Archive for August 14th, 2007
Law Enforcement in the Colony of Puerto Rico
4:35 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice| Puerto Rico · 1 Comment
14 Aug 2007Police corruption in Puerto Rico is at an all time high. It peaked on Saturday in Humacao when Miguel Caceres Cruz was wrestled to the ground by officer Javier Pagan Cruz and shot to death as two other officers watch. The incident was captured on video and spurred the FBI to start an investigation.
“We have enough information to start that investigation,” said Puerto Rico’s FBI director Luis Fraticelli. He said the bureau will look into “possible illegal acts involving police brutality or the excessive use of force.”
Possible? You can see the incident yourself after the jump. WARNING : It is graphic.
Via / MSNBC
Anti-Immigrant Sentiment = Less Money Sent to Familias
3:08 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Money| mexico · Comments Off
14 Aug 2007
The anti-immigrant sentiment and policies in the United Sates have economic effects far beyond national borders. For the first time the amount of money being sent home to Mexico from immigrants here has flatlined instead of rising as it has been doing in past years. Fearing redadas, many immigrants are stockpiling their money just in case they are forced to move or are deported back to Mexico. The percentage of Mexicans sending money back home has dropped from 71 percent to 64 percent in states with large immigrant populations (like NY). The drop is greater in other states from 80 percent to 56 percent. But its not just fear that lowering the number or remesas and the amount if money being sent, it’s because the job market has gotten worse for undocumented workers.
Via / Univision
Brazilian judge: “Soccer is for men, not for gays”
12:40 pm By Maegan La Mala · Brazil| Controversia| GLBT| Justice| Sports · Comments Off
14 Aug 2007
A judge in Brazil thinks that gays shouldn’t be playing soccer. Apparently, they aren’t “manly” enough.
The whole thing started when a player for Sao Paulo, one Richarlyson Barbosa Felisbino, charged that the manager for rival team Palmeiras hinted that he was gay on television. Richarlyson went to the courts to plead a defamation case. All good up until there.
The judge for the case turned out to be a major homophobe and threw out the case. Writer and blogger William K. Wolfrum translated the rambling ruling in a recent blog entry:
“It’s not that a homosexual can’t play ball. If he wants, then play it. However, form his own team and start another federation. Schedule games with those that prefer to fight against themselves.”
Thousands of children abandoned in the streets
11:42 am By Maegan La Mala · children| mexico| society · Comments Off
14 Aug 2007
Even the casual visitor to Mexico’s capital city will notice an abundance of children working for a living in the streets as windshield cleaners and street performers at stop lights. Many are accompanied by their families, but others are completely alone. Mexico City’s La Jornada newspaper reports that poverty and hopelessness in the capital have led many families to abandon their children in the streets.
With severe psychological damage, anemia and addictions to various drugs, as well as histories of abuse and violence, close to 3000 children are attended to in the 30 public and private institutions which assist minors who are abandoned in the street or at risk of being abandoned. In the majority of cases it’s the parents, immersed in precarious economic situations, who abandon them.The Insitute for Assistance and Social Integration (Iasis), part of the Mexico City local government, says that in 28 of these institutions they assist children who are completely alone and helpless due to family poverty.
Brown Baby Dolls for Brown Little Girls?
9:26 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Marketing| Shopping| children · 2 Comments
14 Aug 2007An article on Fox News.com (I know, I’m so ashamed)tells all us “minorities” to get ready for the brown doll revolution in chain stores like K-Mart.
Bolstered by the success of Nickelodeon’s popular bilingual children’s character, Dora the Explorer, and the spending power of the nation’s growing minority population, toy retailers across the country are filling their shelves with dolls whose skin colors and facial features reflect the girls and boys who play with them.
Now none of my daughters look or sound like Dora (she’s way too screamy anyway) and I don’t live near a K-Mart so maybe that’s why I haven’t seen this influx. What do I see in a darker shade of plastic? Pouty putaish Bratz dolls that my daughter is forbidden to play with and this:
NYC to Immigrants : Boy, let ‘em come.
8:25 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| New York City| Politics · 4 Comments
14 Aug 2007
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg has an open door policy on immigrants regardless of their legal status.
Bloomberg doesn’t think much of Mitt Romney’s characterization of New York City as a “poster child” for illegal immigration, saying at a press conference in Manhattan this morning that the city, and country, “thrive” on immigrants.At an appearance in Iowa, Romney made a comment — directed at Rudy Giuliani — that the former mayor “instructed city workers not to provide information to the federal government that would allow them to enforce the law. New York City was the poster child for sanctuary cities in the country.”
When asked about the comments in Manhattan today, Bloomberg said, “Boy, let ‘em come.” He went on to say, “This city and this country were built by immigrants. Thrive on immigrants. And without more immigrants we don’t have a future.”
Via / American Taino
Miercoles Morning Musica : Todo Boricua Machetero
7:55 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Music| Politics| Puerto Rico · Comments Off
14 Aug 2007With all that is going down in Puerto Rico, I felt this was appropriate : Todo Boricua Machetero via the NYC based Welfare Poets.
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