Archive for June, 2008
ICE Raid in East Houston This Morning
7:39 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| houston · Comments Off
25 Jun 2008
I don’t have too much information, as this is based on an email I received, but there apparently was an ICE raid this morning in East Houston, Texas. According to the email, 150 to 200 ICE agents conducted a raid close by the Houston Ship Channel. 60-70% of those who were detained were women (I’m sure some were mothers as well). ICE had release 16 people because one of them was actually a Mexican American and the rest had the legal right to work in the US.
The were also 10 pregnant women. 4 employees were transported for medical treatment, and of the 4, a woman was transported by helicopter to the medical center because she fell 20 feet off a stack of wooden pallets.
If anyone has anymore information, either first hand or via their local papers, please let us know. I will also be posting updates as they come in.
Michael Savage Says Refugees “Can’t Assimilate”
1:29 pm By Maegan La Mala · Controversia| Immigration| Media| radio · 4 Comments
25 Jun 2008
Michael Savage, the shock jock whose bigoted rhetoric has ruffled more than a few feathers over the years has got something to say about refugees to the United States. An email from media watchdog group Media Matters fills us in:
Michael Savage asserted on June 23: “We’re getting refugees now who have never used a telephone, a toothbrush, or toilet paper. You’re telling me they’re going to assimilate? They will never assimilate. They come here and they bring their destitute ways to this country, and they never assimilate.”He continued: “And then their children become gang-bangers. It is a disaster.”
Savage added that earlier immigrants to the U.S. “had used toilet paper and toothbrushes and they knew how to survive in this country. They took a job or they worked. They didn’t come and sit and have 16 children and eat beetle nuts.”
European immigrants were “civilized” and modern day immigrants are somehow less deserving of the right to seek a new life in another country. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard that one…
If you’ve got a strong stomach you can also listen to the entire audio file on the Media Matters website.
Via / MediaMatters
Latinos del Mundo : VivirLatino Wants You (to write for us)
12:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · VivirLatino · Comments Off
25 Jun 2008
Yeah, that’s right, we’re looking at you. Ever read VivirLatino and say, “I could do that!” or wanted to write about an issue impacting the Latino community where you are? Bueno, now’s your chance. VivirLatino is looking for some bloggers to help keep up with all that is happening!
Contact us via our handy contact form. Leave us a comment. Link to your blog. Send us a carrier pigeon. Ok, not the last one, but the point is that you contact us. So we can continue to make VivirLatino grow, together.
Mexico City Activist Targetted and Arrested
10:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Justice| mexico · Comments Off
25 Jun 2008
Chanti Ollin is a six-year-old community center in Mexico City. One of its core founders and organizers, Hard Coreen, was wrongfully arrested by the police at the end of April.Hard Coreen is a longtime activist. He has done a variety of work from helping at the Biblioteca Social Reconstruir, to organizing radical art shows and diy punk shows, to making art in a political silkscreen collective. He has also been a wonderful host to the myriad of travelers and foreigners coming to mexico city, and a great introducer to the city’s diy political scene.
Around the beginning of May, Chanti Ollin hosted a punk show which many people attended. At one point in the evening, Hard Coreen and some friends left to buy things at the corner store which is when the police first started their intimidation, not an unusual occurrence in Mexico City, especially for those involved in political activities. The police searched everyone and, upon finding nothing, let them go.
Nearly 2 Million Latinos Living in Spain
8:39 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration| Latin America| Spain| World · Comments Off
25 Jun 2008
For hundreds of thousands of Latin American immigrants that leave their home countries each year — and in spite of what Lou Dobbs might have you believe — the first choice in destination isn’t the United States but Spain. A recently released report estimates that 1.8 million people of Latin American origin now live in Spain, and the 5 largest communities are Ecuadorans, Colombians, Argentines, Bolivians and Peruvians.
Immigration to Spain is said to be having a positive impact on the countries of origin, which are receiving 15% of immigrants’ salaries in the form of “remesas” sent to family back home.
Up until now, the acceptance of immigrants into the Spanish system has been pretty open. But earlier this month, as a result of a harsh economic crisis in Spain, the government announced incentives for unemployed immigrants to return to their countries of origin.
Via / El Universal
Miercoles Musica Reminder : Juan Luis Guerra’s La Travesia Tour
8:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cities| Dominicans| Music · Comments Off
25 Jun 2008
Juan Luis Guerra’s anticipated U.S. tour, La Travesia, jumps off in less than three weeks. Do you have your tickets yet? If you don’t, better hurry. These tivket may very well sell out. After all this is his first major U.S. tour in over a decade.
Check after the jump to see when he’s coming to a city near you.
Fidel Calls EU Decision “hypocritical”
1:34 pm By Maegan La Mala · Cuba| Immigration| Latin America · Comments Off
24 Jun 2008
Fidel Castro, far from being happy about the European Union’s decision to lift sanctions and resume diplomatic relations with the island, is calling the move “hypocritical” given the harsh new European policy on immigration.
In the statement Castro alluded to his age and delicate health situation: “At my age and in my state, I don’t know how much time I have to live, since from here on I want to express my repulsion towards the enormous hypocrisy reflected in such a decision.”
Via / El Nuevo Herald
For the First Time Ever, Democratic National Convention to be Simulcast en Español
11:58 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · DNC| US Presidential Race 2008| language · Comments Off
24 Jun 2008
Is it about reaching out to the usually ignored or is it pandering to that oh so hyped Latino vote? Regardless of the reasons behind the decision, I just received a press release announcing that the Democratic National Convention through Comcast Corporation will produce simultaneous, online streaming coverage of the Convention in Spanish at DemConvention.com
From the Comcast Media Center, based in the Denver metro area, Comcast will provide live, gavel-to-gavel Spanish-language interpretation of all Convention activities from the Pepsi Center to be streamed online at DemConvention.com from August 25-28. This marks the first time a national political Convention has been completely simulcast in Spanish and made available to a worldwide audience. In addition, Comcast will place highlights, including key speeches and Spanish-language content from each night of the Convention, on its national VOD platform, available to over 16 million Comcast Digital Cable subscribers in 39 states and the District of Columbia. Comcast will also make this VOD Convention content available for distribution on other cable systems throughout the nation.Comcast will also edit, manage and archive Convention coverage for distribution online, on cable television and via global satellite uplink.
I guess that’s good if you have cable, or internet or even a t.v. If not, well, too bad for you.
Martes Morning Musica : La Sinfonia
9:58 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Los Angeles| Music · Comments Off
24 Jun 2008
La Sinfonia, an East L.A. bilingual hip-hop trio has just released their second album and off it comes the track No Merezco Tu Perdón (Idiota). This song uses the chorus of renowned Mexican composer Joan Sebastián’s 2000 smash “Idiota.” It is the first time the consummate Mexican singer-songwriter has granted permission for his work to be used in a hip-hop song.
The original song, like many Mexican songs, is about lost love. La Sinfonia’s version deals with the struggles of an immigrant family, specifically, a son looking back at his father’s sacrifices with gratitude but also with sadness for not recognizing them sooner.
Check out la Sinfonia and their track No Merezco Tu Perdón (Idiota).
The Myth of What is Lost or Discovered
7:58 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil| Media| Peru| Politics · Comments Off
24 Jun 2008
When the story about the “lost Amazon tribe” or the newly “discovered tribe” hit the news, complete with deeply painted bodies pointing arrows threateningly up into a camera lens, I shook my head. The media ran with it and the people ate it up. The idea that people who already existed could be discovered only when mainstream, Euro-North American media found them, wasn’t anything new, but that didn’t make it any less disturbing. Now the news is that the whole thing was a hoax. But even the context of this “outing” of reality is filled with distortions and stereotypes ranging from the typical noble savage to appropriation of people’s very presence.
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