Community and Organizations Join to Stop Deportation of Maine Student
1:58 pm By Maegan La Mala · DREAM Act|Immigration|Maine|Portland
1 Sep 2010
Earlier this month, as part of the DREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama series, we introduced you to Selvin Ovidio Arevalo, a Guatemalan student living in Maine who is facing immediate deportation.
There has been much talk by the right wing and some Republicans about returning to the “good ole American values rooted in Christianity”. While one could argue about what the values of this country really are and their history, what cannot be argued is that often the rhetoric against immigrants by those same people is anything but merciful. Selvin is a young man of faith and I wonder how many within the faith community, across party lines would step up for a young man like Selvin.
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As we enter September and quickly move to what is known in the U.S. as “Hispanic Heritage Month”, many Latin American counties celebrate their independence days, especially countries in South America. As the mother of two ChileRicans, one of them a MapucheRican and having lived in Chile in one of my incarnations, this 45 minute documentary really struck me. The Spanish (as in from Spain and in Spanish- with no English subtitles) looks at the Mapuche in Chile, with a specific focus on recent political repression.
I was moved and angered by the film as it discussed how, paralleling the treatment of indigenous nations in the U.S., colonial treaties were broken, new treaties were made, and then those were broken as well. I was particularly struck with how the new land ownership decisions made under the Pinochet dictatorshop were being enforced with violence against Mapuche communities.
If you speak Spanish and have 45 minutes to spare, it really is worth watching, considering the context of the upcoming bicentennial of Chile.
“Los Olvidados”, El Pueblo Mapuche, Una Historia de Resistencia from Nuestro Canto on Vimeo.
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Tweetup in NYC Tomorrow with Vl’s la Mala, @LizzWinstead y @LizaSabater
10:47 am By Maegan La Mala · Events|Food|VivirLatino|drink
31 Aug 2010
I am pleased to be co-hosting with the publisher of Culture Kitchen y Daily Gotham Liza Sabater and Lizz Winstead, stand-up goddess, pundit slayer & co-creator of The Daily Show a tweetup tomorrow night in NYC.
The dirty deets:
Time – 7 pm to 10 pm
The Place – KUSH Lounge, 191 Chrystie Street New York, NY
(212) 677-7328
Half-priced drinks from 7-10 are on you (feel free to buy la Mala a few). Light munchies are on us
Let us know if you are gonna come through so we can plan properly.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano : “All the Statistics that are Going Up Are Supposed to be Going Up”
8:45 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Labor|Politics|U.S.-Mexico Border|mexico
31 Aug 2010
If nothing else, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is a woman of her word. During a telephonic press briefing yesterday, Napolitano proudly crowed the start of unmanned predator drone flights out of Corpus Christi, Texas, beginning on Wednesday, Sept.1.
The rest of the telephonic conference was more of the same with an emphasis on more. I think the Secretary of Homeland Security said the word “more” so many times creating a dramatic crescendo effect that drove home just how militarized the U.S. border with Mexico was becoming and just how far we are from comprehensive immigration reform.
The drones, which beginning tomorrow will be able to monitor the entire U.S. Mexico border, are meant to track the “illegal movement of drugs, money and people”. While I know many will say the “illegal movement” of people refers to the disgusting crime of human trafficking, I picture families and individuals crossing the frontera and wonder how is movement declared illegal and only the movement of certain people.
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Updated: Puerto Rican Poet Julia de Burgos on a U.S. Postage Stamp
4:45 pm By Maegan La Mala · Puerto Rico|literature
30 Aug 2010
According to a press release from the U.S. Postal Service dated 12/09 (don’t know if the reason this is coming to my attention now is the fault of Rican time or USPS time), later this month Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos will have a U.S. postage stamp released in her honor.
With this 26th stamp in the Literary Arts series, the U.S Postal Service honors Julia de Burgos, one of Puerto Rico’s most celebrated poets. The stamp goes on sale in September. A revolutionary writer, thinker, and activist, de Burgos wrote more than 200 poems that probe issues of love, feminism, and political and personal freedom. Her groundbreaking works combine the intimate with the universal. They speak powerfully to women, minorities, the poor, and the dispossessed, urging them to defy constricting social conventions and find their own true selves. The stamp features a portrait of de Burgos created by artist Jody Hewgill.
DREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: Lizbeth Mateo
2:29 pm By Maegan La Mala · DREAM Act|Immigration|arizona
30 Aug 2010Dear Mr. President,
My name is Lizbeth Mateo and I am undocumented. On May 17th, on the 56th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, I, along with Mohammad Abdollahi, Yahaira Carrillo and two others, became the first undocumented students to risk deportation by staging a sit-in inside Senator McCain’s office in Tucson, Arizona, to demand the immediate passage of the DREAM Act. As a result of that sit-in we were arrested, turned over to ICE, and we now face deportation.
Almodóvar On Broadway
11:16 am By BiancaLaureano · Arts|Movies|Music|New York City
30 Aug 2010
Pedro Almodóvar’s film Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown has now become a Broadway musical with tickets on sale today at 10am. Beginning October 2, the press release announces the cast and states:
Now, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN is a new musical based on the film. LCT’s Resident Director, Bartlett Sher, still happily reeling from his achievement on South Pacific, leads the extraordinary collaborators Jeffrey Lane (book) and David Yazbek (music and lyrics). Lane and Yazbek, the team behind Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, have taken Almodóvar’s tale and infused it with their own wry, comic style and an irresistible Spanish beat. Four celebrated designers will join them — Michael Yeargan (sets), Catherine Zuber (costumes), Brian MacDevitt (lighting) and Scott Lehrer (sound).
Both touching and hilarious, it’s a story about women and the men who pursue them… finding them, losing them, needing them, and rejecting them. At the center is Pepa (Sherie Rene Scott) whose friends and lovers are blazing a trail through 1980s Madrid. And why do they all keep showing up at her high-rise apartment? Gazpacho anyone?
Along with Pepa, there’s her missing (possibly philandering) lover, Ivan (Brian Stokes Mitchell); his ex-wife of questionable sanity, Lucia (Patti LuPone); Pepa’s friend, Candela (Laura Benanti), and her terrorist boyfriend; a power-suited lawyer (de’Adre Aziza) plus a taxi driver (Danny Burstein) who dispenses tissues, mints and advice in equal proportion. Mayhem and comic madness abound, balanced by the empathy and heart that are trademarks of Almodóvar’s work. And of Bartlett Sher’s too.
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Monday Morning Movie : La Nana
30 Aug 2010This past weekend I finally got to sit down and watch via Netflix, Sebastian Silva’s award winning film, la Nana, about a maid in an upper middle class Chilean household and her relationship with the family she works for, her own family, others and herself. Before I get into the nitty gritty here’s a preview.
DREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: Myrna Orozco
9:58 am By Maegan La Mala · DREAM Act|Education|Immigration
27 Aug 2010
The “DREAM Now Series: Letters to Barack Obama” is a social media campaign that launched Monday, July 19, to underscore the urgent need to pass the DREAM Act.
Dear Mr. President,
On July 20th, 2010 I was arrested in the office of Senator John McCain fighting for the DREAM Act.
I am one of the thousands of students who would qualify for this legislation. I was brought to the United States at the age of four and have been here ever since. I consider myself to be a good student and I always strive to be a good example for others. I have been waiting for the DREAM Act to pass since it was first introduced in 2001, and this year I decided that I couldn’t stand by and wait another year. I decided to fight for my DREAMs.
I can no longer watch as politicians gamble with my future and the futures of my friends, family, and even strangers who are in the same position as I am. This is why I, along with 20 other DREAMers decided to take action and fight for what we believe is right; thus, we decided to conduct sit-ins at various senators offices and urge them to take action on the DREAM Act. We can not stand by as another class of outstanding students graduate without being able to fulfill their DREAMs.
Viernes Video : Sean Bell’s Parents Speak
6:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Justice|New York City|Violence|race
27 Aug 2010I cannot even begin to fathom the pain of a parent who loses a child to state sponsored violence and then finding the strength to struggle for justice in the name of that child, day after day. In this video testimony, the parents of Sean Bell, killed by the NYPD in 2006, speak out on what justice looks like to them.
Video gracias a the Justice Committee
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- Community and Organizations Join to Stop Deportation of Maine Student
- Miercoles Morning Movie : Los Olvidadados (The Forgotten Ones)
- Tweetup in NYC Tomorrow with Vl’s la Mala, @LizzWinstead y @LizaSabater
- Department of Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano : “All the Statistics that are Going Up Are Supposed to be Going Up”
- Updated: Puerto Rican Poet Julia de Burgos on a U.S. Postage Stamp
- DREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: Lizbeth Mateo
- Almodóvar On Broadway
- Monday Morning Movie : La Nana
- DREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: Myrna Orozco
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