Judith Westphalen (1922-1976)

https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/judith-westphalen/

Today in Labor History May 19, 1850: Four thousand Mexican and Peruvian workers gathered in Sonora, California, to protest the "Foreign Miners' Tax," enacted to drive them from gold fields. 500 armed vigilantes (mostly tax collectors and Anglo miners), chased them off by firing into the crowd. The tax was imposed during the height of the 1849 Gold Rush, and in the wake of the Mexican-American War (1848), in which the U.S. seized California from Mexico. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Feb 1848) gave U.S. citizenship to Mexican nationals who were living in California at the time the treaty was signed. However, the U.S. denied citizenship to Indigenous Peoples until the 1930s, even if they had also been Mexican nationals prior to the war. Meanwhile, English, Irish, and German immigrants protested the new tax and got it amended to exempt any miner who was a “free white person.” The effects of the tax, and the racist violence that accompanied it, was to drive large numbers of Latin American and Chinese miners from the gold fields. This exodus, in turn, caused a sharp drop in rents and commerce for the landlords and store owners who catered to the miners. They lobbied for repealing the tax, and were successful in 1851.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #mexicanamerican #immigration #racism #mining #california #gold #mexico #vigilantes #peruvian #chinese #guadalupehidalgo #indigenous

Repubblica.it: L’amico del Papa: “Leone vi sorprenderà, così risponderà al reality show di Trump”

Parla Cesar Piscoya, che lavorò a stretto contatto con Prevost ai tempi del Perù e ha scritto per Castelvecchi un ritratto del Papa peruviano: “Roberto ha una forza tranquilla, una visione globale e non ha paura”

The Pope’s friend: “Leo will surprise you, that’s how he’ll respond to Trump’s reality show.”

Roberto Piscoya, who worked closely with Prevost during the time in Peru and wrote for Castelvecchi a portrait of the Peruvian Pope, says: “Roberto has a quiet strength, a global vision, and he has no fear.”

#Trump #RobertoPiscoya #Prevost #Castelvecchi #Peruvian #Roberto

https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2026/05/09/news/papa_trump_un_anno_pontificato_intervista_cesar_piscoya-425333968/

From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en

#Peru investigates #Russia’s recruitment of its citizens for the war in #Ukraine.

The #Peruvian Prosecutor's Office has launched a preliminary investigation following numerous reports from families of missing relatives who traveled to the #Russian Federation.

According to their reports, people were lured by offers of high-paying civilian jobs -promising $2.6k to $4k per month and a $20k "welcome bonus.".

RaiNews: Trump: "Guerra Russia-Ucraina 'dura', credo la risolveremo"

La procura peruviana ha annunciato di aver aperto un'indagine per presunto traffico di esseri umani a seguito di denunce riguardanti una rete transnazionale che recluterebbe peruviani per inviarli sul fronte ucraino

Trump: "The Russia-Ukraine war is 'tough,' I believe we will resolve it."

The Peruvian prosecutor’s office announced it had opened an investigation into alleged human trafficking following complaints regarding a transnational network that would recruit Peruvians to send them to the Ukrainian front.

#TheRussia-Ukraine #Peruvian #Peruvians #Ukrainian

https://www.rainews.it/maratona/2026/05/trump-guerra-russia-ucraina-dura-credo-la-risolveremo-0fd1811e-a532-4de2-9340-65d72ea89800.html