Vanguardia America

27/11/2024

- On the Latino vote, a post election analysis with Rafael Collazo and Joe Garcia

Listen to the interview:: https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/r4nA94WuSOb

Rafael Collazo and Joe Garcia join host James E. Garcia to discuss the role Latino voters played in the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. Collazo is executive director of ⁠⁠UnidosUS Action Fund⁠⁠ and Garcia is executive director of the ⁠⁠CPLC Action Fund⁠⁠ and a former editorial writer for the Arizona Republic.

For more information related to this episode, check out the ⁠Hispanic Electorate Data Hub⁠ (powered by the UnidosUS Latino Vote Initiative) and Joe Garcia's opinion article, ⁠"It's now impossible to win an election without winning Latino voters," at AZCentral.com.

Vanguardia America airs weekly on La Onda, 1190 AM, Saturdays at 8 a.m.. To hear previous episodes, go to vanguardiaamerica.com.

(Disclosure: VA host James Garcia is the owner of Creative Vistas Media, which conducted occassional media consulting work UnidosUS and UnidosUS Action Fund.)

Rafael Collazo and Joe Garcia join host James E. Garcia for a freewheeling discussion on the role of Latino voters in the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. Collazo is executive director of ⁠UnidosUS Action Fund⁠ and Garcia is executive director of the ⁠CPLC Action Fund⁠. For more in...

15/11/2024

Welcome to Vanguardia America. In this episode, host James E. Garcia interviews Belinda Acosta, director of Canto Mundo, a literary group that supports Latinx poets and poetry. The organization is housed at Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University.

Listen to the interview: https://tinyurl.com/546jnryv

Vanguardia America airs weekly on La Onda, 1190 AM, at 8 a.m. on Saturdays. To hear our previous episodes, go to vanguardiaamerica.com.

07/11/2024

Valuable insights from my Jim Small, my colleague and editor at Arizona Mirror.

Today feels like a new America, one I don’t recognize. One that doesn’t make sense. One that has abandoned the promise of our great country. One I now fear. One I weep for.

01/11/2024

Welcome to Vanguardia America in Arizona. In this episode, host James E. Garcia interviews Saúl Rascón Salazar, a DACA recipient from Obregon, Sonora. Saul woks with the non-partisan Aliento Votes Campaign engaging voters about 2024 local, state and federal electiosns. A graduate of Loyola Marymount University, he's been active for years in pro-immigration advocacy in Phoenix, AZ, and Los Angeles, CA. (Photo: Courtesy of Aliento.)

Listen to the interview here: https://tinyurl.com/yc6rtd6f

Vanguardia America in Arizona airs weekly on La Onda, 1190 AM, at 8 a.m. on Saturdays. To hear our previous episodes, go to vanguardiaamerica.com.

31/10/2024

Vote your conscience.

Julia Roberts reminds us that what we do in the voting booth stays in the voting booth. In the one place where women still have the right to choose, you can ...

30/10/2024

Dropped our family’s ballots off at the post office tonight. Six votes for Harris. Six votes for democracy. Then I wept.

God help America.

03/08/2024

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30/07/2024

“I’m white. I’m the dude. And I’m for Harris.” - Actor Jeff Bridges, AKA “The Dude.”

03/07/2024

Now that he’s been found guilty of 34 felonies, Trump is trying to destroy Stormy Daniels.

Don’t let it happen.

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Here’s her interview with Rachel Maddow: https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/stormy-daniels-tells-rachel-maddow-she-s-fearful-of-trump-s-followers-214106181623

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25/06/2024

My latest for Arizona Mirror.

I’m anxious about our country’s future and the safety of my family, neither of which is mutually exclusive.

13/06/2024

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10/06/2024

Vanguardia America's James Garcia interviews Desiree Ong, the education program manager at ASU Gammage, and two local recent high school graduates, Max Antonio Perez and Nora Palermo. The students will be traveling to New York this week to participate in the Jimmy Awards, part of the prestigious national High School Musical Awards.

The 15th annual Jimmy Awards® take place on Monday, June 24, 2024 at 7:30 pm Eastern. The Jimmy Awards will stream live for free beginning on Facebook and YouTube.

Listen to this podcast: https://tinyurl.com/mvde4zaw

Vanguardia America airs live on La Onda, 1190AM, Saturdays at 8 a.m. in Phoenix. To hear previous podcasts of Vanguardia America visit https://vanguardiaamerica.com

01/06/2024

My latest for Arizona Mirror.

I’m not particularly a fan of horror, as a genre or way of life, but this analogy just seemed apt.

The Trump Republican Party has morphed into an army of partisan zombies wholly determined to kill democracy

17/05/2024

Here's my interview with Luis A. Miranda Jr., author of "Relentless, My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America." - tinyurl.com/56cwbsjt

I moderated a great discussion with him this week at Changing Hands Bookstore in Phoenix.

Miranda is founding president of the Hispanic Federation, chair of the Latino Victory Fund, and father of the already legendary Broadway playwright and producer. Lin Manuel Miranda.

You can buy his book on Amazon or the publisher's website at Hachette Books, or, of course, at Changing Hands. Support your local bookstores. They're a treasure.