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MAPA P R E S S R E L E A S E
Contact: Edward Headington
Thursday, November 13, 2003
(Office) 818/848-5014 or (Cell) 818/720-7181F o r I m m e d i a t e R e l e a s e
MapaCommunications@sbcglobal.net
[Links added by American Patrol]PRO-DRIVER'S LICENSE BILL COALITION BEGINS TO COALESCE SAVE SB 60 WEBSITE IS LAUNCHED
Los Angeles. The Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) announced today the launching of www.SaveSB60.com, a website designed to organize and educate activists, community leaders and concerned California residents around Senate Bill 60, the Driver's License bill. The Save SB 60 coalition is being called "Citizens for Public and Passenger Safety" and is a MAPA-sponsored grassroots project.
"MAPA has created this website because of our concern that the Driver's License bill will not be allowed to go into effect January 1," said MAPA President Nativo Lopez. "Our goal is to stop conservative hardliners from repealing the Driver's License bill and countermand their continuing attacks against Latinos and immigrants."
Earlier this month a debate between MAPA President Nativo Lopez and referendum organizer Dick Mountjoy began running on cable stations throughout California. It was hosted by Leslie Dutton from the Full Disclosure Network and can be seen again this Friday, November 15th, in Los Angeles at 7:30 p.m. on Channel 36. For channels and airtimes in other communities go to www.fulldisclosure.net. "We're not going to stand for the hateful and ignorant rhetoric spewed out by the right-wing, anti-immigrant factions of the Republican Party. Former Governor Pete Wilson accented his re-election campaign with divisive, wedge-issue politics nearly 10 years ago and it seems as though those same political forces are spoiling once more for another battle. The difference in this 'Son of 187' fight, though, is our willingness to out-organize, out-work, and out-coalition them."
MAPA, a multi-partisan advocacy organization, was founded in Fresno, California in 1963 and has chapters throughout California. It is dedicated to the constitutional and democratic principles of political freedom and representation for the Mexican, Mexican-American and Latino people in the U.S. For more information, call (323) 269-1575 or visit the MAPA website at www.mapa.org.
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Mexican American Political Association · 310 N. Soto Street · Los Angeles, CA 90033
323/269-1575 · Fax 323/260-8015 · http://www.MAPA.orgAlso see this article out of La Opinion, the Mexican propaganda rag published in L.A. (Roughly translated by Google) -- (See Spanish Version)
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