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Archive for September 29th, 2008

small_labruzzo.JPGVL 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:

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n840460146_4331458_6090.jpgIf 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.

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r123101-2-26.jpgIt’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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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 out in November.

Sarah Palin, held up as a an everymujer, proves herself over and over again as not fit to run a country and it’s not about what she looks(ed) like in a swimsuit.

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hugo-chavez.jpgWanna 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 in development of nuclear energy, of course for peaceful purposes, for medical purposes, for purposes of electricity generation,” Chavez said at a political rally.

“Brazil has various nuclear reactors, so does Argentina. We will have ours.”

Chavez noted that Venezuela, which is a member of the oil-producing cartel OPEC, developed a nuclear reactor decades ago but abandoned it under pressure from the United States.

He said Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had offered help with a reactor, adding that “we already have a commission working on this issue.”

I can’t be the only one expecting an invasion of Venezuela, can I?

Via / Reuters


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