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Clinton Library
DOCUMENT NO.
SUBJECT/TITLE
DATE
RESTRICTION
AND TYPE
001. fax
From: Martha Phipps, Democratic National Committee; To: Pattis
7/14/94
Personal Misfile
Solis (3 pages)
002. fax
From: Martha, Democratic National Committee; To: Tara (4 pages)
8/30/94
Personal Misfile
003. memo
From: Joan Baggett (Tara Burns); To: Cheryl Mills, Re: Women's
9/1/94
Personal Misfile
Leadership Forum Invitation (6 pages)
004. note
From: Linda Moore; To: Cheryl Mills, Pattis Solis (3 pages)
9/20/94
Personal Misfile
005. memo
From: Joan Baggett (Tara Burns); To: Cheryl Mills, To: Julie Hopper;
9/1/94
Personal Misfile
Re: Women's Leadership Forum Invitation (2 pages)
006. memo
From: Martha Phipps; To: Pattis Solis, Cindy Gire; Re: WLF
8/22/94
Personal Misfile
Conference proposal (1 page)
007. note
From: Linda Moore; To: Patti Solis, Cheryl Mills (3 pages)
9/23/94
Personal Misfile
008. invitation
Democratic National Committee Invitation to Fundraiser (1 page)
9/21/94
Personal Misfile
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Liz Bowyer
OA/Box Number: 3986
FOLDER TITLE:
[HRC Daily File] October 6, 1994 [1]
2014-0483-S
sb431
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - |44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information |(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information |(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA
h(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions |(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells |(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
10/6/94
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
ID:
OCT 04'94 17:18
OFICINA DEL GOBERNADOR . OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
LA FORTALEZA
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO File
Teléfono/Telephone (809) 729-0904
1/20/9/91
Fax: (809) 729-0906
HOJA DE TRAMITE/FAX
FECHA/DATE: October 4, 1994
A/TO
: Ms. Julie Hopper
FAX
: (202) 456-2239
DE/FROM
:
Marjorie Ferraioli
Directora/Director
Oficina de Enlace/Liaison
ASUNTO/SUBJECT:
COMENTARIOS/COMMENTS:
Attached please find Mrs. Rosselló's "bio".
She is scheduled to speak right after Mrs. Clinton,
on October 6, at the Lulac Presidential Dinner. She
will be speaking on the Health Reform in Puerto Rico.
Thank you for you help,
Mayine
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Please check the address label below for accuracy and send any changes to
Ashley Raines, OEOB 145.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 23, 1994
Please verify the information on the reverse.
MEMORANDUM FOR ALL EOP PASSHOLDERS
FROM:
Melinda N. Bates, Director, Visitors Office MB
RE:
1994 Fall Garden and House Tour
The annual, White House Fall Garden and House Tour is scheduled on:
Saturday, October 15, from 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon and 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 16, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
There are no Congressional guided, Group, or Public Tours on Saturday.
This tour is open to the public, and no tickets or reservations are used. The public line begins
at the Southeast gate.
The Visitors Office is happy to include special access for staff and their guests on both days.
All passholders with hard passes that display the passholder picture are invited to bring up to
6 guests per day for admittance at the times listed below. We regret that intern, press, and
volunteer passes, or those without a photo, are unable to use this procedure.
Saturday, October 15, between 10 am and noon, and between 3 and 5 pm
Sunday, October 16, between 2 and 5 pm
Entry for the Garden Tour is only through the Visitor Entrance on East Executive Avenue. No
staff or guests may enter through the House itself, and guests may not be cleared. Staff must
display hard passes. The staff/guest line begins at the Visitors Entrance, and continues north
along the fence to Pennsylvania Avenue. The staff line will alternate entrance with the public
line coming from the south.
Visitors view the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, South awn, Children's Garden, Rose Garden,
and the State Floor rooms of the White House. Photographs are permitted on the grounds, but
not in the Rose Garden nor in the White House. In case of inclement weather, the tours are
cancelled and not rescheduled.
We hope you will take advantage of this special opportunity to show the Grounds and the State
Floor rooms to your family and guests.
call
Suzurve Valdezt
ELL INDED LATIN STATES
for Velasaney
LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS
All for one One for All
National Office
El Paso, Texas 79901
(915) 577-0726 (915) 577-0654
FAX: 577-0914
FAX SHEET
To: Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton
From: Ada R. Pena / LULAC National Office
Subject: Invitation
Fax number: (202) 456- 6244
Number of pages (including cover sheet):
5
Comments:
Thank your
Kenna Ramirez
Please call 577-0726 or 577-0654, if you have trouble receiving this fax.
LATER )
833-2301
Belen B. Robles
National President
C
Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton
Path
The First Lady
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear First Lady:
On behalf of LULAC, the nation's oldest and largest Hispanic civil rights organization, I would
like to extend an invitation to you to serve as our keynote speaker at dinner on thursday, October
6, 1994 at the Hotel Washington, in D.C. This event is the culmination of one week of meetings
by our national board of directors which is comprised of Hispanics from 14 states. At the dinner
we will honor Belen R. Robles, the history- making first woman national president of LULAC.
During her term Ms. Robles plans to concentrate on a variety of issues,primary Universal Care
Reform and support for the Crime Bill now in Congress- Additional issues include: Immigration,
Education, Domestic Policy, Economic Development, Trade, Foreign Affairs and civil rights for
all Americans
"Hispanics have contributed much to our nation's culture, history and economy, yet we are often
overlooked in the corridors of power," Ms. Robles has publicly stated. "We must be visionary to
ensure that the future economic, social and political well-being of our people is the best we can
make it."
LULAC will bc honor in having you as our Keynote Speaker because through your commitment
and caring you have touch the future of our Nation..
Sincerely,
Ada R. Pena
National LULAC
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary for Domestic Policy
833-2301
cc: Suzanne Valdez
Associate Director of Public Liaison
encl: 2
LULAC Headquarters State National Plaza 221 North Kansas, Suite 1211 El Paso, Texas 79901
(915) 577-0726
Fax (016) 577-0014
E THE LAIM SERVICE
Belen B. Robles
National President
LULAC To Congress: "Stop Bickering
Give Us Universal Health Coverage!"
For immediate release: August 17, 1994
Information: Belen Robles. 577-0726
The lengue of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) said today it supports universal health
care coverage which would provide minimum impact In the poor, working women, senior citizens,
and small businessmen and women. LULAC called on Congress to put aside party differences in
the interest of the health and well-being of all Americans. In a letter to the House and Senate
committees wrestling with health care reform. LULAC national officials outlined what it feels are
the key points in an effective universal health care program and advised members of Congress that
it wants to be included in the implementation, oversight and evaluation of proposed legislation.
Belen Robles, president of LULAC. the nation's oldest and largest Hispanic civil rights
organization. said today in Puerto Rico that LULAC has begun a lobbying campaign with all
members of Congress to inform them of the need to provide health care coverage for all Americans
regardless of ability to pay, while protecting the financial viability of small businessinen and
women. She noted that a key component of any legislation should be measured by provisions for
preventative health care. "Because of the way our health care system is currently structured. we
lend 10 react to catastrophic or serious illnesses and situations that in our opinion could be greatly
reduced through preventative health care services." said Robles, the first ever woman to lead the
more than 250,000-member organization.
"Today in the United States, there are literally millions of men, women and children (not covered
by health insurance) that are living on the edge of disaster." Robles said. "Just one major injury or
illness can drive an individual or family into financial ruin, causing families to be ripped apart, at a
time when they need the emotional strength to survive a crisis."
-continued-
LUI.AC leadquarters State National Plaza 221 North Kansas, Suite 1211 El Paso, Texas 79901
(915) 577-0726
Fax (915) 577-0914
page 2
I 111 AC meeting in El Paso. Texas, ratified it position that orges Congress to incorporate the
following points in any final legislation:
100% coverage for all Americans as SOOD as possible, and within ten years
Provide all Americans a choice in selecting the health care plan best soited to their situations
Comprehensive preventative health care features
Provide coverage for Catastrophic Illness or Injury
Portability provisions in any health care reform
Tax credits for 80% but not less than 50% of premiums paid by small business on employees
health care coverage
Effective Cost Containment provisions for the insured and employers
No negative impact OD Senior Citizens
^ redefinition of small business category 10 include businesses with up to 100 employees
"We have the greatest health care delivery system in the world today, what Congress needs to do
now is to disregard partisen lines and draft the legislation that is necessary to achieve Universal
health care coverage." said Robles.
Robles said the LULAC national office is now in the process of notifying each and every individual
member of Congress of the organizations interest ir the on-going health care reform debate.
LULAC, with members in 42 states, has il long history of working in insure the civil and social
rights of Hispanics in the U.S. are protected.
-3()-
Belen B. Robles
National President
LULAC Supports Ban on Assault Weapons
Rifles, Handguns OK for Hunting/Protection
For immediate release: August 18, 1994
Information: LULAC National Office,
(915) 577-0654
Belen Robles, LULAC National President, announced Thursday in Puerto Rico that the
League of United Latin American Citizens supports the legislation to ban assault
weapons and urges Congress to pass it.
LULAC also supports a Crime Bill that will add more resources to the law enforcement
communities across the country.
"Our society has become too violent already," Robles, the first woman national president
of LULAC, said. "There's no need for assault weapons."
Robles said although LULAC supports a ban on assault weapons, the organization does
not support a ban on handguns for protection or rifles for hunting.
?Brady bill-?
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waiting pd.
LULAC Headquarters State National Plaza 221 North Kansas, Suite 1211 El Paso, Texas 79901
(915) 577-0726 Fax (915) 577-0914
SEP 26 '94 14:38 ADA_TRAVEL,: INC.
P.2
IL LEAGUE
The League of United Latin American Citizens
cordially invites you to the
PRESIDENTIAL DINNER
honoring
BELEN B. ROBLES
LULAC NATIONAL PRESIDENT
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
GUEST SPEAKER: FIRST LADY OF PUERTO RICO
MAGA ROSSELLO
Thursday, October 6, 1994
Hotel Washington
15th & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
Black Tie Optional
6:30-7:30 p.m.- Reception
$50.00 per person
7:30-10:30 p.m.- Dinner
Sm
Schedule Request
9/1/94
ACCEPT
REJECT
PENDING
TO:
Patti Solis
Assistant to the First Lady and
Director of Scheduling
FROM:
Suzanna Valdez
Associate Director
Office of Public Liaison
Joe Velasquez
Assistant to the President
Office of Political Affairs
REQUEST:
For the First Lady to serve as the keynote speaker
at the national board of directors dinner for LULAC
(League of United Latin American Citizens)
PURPOSE:
To demonstrate support for both the Latino
community and LULAC.
BACKGROUND:
Established in 1929, LULAC is one of the nation's
oldest and largest grass roots Hispanic organizations.
It seeks to promote full social, political, economic
and ediucational rights for Hispanics in the United
States.
Thursday, October 6th -- Saturday, October 8th,
LULAC will be holding a national board of
directors conference to focus on the issues that most
importantly affect the Latino community, such as
crime and health care.
LULAC has been one of the President's most
supportive groups in the Latino community
regarding health care and the importance of
universal coverage. (see attached statement)
PREVIOUS PARTICIPATION:
None
DATE AND TIME:
Thursday, October 6th -- 7:30pm.
LOCATION:
Washington, D.C.
Hotel Washington
15th & Pennsylvania Avenue NE
PARTICIPANTS:
Belen Robles, LULAC President -- 1st ever female
President
LULAC National Board of Directors --
200 participants
REMARKS REQUIRED:
To be provided by speechwriters.
MEDIA COVERAGE:
Open Press
LAIN
MARCAM
Belen B. Robles
National President
LULAC To Congress: "Stop Bickering
Give Us Universal Health Coverage!"
Tux invoicdiate release August 17. 1994
Information Belon Rohice 577-0726
Tix League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) said today it supports universal health
care coverage which would provide minimum impact to the poor. working women. senior trilizens,
and small businessmen and women. UII AC called on Congress to put uside party differences in
the interest of the health and well-being of all Americans In it lener in the House and Senate
committees wrestling with health care reform, LUI AC national officials outlined wiow il feels are
the Ley points in all) effective universal health care program and advised members of Congress that
it wants to be included in the implementation. oversight and evaluation of proposed legislation.
Helen Robles. president of LULAC, the nation's oldest and largest Hispanic civil rights
organization. said today in Puerto RJCS that LULAC has begun H lobbying campaign with all
members of Congress to inform them of UK need to provide health care coverage for all Americans
regardless of ability 10 pay. while protecting the financial viability of small businessmen and
women. She noted that A key component of ally legislation should he measured by provisions for
preventative health care. "Because of the way our health card system is currently structured. we
lesk TO react to catastrophic 01 scrious illnesses and situations that in our opmiun could be greatly
reduced through preventative health care DERVICES," said Robles. the fin: eve: woman to lead the
more than 250,000 member organization
"I oday in Use United States. incre are literally anthous of mcn. women and children incl covered
my health insurance) that are living on the cdge of disaster." Robles said "Just one major injury IN
illness can drive 30 individual or family into financial ruin, causing families in he ripped apart, at A
time when they need the emotional strength to survive H crisis."
-continued-
LULAC Headquarters State National Plaza 221 North Kansas. Suire 1211 El Puso. Texas 79901
(915)
577-0720 Fax (915) 577-0914
page 2
LULAC. meeting in a Paso. Texas, ralified a position that urges Congress in incorporate the
following points in any final legislation:
1009 coverage for all Americans as soon as possible. and within ten years
Provide all Americans a choice in selecting the health care plan best suited to their situations
Comprehensive preventative health care features
Provide coverage for Cutstriphic Illness or Injury
Portability provisions in any bealth care reform
Tax credits for 80% but not less than 50% of premiums paid by small business on employees
health care coverage
Effective Cost Containment provisions for the insured and employers
No negative impact on Senior Citizens
A redefinition of small business category to include businesses with up to 100 employees
"Hi have the greatest health care delivery system.in the world today, what Congress needs to do
now is :C disregard partism lines and draft the legislation that is necessary to achieve Universal
health wire criverage," said Rubles
Robles said the LULAC national office is now in the process of noufying cach and every individual
member of Congress of the organizations interest in the on-going health care reform debate.
LULAC. with members in 42 states, has a long history of working 10 insure the civil and social
ngbts of Hispanics LD the U.S. NEW producted
-3(L
Belen B. Robles
National President
Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton
The First Lady
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear First Lady:
On behalf of LULAC, the nation's oldest and largest Hispanic civil rights organization. I would
like to extend an Invitation to you to serve as our keynote speaker at dinner onthursday, October
6, 1994 at the Hotel Washington, in D.C. This event is the culmination of one week of meetings
by our national board of directors which is comprised of Hispanics from44 states. At the dinner
we will honor Belen B. Robles, the history- making first woman national president of LULAC.
During her term Ms. Robles plans to concentrate on a variety of issues.primary Universal Care
Reform and support for the Crime Bill now in Congress- Additional issues include: Immigration,
Education, Domestic Policy, Economic Development, Trade, Foreign Affairs and civil rights for
all Americans
"Hispanics have contributed much to our nation's culture, history and economy, yet we are often
overlooked in the corridors of power," Ms. Robles has publicly stated. "We must be visionary to
ensure that the future economic, social and political well-being of our people is the best we can
make it."
LULAC will be honor in having you as our Keynote Speaker because through your commitment
and caring you have touch the future of our Nation..
Ade R. Pena
National LULAC
Secretary for Domestic Policy
cc: Suzanne Valdez
Associate Director of Public Liaison
encl: 2
LULAC Headquarters State National Plaza 221 North Kansas, Suite 1211 El Paso. Texas 79901
(915) 577-0726 Fax (915) 577-0914
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DOCUMENT NO.
SUBJECT/TITLE
DATE
RESTRICTION
AND TYPE
001. fax
From: Martha Phipps, Democratic National Committee; To: Pattis
7/14/94
Personal Misfile
Solis (3 pages)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Liz Bowyer
OA/Box Number: 3986
FOLDER TITLE:
[HRC Daily File] October 6, 1994 [1]
2014-0483-S
sb431
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information |(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to, the appointment to, PRAJ
h(2), Patrease would discrose' Intermals personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency |(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute |(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
"YS" intrease davied ottween the President
information |(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes |(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 I .S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
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SUBJECT/TITLE
DATE
RESTRICTION
AND TYPE
002. fax
From: Martha, Democratic National Committee; To: Tara (4 pages)
8/30/94
Personal Misfile
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Liz Bowyer
OA/Box Number: 3986
FOLDER TITLE:
[HRC Daily File] October 6, 1994 [1]
2014-0483-S
sb431
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act |44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act 15 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information |(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office |(a)(2) of the PRA]
h(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute {(a)(3) of the PRA
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute |(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information |(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute Я clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA|
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
h(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
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DATE
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003. memo
From: Joan Baggett (Tara Burns); To: Cheryl Mills, Re: Women's
9/1/94
Personal Misfile
Leadership Forum Invitation (6 pages)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Liz Bowyer
OA/Box Number: 3986
FOLDER TITLE:
[HRC Daily File] October 6, 1994 [1]
2014-0483-S
sb431
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act 144 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - 15 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information |(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office |(a)(2) of the PRA]
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate H Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information |(a)(4) of the PRAJ
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information |(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy |(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes |(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions |(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
Schedule Request
date: 7/25/94
ACCEPT
REGRET
PENDING
TO:
Patti Solis
we
october
FROM:
Joan N. Baggett JNB
Political Affairs
REQUEST:
For the First Lady to be the Keynote Speaker at this
year's Women's Leadership Forum National Conference.
PURPOSE:
To show support for the WLF and its members.
BACKGROUND:
The WLF was created to provide Democratic women
with their own means of national organization and
leadership within the party as well as the opportunity
to address key issues. The WLF is made up of women
CEO's of both large and small corporations, women in
the Arts, and other prominent women leaders.
The Conference, which is their second, will be opened
by the WLF Chair, Mrs. Gore. The WLF members will
also be attending a reception at the Naval Observatory
that evening with Mrs. Gore.
PREVIOUS PARTICIPATION:
The First Lady spoke at last year's convention.
DATE AND TIME:
Lunch on Wednesday, October 5.
DURATION:
1 hour.
LOCATION:
A downtown Washington hotel TBD
PARTICIPANTS:
Mrs. Gore
Over 500 women/WLF Members
OUTLINE OF EVENTS:
TBD
REMARKS REQUIRED:
To be provided by Political Affairs/Speechwriting
MEDIA COVERAGE:
Open for remarks.
RECOMMENDED BY:
Joan N. Baggett
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HEADLINE: LONG ROAD FOR LULAC LEADER
BYLINE: TESSIE BORDEN, THE HOUSTON POST STAFF
BODY:
Belen Robles was elected national president of the League of United Latin
American Citizens on July 2, but she's been running for the post since 1970.
"I've always considered myself a maverick, in this and in my job," said Robles, 56.
Robles, who on Wednesday made her friend Dolores Guerrero's Washington
Avenue restaurant her base of operations, is in town to help LULAC's Houston
Council No. 60 mark its 60th anniversary.
She will speak tonight at the council's celebration starting at 7:30 p.m. at the
Medallion Hotel.
Robles said she first ran for the yearly post in 1970, but at that time it was too soon
for the membership to consider having a woman president She ran again in 1976,
when the group held its national convention in California and she thought a more
progressive attitude might prevail. It was not to be that time, either,
Through the years, other women have also run for the job, and Robles became
friends with them. She said Anita Del Rio, a former candidate from California, gave
her a lot of personal support.
She said the women of LULAC, which has 210,000 members nationwide, also
supported her this time, something that had not happened before.
"In the past, women were reluctant to vote for a woman president," she said. "The
last time I ran, about 50 percent of the women's membership did not vote for me."
Robles says she plans to run things "somewhat differently than a man would" and
has been working on appointing a cabinet to help her set policy for the organization.
Guerrero is the secretary for commerce and trade.
Robles plans to concentrate on two areas she considers important for the
organization: education and civil rights. hedwie?
She has been working on appointing an education committee that will hold an
"education summit" in Chicago in late fall. She wants the committee to develop a
five-year plan to improve Hispanics' dismal percentages in education: Only 48
percent finish high school, only 10 percent finish college, and only about 1
percent get a post-graduate degree.
She also wants to appoint a civil rights commission to develop an "activists'
manual" to be distributed to the local councils that will provide guidelines on how to
protest civil rights violations in the public and private sectors.
Robles began working in 1971 for the U.S. Customs Service as one of only five
women inspectors. She is now chief inspector for the cargo facility in El Paso.
At the same time, she has raised three children, one of whom lives in Houston.
Alongside her is her husband of 40 years, Ramiro Robles.
"It seems as if we were married just yesterday," she said.
GRAPHIC: PHOTO Jerry Click / The Houston Post, New LULAC president Belen
Robles says she will concentrate on education and civil rights.
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HEADLINE: LULAC launches program;
Hispanic economic gain is effort's target
BYLINE: Sylvia Martinez, Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning News
BODY:
On the day before Mexican Independence Day, LULAC launched an economic
development program that officials said is designed to help Hispanics gain economic
independence.
"The civil rights issue of the '90s and of the year 2000 and beyond is economic
empowerment," LULAC regional director Hector Flores said Thursday at a news
conference at City Hall.
LULAC officials, who complained that the city's minority contracting program is
unfair to Hispanics, said they decided to try to help, rather than throwing rocks.
So they created the "Dallas Si Campaign" to help Hispanic-owned businesses obtain
city contracts.
"This is not an adversarial campaign, this is an awareness campaign," said David
Cruz, chairman of the newly formed project.
"Hispanics are not being treated fairly when it comes to business opportunities in
Dallas."
The goal of the program is to increase the number and size of city contracts
awarded to Hispanic-owned businesses and educate them about the city's minority
contracting opportunities.
Officials with the League of United Latin American Citizens have complained that
the city's minority contracting goals for Hispanics are too low because they are based
on the number of businesses within the city's limits.
However, the law specifies that the city can only count businesses within the city
to set its goals. To count businesses outside the city's corporate limits would require
a change in legislation, city officials said.
Jiroko Rosales, director of the city's Office of Minority Business Opportunity,
defended the city's program, saying that it is "working for what it was designed to
do."
Still, she commended LULAC's campaign.
"If the effort is going to result in increasing people's awareness that there is a city
program
that's a positive thing" she said.
City Council member Chris Luna said he thought it was appropriate that the
program be launched just before Diez y Seis de Septiembre celebrations. The holiday
commemorates the day in 1810 when Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla called his
followers to rebel against the Spanish.
"As we remember our heritage and our past, clearly the kind of independence
we're looking for now is economic independence," he said. "LULAC has stepped up
to the plate, much like Father Hidalgo did, and is ringing that bell to educate and to
mobilize the masses and saying now is the time to make sure that we have our
economic independence."
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HEADLINE: LULAC turning Puerto Rican
BYLINE: LORI RODRIGUEZ; Staff
BODY:
AT THE tail end of the League of United Latin American Citizens convention in El
Paso, Johnny Mata, district director of the Houston LULAC, scurried around the
stage, consulting anxiously with leaders and scribbling on paper.
Mata was wording and rewording a resolution condemning what experts believe is
flawed research that minimizes the contributions of immigrants to this country and
maximizes the drain. It is an important issue, one that Mata has tried to counter at
the local level for months and among several resolutions scheduled to be voted on by
the delegates before they departed.
He should have given it up. After the acrimonious election of a new national
president that began at 8 a.m. and dragged on till 9 p.m, it wasn't that no one had
the will to consider serious issues, it was that there was no one left to consider
anything.
The resolutions, whatever they would have been, that
customarily close LULAC's conventions were lost in the winds of an election that
consumed all energies. No real business got conducted save the election. No lofty
issues got addressed. No serious attempts were made to tackle the critical problems
confronting Latinos.
""This is nothing here," Mata had said, earlier that day amid the disheartening
maneuvering.
""The most significant thing you will see is when the election is over and members
leave the convention prepared to leave the conflict behind them and work together to
carry out the resolutions that are passed.
""It's not this that matters," Mata had said staunchly.
""Because leaders come and
Organizations
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Puerto Ricans controlled election
But in what form? And to what end?
On the cover of the official convention booklet that listed the agenda was a color
photograph featuring the sun-drenched coast of Puerto Rico and carrying the
headline: LULAC Puerto Rico Salutes El Paso! LULAC, 66th Annual Convention,
June 26-July 1, 1995, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
On the far bottom, in much smaller, much less distinct type, was the subhead:
1994, LULAC Making History On the Border. This, presumably, offered up lest
delegates forget where they were -- this year.
In the four-year national presidency of Jose Velez, the Las Vegas casino promoter
indicted in a massive scheme to smuggle illegal immigrants, the Puerto Rican
influence on LULAC has multiplied. Velez, a multimillionaire born in Nicaragua of a
Puerto Rican father, was himself an anomaly in this most venerable of
Mexican-American groups.
At the convention this year, 120 out of 604 voting delegates were from Puerto Rico,
more than the entire Texas delegation. In the end, they controlled the election,
wearing their specially printed T-shirts, chattering in their uniquely accented Spanish,
hanging almost exclusively together, voting as a solid bloc and intimidating at least a
few of the more modest, more retiring, Mexican-Americans.
Puerto Ricans are, after all, a very different breed of Hispanics. Beyond style, their
focus on pet issues like international politics, statehood for their commonwealth and
minority procurement contracts for their businessmen, raise fears among more
traditional LULAC members that the group will stray too far from its original civil
rights mission.
""We faced some of the same issues with Puerto Ricans in the National Hispanic
Chamber of Commerce," says Marcos Rincon, former president of the chamber and a
member of Dallas LULAC Council 100.
""The Puerto Ricans tend to have deeper pockets than most Mexican-Americans so
more of them can afford to travel long distances to these conferences. They also are
a majority in their own country so they're aggressive. They're used to making
demands, getting their own way and rolling over anything and anyone else that
stands in their way.
Awareness of clout needed
""It's not so much that Mexican-Americans have a minority mentality but that they
have been slow to realize their potential clout and are caught unprepared. It's not
even so much that Puerto Ricans are ruthless but that they come into these groups
well-organized, with a definite agenda, ready to spot the weakness and seize the
opportunity."
It is in their nature, says a longtime leader in one of the oldest LULAC councils in
Texas who privately worries the Puerto
Ricans will take over the traditionally Mexican-American group.
""The Puerto Ricans are good for LULAC in a way, they bring in so much energy
and enthusiasm and we need that. But we have to watch them. We wouldn't want
them to take over our group," says the leader, who has been a member of the
65-year-old LULAC for decades.
""LULAC has meant too much to Mexican-Americans in Texas. It has been too big
a part of us for way too long,
""We can't let it slip out of our hands now. #
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LENGTH: 323 words
HEADLINE: LULAC ELECTS FIRST FEMALE NATIONAL PRESIDENT
BYLINE: RAMON RENTERIA; El Paso Times
DATELINE: EL PASO, Texas
BODY:
Belen Robles of El Paso emerged Saturday as the first woman to be elected
president of the League of United Latin American Citizens in an emotionally charged
election decided by six votes.
Robles, a U.S. Customs Service employee, is the first woman elected national
president in LULAC's 65 year history.
"Now we can get down to business, Robles said.
She survived a scathing campaign against Texas state LULAC director Rosa Rosales
of San Antonio.
Robles promised she'll move quickly to give LULAC a stronger presence in
Washington, D.C., and influence policy at every level that affects Hispanics. She
plans to appoint an advisory cabinet soon and consider re-opening a LULAC
lobbying office in the nation's capital.
The election pitted Robles, a 35-veteran in LULAC politics, against Rosales, an
outspoken activist who often accused Robles of not being forceful enough in
articulating LULAC's national agenda while campaigning. Robles had twice before
lost to male opponents in unsuccessful bids to lead the nation's oldest and
best-known Hispanic civil rights organization.
Rosales started celebrating before the official tallies were announced only to
discover minutes later that she had lost the race. She conceded defeat and said later
she does not plan to ask for a recount.
"It was a hard fight, but I'm ready to go forward and work for my community,"
Rosales said. "The challenge for the new administration is to take an active and
strong positive role in the issues of the Latino agenda."
Immediate past national President Jose Velez listed the official count as 337 votes
for Robles and 331 for Rosales.
Robles pulled in strong support from present and past national LULAC leaders as
well as Puerto Rico's 120 voting delegates.
"She will fight for the poor and the needy in the United States," Carlos Lopez of
the Puerto Rican delegation said.
Puerto Rico is host of next year's LULAC national convention.
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July 2, 1994, Saturday, 2 STAR Edition
SECTION: A; Lori Rodriguez; Pg. 29
LENGTH: 823 words
HEADLINE: LULAC scandal scares leaders
BYLINE: LORI RODRIGUEZ; Staff
DATELINE: EL PASO
BODY:
EL PASO - President Bill Clinton was asked to come to the 66th annual
convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens but he did not. Gov.
Ann Richards was asked to come but she also did not. Housing and Urban
Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, ditto. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen,
ditto. National Drug Czar Lee P. Brown, ditto.
Even Jose Velez, the outgoing national president of the venerable civil rights
organization, failed to make the official opening ceremonies Wednesday. Ditto for a
Friday luncheon honoring LULAC women. Ditto for a Friday breakfast of the
league's pride and joy scholarship program for Hispanic students, the National
Educational Services Centers, Inc. Ditto, in fact, for many of the hoi polloi events that
have dotted the week-long convention.
But then Velez not only has plenty of reason to be
conspicuous by his absence, he may well be the single most overriding reason why so
many big-names stayed away.
In what has been a crushingly public embarrassment to the long-lived,
long-respected organization birthed in Texas, Velez and three others were indicted
April 5 on federal charges of collecting millions of dollars in a scheme to smuggle
Asians and Hispanics into the United States. Velez's son, Peter, has already pleaded
guilty to charges he assisted in the $ 5.6 million scheme to provide more than 5,600
immigrants with fake documents.
Indictments cost LULAC dearly
This has been no quiet scandal, either. From the moment Velez was elected four
years ago as an ostensible reform candidate who would mend the fractured
organization, accusations have swirled around the former carnival operator turned
casino promoter turned LULAC national leader. That he fabricated his educational
background a la former Railroad Commissioner Lena Guerrero. That he used a hunk
of his reputed $ 10 million fortune to buy the election four years ago. And yes, that
he was bilking illegal immigrants in
the scheme that ultimately led to what Immigration and
Naturalization Service officials describe as the largest investigation in the agency's
history.
There are even whispers, not so quiet among the more vocal members, that Velez
used the organization's Amigos de LULAC program to assist some of the immigrants
he provided with fraudulent documents in settling into their new, illegal lives here.
Even whispers, not so kind among the more disenchanted members, that Velez will
even mount a move to get LULAC to help him pay his legal fees.
""Is it any wonder that the major national leadership chooses to stay away en
masse," says Ruben Bonilla, the longtime LULAC member who served as national
president during the group's most glittering years.
""Not only does it speak to Velez's total inability to be taken seriously but, the hard
truth is, it may also be unwise for a national official to be photographed next to an
indicted leader of Velez's ilk. It looks bad. Very bad. "
There is no question LULAC has suffered mightily. A legal fight is raging between
the LULAC national office and a California LULAC council that publishes an
organizational newspaper for members. Another fight has been instigated by Velez
against former national treasurer Rafael Acosta over LULAC financial records. And
even the election of a new president scheduled for today has dissolved into a
struggle between the Texas state director, Rosa Rosales, who is billed as the reform
candidate and is backed by anti-Velez forces, and a member of the LULAC national
board, Belen Robles, who is described as a Velez intimate and is backed by many of
his supporters.
Reign of terror ends; hope blooms
In short, if the organization Velez took over four years ago was fractured before, it
is shattered today. But there is hope.
There is the rank-and-file. There is every member of every LULAC council in
every local community in almost every state who, at this convention each year, justly
celebrate all the good works they quietly do all year: The scholarships they provide
to needy students, the assistance they give senior citizens, the job training they
provide for aspiring Hispanics, the multitude of programs that the bedrock upon
which LULAC's reputation has rested.
""There is disappointment here. There is disarray. But there is cautious optimism
because this is the end of the Velez reign of terror. And regardless of which
candidate to succeed him wins, the new president has got to be better than the old,"
says Bonilla, who has endorsed Rosales.
""I, for one, am greatly impressed by the stamina of the grass roots who are here.
There is a die-hard mentality. An unyielding. A tenacity. A yearning for a new
administration, a new organization, a new day.
""Now the only question is whether, like in Humpty Dumpty, all the king's men
can put the organization together again."
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HEADLINE: LULAC voters making history electing leader;
1st woman to be president
BYLINE: LORI RODRIGUEZ; Staff
DATELINE: EL PASO
BODY:
EL PASO - Two longtime leaders of the League of United Latin American Citizens
are poised to make history today when one them becomes the first woman elected
national president of the 65-year-old civil rights organization.
And regardless of which candidate wins, say LULAC members, a new day is
clearly dawning.
""It's high-time for a woman to lead LULAC," said Rafael Acosta, Houston Metro
board member and president of Houston LULAC Council 88. ""They deserve to have
their turn, now and in the years to come."
The campaign for the LULAC presidency has pitted Texas state director Rosa
Rosales of San Antonio against LULAC national board member Belen Robles of El
Paso.
While both promise a new national direction for the venerable organization that
began in Texas, each will be hard-pressed to mend the internal discord that has
wracked LULAC for much of the last decade.
""Whichever candidate winds up winning, she cannot afford to go it alone from
there," said Ruben Bonilla, a past-president of LULAC who formally endorsed
Rosales at a Friday news conference.
Bonilla said whichever candidate wins, ""she will need all the strength of the
grassroots members. She will need a collective band of leadership. "
The Corpus Christi attorney went on to say: ""I, for one, have promised Rosa
Rosales to do my part by assisting her in any way she asks. 11
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Among the problems facing the new president are healing wounds left by Jose
Velez, the outgoing president.
A Las Vegas millionaire, Velez was elected four years ago amid charges he bought
the election by paying for several hundred new Filipino members to attend the
annual convention of the traditionally Mexican-American group and to vote for him.
On April 5, in what many LULAC members consider a public humiliation for the,
group, Velez was indicted by a federal grand jury in Las Vegas.
He faces charges of conspiring with three Taiwanese
businessmen, reputed to be members of the Asian organized crime group known as
the Four Seas Triad, to smuggle Asians and Hispanics into the United States.
Velez' son, Peter, already has pleaded guilty to charges he aided in the $ 5.6
million scheme to provide more than 5,600 immigrants with fraudulent documents.
While LULAC has not been charged in the case, some applicants were processed
through the office Velez ran for the organization in Las Vegas.
""The organization has been like the proverbial headless horseman," Bonilla said.
""And that has taken such a heavy toll that the battle cry for this convention must
be, "let LULAC live. "
Not surprisingly, the infighting fanned by Velez has spilled over into the election,
with Rosales billing herself as the reform candidated.
She is supported by anti-Velez members, such as Bonilla and Acosta, while Robles
is backed by Velez allies.
The site of the convention, which originally was scheduled for Kansas City, was
changed to El Paso by the national board.
The move has been denounced by Rosales supporters as a move by Robles forces
to give her a voting advantage in her hometown.
Robles and Velez are members of the national board.
LULAC, which claims 100,000 members, is one of the most visible advocates for
Hispanic issues in the nation.
About 6,000 delegates and guests are attending the convention.
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HEADLINE: Attorney general demands payback;
LULAC asked to return settlement
BYLINE: ROSS RAMSEY, Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau; Staff
DATELINE: AUSTIN
BODY:
AUSTIN - Attorney General Dan Morales is demanding that lawyers for a major
Hispanic civil rights group return more than $ 400,000 they were paid when they
took Texas to court over the way it elects judges.
The attorney general's office wrote six lawyers who
represented the League of United Latin American Citizens in its fight against judicial
elections and threatened to sue them if they didn't return in 10 days the $ 410,383
they received from the state.
The lawyers said the state, agreed that they would return the fees paid by the state
if LULAC was ""not successful at the conclusion" of the case.
Morales, the state's first Hispanic attorney general, demanded the fees be returned
because the case ended with the Texas system unaltered.
""I'm not sending them a check, I can tell you that," William Garrett of Dallas said.
He is one of six lawyers who received the letter from Morales' office threatening a
lawsuit if he didn't return $ 135,000 - his share of the total.
""I don't know where in the hell they'd find the money," Garrett said. ""You can't
get blood out of a turnip."
LULAC sued the state, arguing that the state's system of electing judges at large,
instead of from small defined geographic districts unfairly discriminated against
minorities.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed with part of LULAC's argument, ruling that
judicial elections are subject to the Voting Rights Act, which is designed to ensure
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elections are fair to minorities, and ordered the case back to the 5th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals.
That's where LULAC claimed victory.
But the 5th Circuit then ruled against LULAC on another critical point. It said the
Texas system of electing jurists does not violate the Voting Rights Act.
Based on the state's win at the 5th Circuit, Morales wants the LULAC lawyers to
return the fees paid to them by the state.
""I think it's very straightforward," First Assistant Attorney General Jorge Vega
said. ""The state won that case. "
But Garrett and others indicated the state would have to have won on all points to
get a refund. ""We won on a very important point," Garrett said.
The other lawyers involved include Rolando Rios, a Democratic candidate for U.S.
Congress from San Antonio, who was paid a total of $ 162,000 in legal fees. He's no
more willing to return the money than Garrett. ""Our position is that we won at the
U.S. Supreme Court," Rios said.
The six lawyers might sue Morales before he sues them, making two arguments in
favor of letting them keep the fees granted them by District Judge Lucius Bunton
Jr. in 1990 and 1991.
First, they won part of the case. Second, Morales might have waited too long to
demand reimbursement, according to Jose Garza, a San Antonio voting rights
attorney who was not involved in the case.
""The federal courts have clear timelines on these things, and that's long past," he
said.
Garza criticized Morales' decision to demand the money back.
He said the attorney general is trying to outmaneuver his political opponent, Don
Wittig, R-Houston. ""I think he wants to show that he's more Republican than the
Republicans, that he's more fiscally conservative than his opponent," Garza said.
""They figure the Mexican-American vote has nowhere else to go. "
Before the so-called ""judicial redistricting case" finally went to the 5th Circuit
Court, Morales and state lawmakers worked out a plan for single-member judicial
districts in some of the state's most populous counties, including Harris County.
One legislator who's been closely involved in judicial redistricting, Sen. Rodney
Ellis, D-Houston, said he hasn't looked into the legal issues in the fee fight, but is
sympathetic with the LULAC lawyers.
""In truth, they have been doing the Lord's work as civil rights advocates on a
shoestring budget," he said. ""It just strikes me as really tragic if we cannot find a
way to compensate these fine attorneys for at least some of their work."
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HEADLINE: Fretting over "fratricide";
LULAC loyalists yearn for the days gone by
BYLINE: LORI RODRIGUEZ; Staff
DATELINE: CORPUS CHRISTI
BODY:
CORPUS CHRISTI - Adorning the walls of Ruben Bonilla's sprawling law firm
here are rows and rows of faces. Portraits of Cesar Chavez and John F. Kennedy,
prominent and poignant. Jesse Jackson, on the stump. A rotunda full of legislators.
Then there are the LULAC years.
From behind a thousand podiums with a thousand long since silenced mikes,
Bonilla smiles out from photos with a galaxy of greats. Those were the glory years.
As a member on the move, a leader on the rise and finally, as the passionate national
president from Texas, Bonilla and his battalion of earnest Hispanics through the late
1970s and 1980s for the first time propelled the League of United Latin American
Citizens into the national headlines.
Only today, four years after he was squeezed out of the leadership ranks of
LULAC in one of the ruthless purges that have racked the organization through the
last decade, is Bonilla's private sanctum here free of most memorabilia. There are the
obligatory presidential photos, all signed. But mainly, there is family: the wife, the
parents and the children who now are the pride and preoccupation of the still young,
still charismatic man whose LULAC role has been reduced to membership.
""A fraternal disintegration is eroding LULAC today that I find deeply saddening,"
says Bonilla, on the eve of the national convention that begins this week in El Paso,
65 years after the venerable group sprang from the mother Councils 1 and 2 here and
in San Antonio.
""People have been stripped of their memberships because they spoke out. Other
members have been subjected to a great deal of contempt and humiliation. Entire
chapters have been disavowed.
Lawsuits have been rampant, setting members against members, consuming our
precious energies and resources.
""I call it fratricide, and it is fracturing us from within. "
Not the least of LULAC's woes has been its current national president Jose Velez,
the carnival operator turned casino promoter turned multimillionaire who, even
before he was elected in a gritty power struggle four years ago, had been accused of
everything from buying his election to having links with the Mafia.
At least some of the smoke seems to have been born of fire.
After the largest investigation in the history of the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, Velez and three Taiwanese businessmen reputed to be members of the Four
Seas Triad, an Asian organized crime group, on April 5 were indicted by a federal
grand jury in Las Vegas of collecting millions of dollars in a scheme to smuggle
Asians and Hispanics into the United States illegally.
Applicants allegedly were charged $ 250 to $ 3,500 for the service. One fee was $
45,000. Velez's son, Peter, already has pleaded guilty to charges he assisted in the $
5.6 million scam to provide more than 5,600, immigrants with fake documents. And
while LULAC has not been charged, some applicants were processed through its Las
Vegas office, which Velez ran.
Not a pretty picture, say LULAC stalwarts who have watched helplessly as the
granddaddy of Hispanic organizations - which once led the charge for parity in
juries, schools, housing, the workplace and the political system - has been in an
embarrassingly public free-fall. Some have jumped ship, at least in terms of
attending national conventions.
Ruben Sandoval, the former special counsel from San Antonio who led LULAC
legal fights as diverse as the Jose Campos Torres police brutality case in Houston and
the single-member
redistricting wars in Texas, noted that the circus is in San Antonio:
""I had a choice between Barnum & Bailey and the convention in El Paso. And
between one circus and another, I opted to stay with the local one.
""LULAC's gone from a result-oriented organization of activists to a
banquet-oriented bunch of blow-hards and
do-nothings. They have their luncheons, banquets and press conferences to highlight
issues. But we don't need to highlight them. We live them," says Sandoval. "
""They talk about being the oldest and largest Hispanic civil rights organization.
What a joke. That membership has never been over 3,000 to 5,000 people. Then they
pass their resolutions. What a shame. Those resolutions are never followed up.
""The fact is that unless and until there is a complete revamping of the leadership
at the top, LULAC has no future."
If Sandoval was a single disgruntled member, it would be par for the course of any
group. But LULAC loyalists like Rafael Acosta, the Metropolitan Transit Authority
board member who just completed a run for county judge, has been hard-pressed to
remain resolute.
""The real strength of LULAC has always been at its local councils. But even then,
they should have direction from the national office, and that has not been the case,"
says Acosta, owner of the popular Merida Mexican Restaurants here.
"Instead of the national office directing the news, the national office is making the
news and in a highly negative fashion. "
Acosta has not abandoned the ailing group. A former national vice president with
enduring LULAC roots, he still leads Council 88. But he concedes LULAC problems
are critical.
""In the absence of national direction, the local councils have been forced to carry
the whole load by themselves. That they have done as well as they have is a tribute
to their energy and persistence."
But in terms of having a national president with actual goals, objections and vision,
LULAC has simply done without for years, he says bluntly.
""What issues have you seen the national LULAC address in the last six months,
the last year, the last two years. Give me one issue," says Acosta.
""We've already lost a lot of ground to other Hispanic organizations. Like the
National Council of La Raza, some people are saying that it's stronger now than we
are, and we are the oldest. And MALDEF, some are saying that it's gotten better
than we are, and we started MALDEF. It's all about clout, and we must regain it."
In Houston, for more than the last decade, LULAC has been most visible in the
single person of Johnny Mata, the indefatigable district director who may not be
everywhere at once. It just seems that way.
On this day, not half over, Mata reported to work at the Gulf Coast Community
Services Association, squeezed in an interview with a TV crew and soon will speak to
the graduates of an adult education course. Hispanics are pouring into the eastside
Latino Learning Center, where LULAC maintains its district office.
Children are everywhere. Mata is in his element.
""This isn't the first time LULAC has gone through crisis.
We're no different from any other organizations, from the NAACP to the
Republican Party," he says stoutly.
""But we're on the verge of putting a lot of the problems behind us. Litigation is
being resolved. We're looking forward to electing new leadership. And our strength
and visibility at all
levels is increasing."
Ever the good soldier, Mata points to the LULAC successes that continue to thrive, in
Houston and elsewhere. There is Project SER, the national job training program that
funnels Hispanics into the workplace. And there are the LULAC Educational Service
Centers that provide counseling and scholarship funds to needy,
college-bound students.
LULAC, which long ago sparked the national Head Start program with its
audacious Schools of the 400 aimed at Hispanic students, still operates a Head Start
in Waco. Project Amistad programs in El Paso and other locales help Hispanic
seniors. And longtime LULAC leaders have moved up, like state Sen. Carlos Truan
and U.S. District Judge James DeAnda.
""The point is that the lifespan of every organization is like a roller coaster. It goes
up and down in the sense of controversy or prosperity. But with the will,
perseverance and commitment of the members, the organizations survive," says Mata.
""So will LULAC. It doesn't matter the level of crisis.
Because just like with all those soldiers who landed on Normandy, when a leader
falls or dies, there are other people in the back to pick up the banner."
Wretched national presidents have wracked LULAC before. An administration led
by Jose Benitez brought LULAC to the brink of financial ruin. Another
administration led by Jose Garcia de Lara touched off a series of purges called the de
Lara reign of terror.
But here is where the flag analogy falls apart: Although Tony Bonilla from San
Antonio and his brother, Ruben from Corpus Christi, emerged to pick up the pieces
after Benitez, after de Lara, Velez was elected. And while Mata and Acosta both are
looking to a new national president come Saturday's election as a part of the answer,
the odds-on favorite, Rosa Rosales of San Antonio, also has her detractors.
""She made the rounds of the banquets and press conferences as Texas state
director, too," says Sandoval. ""But beyond that, what? "
Rosales, a feisty labor organizer with the National
Association of Government Employees, vehemently defends her record, reeling off
the issues she has dealt with: discrimination in the workplace, equity in higher
education and the continuing fight for human rights.
""It's true LULAC needs some very positive and very
aggressive leadership but we are going to get that. Our future looks very bright,"
says Rosales.
But it is a sign of the ennui afflicting LULAC, of the wistful yearning for its
heyday, that rumbles of a ""Draft Bonilla for National President" movement have
emanated from the ranks.
Only Bonilla can restore LULAC to its might, says former national vice president
Ray Gano of Phoenix, in a letter to the members:
""Ruben will make us proud of LULAC and place it back on top where it belongs.
But in this cradle of Mexican-American activism, as Bonilla still dispatches clients,
secretaries and paralegals with the practiced ease of a natural leader, he is at once
proud his record inspires trust and honest about the chances for the draft.
""If I was guilty of anything during my years of leading LULAC, I was guilty of
attempting to utilize the media to bring visibility to the problems that saddled the
Hispanic community beyond comprehension," says Bonilla.
""And you can't do it in a vacuum, you can't do it in private rooms, you can't do it
by boasting of ties to the Mafia, you can't do it by bilking illegal immigrants. You
have to do it by community relations, by getting your message out in urban areas, by
seeking new members wherever you can find them, by always expanding the
network," says Bonilla.
""Velez has failed in that, miserably. We've been through a terrible period of
upheaval. I call it the Dark Ages of LULAC."
The organization still can be rebuilt, Bonilla believes.
""But it will take tremendous drive and organization. I'm afraid the new president
will spend at least the first year just trying to heal the wounds of litigation. And a
lot of that is still going on. II
Bonilla still plans to attend the convention, for the camaraderie, for the friendships,
for the debt he says he still owes LULAC.
""But president again? I have not encouraged it. But I don't rule that out, either. I
still feel very young and energetic. I still feel I could do a better job than anyone else
in the post. I still feel I could bring more imagination, vision, devotion and resources
to the office.
""But then I have to get back to reality. I have four children, and a very heavy,
very demanding law practice. I would find it very difficult to leave that for either
the fame or the infamy of the LULAC presidency.
""To this day, I'm not sure which it is. 11
GRAPHIC: Photo: 1. LULAC's former president, Ruben Bonilla (color); Mug: 2. Jose
Velez (b/w, p. 24); 1. Reba Graham/Special to Chronicle
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HEADLINE: 1929 Jackie 1994;
First lady won friends here in '63;
Mrs. Kennedy gave speech in Spanish
BYLINE: STEFANIE ASIN; Staff
BODY:
Jacqueline Kennedy was radiant as she arrived at the packed ballroom in the old
Rice Hotel the night before her husband was killed.
And while few remember the short speech she made to Houston's League of
United Latin American Citizens, they de remember how she gave it.
""She made her speech in Spanish. It seemed like it came from the heart," said
David Adame, one of the many Hispanic leaders at the LULAC party on Nov. 21,
1963. ""I think she did a beautiful job. She was very happy and gave me the
impression she was sincere throughout."
She and President Kennedy were pressed for time that night as they headed for a
dinner at the Sam Houston Coliseum to honor U.S. Rep. Albert Thomas. But Mrs.
Kennedy made the time.
""She was a radiant, beautiful, sophisticated lady with charisma that touched
everyone," Alfred Hernandez, 77, said Friday. ""Like most of us, I admired her very
much. "
The first lady mingled with the crowd, speaking Spanish to LULAC members. She
was a ""friend" to Hispanics, he said, because she recognized their heritage.
""She was special to us because she spoke our language and she spoke it fluently,"
said Hernandez. ""Let me tell you, Hispanics are in mourning today because of what
happened last night. II
Hernandez, a former national president of LULAC, was
surprised to see the first couple at the function. But it was not a surprise for all
LULAC members, some of whom worked for months to get them to drop by.
They were supposed to stay only four or five minutes at the LULAC function, but
tarried for 19, said Adame, who at the time was second in command behind the state
LULAC director. They also were supposed to stay a safe distance from the crowd --
at the urging of Secret Service agents - but both were mobbed at the door, where
they shook hands with nearly everyone.
Adame also was impressed with the first lady's command of Spanish.
Thinking about her death Friday, Adame searched his files at home and found a
LULAC newsletter written one week after her visit.
In it was the transcript of what she said that night.
""I am very happy to be here in Texas, especially to be here with you and to see
this noble tradition in Spanish. This tradition was established over 100 years ago
before the state of
Massachusetts was recognized, where my husband was born," she said.
""It is a tradition that is very strong and vigorous. You all work for Texas and for
the United States. Thank you. " Adame said now, 31 years later, he is unsure what
tradition she was referring to. He thinks it might have been their celebration that
night.
The impact of her Houston visit was even greater because of what happened the
next day, Hernandez said. ""It was something you don't forget very easily."
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BYLINE: San Antonio Express-News
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SAN ANTONIO - A San Antonio labor organizer plans to run for president of a
major Latino citizens' group after the indictment of the organization's leader.
""I have been getting a lot of calls saying I should go for the presidency," said Rosa
Rosales, Texas state director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, or
LULAC.
LULAC President Jose Velez and three Taiwanese were indicted Tuesday in Las
Vegas on federal charges of conspiring to create and supply false documents so
thousands of illegal immigrants could remain in the United States.
The indictment said immigrants were each charged as much as $ 45,000 for
fraudulent documents provided by the alleged Taiwanese conspirators Bill Tzeng,
Simon Chang and Al Feng.
According to the indictment, Velez carried out his part of the alleged conspiracy
through his Las Vegas immigration consulting firm, Velez & Sons Inc
LULAC, a leading national Hispanic civil rights organization, was not accused of
any wrongdoing.
Rosales was elected to her third, one-year term as state director last May.
""I'll seek a fourth term in June at the state convention in Laredo," said Rosales, a
labor organizer with the National Association of Government Employees in San
Antonio.
Rosales will seek the presidency in July at the national convention in El Paso.
Velez is serving the final year of a four-year term.
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""I can say (Velez) has done OK as national president," said Rosales, involved with
LULAC since 1978. ""The indictment at this time is on his business and his sons, not
on LULAC. It will be as strong as ever. II
Ruben Sandoval, a San Antonio lawyer who has been involved in factional fights
among local LULAC members, called the indictment of Velez ""a day of celebration. "
""The government is doing LULAC a service to remove him," Sandoval said. ""He
perpetuated fraud on the organization."
Velez could not be reached for comment.
The alleged conspiracy, which ran from March 1988 to about January 1991, sought
to misuse the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
The act authorized immigrants living in the United States illegally since before Jan.
1, 1982, to apply for amnesty as a step toward becoming legal U.S. residents.
Under the law, immigrants who performed seasonal agricultural work for specified
periods also could file another type of legalization application.
At the height of the alleged conspiracy, Velez reportedly received as much as $
50,000 a day for his work.
Velez and his fellow alleged conspirators are accused of obtaining blank envelopes,
bearing Mexican postage and backdated Mexican postmarks, which were then
addressed to unqualified immigrants to serve as fictitious evidence of longtime U.S.
residency.
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HEADLINE: Hispanic Leader Indicted in Las Vegas;
Abuse of Amnesty Program Is Alleged
SERIES: Occasional
BYLINE: Pierre Thomas, Washington Post Staff Writer
BODY:
The president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), one of
the nation's largest Latino organizations, was indicted yesterday in connection with
an alleged amnesty scam involving thousands of illegal immigrants.
Federal prosecutors charged that Jose Velez conspired along with three Taiwanese
immigration consultants to "create and supply" false documents and statements to
federal immigration officials "so that applicants who were not legally entitled to
reside and to work in the [United States] could fraudulently obtain the right to do
so."
The 17-count indictment obtained by Kathryn E. Landreth, the U.S. attorney in Las
Vegas, charges that the conspirators "recruited large numbers of unqualified aliens
and brought them to Las Vegas, sometimes by the busload" from March 1988 to
January 1991. Many of the recruits were wealthy Taiwanese citizens, who were
sometimes charged fees as high as $ 45,000 per application, the indictment says.
Edward Marshall, attorney for Velez, declined comment, saying he had not yet
seen the indictment.
Prosecutors say the alleged scam involves abuse of the Immigration Reform and
Control Act, which went into effect in 1986. Under the act, illegal immigrants could
file applications to legalize their status. Immigrants who had been in continuous
illegal status before 1982 were allowed to file amnesty applications, as were
undocumented aliens who performed at least 90 days of seasonal agricultural work
during 12-month periods from 1984 through 1986.
Certain organizations were designated to file amnesty applications. One of them
was LULAC-Nevada, where Velez was state director.
Justice Department officials charged that Velez, through his immigration consulting
business, Velez and Sons Inc., "processed thousands of false legalization applications."
LULAC has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
Velez and the conspirators allegedly falsely claimed that applicants had done the
required agricultural work and provided documentation or statements showing that
the illegal immigrants had lived in the country since before 1982, though they had
not.
The indictment is part of an ongoing series of immigration fraud investigations
conducted by the INS and the Internal Revenue Service.
In January, federal officials charged Billy Tzeng and Simon Chang, two Taiwanese
citizens, with five counts of filing false statements to the Immigration and
Naturalization Service. Those five counts were incorporated into yesterday's
superseding indictment, which was expanded to include Velez and Al Feng, another
Taiwan citizen. In a separate case, also filed yesterday, a company competing against
Velez was charged with similar offenses.
In that case, Diana Hernandez and three codefendants were charged with alleged
abuses of the amnesty law.
If convicted on all counts, Velez and Feng face a maximum penalty of 60 years in
prison and a fine of $ 3 million. Tzeng and Chang face a maximum sentence of 85
years imprisonment and a fine totaling $ 4.2 million.
LULAC is one of the country's largest and oldest grass-roots Hispanic
organizations. It seeks to promote full social, political, economic and educational
rights for Hispanics in the United States. It encourages voter registration and offers
employment and training programs. Last night, officials at the organization's Nevada
headquarters were scrambling to find out exactly what Velez had been charged with.
Officials said they would not issue a statement until they had further information
about the charges.
Velez, who was born in Managua, Nicaragua, has been the subject of attention
since 1990, when he was elected president of LULAC in a disputed election at the
organization's national convention in Albuquerque, according to published reports.
For years, INS officials have charged that the amnesty program has been
overwhelmed by thousands of false applications. In 1990, INS began more closely
scrutinizing firms and immigration attorneys that had been charging thousands of
dollars to assist applicants in filing applications.
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Education
A good education continues to be the key
to a better life in America. Ever since our
founding, LULAC has made education our
highest priority, and we have fought to
assure Hispanics an equal education.
Much of this fight has been in the courts.
In 1945 a California LULAC council suc-
cessfully sued the Orange County school
system, which was segregated on the
grounds that Hispanic children were "more
poorly clothed and mentally inferior to
white children." This decision, plus a
similar 1948 Texas ruling declaring Hispanic
segregation unconstitutional in that state,
provided court precedents that eventually led to the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court deci-
sion declaring all school segregation unconstitutional.
Without. a doubt, LULAC's most far reaching achievement in education was our
Little Schools of the 400. Hispanic children often start school at a disadvantage
because of the language barrier. LULAC started a program to teach incoming first
graders 400 words of English to prepare them for school. These "Little Schools of
the 400" pioneered the concept of pre-school preparation and became the pro-
totype for the universally hailed Headstart program.
Today, the LULAC National Scholarship Fund (LNSF) provides direct financial
assistance to Hispanic students. Contributions from corporations match those from
local LULAC councils, doubling the effectiveness of corporate and community sup-
port. This generous support has enabled over 5,000 students to get a college
education.
Scholarship aid is not our only answer to increased Hispanic enrollment in higher
education. Since 1973, LULAC National Educational Service Centers (LNESC) have
supported and motivated over 100,000 Hispanic students with dropout prevention
programs, career counseling and professional development. Twelve LNESC Centers
across the country help keep students in high school, prepare them for college or
vocational training, and guide them towards their chosen careers. LNESC's Project
Follow-up links students and corporate representatives for career orientation, and
the Kellogg/LNESC Intern Program provides year-long management training. In addi-
tion, LNESC has launched BEST (Business, Engineering and Science Technology), a
pioneering project designed to increase Hispanic representation in technical fields.
JOBS
Employment
LULAC helped start
SER-Jobs for Progress to
fight Hispanic unemploy-
ment and underemploy-
ment. We needed job skills and job placement. SER answered
these needs well enough to be rated the most effective private
manpower program in the United States.
Begun in 1964 with its co-sponsor, the American G.I. Forum,
SER's three original Vocational Training Centers have expanded to
a nationwide network of 80 SER programs in 67 cities, providing
job counseling, remedial education, "English as a second
language" instruction, on-the-job training, and vocational skills
training. Through the joint efforts of LULAC and the American
G.I. Forum, SER-Jobs for Progress has helped over 150,000 par-
ticipants gain the skills necessary to secure and retain good jobs.
Recognizing the rapidly changing employment patterns in
America, SER has stressed skills training for high technology in-
dustry. Computer Skills Training Centers have been opened in
Miami and Houston, and training is continually upgraded to keep
pace with market demands.
- National Amigos de SER -
Providing permanent jobs cannot be accomplished without the
support of the private sector. In 1973, SER brought together major
corporations to form the National Amigos de SER. The Amigos
have greatly reinforced our job training and placement efforts. In
exchange, SER provides business with information on Hispanic
unemployment, the Hispanic consumer market and community
relations.
The National Amigos de SER also started the Executive on Loan
Program: Corporations committed to this program lend volunteer
executives to the SER National Headquarters for a year. As resident
consultants, executives from such major corporations as ARCO,
IBM, Rockwell and AT&T have made significant contributions dur-
ing their year of service.
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Civil Rights
LULAC was founded in 1929 to obtain "the rights guaranteed
every individual
to seek justice and equality of treatment in ac-
cordance with the law of the land." The right to vote, the right to
sit on juries, equal access to employment, all these basic American
rights have been won for Hispanics in large part through years of
struggle by LULAC councils across the country.
Perhaps the most famous civil rights battle we fought was the
landmark Hernandez versus State of Texas. Until LULAC brought
this suit in 1954, not a single Hispanic in Texas had ever been call-
ed to jury duty. The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled this
exclusion unconstitutional. Ever since, Hispanics have been active
members of the American justice system.
Through decades of dialogue and dozens of successful lawsuits,
LULAC has steadily increased Hispanic access to both public and
private employment. Wc have also fought for full voting rights.
Court precedents resulting from LULAC suits laid much of the
groundwork for passage of the 1964 Voting Rights Act. This ac-
tivism continues to this day, as LULAC councils across the country
sponsor voter registration drives and citizenship education
programs.
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Youth/Women/Elderly
- Women -
For fifty years, women have been active LULAC members,
engaged in our historic struggles for better education, jobs and
civil rights. In addition, LULAC women actively promote Hispanic
women's rights. Job Fairs and Career Workshops have been held,
and each year LULAC sponsors a series of two-day conferences on
education and employment for women. These conferences have
been so successful that we are developing a Hispanic Women's
Network to provide year-round support.
- Elderly -
LULAC's Project Amistad helps the elderly with self-sufficiency
programs to avoid unnecessary institutionalization. Chosen as a
Pilot Program by the Texas Department of Human Resources, Pro-
ject Amistad also prevents abuse, neglect or exploitation of adults
unable to protect themselves.
- Youth -
LULAC has established local youth councils to school young
leaders in community leadership and organization and to work on
the problems facing teenagers today. Together with adult leaders,
LULAC youth have established a network of Youth Shelters for
neglected and runaway young people.
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Housing
The National LULAC Housing Program is our effort to meet the
overwhelming need for affordable housing in America. First begun
in 1961 in El Paso, Texas, there are now 18 LULAC housing com-
plexes in nine states, providing over 2,000 reasonably priced hous-
ing units to low and moderate-income families.
This is a national program, but the decision to build and
manage each complex remains at the local level. We believe that
neighbors know what neighbors need, and nowhere is this more
important than when deciding how to live together. As a result,
every LULAC housing complex is a well-maintained model for sub-
sidized housing.
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Economic Development
Despite some improvement in the last decade, more economic
development is crucial if Hispanics are ever to attain a full and
equal place in American society. LULAC's National Economic
Development Association (NEDA) was started to furnish Hispanic
businesses with training services and management expertise. NEDA
also assists entrepreneurs in starting new businesses and helps
small businesses to expand.
Media awareness plays an important role in supporting Hispanic
economic development. A LULAC survey has documented the lack
of Hispanic images in prime-time television, and to break this
media "brownout" LULAC has fought for fair coverage, accurate
portrayal of Hispanics, and more jobs in the print and electronic
media.
Economic development is one area where LULAC needs the
cooperation of corporate America, and corporations have respond-
ed with advice, contacts, funding, even their own executives to
work with us. Trade agreements to expand opportunities for
Hispanic business have been signed with several large corpora-
tions, including The Southland Corporation and the Miller Brew-
ing Company. Hispanic businesses profit greatly from the cor-
porate cooperation, and corporations gain the good will and
understanding of the fastest growing minority in America.
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LULAC Foundation
In 1973, the LULAC Foundation was created to forge an
economic alliance with corporate America. The LULAC Founda-
tion channels private and foundation resources to worthy LULAC
programs on the national, state and local levels.
Investing in Hispanic America makes good business sense. As
the youngest, fastest growing minority group in the country,
Hispanics have immense electoral and consumer-market potential.
Hispanic consumers already spend over $80 billion a year, and
their influence will inevitably grow in national and economic
affairs.
We need the support of business to help our Hispanic citizens
realize their great potential. Corporate contributions mean more
scholarships, more job training, more elderly able to stay at home.
We need business advice and we need corporate commitment to
Hispanic recruitment and economic opportunity.
Their voice will be heard and their influence felt. But today we
need your help in fulfilling the promise of Hispanic Americans.
Contributing to the LULAC Foundation will benefit you by
benefiting Hispanic citizens throughout the country and will help
build a stronger, more dynamic America.
LULAC Business Council
The LULAC Business Council is a new forum for the nation's
majority and Hispanic business communities to work together to
improve the economic, educational and social environment of
Hispanics in America. Representing a diversity of industry type
and geographical location, the LULAC Business Council provides
advice and funding to LULAC and to the LULAC Foundation.
A major responsibility of the LULAC Business Council is to assist
with the planning and conduct of LULAC's fund raising efforts.
Functioning through a committee system, the Council also helps
with the annual Hispanic Business Conference, with member
recruitment, and with the development of a Personal Economics
Workshop for low income Hispanics.
The LULAC Business Council is co-chaired by a corporate CEO
and a Hispanic CEO, and each company on the council is
represented by a senior executive. Staff liaison with the Council is
furnished by the LULAC Foundation's Executive Director.
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NATIONAL BOARD MEETING
Hotel Washington
15th & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
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Aba
THURSDAY, October 6
822-7300
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1:00pm - 5:00pm
Registration
Hotel Washington
15th & Pennsylvania Ave.,
Washing ton, D. C.
202-638-5900
2:00pm - 2:10pm
Welcome - Ms. Ada R. Pena, LULAC Washington, D.C.
State Director
2:20pm - 2:45pm
Opening of LULAC National Board Meeting
Mrs. Belen Robles, National President
Mr. Leon Panetta, White House Chief of Staff to be
inducted as Honorary Member of LULAC
presentations by California delegation.
2:45pm - 3:30pm
Mr. Doug Ross, Assistant Secretary, Employment and
Training Administration, Department of Labor
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Mr. Jose Velasquez, Deputy Assistant to President
Clinton and Deputy Director of Political Affairs
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Cocktail Reception
Ballroom
Hotel Washington
7:00pm - 10:30pm
LULAC PRESIDENTIAL DINNER
Keynote Speaker: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
The First Lady has accepted our invitation.
Guest Speaker:
First Lady of Puerto Rico
Mrs. Maga Rossello
Guests:
Congressman Ed Pastor
Congresswoman Lucille Roybal Allard
Congressman Carlos Romero Bardelo
Guest Of Honor: Mrs. Belen B. Robles
LULAC NATIONAL PRESIDENT
Awards: COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
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8:00am - 8:45am
Continental Breakfast
Parkview Room (Meeting all day)
9:00am - 9:30am
Attorney General Janet Reno
Presentation followed by question and answer period
9:30am - 10:00
Overview on the Crime Bill and the
impact on Hispanics
Ms. Clarissa Cerda, Assistant Counsel to the President,
The White House
10:00am - 10:30am
POLICE, PUNISHMENT, PRISONS AND
PREVENTION - including Youth and Gangs
PANEL: Mr. Cesar Collantes, LULAC National
Legislative Analyst
Mr. Jose Barron
Mr. Faustino Pino
10:30am - 11:00am
Immigration Getting Back to the Basics.
Citizenship
LULAC involvement
PANEL: Ms. Venecia Rojas Kenah, President, LULAC
Council 11041
111:00am - 11:30am
Ms. Blanca Maturino, Hispanic Outreach Director
Southwest Disability and Business Technical
Assistance Center on the American with Disabilities
Act
11:30am - 12:00pm
1994 ELECTIONS-WHAT ROLE DO WE PLAY?
Mr. Andy Hernandez, Democratic National Committee
Hispanic Voter Outreach
Mr. Richard Martinez, Administrative Assistant for
Congressman, Member, Advisory Hispanic Advisory
Committee, Republic National Committee
12:00pm - 1:00pm
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN (Roof Top-Hotel Washington)
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Business Agenda
1:30pm - 6:00pm
LULAC Opening Procedures:
Pledge of Allegiance
Prayer of the League
Roll Call of Officers
Agenda Review and Adoption
Approval of Previous Minutes
(El Paso, Texas-July 3, 1994)
Correspondence and Announcements
New Charter Applications
President's Report-Belen B. Robles
Immediate Past President Report:
Mr. Jose Velez
1994 National Convention
Treasurer's Report-Mr. Manuel Villarreal
1994-95 Budget
1994 National Convention-El Paso Report
SER National Report - Pedro Viera, President
6:30pm
LNESC YOUTH DINNER or Reception
Capital Room
SATURDAY, OCTOBER8
8:00am - 8:30am
Coffe/Tea/Danish-Parkview Room
8:45am - 11:45am
Meeting Reconvenes
National Legal Advisor
Mr. Rick Dovalina
National General Counsel
Judge Alberto Armendariz
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Reports from National Officers:
National Youth President
National VP for Youth
National VP for Young Adults
Vice President-Southwest
Vice President-Far West
Vice President-North West
Vice President-North East
Vice President-South East
Vice President for Elderly
Report on Education Summit
Mr. Ramiro Gonzalez
State Director-Michigan
11:45am - 12:45pm
Working Lunch
12:45pm - 6:00pm
REPORTS:
LNESC - Richard Roybal
LULAC FOUNDATION - Ed Pena
Amigos de LULAC - Jose Velez
1995-LULAC NATIONAL CONVENTION
REPORT
Mr. Carlos Lopez Nieves
Special Reports
Fund Raisers
Elections/Appointments of Boards
LNESC
SER
COMMISSION ON EDUCATION
HOUSING
COMMITTEE TO REVISE CONSTITUTION
STATE DIRECTORS' REPORTS
Working Dinner (if necessary)
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I recently read an article
characterizing LULAC as an
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Let me assure you that when II
comes to defending the poor,
and the disadvantaged against
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economic power, LULAC will
always be there.
Hispanics will shortly become the largest minority group In the U.S.
It is now up to Individuals, people like you, to step up and take the
responsibility of providing leadership in our communities.
The need is great and the road to success Is filled with
obstacles, but If we work together, nothing is impossible. Help
us in making our communities safe and vibrant places, where
the future is what we WELL It to be and where poverty, abuse
and neglect are only terms in history books. We look forward
to seeing you at the next LULAC meeting in your area.
61 915 544 2707
Belen B. Robles
National President
LULAC
LULAC's Beginnings
LULAC's beginning dhat February 1927 In Corpus Christt WILS the
culmination of many months of work by the membership of three
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groups who forged Into one single, united organization that could
represent and fight for the rights of Illspanic Americans throughout
the Southwest. After mainy years of suffering discrimination,
persecution and dental of the most
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basic rights given to other citizens, the Sons of America
(Corpus Christi) the Fraternal Order of the Knights of America
(San Antonto) and the League of Latin American Citizens
(HardIngen,-Westlaco) gathered In that room In Obreros Hall
to draw together the unifled resources, will and desire of
Mexlean-American living in South Texas into one powerful
organization. The coalition adopted the "League of United
Latin Anterican Citizens" as their official name and thus began
the history of the oldest, and stiff largest Hispanic civil rights
organization in the United States.
the largest minority group In the U.S.
By the late 1930's, LULAC had slowly spread throughout the
ople like you, to step up and take the
Southwest to New Mexico, Artzona and California. But It took a
dership in our communities.
seminal event, World War II, to create a flood of interest in the
xxl to success Is filled with
League. It Is NO secret that Hispanics leave always distinguished
ther, nothing is impossible. Help
themselves in military duty. As a group, Hispanics are the most
i safe and vibrant places, where
highly decorated ethnic group in the milltary history of our
be and where powerty, abuse
nation, garacring more Medals of Honor and combat
tistory books. We look forward
commendations than any other American racial or ethnic
: meeting your area.
group. These Inspanic Gls returning home found the means
and apparatus to continue their own fight for liberty and
Belen B. Robles
equality (this time On the battle Gelds of social and economic
National President
justice) in LULAC. Councils began poppleg up all across
LULAC
California as Hispanic men and women came to California in
search of Jobs in the booming "Golden West's" defense and
5 Beginnings
fledgling acrospace Industries. "LULAC really got going la
ary 1927 in Corpus Christl WILS the
California after the war," said Hector Godhez, a former GI and
work by the membership of three
later national president of this august organization. "We
gle, united organization that could
started in Los Angeles and then formed the Santa Ana connell.
$ of Hispaulc Americans throughout
From there, we went to Pullerion, but it was really what
: of suffering discrimination,
happened In Orange County, which was the true birthplace of
ost
LULAC in the state of Callfornia."
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ther citizens, the Sons of America
In its 65 year history, LULAC has been an advocate of civil
aternal Order of the Knights of America
rights, Inimane treatment of Immigrants, economic development,
League of Latin American Citizens
justice in the courts, and diligently pursued a goal of achieving
gathered In that room In Obreros Hall
social and domestic parity for all Hispaules. LULAC's many hard-
ilfled resources, will and desire of
earned achlevements have opened the door for creation of many
ig in Sonth Texas into one powerful
other Hispanic organizations. LULAC's accompltshments are so
Itton adopted the "League of United
many, It would take several volumes to adequately address in
"as their official name and thus began
detail the gains made by the organization. The following are
, and still largest Hispanic civil rights
a few of these accomplisiments.
ed States.
JLAC had slowly spread throughout the
The Little School of the 400 - Children attending classes
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learned the 400 basic English words necessary to live in an
ar 11, to create a flood of Interest in the
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English-speaking society. The school literally was the prede-
hat Hispanics have always distinguished
sty. As a group, Hispanics are the most
cessor of what we today call the Head Start LombaRdi
group in the military history of our
Operation SER - This was the Joan first job and employment Olivia Gelden
Medals of Honor and combat
development program funded by the federal government.
y other American racial or ethnic
Established in the Lyndon Johnson administration, it provided a
Gls returning home found the means
source of much needed training, development and placement for
their own light for liberty and
many Hispanks living throughout the southwestern United States.
3 battle Acids of soctal and economic
Today, SER Programs throughout the U.S. funnel lundreds of
cils began popplag up all across
millions of dollars in training funds to Illspanic youth, single
on and wolden came to California in
women-head of household and the elderly.
ming "Golden West"s" defense and
stries. "LULAC really got going In
MALDEF of Some of the greatest gains made by LULAC have
said Hector Godinez, a former GI and
been in the courts. The Issues have included affirmative action,
&E this august organization. "We
political empowerment and immigration reform. MALDEF (the
d then formed the Santa Ana council.
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) was
ullerton, but it was really what
founded by LULAC In 1968. It because an independent, stand-
nty, which was the true birthplace of
alone organization In 1973. LULAC and MALDEF successfully
formla."
fought and overturned the discriminatory system of publtc school
funding in the state of Texas, affecting nearly two million school
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children In the state's public schools.
LNESC - The LULAC National Educational Service Centers,
Inc. were established by LULAC In 1973 to serve as Its national
fundraising arm. It solicits support from corporate America
and then matches the funds ruised by the local LULAC
councils and given In college scholarships to youth.
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LULAC Housing Board- For over three decades, LULAC
has served as the owner and operator of thousands of
apartment units throughout the U.S. under a program funded
by the HUD. By participating In this program LULAC has
helped provkled needy families with clean, affordable
housing.
LULAC MEMBERSHIP
If you are interested In forming a local council of LULAC
in your community- you only need ten (10) or more people,
who are interested in advancing the role of Americans of
Hispanic-descent.
61 915 544 2707
1 WANT A LULAC APPLICATION
Name
Address
City
State & Zip
Phone Number
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JOIN LULAC NOW
Mall your application to:
221 N. Kansas, Suite 1211
El Paso, Texas 79901
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LULAC plans to move forward by concentrating on these key
Issues:
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opportunities required to empower themselves and
from corporate America
their communities for a successful future.
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Domestic Policy. Ensuring that all Hispanics are
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given access to decision-making processes at the local,
state and federal level.
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Economic Development. Gaining economic power in
If of thousands of
order to have ao impact on our fature. LULAC work to
under a program funded
make sure Hispanics can take advantage of all economic
program LULAC has
opportunities including federal and state procurement
clean, affordable
and opportunities available from corporate America.
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Trade. Provide the men and women
of the Hispanic business community, the assistance,
knowledge and training necessary to take advantage
of the opportunities of international trade and
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especially the North American Free Trade Agreement.
local council of LULAC
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Foreign Affairs. Providing Hispanics with the
role of Americans of
opportunities to participate and contribute in the
development and implementation of foreign policy
and national defense Issues.
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THE WOMEN OF LULAC
The strength and force of the women's movement
has certainly been felt throughout the nation. Women
have shown themselves to be capable, motivating
forces behind almost every organization in this country,
The women of LULAC are no different.
LULAC was one of the first national organizations to
realize the importance of women when its first
women's cound!. No. 9. was organized In El Paso, Texas
in 1934. By 1938. the league had created the first
Women's National Office in which Mrs. Esther Machuca
was made Ladies Organizer General. in 1972. the
National Women's Affair Committee was established in
Washington. D.C. This office has continued to work with
the League of Women Voters. Women in Community
Service, National Women's Bureau. the Department of
Labor and the President's Women's Committee for
Employment of the Handicapped.
The organization's first National Vice-President for
Women was elected in 1981. Today, Esther Trevino
serves in this position. She wants to bring greater
recognition to the LULAC women and to work even
doser with other national women's organizations.
Since 1934, LULAC women have remained
committed to I.ULAC and to the organizations with
which they work. This year's convention is no different
- the women of LULAC have played a major role in its
success.
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Introduction
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the
oldest and largest Hispanic organization in the United States. We've
been working since 1929 to assure our fellow Hispanic citizens a
good education, a better job, and the civil rights promised to
every American. What is LULAC?
An engineering scholarship for a Hispanic student in Philadelphia
Affordable housing for a low income family in San Antonio
A computer training program in Miami
A court victory against census undercount
in California
LULAC is 110,000 members in 45 states
committed to the promise of Hispanics in
America. We are the youngest, fastest growing
minority in the country. By 1988, Hispanics
will be the nation's largest minority group,
and LULAC is the most respected organization
representing this diverse, influential group of
citizens.
We've been fighting ignorance, unemploy-
ment and discrimination for over fifty years,
but we need help. We need help to finance
education and job training. We need the sup-
port of all individuals and corporations who
care about making equality a fact, not only a
dream, for all Americans.
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History
When the United States annexed a third of
Mexico's territory following the Mexican War,
nearly 77,000 Mexicans became U.S. citizens. These
new citizens were systematically discriminated against,
denied voting rights, excluded from decent jobs or a good educa-
tion and subjected to unprovoked physical violence. The sign, "No
Mexicans Allowed" was to be found everywhere.
Hispanic Americans responded by building a strong tradition of
self-determination. Service organizations were started to champion
Hispanic rights and in 1929, a number of these groups met in Cor-
pus Christi, Texas and merged into a single self-help organization,
the League of United Latin American Citizens. LULAC councils
soon spread throughout Tcxas, into New Mexico and California,
then to the Midwest, Florida, Washington, D.C. and New York.
As LULAC grew, so did our achievements. LULAC-sponsored
lawsuits resulted in landmark court decisions abolishing Hispanic
school segregation and guaranteeing Hispanics the right to sit on
juries. LULAC's "Little Schools of the 400" became the model for
the enormously successful Headstart program. Wc have trained
and found jobs for thousands of Hispanics, built housing for
thousands more, provided over $2 million in scholarship aid to
Hispanic students, launched programs for youth, women and the
elderly, and reached out in cooperative alliance with corporate
America.
No other organization can match our half century record of ser-
vice to Hispanic Americans, but too much remains to be done to
rest on our history. LULAC will continue to work with our fellow
Hispanic citizens until the only place to find poverty, ignorance
and discrimination is in the history books.
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Organization
LULAC is a true "grass roots" organization. While policy is set at the
national level, our local councils are where the work gets done. One city
may stress scholarship aid, another job training, and all LULAC programs
are specifically tailored to meet local necds. We help our neighbors in
the communities where we live.
However, LULAC's local councils can't do the job alone. We have
established a National Office in Washington, D.C. to support Hispanic
rights and issues nationwide, and LULAC's National President acts as of-
ficial spokesperson to advance our cause in the media and during Con-
gressional deliberations. In addition, the LULAC Foundation was created
to forge a working partnership with corporate America. Through the
LULAC Foundation, business provides Hispanics with job training,
economic development and financial support.
Other programs have also been established to support our local coun-
cils. The LULAC National Educational Service Centers provide scholarship
aid and career counseling to Hispanic youth, and SER-Jobs For Progress is
our nationwide manpower training program, which has been rated the
most efficient job training program in the country.
Organizationally, a State Director and State Executive Board are chosen
at each State Convention. Once a year at the National Convention,
representatives from all the LULAC councils convene the
National Assembly and elect a National President and
National Executive Board. Under the direction of the
National Executive Director, the National Executive
Board is LULAC's governing body between
conventions.
National policy with local im-
pact, programs dedicated to the
most pressing problems,
ongoing cooperation
with business; all this
adds up to the most
responsive, most effec-
tive organization work-
ing to help Hispanic
Americans. All this adds
up to LULAC.
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by concentrating on these key
tion. Providing educational
0 empower themselves and
uccessful future.
ing that all Hispanics are
making processes at the local,
The LULAC Story
1. Gaining economic power in
n our future. LULAC work to
take advantage of all economic
and
deral and state procurement
le from corporate America.
and women
Why You Should Get
community, the assistance,
ecessary to take advantage
ernational trade and
Involved!
Ican Free Trade Agreement.
ing Hispanics with the
te and contribute in the
entation of foreign policy
es.
DF LATIN AMERICA
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I recently read an article
characterizing LULAC as an
"outdated organization."
Let me assure you that when it
comes to defending the poor,
and the disadvantaged against
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the abnses of political and
economic power, LULAC will
always be there.
Hispanics will shortly become the largest minority group In the U.S.
It is now up to Individuals, people like you, to step up and take the
responsibility of providing leadership In our communities.
The need is great and the road to success Is filled with
obstacles, but If we work together, nothing is Impossible. Help
us in making our communities safe and vibrant places, where
the future is what we want it to be and where poverty, abuse
and neglect are only terms in history books. We look forward
to seeing you at the next LULAC meeting in your area.
915 544 2707
Belen B. Robles
National President
LULAC
LULAC's Beginnings
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LULAC's beginning that February 1927 in Corpus Christi WILS the
colmination of many months of work by the membership of three
groups who forged Into one single, united organization that could
represent and fight for the rights of Illspanic Americans throughout
the Southwest. After many years of suffering discrimination,
persecution and dental of the most
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ther citizens, the Sons of America
In its 65 year history, LULAC has been an advocate of civil
raternal Order of the Knights of America
rights, Inunane treatment of Immigrants, economic development,
League of Latin American Citizens
justice in the courts, and diligently pursued a goal of achieving
gathered In that room In Obreros Hall
social and domestic parity for all Hispanics. LULAC's many hard-
iffled resources, will and desire of
earned achievements have opened the door for creation of many
18 Sonth Texas into one powerful
other Hispanic organizations. LULAC's accompltshments are SO
Itlon adopted the "League of United
many, It would take several volumes to adequately address in
i" as their official ilame and thus began
detail the gains made by the organization. The following are
I, and still fargest Hispanic civil rights
a few of these accomplishments.
ed States.
JLAC had slowly spread throughout the
The Little School of the 400- Children attending classes
co, Arizona and California. But It took a
learned the 400 basic Buglish words necessary to live in an
ar 11, to create a flood of Interest in the
English-speaking society. The school Interally was the prede-
bat Hispanics have always distinguished
cessor of what WC today call the Head Start Program.
uty. As a group, Hispanics are the most
group in the military history of our
Operation SER This was the first job and employment
Medals of Honor and combat
development program funded by the federal government.
y other American racial or ethnic
Established in the Lyndon Johnson administration, it provided a
GIs returning home found the means
source of much needed training development and placement for
Il
their own nght for liberty and
many Hispanics living throughout the southwestern United States.
e battle ficks of soctal and economic
Today, SER Programs throughout the U.S. funnel lundreds of
cils began popping up all across
millions of dollars in training funds to Hispanic youth, slugle
en and women came to California in
women-head of household and the elderly.
uning "Golden West's" defense and
stries. "LULAC really got going In
MALDEF Some of the greatest gains made by LULAC have
said Hector Godinez, a former GI and
been in the courts. The Issues have included affirmative action,
of this august organization. "We
political empowerment and immigration reform. MALDEF (the
d then formed the Santa Amt council.
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) was
Millerton, but it was really what
founded by LULAC In 1968. It became an independent, stand-
nty, which was the true birthplace of
alone organization In 1973. LULAC and MALDEU successfully
formla."
fought and overturned the discriminatory system of publtc school
funding in the state of Texas, affecting nearly two million school
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children in the state's public schools.
LNESC - The LULAC National Educational Service Centers,
Inc. were established by LULAC In 1973 to serve as Its natior
fundraising arm. It solicits support from corporate America
and then matches the funds ralsed by the local LULAC
councils and given In college scholarships to youth.
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LULAC Housing Board - For over three decades, LULAC
has served 35 the owner and operator of thousands of
apartment units throughout the U.S. under a program funded
by the HUD. By participating in this program LULAC has
helped provided needy families with clean, affordable
housing.
LUHAC MEMBERSHIP
If you are interested In forming a local council of LULAC
in your community - you only need ten (10) or more people,
who are Interested in advancing the role of Americans of
Hispanic-descent.
1 WANT A LULAC APPLICATION
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Name
Address
City
State & Zip
Phone Number
JOIN LULAC NOW
Mall your application to:
221 N. Kansas, Suite 1211
El
Paso, Texas 79901
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S.
LULAC plans to move forward by concentrating on these key
Issues:
seational Service Centers,
1
Community and Education. Providing educational
173 to serve as Its national
opportunities required to empower themselves and
from corporate America
their communities for a successful future.
F the local WLAC
2
Domestic Policy. Ensuring that all Hispanics are
rships to youth.
given access to decision-making processes at the local,
state and federal level.
three decaules, LULAC
3
Economic Development. Gaining economic power in
1' of thousands of
order to have an Impact on our future. LULAC work to
under a program funded
make sure Hispanics can take advantage of all economic
program LULAC has
opportunities including federal and state procurement
clean, affordable
and opportunities available from corporate America.
Trade. Provide the men and women
of the Hispanic business community, the assistance,
knowledge and training necessary to take advantage
of the opportunities of international trade and
HIP
especially the North American Free Trade Agreement.
local council of LULAC
5
il (10) or more people,
Foreign Affairs. Providing Hispanics with the
ole of Americans of
opportunities to participate and contribute in the
development and implementation of foreign policy
and national defense issues.
LICATION
IOW
on to:
: 1211
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THE WOMEN OF LULAC
The strength and force of the women's movement
has certainly been felt throughout the nation. Women
have shown themselves to be capable, motivating
forces behind almost every organization in this country.
The women of LULAC are no different.
WLAC was one of the first national organizations to
realize the Importance of women when its first
women's council. No. 9. was organized in El Paso, Texas
in 1934. By 1938. the league had created the first
Women's National Office in which Mrs. Esther Machuca
was made Ladies Organizer General. in 1972. the
National Women's Affair Committee was established in
Washington. DC This office has continued to work with
the League of Women Voters. Women in Community
Service, National Women's Bureau, the Department of
Labor and the President's Women's Committee for
Employment of the Handicapped.
The organization's first National Vice-President for
Women was elected in 1981. Today. Esther Trevino
serves in this position. She wants to bring greater
recognition to the LULAC women and to work even
closer with other national women's organizations.
Since 1934. LULAC women have remained
committed to I.ULAC and to the organizations with
which they work. This year's convention is no different
- the women of LULAC have played a major role in its
success.