Archive for September 23rd, 2008
The “Soybean Wars” is Highlighted on Speaking Tour
5:02 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Paraguay · No Comments
23 Sep 2008
Just read on the Rainforest Action Network blog that they are sponsering a U.S. speaking tour featuring Leticia Galeano, a campesina youth leader from Paraguay. According to RAN:
Leticia Galeano is an inspiring youth leader from the Movimiento Agrario y Popular (a peasant organization in the department of Caaguazú) and student at the Universidad Catolica in Asuncion, Paraguay. Leticia will speak about militarization in Paraguay, and about the role of U.S. agribusiness giants like ADM, Bunge and Cargill in fueling the soybean wars.
Her community, Tekojoja, is an example of organized resistance to agribusiness exploitation. In 2005, the police violently and illegally displaced families from the community, resulting in the deaths of two individuals. There is now an attempt to bring this case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
The tour kicks off Tuesday evening, September 23 at Loyola University in Chicago. They will also visit Minneapolis, Washington D.C., New York City, Burlington and Philadelphia, among others. If you go to one of the lectures, drop us a line and let us know how it goes!
Also, for more information on what the Soybean Wars were, see here.
via/RAN
Chris Rock Talks Moose Hunting and White Ladies
4:11 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · US Presidential Race 2008 · No Comments
23 Sep 2008The following video is definitly very funny. I laughed at all of it. At the same time, I was just a bit uncomfortable with the assertion that Hillary Clinton didn’t lose the election because of sexism. Which is odd, because on the whole, although I do feel that Clinton was subjected to sexism and sexism was 100% a part of the coverage of her bid, I also, for the most part, don’t feel like she *lost* because of sexism.
I think the thing that makes me uncomfortable is a man dismissing sexism. It’s offensive–men don’t get to tell women that something did or didn’t happen because of sexism, just like white folks don’t get to tell people of color that something did or didn’t happen because of racism.
But in the end, Rock’s point is really well made: why does slaughter of animals get a black man prison time and a white woman the Vice Presidential nod?
How is whiteness invested in ‘protecting’ animals even as it uses the destruction of animals to define itself?
El Grito (de Lares) En Mi Boca
1:23 pm By Maegan La Mala · Puerto Rico| history · 1 Comment
23 Sep 2008Today marks three years since Rican liberation leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios was murdered by the FBI. It was no coincidence that the FBI chose September 23 as the date of his execution. September 23, 1868 the date that Don Emeterio Betances issued the Grito de Lares, the Independence of Puerto Rico.
Today, activists y amantes de la libertad, call for a day of solidarity with Puerto Rico, a colony hidden behind the name of a commonwealth. A country and a people that are pandered to for votes when needed by presidential wannabes when the island’s very status doesn’t allow for the U.S. citizens by birth to vote for the person under whose laws they must live.
EZLN Announces First Global Festival of Dignified Rage. Sign Me Up!
9:23 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Culture| Politics| mexico · 4 Comments
23 Sep 2008
The Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional aka the EZLN announced via communiqué the First Global Festival of Dignified Rage.
Communiqué from the of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee—General Command, of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation
Sixth Commission—Intergalactic Commission of the EZLNMexico
September 15 and 16 of 2008
To the adherents of the Sixth Declaration and the Other Campaign:
To the adherents of the Zezta Interazional:
To the People of Mexico:
To the Peoples of the World:
Compañeras and Compañeros:
Brother and Sisters:
Once again we send you our words.
This is what we see, what we are looking at.
This is what has come to our ears, to our brown heart.
I.
Above they intend to repeat history.
They want to impose on us once again their calendar of death, their geography of destruction.
When they are not trying to strip us of our roots, they are destroying them.
They steal our work, our strength.
They leave our world, our land, our water, and our treasures without people, without life.
The cities pursue and expel us.
The countryside both kills us and dies on us.
Lies become governments and dispossession is the weapon of their armies and police.
We are the illegal, the undocumented, the undesired of the world.We are pursued.
Women, young people, children, the elderly die in death and die in life.
And there above they preach to us resignation, defeat, surrender, and abandonment.
Here below we are being left with nothing.
Except rage.
And dignity.
There is no ear for our pain, that is not like what we are.
We are no one.
We are alone, alone with our dignity and our rage.
Rage and dignity are our bridges, our languages.
We must listen to each other then, learn to know each other.
So that our courage and rage grows and becomes hope.
So that our dignity takes root again and births another world.
We have seen and heard.
Our voice is small to be the echo of that word, our gaze small for so much dignified rage.
The process of seeing each other, looking at each other, speaking to each other, listening to each other, is still lacking.
We are others, the other.
If this world does not have a place for us, then another world must be made.
With no tool other than our rage, no material other than our dignity.
We still must encounter each other more, know each other better.
What is missing is yet to come…
Martes Morning Musica : Kinky Barracuda Preview
7:23 am By Maegan La Mala · Internet| Music| mexico · No Comments
23 Sep 2008
Earlier this month, we told you about Kinky’s new album, Barracuda, set to be dropped on September 30.
You can get a sneak preview listen over at MTV’s The Leak.
I’ve been bouncing to it all morning and you should join me! Makes me more excited to own the Monterrey musical group’s latest.
Via / Blogamole
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