Adios, Lou Dobbs

By New America Media, Q&A with Roberto Lovato, Marcelo Ballvé, Posted: Nov 13, 2009 

Presente.org is a relatively new organization, yet it played a prominent role in the campaign against Lou Dobbs. What can you tells us about Presente's origins and purpose? 

Presente.org is born of the need to help the Latino community use media and technology to advance its agenda, and to build its power. One of the key ways to do that is to amass a list of people, much like Moveon.org did previously. You build that list by organizing campaigns. Presente.org was born earlier this year, actually. Its first campaigns were around the hate killing of Luis Ramirez in Pennsylvania and the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor. Those were the dress rehearsals for our most ambitious campaign, which was the “Basta Dobbs” campaign [Basta means “enough” in Spanish]. 


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Hispanic Groups to CNN: Drop Lou Dobbs

Hispanic Business, News Report, Rob Kuznia, Posted: Sep 17, 2009


Several Hispanic groups are calling on CNN to drop talk-show host and frequent illegal immigrant critic Lou Dobbs, who is broadcasting his radio show from a conference put on by what some activists refer to as a "hate group." 

Dobbs is among 45 radio talk show hosts who attended the rally hosted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).  


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