigilante threats, is a self-described Hispanic man. But if George Zimmerman was hoping to find support in the Latino community, he should look elsewhere. “The Latino community joins the African-American community and other communities in condemning George Zimmerman as what he is – a murderer and a racist,” Roberto Lovato, co-founder of the online Latino advocacy organization Presente.org, told The Daily Caller. The group...

Berkeley-based "Latino MoveOn" ticks off Rush and O'Reilly The two-month-old Berkeley liberal online hub called Presente -- which wants to be the Latino MoveOn -- has scored the progressive daily double: It has ticked off both Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. How: It is airing a radio ad this week in on Spanish-language stations in St. Pete and Orlando, Fla. calling out El Rushbo for referring to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as a "racist" and a "bigot." It called on local GOP Rep. John Mica to rebuke Rush's comments. Uh, not a high chance of that happening. Even if...