Archive for August 15th, 2007
Nobel prize winner Menchu run out of Mexico hotel
6:51 pm By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities| mexico| race| society · 12 Comments
15 Aug 2007
In an embarrassing and sad display of how alive and well racism against indigenous people is in Mexico, Guatemalan activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner and presidential candidate Rigoberta Menchú was physically removed from a 5-star hotel in Cancún after being mistaken for a street vendor:
It seems that she was mistakenly expelled by personnel of the Hotel Coral Beach in Cancún, where she was giving an interview to the Quintana Roo Social Workers System. Hotel workers confused her with a street vendor since she was dressed in her habitual Maya garments, and they proceeded to remove her from the hotel grounds. David Romero Vara, presenter of a program for the Social Workers System, says he was witness to security personnel attempting to remove Rigoberta Menchú from the lobby of the 5-star hotel.
Spaniards want you to stay at a space hotel
11:35 am By Maegan La Mala · Lifestyle| Spain| World| business · Comments Off
15 Aug 2007
Starting in 2012, those with the means will be able to stay at a hotel far away from home — in space. Spanish entrepreneurs will be taking reservations next year for stays at their space hotel — Galactic Suite — which will be located 450 miles from Earth. Venezuela’s El Universal reports:
The journey will be aboard a space shuttle, a hybrid between a commercial airplane and a rocket, and will arrive at the Galactic Suite hotel, also called Spaceresort, which will remain in orbit around the Earth……In each flight six people will travel: two crewmembers and four tourists. For the three day stay in the orbital hotel, the shuttle will remain anchored to the arrival module so that passengers feel more secure.
Space travelers able to pay for the 4 million dollar ride will be able to orbit the earth several times per day in 80-minute intervals and will be treated to seeing the sun rise and set 15 times daily.
And if you have the money, you’ll also need time off. Space tourists will have to undergo 18 weeks of preparation on a tropical island before the journey.
Read more at the Galactic Suite website.
Via / El Universal
Image via CNN/Galactic Suite
Hearing ICED
10:52 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Education| Immigration| Politics| children| radio · Comments Off
15 Aug 2007
Last week I wrote about ICED, a video game being put out by the human rights organization Breakthrough!
After to listening to an interview this morning with one of the creators of the game and some sound clips of the game, I think the game has some positive social potential, especially with otherwise unpolitical youth.
Listen for yourself at Wake Up Call Radio.
Elvira Arellano to Leave Her Church Sanctuary
9:22 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Immigration| Politics| Washington DC| chicago · 4 Comments
15 Aug 2007
Elvira Arellano is leaving Aldalberto United Methodist Church, the Chicago church she has sought sanctuary a year ago. She decided to stay within the walls of the church to avoid deportation and more importantly perhaps, avoid being separated from her 8 year old son, Saul . But she isn’t just going anywhere? She is taking her story and her struggle to Washington D.C.
“I will go with by Bible and my son and I will read to him from the Holy Scriptures as I do everyday,” Arellano said in a statement sent Tuesday to The AP. “If this government would separate me from my son, let them do it in front of the men and women who have the responsibility to fix this broken law and uphold the principles of human dignity.”
Miercoles Morning Musica : Todo Boricua Machetero
7:55 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Music| Politics| Puerto Rico · Comments Off
15 Aug 2007With all that is going down in Puerto Rico, I felt this was appropriate : Todo Boricua Machetero via the Chicago based Nuestro Tambo, when they performed for Elma Beatriz, Filiberto Ojeda Rios’s widow at the Chicago Puerto Rican Cultural Center.
Hola!
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