Archive for July 30th, 2008
Vegan de Guadalupe?
30 Jul 2008On the really great blog Vegans of Color, they recently posted about a fabulous new zine recipe book targeted to Chican@s on the border and all those who love border food. Chocked full of awesome vegan alternatives to traditional border meals.
Because I’ve heard with frequency people comment on how expensive its to make vegan mexican food. That’s bull! So I wanted to prove people wrong but also make a zine that consists of easy mexican food recipes, that is great for vegan beginners, and bilingual because i’m a border child with half her heart in Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley. So all the recipes are in english and spanish. It has great cover design by my bff danae; who incidentally introduced me to veganism while attending school in Monterrey, Mexico.
The zine sports a particularly beautiful cover:
Check out etsy for how to buy!
San Francisco Residents Defend Defending Immigrants
3:33 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Immigration| San Francisco · Comments Off
30 Jul 2008
This morning I read that there was going to be a protest happening at San Francisco’s City Hall. The issue : the city’s supporting the human rights of immigrants, with or without documents. Not surprisingly, the Minutemen called the event against what they call “sanctuary city status”. Too bad the pro-immigrant crowd came out with more power. Email reports say that there are about 20 Minutemen and about 80-100 pro-immigrant and labor rights people representing.
Mil gracias to Nicole Rivera for giving us the update and permission to use some of her pics!!
L.A. Moves to Ban Fast Food from Poor Neighborhoods
1:55 pm By Maegan La Mala · Food| Health| Los Angeles| society · 3 Comments
30 Jul 2008
Who woulda thunk it: L.A. is setting a health standard that is admirable — the city is trying to do something about an obesity crisis affecting one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. The idea is great, but I am skeptical it will work.
The local city council is banning fast food outlets in the less than privileged neighborhood of South L.A.:
A law that would bar fast-food restaurants from opening in South Los Angeles for at least a year sailed through the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday.The council approved the fast-food moratorium unanimously, despite complaints from representatives of McDonald’s, Carl’s Jr. and other companies, who said they were being unfairly targeted.
Councilwoman Jan Perry, who has pushed for a moratorium for six years, said the initiative would give the city time to craft measures to lure sit-down restaurants serving healthier food to a part of the city that desperately wants more of them.
“I believe this is a victory for the people of South and southeast Los Angeles, for them to have greater food options,” she said.
Follow up to Latin@s and Black Americans in Danger of falling out of Middle class
12:36 pm By Maegan La Mala · GLBT| Justice| science · Comments Off
30 Jul 2008
Democracy Now! had a great segment about the report released yesterday, “Economic (In)Security: The Experience of the African American and Latino Middle Classes.” The report asserts that:
The vast majority of African-American and Latino middle-class families are at risk of falling out of the middle class altogether. Only one in four African-American and one in five Latino middle-class families in America are financially secure.
Watch the segment here. Pay attention to the segment prior to this one as well, there are some very interesting links being made between poverty and the government’s response to the AIDS epidemic in the black community.
(On a side note, when will these researchers finally let us know how they categorize black Latinos?)
House Says They Are Really Sorry About Slavery and Jim Crow
12:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Washington DC| history| race · Comments Off
30 Jul 2008
Is an apology better late than never? It’s a good question to ask in light of yesterday’s U.S. House of Representatives official apology for slavery and Jim Crow.
“Today represents a milestone in our nation’s efforts to remedy the ills of our past,” said Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich., chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus.The resolution, passed by voice vote, was the work of Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen, the only white lawmaker to represent a majority black district. Cohen faces a formidable black challenger in a primary face-off next week.
Obama Shells Out Major Dough for the Latino Vote
10:27 am By Maegan La Mala · Politics| US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off
30 Jul 2008Who said Obama doesn’t care about Latinos? He’s got $20 million burning a hole in his pocket and guess where it’s going? To try to get the Latino vote — which some say he has in the bag — to swing his way for sure.
Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign launched a massive $20 million effort to attract Latino voters on Tuesday, hoping to erase the inroads the Republican Party has made with the key demographic group in the last two presidential elections.Frank Sanchez, the chairman of the Obama for America National Hispanic Leadership Council, said the unprecedented effort will focus on paid advertising, online organizing, increased staffing in Latino communities and organizing surrogates to hit the campaign trail.
Sanchez said efforts will be particularly focused in the key swing states of Nevada, Florida, New Mexico and Colorado, where Latino voters could make up the margin of victory.
Money’s not everything, of course, but $20 million will buy you a whole lotta Obama mariachi ads (or ads like the one above) in key states.
Via / CBS News
Local Univision Reporter Miriam Ayala Sues Boss
10:26 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · New York City| TV| race · Comments Off
30 Jul 2008
Local New York Univision reporter Miriam Ayala filed a federal lawsuit against the local Univision station (channel 41) and the larger network, claiming that she was passed over for plum positions anchoring and on good stories because she wasn’t light skinned enough, young enough or pretty enough.
The Federal Civil Rights lawsuit, (which you can read via TMZ of all places) Ayala states that despite her over 25 year career at the station she was moved from prime-time reporting to graveyard shift reporting. She also states that she was offered early retirement (meaning get the hell out cuz you’re making too much noise) and told how to dress appropriately. Her vacation requests, despite being made in a timely fashion according the Univision policy, were denied according to the lawsuit.
I have seen Ayala work, om the air and on the opposite end of the Univision camera and have always seen her act in a most professional manner. Plus anyone watching Spanish language news knows that Latina women on air, be it in the newsroom or in the novelas, are often light-skinned and conventionally “pretty”. I believe that her lawsuit has merit. Let’s see where this goes.
Read the entire lawsuit at TMZ. (Save yourself the headache and don’t read the comments though)
Cheeso Cristo
9:03 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bizarro| Religion · Comments Off
30 Jul 2008We couldn’t make this stuff up if we tried.
A Missouri woman found Cheesus, in a bag of Cheetos.
She calls the cross shaped snack Cheesus, I call him yummy.
Apparently Jesus likes fake queso snacks. Just look at all the Cheesus appearances.
Via / Yahoo! News
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