03/15/2009 10:31 AM
Advocates tackle issues at Latino Forum
Illegal immigration, education and health care dominated the agenda. Group leaders said positive contributions from the Latino community, the fastest growing ethnic group in the state, are being overshadowed.
"The Latinos in North Carolina are making tremendous positive contributions to the state," Tony Asion, executive director of El Pueblo, said.
Asion's group sponsored El Foro Latino, or the Latin Forum, this weekend. And for the first time, officials said they're not just discussing roadblocks; they're forming an action plan to overcome them.
"We want to develop a network, if you will, of communications for Latinos statewide," Asion said.
So Latino group leaders from all across the state threw out ideas in an energized roundtable. And to resolve them, Asion said it will take creating a new means of communication quickly.
"Dividing the state into regions and having coordinators in every county," he said.
The overall idea is a seven-point plan for a direct line of communication from the community to the advocates and from the advocates to the lawmakers.
"We could become a model for the other states, and of course it would make us stronger," Lucy Vasquez of Amigos International said.
Asion said the group is planning upcoming marches and walkouts across the state.
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