Archive for April, 2008
Making or Breaking the Wall
2:35 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Immigration|Internet · Comments Off
30 Apr 2008
A recently launched website that claims to “represent both sides of the issue equally and will reflect public opinion of the border wall with a virtual representation” scares me. the website allows people to “buy a brick” on a border wall with the money going to an anti-immigrant organization. “Breaking a brick” will send money to an anti-border wall organization.
Last time I checked more people had contributed to building the wall than breaking the wall, but is this an actual representation of public opinion or a representation of who holds power and money? Do people who are against the wall, including the millions of undocumented and documented immigrants have access to the technology and money that is required to make this a real representation of sentiments?
Is Ronaldo Being Extorted By Brazilian Sex Workers?
12:35 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Controversia|GLBT|Media|sex|Sports · Comments Off
30 Apr 2008
Seems famous people paying for sex is the media story of the moment, with the men involved being made the center of the story and the women/sex workers involved being pushed further into the margins at best, demonized at worst. The latest is futbol player Ronaldo being the latest, claiming that three transwomen are extorting him.
The 2002 World Cup winner picked up three prostitutes.
When they all booked into a motel, the AC Milan striker discovered that the prostitutes were in fact men.
According to Rio police, he alleges that the transvestites then tried to extort money from him.
Senator John McCain’s D.C. Office Occupied : Police Take Deaf Activist Down
10:37 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|US Presidential Race 2008|Washington DC · Comments Off
30 Apr 2008Yesterday Senator and Republican candidate for president John McCain’s office in Washington D.C. was occupied by disability rights activists demanding a meeting with McCain to ask for his support for the Community Choice Act. The legislation reforms Medicaid payments by allowing those with disabilities to use their benefits for community-based care instead of nursing homes.
Approximately forty ADAPT activists participated in the protest. They entered through security at the Russell Senate building, before proceeding to McCain’s second floor office. The activists then entered the office in mass, filling it to capacity and blocking both doors. They chanted, “We want McCain, and “Just like a nursing home, you cant get out,” as well as other refrains.
What’s a 100 More Years Occupying Iraq? DNC Ad.
2:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Iraq War|US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off
29 Apr 2008There is Nothing Sana About having Your Culo Hanging Out
12:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Fashion · 2 Comments
29 Apr 2008
Apparently, the latest fashion in jeans is having your ass hang out and your thong showing. These jeans have a built in thong and come just in time for warm weather via Brazil, Sanna Jeans.
Designer Sandra Tanimura expressed to The Daily News,
“We specialize in making low-rise trousers and our customers wanted them to get even lower. I came up with the idea of using the bikini strings to let the trousers hang really low without falling.”
Your ass can hang out too for the low, low price of $90.
Via / Lossip
Colombian Lesbian Students Not Wanted at Their School
10:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia|GLBT · Comments Off
29 Apr 2008The following video should horrify you. It shows two young Colombian women, returning to register at their high school after a court ordered that they be allowed to go back to school. The student body is gathered outside, screaming: “We don’t want them!”. Why would the 16 and 17 year
girls need a court order to get an education? Why do the students and the principal not want these girls in the school. The girls are lesbians and were expelled. According to the principal, the girls were expelled for disciplinary reasons. The court disagreed and ruled that the principal was “unclear” in the reasons for letting the students go.
Despite the “We don’t want you” shouts one of the students that organized the protest – who is shown with her face against the camera – insists that the protest is not against the two girls but a defense of the dignity of the school’s students. “They [claim] that we are school purely made up by lesbians, and, no, things aren’t like that,” she tells Caracol.
U.S. Navy Humanitarian Mission in Latin America a Smokescreen for New Buildup in Region
8:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Latin America|Politics · Comments Off
29 Apr 2008
I have a healthy cynicism when it comes to the U.S. military, so when this morning I read that the U.S. Navy was sending a warship it used in the Iraq War in 2006 filled with Navy doctors, nurses, dentists, medical technicians, veterinarians and Seabee construction sailors to Guatemala, El Salvador and Peru for a mission called Continuing Promise 2008, a humanitarian mission, you’ll pardon me if I laughed a little.
The mission is supposed to change Latina America’s stereotypes of the U.S.
“It’s amazing sometimes the misperceptions that people have of America and the American people,” said the Boxer’s skipper, Capt. Matt McCloskey. “They think of America as ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’ or ‘Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County.’
“This is a chance to show them the real America and the real Americans, trying to be good neighbors.”
Except that this one ship comes at the same time the U.S. Navy has decided to set reestablish an entire fleet in the region, and not for a humanitarian mission.
NYPD Go To Hell : We Are All Sean Bell
5:27 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice|New York City · Comments Off
28 Apr 2008Spain Isn’t Crying for Isabel
3:32 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina|Justice|Spain|Women · Comments Off
28 Apr 2008
A Spanish court decided not to extradite Isabel Peron, wanted in Argentina to face charges of violating human rights.
The National Court on Monday ruled that the accusations against Peron, 77, could not be termed crimes against humanity and that there was insufficient evidence of her involvement.
The court ruled, therefore, that she could not be extradited.
Peron is wanted by a judge for questioning over the disappearance of 24-year-old Hector Aldo Fagetti Gallego and the arrest of a minor, Jorge Valentin Beron, in 1976.
Another judge wants to question her as part of a probe into the Anti-communist Alliance, a death squad blamed for killing at least 1,500 government opponents from 1973-1976.
So You Thought Prince William’s County Anti-Immigrant Stance Was a Good Idea Huh?
1:36 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Education|Immigration|Virginia · 3 Comments
28 Apr 2008
Some of our readers praised local anti-immigrant measures, like the one Prince William County, Virgina passed, but to used a cliched phrase, what happens when those chickens come home to roost. More specifically, what happens when the impact of these policies impact you, the non-immigrant, the non-Latino, where it hurts, your wallet?
Hundreds of foreign-born families have pulled their children from Prince William County public schools and enrolled them in nearby Fairfax County, Arlington County and Alexandria since the start of the school year, imposing a new financial burden on those inner suburbs in a time of lean budgets.
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