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...d?as los trabajadores se ven obligados a pasar por cosas como ?stas y peores", dice Alvarado. Como coordinador de la National Day Laborer Organizing Network durante los ?ltimos tres a?os, Alvarado, de 38, es considerado el C?sar Ch?vez de los jornaleros, aquellos inmigrantes que se re?nen en las esquinas buscando cualquier trabajo. A ?l se le acredita, entre otros triunfos, el haber encabezado la campa?a para derrocar las ordenanzas nacionales que proh?ben que los jornaleros soliciten trabajos en lugares p?blicos. Otro de sus logros radica en haber formado alianzas con los sindicatos - que tend?an a ver a los inmigrantes como...
Blades' polemically charged tunes occasionally inspired more than just dancing. In 1980 Tiburon (Shark), an allegory for superpower interventionism, was banned by Miami radio stations, and Blades had to wear a bulletproof vest while performing there. Decisiones (Decisions), from his 1984 album Buscando America (Searching for America), was banned by Panama's censors for allegedly promoting abortion...
...film career with Crossover Dreams, in which he starred as Rudy Veloz, a Latin boxer and aspiring singer who makes it big in English-speaking America. The role proved uncannily prescient. The one- two punch of good reviews for Crossover Dreams and a growing chorus of critical acclaim for Buscando America attracted ever larger numbers of English-speaking fans. Blades acknowledges his bilingual audience by making sure the lyrics to his songs are always printed on the jackets in Spanish and English...
RUBEN BLADES Y SEIS DEL SOLAR: BUSCANDO AMERICA (Elektra/Asylum). The title translates as "Searching for America." But no translation is necessary to catch the salsa rhythms and deft jazz inflections that surround these political parables...
...Festival and home to New York City. He can also be heard on the sound track of Beat Street, the just opened break-dancing movie, doing nicely by a lollipop love theme. But the best place to catch Blades and his Tenement Six is on their new Elektra/Asylum album, Buscando America (Searching for America). All the record's seven cuts are sung in Spanish, but if there is a better album this year in any language, its impact will have to be measured off the charts. On the Richter scale, maybe...
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