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Addressing a meeting of members from over 20 student groups, leaders of Harvard’s Fuerza Latina and Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) called for a campus-wide walkout on May 1 to protest federal legislation they say is anti-immigration. [See correction...
After receiving a smaller-than-expected student turnout for a national April 10 rally against the legislation, Cristina A. Herndon ’06, former vice president of Fuerza Latina, and SLAM leader Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07 turned to intergroup collaboration in order to most efficiently galvanize support...
While at the meeting there was disagreement over whether Harvard students should propose their own set of demands or simply follow the efforts of larger organizations, Herndon said that Fuerza Latina has not officially come up with its own separate platform...
...ranking. “I definitely think it’s the best college for Latinos,” she said. “There’s a sense of being at home here.” Christina L. Anderson ’08, president of Fuerza Latina, also agreed with the magazine’s assessment. “Harvard offers a welcoming and supportive Latino community,” she said. Cardona and Anderson said that despite reaching Hispanic Magazine’s number one ranking, Harvard needs to maintain interest in Latino issues, such as recruiting...
...rejected the notion that their organizations have a self-segregating tendency.“I think with any ethnic organization, people might say that the reason they exist is to be self-segregating, but I think that’s a narrow view,” said former Fuerza Latina president Diana C. Montoya-Fontalvo ’07. “Our membership isn’t only completely Latino. We have a good number of prominent members who don’t have a Latino connection at all, except an interest,” she said.RAINBOW COALITIONSThe growing...