8:06 pm By Maegan La Mala · Activism|Justice|New York City|Religion · Comments Off
30 Sep 2008
Yesterday evening Amaris Mesa & Dennis Flores were arrested for carrying a camera and taking pictures of abusive police conduct at a community drumming celebration for Saint Michael in front of the Botanica San Lazaro on Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, NY.The police broke up the peaceful street celebration and pushed Amaris Mesa, Dennis Flores, adult and youth workers from NYC & Dominican Republic. The police harassed a group made up of almost all women as we were peacefully leaving the gathering. The cops snatched the photo cameras from Amaris and Dennis, pushed Amaris onto the floor and Dennis against the wall, and eventually arrested them both. Dennis was charged with “congregating with others and refusing to move, police officer’s orders.” We don’t know what Amaris was charged with as of yet.
6:06 pm By Maegan La Mala · Bizarro|mexico|Music · Comments Off
30 Sep 2008
Seriously, people are taking the RBD thing too far. It was bad enough they had to exist in the first place, make a bad novela and market products with the novela. We thought it was over, but like a bad horror movie, RBD refuses to die! There was already one world wide RBD march, in an attempt to save the band, pero ahora there has been a call for a second RBD world wide march to take place on October 4th.
Put us or this “band” out of misery.
Via / Blogamole
4:06 pm By Maegan La Mala · Ecuador|GLBT|Politics · Comments Off
30 Sep 2008
Ecuador’s voters approved a new constitution by about 70%. In the new constitution, there are certain provisions that are more progressive and protect more rights than the U.S. Constitution.
The new constitution guarantees civil rights for gays and lesbians, including civil unions affording all the rights of marriage… Preliminary results showed 65 percent support with 5 percent of the vote counted, mirroring earlier exit polls and quick counts that indicated overwhelming voter approval…
Pero, before you get all excited and plan to move to South America….
2:06 pm By Maegan La Mala · TV|US Presidential Race 2008|Women · 1 Comment
30 Sep 200812:06 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · economy · Comments Off
30 Sep 2008
So I’ve been following the economic crisis issue for a while now, and I’m sorry to say I have no more idea what’s going on now than when I started following it. Apparently I’m not the only one who is confused:
11:21 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities · 1 Comment
30 Sep 2008
No, not even when she says problematic stuff that I do not agree with:
“I’m obsessed with Keira Knightley. I think that she’s just got it down. She takes chances, she’s edgy, but she’s always a lady. She is so unconventionally beautiful. I’m kind of crushing on her”
Please, do not picture La Macha as she is, on the floor writhing in bitter agony. Think of her as she wishes she were: stunning face, unconventionally beautiful, edgily squeezing tears of disappointment out of her long-lashed actress eyes. And then somebody call Eva and let her know she’s missing out on a whole lot of girl crushing fun!
10:44 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · 1 Comment
30 Sep 2008
The L.A. Times is reporting that California was just subjected to the largest ICE sweep in Californian history. 1,157 people were arrested with over 400 in L.A. alone.
I found the statement by the ICE official to amusing in a sick sort of way:
“Individuals who defy immigration court orders to leave the country need to understand there are consequences for willfully disregarding the law,” said Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Julie L. Myers, who oversees the federal immigration agency.
My question: why stop at rounding up individuals that defy immigration court orders? Why don’t we fund and create bodily integrity enforcement teams that conduct massive sweeps to round up, say, all those men who have raped women?
5:07 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · New Orleans · 6 Comments
29 Sep 2008VL reported here last week about Louisiana State Representative John LaBruzzo’s efforts to create legislation that would pay poor women $1000 to have their tubes tide. At the time, a commenter noticed that many women of color and poor women may actually want the sterilization, to which I replied that it is frustrating that “help” for poor people always comes in the form of sterilization rather than challenges to economic structures (such as $1000 scholarships for school, more jobs, raising the minimum wage, etc).
Women’s Health & Justice Initiative and the New Orleans Women’s Health Clinic (both located in Louisiana) put out talking points to address LaBruzzo’s plans. The address the issue of “consent” in a very important way:
1:42 pm By Maegan La Mala · Bilingualism|Culture|Events|language|New York City|VivirLatino · Comments Off
29 Sep 2008
If my posts have taken on a poetic quality, you will please be excusing la Mala. Here in NYC we are in the middle of the 5to Encuentro de Poesia “Poetas en Nueva York
Tonight at the Centro Humanista de la Culturas, 76-11 37ave Jackson Heights,Queens, NYC at 6pm, I am honored and blessed to be a part of the Noche de mujeres, sharing the stage and spitting palabras with
-Irma Galido
-Claudia Barragán
-Daniel Reyes y Nilko Andreas
Come through if you can.
11:42 am By Maegan La Mala · children|Ohio|Religion|Women · 2 Comments
29 Sep 2008
It’s hard for me not to take a terrorist attack against Muslim children, women and men saying their Ramadan prayers in an Ohio mosque personally. No I am not Muslim pero many of my friends and neighbors are. I see the 12 year old girls, their toddler cousins and sisters being led in the early morning, before the sun rises, to say prayers with their grandmothers, mothers and fathers. Even the youngest among them knows to say they are going to church, not to mosque. They know the conversations in school about what terrorism looks like and they are told it looks like the faces they see in the mirror every morning.
Friday, September 26th ended a week in which thousands of copies of Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West — the fear-mongering, anti-Muslim documentary being distributed by the millions in swing states via DVDs inserted in major newspapers and through the U.S. mail — were distributed by mail in Ohio. The same day, a “chemical irritant” was sprayed through a window of the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton, where 300 people were gathered for a Ramadan prayer service. The room that the chemical was sprayed into was the room where babies and children were being kept while their mothers were engaged in prayers.
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