Archive for March 6th, 2008
Juanes Set to Enamorar at Kick Off of World Tour Tonight in NYC
12:27 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Music|New York City · Comments Off
6 Mar 2008
Tonight at Madison Square Garden Juanes will launch his La Vida World Tour, named by Billboard as one of the five most essential tours for 2008.
Image Via / Celebridades al Dia
I Guess It’s Ok to Commit Crimes on Undocumented Since They are “Illegal” Anyway, right?
11:02 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · crime|Immigration · Comments Off
6 Mar 2008
Playing on people’s fears is something that the United States is really good at so it’s no wonder that people are playing on the fears of the undocumented to commit crimes against them.
Immigrant communities in the Boston area are in a heightened state of fear as people impersonating law enforcement officials barge into their homes and extort money from them. The Boston Herald documents several reports of this oppression.
This crime is playing on the fears of the undocumented, fear of law enforcement. So great is this fear that when crimes are committed against them, often they won’t report these crimes.
Enrique Iglesias Wants to Share His Leche
10:36 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Food|Marketing · Comments Off
6 Mar 2008
Never mind that up to 80 percent of Latinos are lactose intolerant, Enrique Iglesias wants you to to drink leche. He’s the new poster boy for the Body By Milk campaign. Other Latino milk spokesbodies have included Sara Ramirez and Sofia Vergara.
Via / Mi Blog es Tu Blog
And the Prison Industrial Complex Grows and Grows
9:29 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice|Politics|race · Comments Off
6 Mar 2008
Late last month a report released by the Pew Center reveals what many have already known, that prisons are growing with people of color as the human raw materials for this industry.
The United States, land of the free, home of the brave, now incarcerates more people than any other country on the globe. More than one in every 100 U.S. residents is incarcerated.
The 50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less than $11 billion 20 years earlier. The rate of increase for prison costs was six times greater than for higher education spending, the report said.
Is there any doubt then what the U.S. thinks of its youth, especially it’s youth of color?
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