NEA VP talks about who is out to supress the Latino vote.
NEA VP Lily Eskelsen, in the center, at a GOTV rally.
Lily Eskelsen is vice president of the National Education Association and an elementary teacher from Utah. She is one of the highest-ranking labor leaders in the country and one of its most influential Hispanic educators.
On her blog, Lily’s Blackboard, she talks about her mother.
Soy la hija de una inmigrante. I am the proud daughter of an immigrant. My mother is from Panama and became a citizen when I was three.
Apparently there is a campaign in some states with heavy Latino voter registration to supress the Latino turnout. Lily and her mom will have none of that.
I am a teacher. I want the Dream Act now! We want more people in Congress who are supporting the Dream Act – not fewer. I want an end to the testing mania that
