Roberto Lovato

Roberto Lovato, a frequent Nation contributor, is a New York-based writer with New America Media.

Currently

  • Juan Crow in Georgia

    May 8, 2008

    Immigrant Latinos live under a matrix of oppressive laws, customs and institutions.

2007

  • A New Latino Agenda

    October 12, 2007

    Latino voters will go to the polls in 2008 with a hemispheric vision, a new sense of power and concerned about Iraq, immigration and the environment.

  • A Migrant Summit

    July 13, 2007

    Immigration reform may have crashed in Washington, but a very different discussion of the same issues continues below the border.

  • The Smog of Race War in LA

    March 21, 2007 Subscribe

    Battles between the city's black and Latino gangs are the outcome of a dismal racial and economic situation.

2006

  • Latinos Lean Left: Bringing Down the GOP's Big Tent

    December 4, 2006

    Latino voters walked away from the GOP in the midterm elections, a payback for the party's ruthlessly anti-immigrant stance.

  • Immigrants Regroup

    October 26, 2006

    This year will be remembered both for massive immigrants rights marches and for the Al Qaedization of immigrants.

  • Voices of a New Movimiento

    June 1, 2006

    As they push for immigrants rights legislation--and brace for the inevitable backlash--a diverse array of emerging leaders have their eyes on a larger prize.

  • Envisioning Another World: Integración Desde Abajo

    February 16, 2006 Subscribe

    Immigrant advocates at the World Social Forum offered real alternatives to the narrow debate over how to fix the system.

2005

  • The War for Latinos

    September 15, 2005

    In the face of unprecedented manpower problems, the Pentagon is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to target young Latinos for military recruitment.

2004

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This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)

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