Archive for March 7th, 2007
Lack of immigrants leads to modern-day slavery
6:12 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colorado|Immigration|Labor · 8 Comments
7 Mar 2007
Who needs immigrants? Farms do, but that didn’t stop Colorado from imposing some of the strictest immigration laws on the book, and now that state is seeing the effects that has on its agriculture. There simply is no one to do the work, so now they’ve decided to resort to using prisoners in a dynamic that resembles slavery:
Ever since passing what its Legislature promoted as the nation’s toughest laws against illegal immigration last summer, Colorado has struggled with a labor shortage as migrants fled the state. This week, officials announced a novel solution: Use convicts as farmworkers.The Department of Corrections hopes to launch a pilot program this month — thought to be the first of its kind — that would contract with more than a dozen farms to provide inmates who will pick melons, onions and peppers.
Yankee Mariano Rivera Worried About Your Soul
2:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Religion|Sports · Comments Off
7 Mar 2007
Evangelism surrounds me. First my mom and Jen, tell me about the Rican (yes one of my people) who claims to be Jesus and the Anti-Christ and then on my subway ride this morning Yankee Mariano Rivera told me that the Bible was his guide and that it should be mine too.
Rivera will be the face of a subway advertising campaign running March 3rd to April 1st that encourages Latinos across New York City and the Tri-state area to read the Bible and experience its life changing message. Rivera will promote the central theme of the campaign – “La Biblia Es Mi Guía…Leela!” (The Bible is My Guide…Read it!).
This is part of a larger campaign outreaching to the Latino community that we wrote about last September. But can Mariano or De Jesus appear in a cake pan? That’s what I wanna know. Then maybe I’ll believe.
Via / PR Newswire,
Jesus Christ is Puerto Rican and lives in Houston
12:55 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|houston|Religion · Comments Off
7 Mar 2007Or a Puerto Rican that says he’s Jesus. Thanks to an ubersnarky Spanish TV blogger I love, BobPop, you can see Jose de Jesús, “the second coming of Jesus Christ” on video:
Hola!
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