for us being latino and participate of an overall broader pool of different cultures from the bay area our environment. so having a different cultural perspective, i think, is key because we are a style of different ingredients and that's an environment we broke up in. you have so many different cultures and you can feed off of that. >> when you're into film haking, your gears have to be moving. not just that you have to be a little -- you have to be active, your mind has to keep going. creativity doesn't just spring up on you. you have to work on it and keep thinking of the next step. so you have to be creative in what you're doing. you have to be constant. >> i have to give props to vince lowell for 48 hours. he started here five years ago. we were in the first one. 48 hours, you make up films and show it, show it on a big screen, you see your work displayed where it needs to be seen. large. and doing that, we were in town and that opened our eyes, wow. there is a community here and it's starting small. and when i was here, when i started, there was one. there was a film commission.

us. it is exciting to see some much of our culture and arts in our businesses and levels of government represented by latinos. thank you, jose cisneros for being here. thank you, a supervisor avalos. we have a lot more work ahead of us and a lot more work to do together. it is not just the increase in population. we have challenges in education, challenges for businesses. we have to do more. one of the best things that has happened in a long time is something that the community and work very closely together on is that the california dream act passed. it was signed by our governor. [applause] that was such a tremendous and courageous act. it is necessarily reflective of what is happening in our own education. i have had that great pleasure of working with the board president and carlos garcia. he is at another conference, the association of latino administrators and superintendents, having a national conference on the very important topic of how we improve education for latino communities across the country. i want to thank him for working so closely with us. luis herera has done so much for the libraries. thank you for such wonderful leadersh

latino heritage art award. this will be presented by the city librarian. please join us that the's abbottabad award goes to jose leon and chiles, chiles, chiles. [cheers and applause] jose is a san francisco native, born and raised in the mission district. he has worked in the nonprofit community for almost 30 years and is well known and respected for his support of youth involvement and empowerment. he has dedicated his work to make sure toyouth are well represented in our opportunity and that they had the opportunity to experience the wealth and richness of music and the arts. congratulations, and thank you for all your work in the mission district. [applause] >> you know, i would just like to say something peter i am very honored. thank you very much. but i have to think the parents. all the wonderful parents better here and all the wonderful students that i have worked with. so please give them a round of applause. thank you. [applause] >> we will be lucky enough to hear jose at the end of our program tonight. it is important to recognize dianna and also one of our s

he will be busy with you all day tomorrow, and we are celebrating latino heritage month in city hall. he will not be able to join us over there. and i know how carlos so much deserves this, but i want to say it is fun of working with you. you are not only talented, your staff is dedicated, you have gotten the school district focused on things that we had to be focused on. the improvement in that performance is there. we're giving hope to all of our parents from all the things we're doing together. we're europe -- we are uniting the city in ways which we never imagined for so long. it is just another confirmation that we're having this great movement come together in california. i want to recognize you for your great leadership. i know you started this organization, and you are still leading it. and i know it will have a lot of soul and great ideas coming out of it, so i want to give you a personal to ticket of honor to recognize your leadership. think you very much. -- thank you very much. [applause] >> one good deed deserves another, and we have this beautiful crystal we would like to give you for honoring us toda

us what they're accused of stealing, robert. >> reporter: the san jose chapter of the national latino police officers association used to be in this building behind me. as we first reported at noon, this complaint filed by the d.a.'s officer, says that two leaders may have embezzled money and forced the association to collapse. villanueva spent 17 years on the force, filagrana helped give scholarships to children. but filagrana is now in custody for embezzling from the association. filagrana withdrew large amounts of cash for his own use. in 2007 more than 23,000. and in 2008 more than $50,000. and another 9,700 in 2009. >> we thought it might be a few thousand dollars here and there cash. not accounted for or poor bookkeeping but we encountered a significant amount of theft going on. >> reporter: vilegrana was released from the force for separate reasons. but another man, marco ibarra was also arrested for embezzling money. no one responded at vilegrana's house today. a friend said she was in shock. >> it's hard for me to believe because manny has always been the kind of person when you're having trouble, he will always be t

in this conference is -- belongs to all of us, and it will only be as good as we make it. as we know, we are latinos, so we will make it really good. we will have a lot of fun. we're producing, the ants. this is not your typical credo conference. if you were expecting that, and i will repeat it tomorrow. if you are expecting that, you should probably go home. we take pride in the past that our culture is who we are, and we're going to reflect that in this conference. we will have a great time. in >> secretary held as a lease was not able to come today, but she sent as a video, and i just wanted to give you a little background about her, because she was confirmed as the secretary of labor on the there were 24, 2009. prior to her confirmation as secretary of labor, she represented the 32nd congressional district in california, the position she held from 2001-2009. in the congress are priorities including expanding action to affordable health care, protecting the environment and protecting -- improving the lives of working families. a nationally recognized leader on the environment, she became the firs

using a dehumanizing term, since when did we not being a pro-life republican party? >> nia, how do they dial this back for a general election? you're out there using -- you hear you have a former latinor baby is the same as using "tar baby" in a republican presidential debate. no one denounced it on stage when michele bachmann used it, and others spitting out almost like it was something distasteful, the term "illegal immigrant." how do you dial this back to appeal to latino voters when the face the president? >> there was that moment on stage when mitt romney did use the frayed "illegal alien" and he corrected him to say "illegal immigrant" as if he was acknowledging this could be a problem for him when he tries to switch to the general, if in fact he does win the nomination. it's going to be awfully tough, i think, for them to dial back this rhetoric and really start to try to connect with latino voters in these key states -- and so far there isn't any indication that this is something they think is important. >> we, dee dee, nia-malika, thank you for your time today. >> thank you. >>> ahead, the grand old party is the grand old mean party. that's next. just one phillips' colon hea

you would call the latino intelligentsia with asian or group of folks and individuals that realized that we could use those same tools we can use that same kind of impact that was being had and we can adapt it to would we see in our own environments and kind of create a marriage between the latino community and a lot of the issues that we're already advocating within very good foundation and so what happened was that we decided to create a community a community called when i mean for latino is by latinas the really public in general and that would use video and strong documentary campaigns along with it with powerful social media and create a community that was ready to mobilize into action two years ago this is this is what happened to me means tell me your story and count me in and we use visuals and we used particular campaigns an issue to promote the activism not only from ourselves but also the community that we're involved with we started with a couple campaigns and then suddenly arizona hit last year as he turned seventy and we knew that we had the opportunity to cap cause an important impact we created campaign called do i look illegal and it was really a cam

latino vote. what's with that? herman cain, what's with him? he's with us again this week. we'll be right back live. for the sport. >> stand by for the latest. now back to the show. >>> we need more than ever to take heed of dr. king's teachings. he calls on us to stand in the other person's shoes. to see through their eyes. to understand their pain. he tells us that we have a duty to fight against poverty, even if we are well off. to show compassion toward the immigrant family with the knowledge that most of us are only a few generations removed from similar hardships. >> the president daring to say something compassionate about immigrants at today's dedication of the mlk monument which we'll talk more about later, and as democrats rediscover the important voting blocks, the republicans have their own plan for the latino vote, promoting newcomers like martinez and sandoval, senator rue yo for vice-president. first, is president obama losing the hispanic vote? >> if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no reason than they've been brought there by no fault of t

you would be unable to tell us how they came to the decision to eradicate the historical nature of those murals and to simply pays them over with something eradicate the history of the latino community in the brunell heights area. the fact that you have a process does not mean that the process results are going to be good, and i think it is an abomination. the second thing is, all of you and the california constitution take the amendment for the legislative bodies, where you swear or affirm to defend the constitution of the united states, and those are easy words to say, and most of us would like to be judged not by our actions but by our intentions. it is all good to say to occupy wall street or occupy san francisco or anyone else who is really trying to speak for what they believe in. the right to petition government, to address grievances, and the right to free speech, but if none of you ever actually picks up the phone and talks with the department of health and says, hey, if you have a problem with the sanitation's commission, can any of you arrange to get some porta-pottis down there. if you have a problem with this, we can do this? it is easy to say we support free

latino vote. what's with that? herman cain, what's with him? he's with us again this week. we'll be right back live. >>> this is a fox news alert. i'm geraldo rivera. two-time indy 500 winner dan wheldon died today in a fiery 15-car pileup at the las vegas motor speedway. the devastating wreck, the worst most drivers have ever seen, came on the 11th lap with live action cameras catching his race car sailing over another to smash fatally into what's called a catch fence. the 33-year-old wheldon was the father of two very young sons, one just 7 months old, and he raced with the logo of the alzheimer's association on his indy car to raise awareness of the disease that afflicted his mom and rendered her incapable of watching her son in action, perhaps a blessing given today's horrifying accident. here he is after winning this year's big race at the brickyard in indianapolis. >> the race to win is the indianapolis 500. >> it's phenomenal and what all of us work for. there's so much that goes into it from the drivers, the mechanics to the families of the people that work on the race car.

latino film festival and we are starting to provide family matinees at the theater. even though the nonprofit status has helped us, it has not solved all our problems. we feel being able to serve beer at the theater will help bring in some money and new attendants to our theater. is a business model that has proven successful in other cities. we understand the concern about bringing more alcohol to 16th street. crime there is something we deal with on a daily basis. but our demographic as well as the demographic we hope to attract by in the inner ear sales is not interested in abusing alcohol or creating and nuisance. we tried to verse and educated crowd and our patients -- our patrons are supportive of local business. they recognize we do this and we have letters of support from all of our neighbors. besides showing films, we see ourselves as a community center and resources and continually partner with local businesses and nonprofits to bring issues to light. we partner with the habeas project, the aclu, the partnership to end domestic violence, the vietnamese youth center and others. we help them with fund-raisers and just to have a public venue for their issu

us as always. >>> president obama will celebrate the contributions of latino americans. he will honor latinos who helped shape american history at the white house. he is also expected to be with evangelical leaders and the defense secretary. >>> very scary moment involving president obama's motorcade in florida. police officers were hurt when their motorcycles collided while escorting the president to the airport. we're told their injuries are not serious. meantime, the family of the missing missouri baby is intensifying efforts to find her. there are hiring a private investigator to help with the search. she was last seen in her crib just over a week ago. police say they have received hundreds of tips but have no clues or suspects. >>> president obama, civil- rights leaders and members of the king family will also be a dream come true. that is when they will celebrate his official dedication. it was supposed to happen in august but was proposed -- postponed due to hurricane irene. >>> rhianna has earned a new title. >> "esquire" magazine has given her the title of sexiest woman alive. she opened up about her ex- boyfriend, chris brown, who was guilty of assaulting her i

latino peace officers association. len ramirez in san jose with details for us tonight. len. >> reporter: well, allen, what's remarkable about this case is that police say there did not seem to be very elaborate plan or a major type of cover-up to cover their tracks. these two officers, well, the one officer and the former officer apparently just wrote themselves checks or withdrew money from the accounts and put it into their pockets. and that is what police are

latino in the picture. that's the myth of absence. and if you see it long enough, you will believe that that is how it's supposed to be and for many of us, we've swallowed the pill, o.k.? we've swallowed the pill and i'm going to close right there, i got one poem and i'm going to get off of here so al can get his program back. me and this boy go back 100 years so we can talk like this, you understand. all right, here we go, do it anyway. people really are unreasonable, illogical and self centered, love them anyway. if you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives, do good anyway. if you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies but succeed anyway. the good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow but let's do good today anyway. honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable but let's be honest and frank anyway. the biggest ideas with the can be shot down by the smallest of minds. what you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. let's keep building anyway because people need help but they attack you when you help them but let's keep helping them anyway and give the world the best you got and y

latino in the picture. that's the myth of absence. and if you see it long enough, you will believe that that is how it's supposed to be and for many of us, we've swallowed the pill, o.k.? we've swallowed the pill and i'm going to close right there, i got one poem and i'm going to get off of here so al can get his program back. me and this boy go back 100 years so we can talk like this, you understand. all right, here we go, do it anyway. people rely

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access to the ballot and people died to get that right, and we are seeing latinos on the other end of this, and this is being usedwell. >> there are 18 million voters that lost their homes since 2008, and they have to go back and get reregistered. these foreclosure rates are in the battle states that will matter. they are passing very stringent voter i.d. laws. if you lost your home, that's temporariy for you, and you are not going to get an id. >> the more disturbing thing for me, you have mostly republicans who are basically saying we don't want these people to vote because we know they are not going to vote for us, which says we are not doing anything to help these people and we are not going to pass legislation or do anything in our government to help these people, so we don't want them voting. that's more disturbing to me -- >> in texas, i can be a student, and show my id and that's not valid, but i can show my nra card and -- >> is that true? >> absolutely true. >> it's considered legitimate voter id for the -- >> but a student is not. >> we have been fighting that battle. that's as transparent you can get

us hate crimes can be difficult to prove to a jury. jurors last week found two men with connections with a racist group guilty of assault but not hate crimes in an attack against two latinos outside this bar. >> they did not believe that was what prompted the initial assault and. >> reporter: bail has been set for half a million dollars. the judge issued a stay away order barring him from contact with the victims. in san francisco, david stevenson. >> all was peaceful today at concord high school despite a threat of violence. concord police were visible at the school, all day and school officials say they received a faction yesterday about a possible shooting that would take place this morning. about half of the 1600 students stayed away from classes. they patrolled westwood and el dorado where attendance as also lower than normal. >> election day is near and don't voters heard from many of the candidates. the forum was held at calvary church. it it would have the men talked about helping jail inmates avoid becoming repeat offenders. >> i'm being very aggressive. we should get it started at this level to get the foundations early. >> reporter: just one of the candidates f

us hate crimes can be difficult to prove to a jury. jurors last week found two men with connections with a racist group guilty of assault but not hate crimes in an attack against two latinos outside this bar. >> they did not believe that was what prompted the initial assault and. >> reporter: bail has been set for half a million dollars. the judge issued a stay away order barring him from contact with the victims. in san francisco, david stevenson. >> all was peaceful today at concord high school despite a threat of violence. concord police were visible at the school, all day and school officials say they received a faction yesterday about a possible shooting that would take place this morning. about half of the 1600 students stayed away from classes. they patrolled westwood and el dorado where attendance as also lower than normal. >> election day is near and don't voters heard from many of the candidates. the forum was held at calvary church. it it would have the men talked about helping jail inmates avoid becoming repeat offenders. >> i'm being very aggressive. we should get it started at this level to get the foundations early. >> reporter: just one of the candidates f

latinos, saying we have a long way to go. it's a very interesting point in american society. i think it will be interesting for all of us >> i'd love to see it in person at some point. that will be interesting. so president obama will be one of the speakers there at the event, at the dedication this morning. this, of course, comes right after his jobs plan was defeated. so what are the chances that he can unite congress and try to find some other version that will pass? >> let's not take this mlk thing too far here. they're not overcoming all that day. it really depends, kris. it depends on a lot of things. how much pressure can these folks put on congress? the president is taking the three-day tour. why is it this time it might work, it might not? there's still the occupy movement going on. very interesting thing. it's almost the flip side of the tea party. how much is this going to be bothering people? how much is this going to affect congress? there are some things in the works here, but the question is, after the defeat last week, can they move it further along? >> that is really the question. as it was presented by

be playing now. the people onstage come as a a whole different mass. [inaudible] >> you know, you wouldn't have it check those white guys at latino guys using the word iftheir favorite artist wasn't using it in songs of their own. >> you're right, but they should have the intelligence to know that's not for you. and many of them do know that. >> true, but that's a mighty high bar for a lot of folks. >> as i took little bit deeper. i come for me to culture background, both of them black and my connection is ghanaian african-american.x so i have always struggled with what african-americans define as what is being black. one thing i'd boiled it down to invite to get your take on this story is the notion of permission. it's what i've broken it down to. ics is like people, especially men asking permission a lot to be men, to be heads of our families, to be in charge, to be who we want to be as a manan first. and then you just happen to beql black. so i think we waste a lot of time asking permission inq, various ways, various ways, some subtle, some over, to be who we want to be in who we need to be for our communities, forq( families and for ourselves. >> i

being warned to walk in pairs on campus. a young woman says she was walking on camp us when two young men rode up on their bicycles and groped her. the suspects are described as latino males in teens or 20s. one wearing a black t-shirt with a white circle and the other wore a purple t-shirt and black pants. >> it is a moment he did not see coming. the touching surprise tonight for a popular youth football coach. why he is an inspiration to young athletessism the latest testimony in the ♪ [ cellphone rings ] cut! [ monica ] i have a small part in a big movie. i thought we'd be on location for 3 days, it's been 3 weeks. so, i used my citi simplicity card to pick up a few things. and i don't have to worry about a late fee. which is good... no! bigger! bigger! [ monica ] ...because i don't think we're going anywhere for a while. [ male announcer ] write your story with the new citi simplicity card. no late fees. no penalty rate. no worries. get started at citisimplicity.com. . >>> a pac-12 match up. cal vs ufc. patty lee tells us that the game may have been a loss for berkeley but it was a big win for the city of san francisco, patty? >> reporter: i am live near at&t pa

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young people, latinos and african americans, you are talking about a president who is in serious trouble. >> what do you think about joe biden? he goes i don't blame them for being mad at us because we are in charge. the and obama, the people in this country are not better off than before i became president. how do you make these statements and then go out and make the case and biden also saying there's a good chance they can lose in 2012? how do you make these statements and then make the case that you are the right person for the job? >> well, sean, i'm a sinic. i wonder if in the back of his mind obama might step aside and he might be programming for a presidential run himself in a primary against hillary clinton. >> what do you think about the whole democratic party? it's an interesting theory. president and nancy pelosi, they are wrapping their arms around the lunatics at wall street. we sent our cameras down there again today. is there any benefit or upside or is this the type of thing that comes back to bite them later because they have misinterpreted this as the morale equivalent as the tea party movement? >> well, they are wrapping their arms around it, but aroun

be playing with that. but people on stage, it's a whole different math. i mean, like, i'm -- >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> you know, you wouldn't have to check those white guys and latino guys using the n-word if their favorite artist wasn't using it in songs that they're listening to at home. >> but you're right, but they should have the intelligence -- [applause] to know that's not for you. and many of them do know that, and, you know -- >> true. but that's a mighty high bar for a lot of folks. [laughter] >> i'd like to go a little bit deeper. we, i come from a two-culture background, both of them black. my connection is ghana and african-american. so i've always struggled with what african americans define as what's being black. one thing i've boiled it down to, and i'd like to get your take on this, toure s the notion of permission. that's what i've broken it down to.q, i see us as black people, especially men, asking permission a lot to be men, to be heads of our families, to be in charge. to be who we want to be as a man first and then you just happen to be black. you know? so i think we waste a lot of time asking permission this various ways -- in various ways, various way

this not to ought only concern african-americans, latinos and indians whose children would be more likely to be impaired, it should be a concern to all of us. all the time spent on this bill and the other bill that was just passed that the house majority leadership knows are going nowhere is a pure waste of time, also a waste of money. i guess it's not important because it's being used to try to kill programs they've never liked and also they probably think it could hurt president obama if it doesn't pass and it also protects the bill corporations. beyond that it creates no jobs. it just creates the potential to cause more sickness and premature death, to damage the potential of our children and therefore damage our country's potential as well. the claims of lost jobs i believe are highly exaggerating. bringing and pushing these extremely misguided and dangerous bills says that the proponents are willing to put our country and the future of their and our constituents, their and our children at risk. i ask my colleagues to vote for this amendment. this amendment that protects the public health will save our children from a life that would n

latinos. martha: felipe, i know you disagree, and we'll leave it there. you mapped that out for us. so thank you very much for being the administration and we'll stay on top of it. bill: it will be a topic during the campaign. >>> speaking of the campaign the battle for reelection, is president obama trying to channel fdr? we'll explain why he might be looking to the depression-era president for strategy tips in 2012. martha: scent of human remains detected inside baby lisa's house as police look for this mystery man, another part of this story, who was caught that night on surveillance tape. >> please bring her back as soon as a possible to a family that misses her, loves her. help me be strong, lord. [ man ] i got this citi thank you card and started earning loads of points. you got a weather balloon with points? yes, i did. [ man ] points i could use for just about anything. ♪ keep on going in this direction. take thibridge over here. the it is. [ man ] so i used mine to get a whole new perspective. ♪ [ male announcer ] write your story with the citi thankyou premier card, with no point caps, and points that don

latinos? >> one word. it was disappointing overall. i don't know how many times the term illegals or aliens was used. put it in context, legally that's not right. these are yot alien, human beingsnstage. this is dehumanizing, saying a child who shop lifts is a at least the rest of his life. doesn't make a lot of tense. the issue of immigration is used as a political pinata by both sides, and it's really disappointing. we need serious solutions and you didn't hear that last night. you heard a lot of the same rhetoric. i'm certainly, i have criticisms about this current president and his failure on immigration reform, but i'm really disappointed in the tone of the debate among our republicans. >> so romney and perry went at it a few times as it pertained to the border. romney, you know, attacking perry saying, you're on the border state. so what's with your policy? and it flip-flopped as well in terms of what -- what the stance of romney was, and perry's point of view. how does that -- did it offer any clarity on the positions that either one would take as it pertains to protecting borders? immigration? et cetera? >> sure. one thing that's consistent about the republican position

thank you for being here on this special occasion to celebrate with us. >> latino heritage in san francisco