The DREAM Act is considered one of the more winnable pieces of immigration reform, but the political prospects are apparently uncertain. Many young voices, though, are mobilizing.

The Pelham center is holding an art workshop Saturday, and the Yonkers museum has a day of events scheduled Sunday. The library’s Dia de Los Muertos display runs Sunday through Nov. 4.

Mexican families pay respects to their ancestors with home altars decorated with marigolds, favorite foods, and fruits. Zafiro Acevedo, who is organizing the Yonkers and Pelham events with her mother, Aurelia Fernandez, described the tradition to me two years ago.

Here’s more on the celebration and its roots. If you’re looking to create your own celebration at home, here’s what to eat.

(Photo courtesy of New Rochelle Public Library)

(Added: Speaking of truth-telling, one of Reid’s aide’s has been fired over allegations of marriage fraud.)

The site’s Obameter also notes President Obama’s “promise broken” on introducing immigration an immigration bill in his first year. The president renewed the promise on a radio show Monday.

Among New Yorkers, Mayor Michael Bloomberg gets a “false” for a dubious comparison of skills-based immigration policies in the U.S. and Canada.

For the big picture on immigration and the elections, here’s a backgrounder from the Council on Foreign Relations.

The lineup is designed to “get Peekskill to know Peekskill,” said songwriter and producer Alfredo Dueñas. “We have these ties that unite us, and we can grow from there,” he said.

The performers include: singer Mary Mancini; Ecuadoran musical ensemble Inti Andino; the Children’s Theater Company of Peekskill; Peekskill’s own youth band Backlash; Los Rufianes, a Peekskill Guatemalan community-based ranchero band; the Westchester Band, an Ecuadorian brass band; a program of African and Afro-Caribbean drumming and dance with master drummer Maxwell Kofi Donkor and friends with  Nydia and Sergio Rodriguez; and poetry / spoken word by Nancy Ewing, Ibrahim Saddiq (P-O-E-T) and Hip Hop recording artist Noodle; and tap dance by actor, songwriter and dancer Marcus Franklin.

Details on the “One Peeskill, One World” event are on this ArtsWestchester page.

The site makes interesting reading whether you’re a ‘PCV’ or not. I took an interest in Coyne’s writing tips, and of course the food blog, I Don’t Speak Cuisine. The site is independent of the corps itself, so the writers and commenters speak very freely.

Peace Corps volunteers have a special obligation to share their experience overseas with other Americans when they get back. This is known as the “third goal,” along with providing training and representing the U.S. abroad.

Next year is the Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary, and Coyne is helping to plan readings by former volunteers at libraries around the country. He is also planning a new series of books by PCVs.

Coyne is communications manager at the College of New Rochelle.

The bakery has been a gathering spot for local Chileans to talk about the amazing rescue of 33 miners who were trapped for 69 days.

Others watched the televised miracle in their country from their homes in Westchester.

“I am very emotional and nervous, too,” said Pilar Llanos, who lives in Yorktown. “I have been here six years and I miss my country very much. It’s been a hard time for the country. First the earthquake and now this.”

(Photos: Tania Savayan/The Journal News)

Marcela Rojas and Rob Ryser have the story today on LoHud.com. State police said they learned of the scheme from immigrants who bought the licenses. Robert Serino is facing felony grand larceny charges.

As an officer in 2008, he raised an alarm about ID cards that were being sold to immigrants even though they had no official validity. “What we want to get out is that the information on these cards cannot be trusted,” he said at the time.

State Republican Party spokesman Alex Carey said: “We certainly don’t support Jim’s viewpoints espoused in that article, and condemn all of his racist and ethnocentric viewpoints espoused in there. In terms of actions taken, that’s a local issue, and chairman Colety and the county GOP have decisions to make with regard to whether to continue endorsing Mr. Russell.”

UPDATE:

The original argument for school integration was that it would advance the academic achievements of minorities. Instead, an Oct. 1 article on the Yonkers desegregation fiasco concedes that after years of forced integration `` minority students fared worse against national norms in 1995 than in 1988. ‘’ Why, then, do some persist in their advocacy of integration? Don’t they realize that, if given a choice, most parents of all races would rather have integration funds spent on improving the quality of their neighborhood schools? Yet, this paper’s Oct. 3 editorial urges an integrationist crusade `` throughout Westchester and Putnam. ‘’

Given these discrepancies, a complete re-evaluation of racial integration is needed. First of all, we must acknowledge that neither court orders nor millions of taxpayers’ dollars can alter what nature has pre-ordained -namely, that it is normal and healthy for people to prefer the company of their own kind in their neighborhoods and schools. Indeed, a fundamental function of racial characteristics is to provide a source of group cohesion which protects each race as it evolves into a full-fledged species of its own. This is how true diversity is maintained and advanced. To deliberately disrupt this natural process may have disastrous consequences.

Instead of opposing normal, natural human inclinations, we should work to see that the laws of our nation are brought into harmony with the laws of nature in a manner that is as fair as possible to all.

JIM RUSSELL Hawthorne