Archive for March 9th, 2006
New movie explores Chicano rights movement
3:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Movies · Comments Off
9 Mar 2006
“Walkout” is the first major film to tell the story of the Chicano civil rights movement:
Esparza joined HBO Films and actor/director Edward James Olmos to produce a dramatic, historical film based on the true story of the Chicano student uprising in East Los Angeles in 1968, where he was among 10,000 high school students who staged walkouts to protest academic prejudice and dire school conditions.
The Los Angeles protests, widely regarded as the birth of the urban Chicano civil rights movement, spawned a generation of activists and reverberated across the United States, inspiring similar demands for change in public schools in El Paso, across Texas and New Mexico and wherever Hispanics lived.
The film, produced by Moctesuma Esparza and directed by Edward James Olmos will star Alex Vega (Spy Kids) and will air on HBO on March 18th.
Catch previews and in-depth info on HBO’s Walkout page
Via / Borderland News and HispanicTips
Make some noise about the Juarez “desaparecidas”
12:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Justice| Women| mexico · 1 Comment
9 Mar 2006
Did you know:
In Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua Mexico, over 400 women and girls have been killed or disappeared in the past thirteen years.An alarming number of these cases remain unsolved.
Federal authorities acknowledge that 177 state officials had acted negligently. Not one of them has been brought to justice.
Incredible, but true. Don’t you agree that something should be done? The Mexican government’s lax attitude toward what is amounting to genocide is disgraceful, and is allowing more and more deaths and disappearances of young Mexican women to take place.
U.S. Blackmailing Bolivia?
9 Mar 2006
That’s right President Evo Morales is saying. On March 6 the United States “declassified” Bolivia as a partner in the war against terrorism. This means the withdrawal of more than $300 000 of U.S. funds from the South American country. The U.S. Embassy did not comment immediately but the withdrawal probably can be linked to Morales’s left of center politics which includes decriminalizing coca farming. Morales said that the funds had been withdrawn :
Because we don’t accept vetoes or the change of a commander, blackmail comes from the US armed force.
Via / SABC News
links for 2006-03-09
2:22 am By Blogs Media · Quicklinks · Comments Off
9 Mar 2006-
Arizona State University and the University of Texas at Austin have partnered to create “Voices of Valor,” a theatrical production that holds its world premiere on March 11 at 7 p.m. in the Grady Gammage Auditorium.
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At a town hall meeting Tuesday to improve dialogue between the Daily News and its Latino readers, area Latino leaders raised concerns about the newspaper’s coverage and urged reporters and editors to use more sources from their community
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Just the sight of her name makes me want to vomit.
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