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Stories from April 2010

• Poetry Contest Winner: 3rd Place

  Third Place: Ramon Sanchez (Los Angeles, CA)

• Poetry Contest Winner: 2nd Place

  Second Place: Ashley M. Esprio (Los Angeles, CA)

• Winter 2010 Poetry Contest Winner

  First place: Salvador Ramirez (Chicago, IL)

• 2010 Paid Dues Music Festival

  By Gilbert Portillo

  The annual Paid Dues music festival, now in its 5th year, is one of the most prominent hip hop festivals in the United States.This year, the headliners were Ice Cube, Murs & 9th Wonder, Tech N9ne, and Raekwon of the Wu-Tang Clan. Artists performed at two different stages, the Paid Dues stage (indoor) and the Dues Paid stage (outdoor).

• More Arizona Immigrants to Consider ‘Self-Deportation’

  The news that 90 days after the end of the legislative session, a law will criminalize undocumented immigrants in Arizona -- and give the police the power to investigate their legal status based solely on the way they look.

• Indigenous Not Participating in Census

  By New America Media

  NEW YORK -- The U.S. Census Bureau launched a massive campaign to encourage New York Latinos to send in their census forms, but apparently made no effort to include residents of Mexico's indigenous populations, according to community activists.