Archive for August 30th, 2006
Walt Whitman loves Latinos
3:17 pm By Maegan La Mala · literature · Comments Off
30 Aug 2006
Well, I don’t know if he does or not. All I know is this is going on in a few hours:
Wednesday, August 30th @ 6pm
Walt Whitman: South and North
An Evening of Contemporary Latino and Hispanic American Poets, plus
North Americans with connections to Latin America.
Join us as we conclude the weeklong tribute to the poetic legacy of
Walt Whitman. Slated to read: Fish Vargas, Lidia Torres, John
Murillo, Tara Betts, Aracelis Girmay, Diana Marie Delgado, and Diana
Gitesha Hernandez. And fiction writer, Marco Fernando Navarro. Hosted by Rich Villar and the crew from the Acentos Bronx Poetry Showcase
The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
between Bleecker and W. 4th Street (near 6th Avenue)
A, C, E, B, D, F & V trains to W. 4th Street Station
$6 (includes free drink)
Image via / infoplease.com (LOC image)
Mexican Court Rejects Election Fraud Claims
30 Aug 2006
In a 7-0 ruling, the Electoral Court of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF), ruled that they had rejected Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) claims that the Presidential election had been plagued by massive fraud. The court stated that López Obrador had failed to prove that the irregularities in many of the polling places did not stem from fraud.
TEPJF stated that they had thrown out the results from hundreds of polling stations where major irregularities were shown to have taken place, which meant annulling 81,000 votes for Felipe Calderón and 76,897 for López Obrador. Therefore, leaving Calderon with 4,000 fewer votes from his original 244,000-vote margin. The tribunal decided that the outcome of the partial recount was not enough to overcome Calderón’s margin of victory.
However, the tribunal did stop short of officially naming Calderón as Mexico’s next President, by law the tribunal has until Sept 6 to name the winner of the election to declare a winner.
Latinos not Invited to Any of the Parties
12:24 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Immigration| Politics · Comments Off
30 Aug 2006
While Latinos are generally thought to be more loyal to Democrats than to Republicans, the recent ad run by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (which you can now see here) has Latinos questioning where their loyalties should go come election day. With Republicans pushing for immigration reforms that range from the middle of the road to the extreme with matching, they aren’t looking too welcoming to Latinos either. So what is a Latino planning on heading to the polls to do? Where have the commercials gone with politicians pandering to us in broken Spanish? Obviously this two party system is missing something that we Latinos need.
Where do we go from here?
As a Latina who votes, not so much because I trust that the system works (as we have seen from presidential elections past) but because it is one tool in our basket and because people put their lives on the line so that I could vote, I am seriously considering sitting this one out.
Via / Yahoo!
Image Via / US Diplomatic Mission to Germany
The Military is Not a Job Program for Latinos
9:18 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Careers| New York City| Politics · Comments Off
30 Aug 2006
Surprise, surprise (well, ok not really) but it seems like the U.S. Military targets young, poor communities of color to reach their recruitment quotas. In a report released by the American Friends Service Committee, a pacifist organization, in New York City the military recruited from the predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhoods of the South Bronx, Washington Heights, Inwood, central and north Brooklyn, Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, Flushing and Jamaica. In 2004 99 people from Washington Heights and Inwood joined the military. In Jackson Heights, Corona, Woodside, and Elmhurst, 119 people enlisted. Compare this to the 7 individuals who enlisted from the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
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