Archive for April 3rd, 2008
VL Gets Some Chicana Guest Blogger Love
5:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Blogs|VivirLatino · 1 Comment
3 Apr 2008
With all the changes happening at VivirLatino, we are not beyond asking for help. Enter CindyLu, from Loteria Chicana, to the rescue. This L.A. based blogger/graduate student in education. CindyLu will be lending her words to VivirLatino as a guest blogger. Make this hermana feel welcome.
(She’s the shorter of the two peeps in the pic. The taller person is Bruins’ freshman guard, Kevin Love)
Bill Richardson Defends His Endorsement of Obama
4:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off
3 Apr 2008
Me da pena. Really, I feel bad that Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico and former presidential candidate, has to defend his decision to endorse Barack Obama. But after Dem pundit and Clinton pal, James Carville decided to get all biblical and call Richardson a “Judas” for not endorsing Hillary Clinton, defend himself Richardson did, and quite publicly via a Washington Post opinion piece.
More than anything, to repair the damage done at home and abroad, we must unite as a country. I endorsed Sen. Obama because I believe he has the judgment, temperament and background to bridge our divisions as a nation and make America strong at home and respected in the world again.
This was a difficult, even painful, decision. My affection and respect for the Clintons run deep. I do indeed owe President Clinton for the extraordinary opportunities he gave me to serve him and this country. And nobody worked harder for him or served him more loyally, during some very difficult times, than I did.
Carville and others say that I owe President Clinton’s wife my endorsement because he gave me two jobs. Would someone who worked for Carville then owe his wife, Mary Matalin, similar loyalty in her professional pursuits? Do the people now attacking me recall that I ran for president, albeit unsuccessfully, against Sen. Clinton? Was that also an act of disloyalty?
This is a classic case of politicians trying to punish a politico of color for not “knowing his place”.
Read Richardson’s entire explanation.
Image Via / Radar
Latino Filmmakers : HBO/NYILFF Wants Your Short Film
2:54 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Movies · Comments Off
3 Apr 2008
HBO and The New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF) today announced the 5th annual open call for entry for the HBO/NYILFF Short Film Competition. Jointly created in 2004, the competition seeks to foster films by Latino filmmakers and/or about the Latino experience.
One winner will be chosen from among applicants to receive $15,000 in funding from HBO to produce and direct a short film based on an original script entry. The completed short will be presented on screen this summer at the 2008 New York International Film Festival, July 22- 27, and considered for broadcast on any of HBO’s programming services.
The HBO/NYILFF Short Film Competition is open to U.S. and international entrants 18 years and older. Only original scripts will be accepted and must be written in English by a person of Latino descent or focus on the Latino experience, and entrant must hold all rights to material. The screenplay cannot be more than twelve (12) pages long and final film cannot exceed a maximum running time of five (5) minutes. Submitted screenplay or work produced from it must not have had previous cable, broadcast or internet exhibition, won awards at any other festival or been previously submitted to the HBO/NYILFF Short Film Competition under its current or any former title.
Each entry must be accompanied by one (1) completed submission form, $10.00 fee, filmmaker bio and photo, a director’s reel or last film produced (DVD NTSC only), and one (1) executed HBO/NYILFF Short Film Competition release form. There is no limit to the number of entries that can be submitted (see rules for more specifics). Entries must be postmarked by April 25, 2008 and mailed to HBO/NYILFF SHORT FILM COMPETITION, c/o The New York International Latino Film Festival, 419 Lafayette Street, 3rd Floor, New York, N.Y. 10003.
Applicants will be notified if their screenplay has been selected by May 19, 2008. For official rules, regulations and submission forms, log on to www.nylatinofilm.com.
Schwarzenegger Won’t Blame Immigrants for Economic Woes
1:43 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · California|Immigration|Money · Comments Off
3 Apr 2008
We may watch to much tv, but California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger won’t point the finger at immigration for his state’s budget woes.Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger called it a “big mistake” Wednesday to blame illegal immigrants for the state’s looming $8 billion budget gap, just as Republican lawmakers have proposed a rollback of benefits for illegal immigrants to save money…”There is, you know, always a time like this where you start pointing the finger at various different elements of what creates the budget mess, and, you know, some may point the finger at illegal immigrants,” Schwarzenegger said. “I can guarantee you, I have been now four years in office in Sacramento, I don’t think that illegal immigration has created the mess that we are in.”..
I guess we gotta give credit where credit is due.
Via / Immigration Talk with a Mexican
Emos and Pokemones Under Attack in Latin America
12:11 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Chile|mexico|youth · 1 Comment
3 Apr 2008For those that still think that the criticizing of Latin American youth culture isn’t political, haven’t been paying attention. In Mexico recently, there has been an increase in attacks against Emos.
A series of attacks on dyed-hair, eye-makeup-wearing emo kids began in early March when several hundred people went on an emo-beating rampage in Querétaro, a town of 1.5 million about 160 miles north of Mexico City.
Like with the Pokemones in Chile, these attacks have a homophobic undercurrent, with many emos being perceived as gay, whether they are or not.
Daniel Hernandez has some excellent coverage on the unfolding of Emo hate in Mexico.
After the jump see how attacks have gotten out of hand in Chile.
Supreme Court : Filiberto Files Not Open to Puerto Rico
10:49 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice|Puerto Rico · Comments Off
3 Apr 2008
Just another reminder of the powerlessness of the current status of Puerto Rico. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico sued the FBI over access to files from the shooting death of Filiberto Ojeda Rios and the subsequent pepper spraying of Rican journalists.
A U.S. District Court judge threw out Puerto Rico’s lawsuit, saying the commonwealth’s sovereign authority to enforce its criminal laws did not provide grounds for obtaining the FBI material.
The judge also ruled that the FBI’s refusal to comply with the commonwealth’s subpoenas was neither arbitrary nor capricious.
A federal appeals court ruled that disclosing information on the Ojeda raid “would reveal how the FBI goes about capturing a fugitive who is believed to be dangerous.”
The appeals court added that disclosing the names of FBI agents would jeopardize the agents’ ability to conduct covert operations and expose them to harassment.
The case is Puerto Rico v. U.S., 07-685
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