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HISPANIC CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS
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the issues the Latino community is facing.

For a thousand political leaders and activists who traveled from

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throughout the country to the Walter E. Washington Convention
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Center here Sept. 14-15 to participate in the Congressional account
Hispanic Caucus Institute’s 2009 public policy conference on ● Request new
”Latinos Leading in a Global Society,” the environmental password
movement was a central part.
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Zeroing in on solutions in the world’s energy revolution, it pointed
to new directions for Latino green, including in labor, healthcare Take Action
and immigration.
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“We feel it’s time to start talking about it,” said Gloria García , vice Patients Not Profit!
president of strategic communications and events for CHCI. “We Tell Speaker Pelosi
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can’t afford to let the community be left behind again.”
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In an interview with Hispanic Link News Service, President Vote YES on Single
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Environmental Protection Agency, offered a number of reasons NO NEW POWERS
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why she is working to get the Hispanic community fully on board
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“My goal is to open the dialogue,” Jackson said. “We want to Congressional
Budget Office
broaden the idea of environment. Our fault is that the movement
tends to talk about things like wide-open spaces. But it is also Recent
about clean air and finally seeing asthma rates go down,” comments
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She stressed that issues such as pollution can have crisis is
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communities.
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population — live in places that don’t meet U.S. air pollution ● Esperanto
standards,” she said. Whether pollution increases in a ● We are
 community, she cited, can depend on something as basic as witnessing the
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new businesses opening up and their impact on a community’s
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She emphasized, as has President Obama in several of his U.N. Climate
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speeches, that a clean energy economy does more than improve
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a community’s health, “It translates into jobs.”
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Secretary of Labor Hilda Solís spoke during another CHCI ● Oil addiction
session and reiterated the potential payoff for Latinos who ● What's the
become part of the green revolution. Green jobs pay 10-20 difference?
percent more on average than comparable jobs in other fields, ● Human
she said. Solís encouraged Latinas as well as Latinos to seek capabilities
out careers in math and science.

García said that one of the ways the Hispanic community can
tackle immigration issues is by encouraging more of its
members to pursue education in math and the sciences. CHCI
has partnered with the STEM Consortium for many of its
programs. It has expanded its graduate and young professional
fellowship offerings to include STEM fellows.

The CHCI conference also featured some examples of Hispanic

business ventures and entrepreneurship that are making strides
in the green revolution.

Robert Hertzberg, director and co-founder of G24 innovations,

which designs and manufactures solar modules, spoke during a
session on Latinos developing more leaders in the green
revolution.

“It used to be about rich people. It has been a top down

revolution,” Hertzberg said. “That isn’t sustainable and it is not
right. We have that power. We have to deal with economic and
environmental justice.”

Anyone can be a part of it, he said. “The notion of green jobs is

critical, but a cornerstone is about owning a piece of the pie,
becoming entrepreneurs and joining the companies.”

Jackson also ended her presentation with a call for action. "We
want to ensure that Latinos are securing the green jobs of the
clean energy future. We want to ensure that they are being heard
when they call for cleaner land, air and water and the protections
they need to safeguard the health of their children.”
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