Archive for August 2nd, 2007
Hugo Chavez hearts Sean Penn
3:32 pm By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities| Politics| Venezuela · Comments Off
2 Aug 2007
A Hollywood bad boy in the ’80s and an activist in the 2000s, Sean Penn is Hugo Chávez’s new favorite guy. Penn is in Venezuela this week doing what he does best — visiting poor neighborhoods — and the president of that country praised Penn for both his anti-Bush stance and his talent as an actor on his weekly TV address:
“Welcome to Venezuela, Mr. Penn. He is moved by his conscience, by the search for new ways,” said Chávez Wednesday in his televised speech. “He is one of the biggest opponents of the invasion of Iraq.”Chávez read aloud a recent open letter form Penn to president George W. Bush, in which he condemns the war in Iraq and demands that the leader of the U.S. be challenged. He also says that vice president Dick Cheney and the secretary of state Condoleezza Rice “villainous people and criminally obscene.”
Chávez said that he spoke with Penn on the phone and that they plan to meet today in person. He also said that he recently saw Penn’s movie “Mystic River”.
Via / Yahoo! Spain Noticias
Dora Teaches Kids : Can you Say Lead Paint?
2:51 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health| business| children · Comments Off
2 Aug 2007
Reason 3,254 why that screamy Dora the Exploradora has never been a toy of any of my kids : she makes kids eat lead paint, seriously. Today toy company Fisher Price initiated a recall of nearly a million toys in the U.S. (over a million worldwide) including those based on the popular show Dora the Explorer and Sesame Street because the surface paint of the plastic toys likely contains lead paint. Lead paint exposure can lead to brain damage in children.
Can you say lawsuit in Spanish?
To see if a toy you may have is part of the recall click here.
Pinochet May Be Dead But His Legacy & Pals Aren’t
1:47 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Chile| Justice| Politics · Comments Off
2 Aug 2007
It’s been almost a year since former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet died but today police captured one of his henchmen, Retired Gen. Raul Iturriaga, a fugitive general who fled in June before he was to start a five-year jail term. He was caught in the resort town of Vina del Mar, in an apartment. His sentence stems from a kidnapping of a leftist opponent of the Pinochet regime, Luis San Martin. When the general fled he left behind a videotape declaring his innocence and claiming to be the victim of “an arbitrary, biased, unconstitutional and unjust verdict.”
Former members of Pinochet’s armed forces often complain of being victimized and persecuted for human rights abuses since Chile returned to democracy in 1990.
Pobrecitos, if only more of the real victims could speak up. Oh wait, that’s right they can’t, because so many of them are dead or still “disappeared”.
Via / CNN
Fashion Is Not Revolutionary
10:22 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Fashion| TV · 1 Comment
2 Aug 2007
Unless we’re talking about women wearing pants but anyway the other day my best friend tells me over the phone that she thought of me when she saw an ad for this new show about fashion. She didn’t think of me because I’m a fashionista in any way, shape, or form but rather because she knew the imagery being used to promote the show would piss me off. And she was right. The premise of The Fashionista Diaries is that
“Six hungry twentysomethings plunge headfirst into the New York fashion world”.
Riveting no? The five women and one man are sent to work at magazines, cosmetics companies, and at a PR firm. Fluffy tv is fine , fluffy tv with a culturally appropriated logo, well not so fine.
A Legal Stamp To What We Already Know About Detention Centers
8:43 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Justice · 1 Comment
2 Aug 2007
When U.S. District Court Judge Margaret M. Morrow examined never-before-released reports regarding conditions at more than 200 immigration detention facilities she found widespread problems, including lack of access to telephones, attorneys, and legal materials, faced by thousands of immigrants seeking asylum or pursuing legitimate claims to legal residency. The judge’s findings came in a ruling, finalized on July 26, that upheld a nationwide injunction to protect Salvadoran immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. Judge Morrow ruled that substantial evidence showed “a significant number of violations of critical provisions of the injunction dealing with detainees’ access to legal materials, telephone use and attorney visits.” The court also found that despite the end of the civil war in that country, immigrants from El Salvador continue to have legitimate asylum claims, and that they, like all immigrants, must be provided basic due process.
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