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W ith the special Hondo According to Cassandra make sure that eligible voters in May 2009, voter turnout
City Council elections Correa and Julissa De Avila, do not miss the opportunity to was record breaking and
just around the corner, local local SVREP representatives, vote, we are ready to register unprecedented. In the June
residents are organizing an SVREP was established in everyone who is interested,” issue, El Grito reported that
effort to register citizens to 1974 as a nonpartisan, non- stressed De Avila. Anyone who over 52% of the total eligible
vote. The Southwest Voter profit organization dedicated is unsure if they are eligible to voters in Hondo participated
Registration Education Project to increasing the participation register, or needs to update in the May election. The
(SVREP) organized the Hondo of Latinos and other ethnic ‘SVREP’ continued on pg 7
Voter Registration Education communities in our nation’s
Project (HVREP) to register democratic process. In addition
voters in Hondo. HVREP’s goal to voter registration, SVREP Since SVREP opened its doors, SVREP has
is to register several hundred engages in the “Get Out the registered 2.5 million Latinos, trained over
voters by the deadline for Vote” grassroots organizing,
the next special election, and development of community 100,000 leaders and won 80 lawsuits on
December 23, 2009. leaders. Since SVREP opened voting rights.
CITY OF HONDO AND MEDINA COUNTY, TEXAS:
Why An Accurate Census Count Matters!
- 2 - El Grito De Hondo Monday, Dec 7, 2009
Hard To Count Block Groups
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T he federal government is
gearing up for the 2010
census this spring, when it
less resources, including federal
and state money, being directed
towards these communities.
Texas’s population is growing
quickly, particularly in border
count? Contact Chavel Lopez
who is organizing residents in
Hondo to help achieve equal
will attempt to count every The Census Bureau identifies areas such as Hidalgo representation and make sure
person in the United States. twelve factors that lead to county. It’s expected that que nos cuenten bien. §
The process is repeated every under counting. They include Texas will receive four more
10 years and determines how non-English-speaking homes, Congressional representatives
many political representatives poverty, unemployment, homes as a result of the 2010 census.
a certain area gets and where with high occupancy, single
over $400 billion in federal parent households and people
money - for things like Head living in multi-unit housing such
Start programs, hospitals, as prisons, detention centers,
electrification projects, and apartment complexes and
other infrastructure - will be trailer parks.
spent. Racial and gender
information is used to uphold The criminalization and
the Civil Rights Act and anti- repression of immigrants
discrimination laws while local is another reason that
planners use the data for Mexicanos are under counted.
years to come to decide where Undocumented residents live
to build new schools, clinics in fear of federal agents,
and economic development and a census worker asking
projects. about names and numbers is
intimidating, especially if they
Poor, people of color, immigrant, are not from the community.
and Democratic areas are all The census does not in fact ask
historically disproportionately for Social Security numbers or
under counted in the census. about the document status of
An under count leads to less immigrants. The information Jaime Sanchez, candidate for City Council, looks at the
political representation and collected in the census is Hard to Count Areas in Hondo.
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Co MM U n i ty
Voices
Hondo: “What do you think about the Jan. 23rd elections?
What issues are important to you?”
Voces de la
Comunidad
“It is important to vote in the
City special election to keep “It is important. People’s vote
change coming and to keep the count and should not be taken
community needs and interests for granted. Everybody’s
in the forefront. We need to voice needs to be heard.”
keep out the real estate cartel
which is only about greed and - Amanda Wren
self-interest.”
- Ricardo ‘Dyna’
Torres
You have helped bring change to Hondo. The working class families of
Hondo have suffered from discrimination and neglect for decades. But
through organizing we have reclaimed OUR VOICE in the community,
we have made ourselves heard. We must remember that victory
will not be easy. We must continue to fight a legacy of racism and
oppression. The struggle will not be easy, but we must continue
pa’lante. Nuestro Voto es Nuestra Voz. See you at the polls in January.
La lucha continua,
Hondo Voters Against the Recall
- 6 - El Grito De Hondo Monday, Dec 7, 2009
Economy
been the historically traditional $300,000 spent on the flawed her baby after he pushed her to the ground.
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polling place for citizens to cast construction of the sports complex
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Will Be Sponsoring global scale. Locally, Hondo Workforce Commission (TWC),
Torrez. A Free responded to
established Medina County harassed and physically Mr. Gonzales. Officer Bryan
Lopez
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