Archive for August 24th, 2007
Elvira Arellano’s struggle continues in Mexico
5:38 pm By Maegan La Mala · Controversia|Immigration|mexico · 12 Comments
24 Aug 2007
Elvira Arellano’s controversial stay in a Chicago church to avoid deportation and her subsequent removal from the U.S. have stirred up all sorts of opinions here on VL over the past few months. And here’s something that’s likely to stir up even more: Elvira is back in her home state of Michoacán and is sending a message to the Mexican government demanding that it stand strong against “the hate and racism” shown towards Mexican citizens in the United States:
Deported last Sunday by 15 federal agents, the Michoacán native wants to clarify that her struggle isn’t just for Mexicans, but also for Central Americans and undocumented people of other ethnic groups living in U.S. territory, and for this reason she is asking that the Mexican government also respect and treat with dignity those people who come from other countries. “That they not be treated as criminals,” she demanded.
São Paulo Just Says No to Billboards
5:05 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Environment|Marketing · Comments Off
24 Aug 2007Stepping out for a walk in any major city means being bombarded by images and words all with one aim: to get you to want something bad enough to buy it. Call it visual pollution. That’s what the mayor of São Paulo calls billboards and he feels so strongly about it that he made his city the first city outside of the communist world to put into effect a near-complete ban on outdoor advertising. The ban is part of the city’s “Lei Cidade Limpa” or Clean City Law .
Since then, billboards, outdoor video screens and ads on buses have been eliminated at breakneck speed. Even pamphleteering in public spaces has been made illegal, and strict new regulations have drastically reduced the allowable size of storefront signage. Nearly $8 million in fines were issued to cleanse São Paulo of the blight on its landscape.
Wow! I can’t even imagine this here in NYC. See a video story about the ban after the jump.
Bill Richardson and Two Other Dems on the Reservation Today
5:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events|Politics · Comments Off
24 Aug 2007
Apparently only some of the Democrats trying to snag the nomination from their party to run for prez think that the Native American vote is important. Governor Bill Richardson, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, and Senator Mike Gravel are in Cabazon, California for a candidates forum with the Indigenous community in mind.
Watch the historic Prez on the Rez forum presidential forum today via internet at www.prezontherez.org at 3:30pm Pacific time (5:30pm Central).We are making history with the Prez on the Rez forum with these dedicated candidates — Governor Bill Richardson, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, and Senator Mike Gravel. This is the first time presidential candidates will assemble on Indian land to lay out their visions for the future of Indian Country.
Mark Trahant, a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and the editor of the editorial page at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, will moderate the discussion between the candidates and tribal leaders.
Join the proceedings online by watching the forum at www.prezontherez.org. The next President of the United States will realize tribes are a critical voting block and the opportunities and challenges in Indian Country deserve visionary leadership and dialogue with American Indian tribal citizens.
Via / Culture Kitchen
Chavez changes the time in Venezuela
11:53 am By Maegan La Mala · Politics|society|Venezuela · 1 Comment
24 Aug 2007
President Hugo Chavez has been changing a lot of things since he’s been in office, from the constitution to the ownership of certain industries in Venezuela. And his quest to change things is apparently not over, as he wants to change the time in Venezuela by half an hour:
“We are hoping that we get the opportunity to have the time change in efect before the beginning of the school year, said Minister of Science and Technology, Héctor Navarro.With the time change the difference between the legal time in Venezuela with respect to Greenwich Mean Time will go from minus 4 hours (-4.00 GMT) to minus four and a half (-4.30 GMT).
The objective, according to the Minister, is that workers feel more rested when they wake up in the morning, as they will be waking with the sun rather than getting up when it’s still dark outside.
Via / 20 Minutos
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