Archive for November 12th, 2008
Anti-Immigrant/Anti-Latino Hate Claims Another Vida : Marcello Lucero
2:59 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration| New York City · 1 Comment
12 Nov 2008
The anti-immigrant hate speech spreading like fire is spit out and meant to burn. In the New York City suburb of Patchogue, Long Island, 37 year old Ecuadorian Marcello Lucero went do what many of us take for granted, being outside. He was met by a gang of 7 high school students who also went outside, but they had a sinister mission: to attack a Latino.
Seven high school students looking “to beat up some Mexicans” attacked an immigrant from Ecuador on a Long Island street, with one of them fatally plunging a knife into the man’s chest during the brawl, police said. A prosecutor compared Marcello Lucero’s death over the weekend to a lynching, and the attack was officially labeled a hate crime by Suffolk County authorities.
Afro- Latinos : Reflections on Obama Win and Expectations
1:03 pm By Maegan La Mala · Blogs| Colombia| Politics| US Presidential Race 2008| race · 1 Comment
12 Nov 2008
Earlier this week, VivirLatino published a letter from an Indigenous community in Colombia to President Elect Obama.
One point that we, and other blogfriends have been trying to make ever since the start of the very long road to the White House, was that the way race and racial politics are talked about and analyzed needs to change. There was a clear reason why being Black and Latino was viewed as two mutually exclusive realms of being. One Afro Colombiano writes about his own hopes, expectations and thoughts post the Obama win.
Aiden Salgado writes:
I believe that the triumph of this African American man needs to be looked at very carefully because there is a risk of falling into Obama-itis and into thinking that Obama is superman and that he can solve all of our problems overnight. Ladies and Gentlemen, if Obama has any urgent task, it is to sweep up the mess that Bush has left throughout the world. In order to do so, he can start with the war in Iraq, with supporting a peace process in the Middle East that doesn’t involve backing the aggressions of Israel against their neighbors, and he should pull the U.S. government’s unconditional support for policies of the Colombian government and President Álvaro Uribe Vélez which have been violating human rights.
Related is a series of posts up at The Unapologetic Mexican, featuring the words of African-Americans, specifically their perspectives on Obama. Today’s featured post is from an Afro-Latino educator and blogger Jose Vilson. Jose writes:
My biggest reason for voting came in the form of 30 or so students in a classroom in Washington Heights of New York City. All of them are considered English language learners, all of Latin@ descent, and all from immigrant populations. Their engagement in this political race has surprised and inspired me. Their worst and best ideas about politics comes to the fore, and while some of the ideas are certainly prejudice (”White people vote for McCain” won’t stand the test of time), I also see a great opportunity to help develop better-informed citizens and participants in a still-exclusive fraternity.
You can Jose’s entire post over at UMX.
You can read the entire letter from Aiden Salgado after the jump.
Because Everyday is a Salma Day
10:59 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities · No Comments
12 Nov 2008From La Mala comes the wonderful news that my Salmita was out and about with la nena, the other day. Lossip is asserting that this lovely image is of a Salma with no make up on and no hair product in.
And you wonder why I will not let you anywhere near my Salmita. Que Stunningly Beautiful.
::true love always::
Pelosi, ICE, Activists Prepare for Long Battle
10:17 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · No Comments
12 Nov 2008
Because I’m just that kinda gal, I spend a lot of time surfing anti-immigrant sites so that you don’t have to. It’s not a lot of fun, but I often come up with some really startling/interesting news about the latest shenanigans of those God-Loving-Mexkin-haters.
For example, the latest news sweeping the hate-o-sphere is that Nancy Pelosi is not really sorta anti-immigrant, but really, she’s secretly advocating to destroy ICE (the lovely organization that conducts raids that destroy families). Where did the God-Loving-Mexkin-haters (GLMH’s) get this information? Well, apparently there was a press conference put together by pro-immigration groups to announce a protest for the day after Obama’s inauguration, and they let the news slip:
“We applaud Speaker Nancy Pelosi for expressing her support for ending worksite raids and for calling for just and humane immigration reform,” Hong said.
The raids, according to Hong, have been “one of the most destructive aspects of our failed immigration policy.” She said raids on companies that employ illegal aliens “separate families and destroy work places.”
Now, of course, when I googled Nancy Pelosi and “ending workshite raids” I got no results back–and when I googled the more ambiguous Nancy Pelosi and “ICE raids” I got the Vivir Latino post about how Nancy is ‘maybe’ considering ‘maybe’ not allowing a path to citizenship for undocumented ‘maybe’ workers…
But hell, don’t let the google Gods get in the way of Mexkin hating panic. Not when it’s so fun.
On a more serious note, this should be proof to you about how well the GLMH folks are organized. They are organizing around a press release, folks. Time for us to come out of our Obama loving haze, huh?
Obama Plans and Hopes : End of Global Gag Rule
9:45 am By Maegan La Mala · Politics| US Presidential Race 2008| Women · No Comments
12 Nov 2008
While ICE raids cast a shadow on the themes of hope and change, President Elect Obama has begun to make a list of Bush initiatives he wants to overturn once he takes his place inside the Oval Office. Among them is what is known as the Global Gag Rule.
The new president is also expected to lift a so-called global gag rule barring international family planning groups that receive U.S. aid from counseling women about the availability of abortion, even in countries where the procedure is legal, said Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, he rescinded the Reagan-era regulation, known as the Mexico City policy, but Bush reimposed it.
“We have been communicating with his transition staff” almost daily, Richards said. “We expect to see a real change.”
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