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Archive for February 27th, 2007

Ricky Martin, documentarian

6:48 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Movies| society · Comments Off

27 Feb 2007

ricky-martin-7.jpgRicky Martin is getting on my good side. First, he’s giving Dubya the finger and now he’s planning on making a documentary to bring attention to problem of human trafficking, a cause very dear to him. He announced his plans in Costa Rica last week:

“Until now, the priority of my foundation has been to educate the world about what is happening, putting numbers on the table, and letting the media know that we need help so that the world will realize that this is organizaed crime,” the singer explained.

“Now, my priority, aside from music, is to create a strong, effective documentary. I think that it’s very important that we take this problem to the big screen, to be crude about it, without beating around the bush.”

It doesn’t sound like Ricky will be directing the doc, though he will be helping create the script by looking for the right stories to tell.

Ricky was in Costa Rica for a concert and to launch his new campaign against human trafficking, called Llama y vive, which looks to help victims of this crime via a telephone crisis line.

Via / 20 Minutos

Prison for Immigrant Children

12:48 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Justice| Texas| children · 1 Comment

27 Feb 2007

hutto.jpgT. Don Hutto Residential Center in Texas “used” to be a prison. But now the Department of Homeland Security is nice enough and is using it to “house” immigrants being considered for deportation or asylum and their children. This includes pregnant women.

…double-layered chain link fence topped with concertina wire in places. Or the uniformed, handcuff-toting correctional officers – called “counselors” – and the tight two-person cells where mothers and children live for weeks or months awaiting their fate.

A prison by any other name is still a prison.

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Success brings bad blood for Babel team

11:28 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Movies| mexico · Comments Off

27 Feb 2007

babel2.jpgOne would think that the success at the Oscars — at least in the nomination department and overall buzz — would bring the Mexican creators of Babel together to celebrate their triumph. But in fact, just the opposite has happened. Babel’s director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and its screenwriter, Guillermo Arriaga are now estranged, according to comments made yesterday by González Iñárritu, as reports various media outlets:

The director of Babel, Mexican Alejandro González Iñárritu, severely criticized his countryman Guillermo Arriaga, screenwriter, for attempting to “claim” for himself credit for the entire film. Yesterday a letter from Iñárritu to Arriaga was circulated (to be published in the Mexican magazine Chilango in its next issue) in which the director says that it is “sad” that because of an “unjustified obsession with claiming credit for the entire film”, the screenwriter seems to “not know that filmmaking is an art of profound collaboration.”

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Nuestra Señora Likes to Bake

10:58 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Religion · 3 Comments

27 Feb 2007

virgin.jpgEvery so often the Virgin Mary will make an appearance. Very often these appearances happen in Latino neighborhoods where the Catholic faith is strong. The latest Virgin sighting went down in a baking pan in Houston, Texas.

On Feb. 23, 2007. Guadalupe Rodriguez, a cafeteria worker at Pugh Elementary on the East Side, not pictured, discovered the image while cleaning the dishes from lunch on Ash Wednesday. The cooking sheet is now on display in the front yard of a home a few blocks away from the school, with numerous visitors coming to see the image.

I believe in miracles pero I don’t really know if I buy this or many of the other Virgin Mary sightings featured on ABC. Just call me Mala, lapsed Catholic of little faith.

Via / ABC News


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