NHMC mourns the passing of an icon, Lupe Ontiveros, Award-winning actress and trailblazer

IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 27, 2012 NHMC mourns the passing of an icon, Lupe Ontiveros Award-winning actress and trailblazer  Lupe Ontiveros and Alex Nogales, NHMC President & CEO PASADENA, CA - Today, NHMC mourns the death of our dear friend Lupe Ontiveros, an award-winning actress, producer, trailblazer, and  activist for Latino actors across the country. Ontiveros passed away at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer. Ontiveros' prolific career began on the stage where she starred in Zoot Suit, the first ever Mexican-American production on Broadway and was a founding member of The Latino Theater Company in Los Angeles. Over the course of her career, she had memorable roles in a number of films such as El Norte, As Good As It Gets, Selena, and Real Women Have Curves. She has also appeared on television in a number of popular series such as Desperate Housewives, Greetings From Tucson, and Rob!. Ontiveros was awarded NHMC's Lifetime Achievement Impact Award in 2002. "Lupe was a dear friend. She worked tirelessly to perfect her craft and open doors for countless Latinos along the way. Hollywood never gave her the lead role, but in our hearts she will be remembered as our leading lady. She will be deeply missed by all of us," said Alex Nogales, President & CEO of NHMC. Please direct media inquiries to: Inez Gonzalez Executive Vice President, NHMC C: (213) 718-0740 igonzalez@nhmc.org ###

2nd ANNUAL PROTEST AGAINST MICHAEL SAVAGE/ANTI-HATE SPEECH

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CLEAR CHANNEL REVISITED AFTER A YEAR OF REFUSING TO MEET WITH THE COMMUNITY- UNREPENTANT MICHAEL SAVAGE CONTINUES TO SPEW HATE! 2nd ANNUAL PROTEST - ANTI-HATE SPEECH & DISINFORMATION DEMONSTRATION! WHEN: Tuesday September 23, 2008 TIME: 4PM-6PM PLACE: CLEAR CHANNE, 340 TOWNSEND SAN FRANCISCO CA.(between 4th&5th St. next to Caltrain Station) As hate speech spirals, a local group of community activists are organizing a demonstration in San Francisco against shock jock Michael Savage. The group, Hispanic / Latino Anti-Defamation Coalition SF and allied Community Organizations, plan to rally in front of the building which houses radio station KNEW-AM where Savage transmits his nationally-syndicated program. On his program, Savage call for troops on the street "to protect us from the scourge of illegal immigrants who are running rampant across America, killing our police for sport, raping, murdering like a scythe across America while the liberal psychos are telling us they come here to work." Or that autism is a "fraud, a racket, that in 99 percent of cases is a brat who hasn't been told to cut their act out" and to stop being 'morons', he also tells fasting immigrant students "to starve to death, then we won't have a problem." These kind of statements incite people who are already angry and resentful, as when Jim David Adkisson entered the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, opened fire with a 12-gauge shotgun, killed two people and wounded six during the presentation of a children's musical. In his car, police found a four-page letter where he expressed his hatred of the "liberal movement', and wrote he targeted the church "because of its liberal teachings" and his belief that "all liberals should be killed" because they were "ruining the country." Inside Adkisson's home, officers found "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder" by radio talk show host Michael Savage. Shock jocks insist their rants are not hurting anyone and that they are not inciting hate attacks. Meanwhile disenfranchised groups continue to be targeted. Another instance was the senseless savage beating that resulted in the death of Luis Eduardo Ramirez Zavala by a group of four young white males in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania on July 12, 2008. Luis E. Ramirez was a hard-working father of small children and a decent member of the community. His killers ranted racial comments against Mexicans while cowardly beating him; as reported by eyewitnesses. For too long the Hispanic/Latino, and other minority communities in the Bay Area have suffered Clear Channel/the Savage Nation/Michael Savage and his attacks. His insulting, degrading, sophomoric tirades are racist and divisive to a dangerous level. His rhetoric, has resulted in erroneous definitions of whom we are as Hispanic/ Latinos and he contributes to stereotypes which we have for a long time tried to defuse. We, the Hispanic/Latino community in the Bay Area hold CLEAR CHANNEL/The Savage Nation/Michael Savage and other shock-jocks like him and their Media Channel Broadcasters directly responsible for the increase in crimes against Hispanic US Citizens, Latinos, Immigrants, other groups and individuals; and for destroying and terrorizing our communities through their hateful ON-AIR XENOPHOBIC, HENCE, UN-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA! " . As in Last year's Protest, the Peninsula Contingent will be boarding CalTrain's "Hispanic Dignity Train" From San Jose to San Francisco as it stops in each local station to join us in front of 340 Townsend St. Contacts info: San Francisco: (650)-740-1910 -- (415)-368-8406 SF Peninsula: (650)-324-4082 -- (650)-992-1680 Hispanic / Latino Anti-Defamation Coalition SF

 

 

http://www.latinosagainsthatespeech.org
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