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Tue30Sep2008

NYPD Arrest Educators for Photographing Abuse at Religious Drumming Ceremony

20:06 H.- 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.... Read more »

Topics: Activism - Justice - New York City - Religion

2nd RBD World Wide March : Because the World Doesn't Have Better Things to March About

18:06 H.- 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... Read more »

Topics: Bizarro - Mexico - Music

Ecuador Passes New Constitution

16:06 H.- 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... Read more »

Topics: Ecuador - GLBT - Politics

Tag Team Fail : John McCain and Sarah Palin

14:06 H.- See Sarah Palin's face as John McCain steps in to defend her from Katie Couric? That's her saying " Stop, you're making my feminism look bad,". ... Read more »

Topics: TV - US Presidential Race 2008 - Women

Bailout fails, somehow I don't think that's a good thing...

12:06 H.- 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... Read more »

Topics: Economy

Eva Mendes Will Never Be Ugly to Me

11:21 H.- 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... Read more »

Topics: Celebrities

California Subject to Statewide ICE Sweep

10:44 H.- 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... Read more »

Topics: Immigration

Mon29Sep2008

Follow up on John LaBruzzo's Plans to Sterilize Poor Women

17:07 H.- VL 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... Read more »

Topics: New Orleans

Shameless Self- Promotion : Maegan la Mala Spits Poetry Tonite in Queens, NYC

13:42 H.- 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... Read more »

Topics: Bilingualism - Culture - Events - Language - New York City - VivirLatino

Ohio Mosque Prayers of Mothers and Children Gassed

11:42 H.- 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... Read more »

Topics: Children - Ohio - Religion - Women

Sarah Palin : The Politics of Image and Ownership

09:42 H.- On today's political stage, image is everything and substance is just that, filler. As people await the VP debates later this week, the concern is who will make more mistakes, who will fuck up worse and how that will play... Read more »

Topics: Controversia - Politics - US Presidential Race 2008 - Women

Monday Morning Miedos : Chavez Says Venezuela Will be Nuclear Power

07:42 H.- Wanna scare 'mericans into voting McCain? Easy. Create a new brown menace to go with Ahmadinejad. As we saw in the debate last week, all it takes is saying Ahmadinejad, Castro, Chavez in one breath. "In Venezuela we are interested... Read more »

Topics: Politics - Venezuela

Sat27Sep2008

Poetas en NY bring a Happy Mob to Union Square

08:05 H.- Today a mob of poets will descend upon Union Square in NYC, sending their words through the streets of and using verses will bailout the souls of a money driven city. Today begins the Quinto Encuentro “Poetas en Nueva York”... Read more »

Topics: Language - New York City

Fri26Sep2008

John McCain Unsuspends Campaign : Will Debate Tonite

12:20 H.- Seems like Republican presidential candidate John McCain is unsuspending his campaign and will be participating in tonight's debate. Not that anyone really believed the campaign was "suspended". So guess what VivirLatino will be doing this Friday night? We'll be liveblogging... Read more »

Topics: US Presidential Race 2008

Pointing el Dedo : Those Damn Illegals are to Blame for Economic Meltdown

08:51 H.- Need someone to blame for the economic downturn, for the mortgage crisis? Look no farther than Maria y Jose. That's right it's those damn illegal immigrants (or some would have you believe). After all they control the money and the... Read more »

Topics: Blogs - Immigration - Internet - Media - Money

Revisiting the Personal and Political of the Democratic National Convention

06:33 H.- Ay the Democratic National Convention seems like such a long time ago. Denver, it's thin air, the madness of running from one place to the other as a credentialed bloggers, being misquoted. Pero it was only four weeks and a... Read more »

Topics: Blogs - Denver - DNC - DNC08 - US Presidential Race 2008

Problems with comments

00:00 H.- So apparently Vivir Latino has got the worst spam problem in the world. As we've been working to fix the problem, we've discovered that scores of you have left comments here but have had those comments eaten by spam! I... Read more »

Topics: VivirLatino

Thu25Sep2008

Racism? Que Racism? Anti-Obama Fliers Appear in New Jersey

14:35 H.- Some New Jersey residents received more than the usual junk fliers in their driveways this past weekend.Roxbury resident Elizabeth Corsetto says a flier was left in her driveway asking, ``Do You Want A Black President?'' and showing a doctored photo... Read more »

Topics: New Jersey - Race

Ike Leaves People in Texas Homeless, Shell Shocked and in Need of Help

12:35 H.- Nearly 400 people are missing two weeks after Hurricane Ike hit parts of Texas. "There are a lot of elderly folks, just looking at the age column," Many of them are from the hardest hit areas of the county, including... Read more »

Topics: Houston - Texas

Mental Health Crisis Leads To Taser Death

11:35 H.- ABC is reporting the story of Iman Morales, a man who was experiencing a mental health crisis and was tasered to death rather than helped. Apparently his mother called the police for help after he wandered naked out onto a... Read more »

Topics: Health

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