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Thalia’s trip to NASDAQ

7:19 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Money| PR · 12 Comments

21 Mar 2006

mc_032106d.jpg(File under WTF) Do my eyes deceive me or is that Thalia I see closing the trading day at NASDAQ? Why, yes, it is the star of Maria Mercedes ringing the closing bell, with some March of Dimes people and a K-Mart executive. Struggling to find the tie-in…doh, there it is:

The reason she was there wasn’t financial but humanitarian: the Mexican superstar is part of a campaign that looks to inform pregnant women on ways to avoid premature births.

Apparently Thalia is a spokesperson for both the March of Dimes and K-Mart. I also remember her hawking some Hershey’s chocolate a while back.

I always have wondered about the “closing bell” ceremony and why it’s so often used as a PR platform. I mean I can see the relevance if a company is going public, but what does Thalia ringing the bell at NASDAQ do to promote the March of Dimes? If anything, it will just have a bunch of business men thinking “who the hell is this person?” when it dawns on them “oh, that’s Tommy Mottola’s wife.”

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The mean, mean person inside of me wonders if Thalia even knows what the NASDAQ is.

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of Thalia’s field trip to NASDAQ.

Via / Univision.com

layout_01.jpgMy friend Oso pointed me in the direction of a very intriguing documentary project being developed in the Bronx which proposes to explore how using social mediums such as blogs affects the lives of new immigrants:

What happens when immigrants in the Bronx start blogging? Can social media help people communicate better with friends and family back home? Can it help communities sustain themselves? The Bronx Blog Project is a multimedia documentary about community, immigration, homesickness, and technology. Focusing on the experiences of a handful of ESL students and utilizing video and the Internet, the project documents the effects of new communication technologies on people looking for better, cheaper ways to communicate to friends and family both in the United States and their home countries, and wishing to develop and maintain new communities in the U.S.

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3:19 pm By Blogs Media · Quicklinks · Comments Off

21 Mar 2006

immigrant%20children.jpgThere is so much talk about immigration reform. Shut down the borders. Build a bigger fence. Create an amnesty program. Create a visiting worker program. Kick em all the hell out. But very little attention has been paid to immigrant children (unless right wingers are complianing about how much is costs to educate them). Immigrant children fall into one of two catagories. They are immigrants themselves or they belong to mixed status families, meaning they were born in the U.S. to immigrant parents, who often lack legal status. The children in mixed status families are the ones most often at risk for poverty and all that comes with it (poor health, poor education, poor nutrition). And fpr those who say the immigrants are lazy, sucking up the resources of the U.S. :

According to a report by the National Center for Children in Poverty, 97 percent of children with foreign-born parents have a parent who works and 72 percent have a parent who works full-time, year round.

What happens when and if there are mass deportations, to the children who are legally citizens and legally have rights? Are people hoping Angelina Jolie will adopt them?

Via / TomPaine.com


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