Archive for November 13th, 2008
Colombia Trade Deal Answers
3:36 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia · Comments Off
13 Nov 2008
So, if you’re like me and you tend to decide things without really having a full grasp of a situation, but can sense on a gut level why something is wrong–I found this article in the NYT’s about the Colombian Trade Agreement, Obama and Bush, and why there is so much tension around the whole thing. It answered a lot of my questions and helped me to further see and understand Erwin and LC’s separate thoughts–although I think that the article is incredibly lacking in explaining the Agreement from Colombia’s perspective–whether the perspective be from a unionist point of view or a ‘free trade’ point of view.
Mr. Bush has drawn his line at the automakers’ doors, having already been forced to shelve the free-market principles of his Republican Party to bail out the financial industry over the past two months. But Republicans say he would acquiesce in aid to automakers in return for Congress’s ratification of the Colombia pact and pending trade agreements with Panama and South Korea.
I still am inclined to believe that there’s nothing good about free trade, especially when it can be used to justify the silencing of violence against workers–but I am open to continuing to think about it.
Depression Support Tool for Latin@ Communities
3:14 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health · Comments Off
13 Nov 2008
Depression is one problem among many that Latin@s in general have a really hard time discussing. I know that in my own community, it wasn’t so much that there was stigma around the idea of ‘depression,’ but more that there simply was no time to waste on working through depression. Not when each parent had two or three jobs and the kids had school and jobs to deal with as well.
I’ve talked with other Latin@s, however, from different types of backgrounds, and they have spoken of the absolute stigma that was wrapped around ‘depression’–as if anybody who had depression was somehow ‘weak’ or even too ‘gringa.’
So it was great for me to read about this:
Due to the dramatic disparity in health care and the need for better access to support and treatment, Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) has developed a dynamic and interactive Spanish-language Web site, dbsalianza.org, empowering caregivers and those coping with depression and bipolar disorder with critical recovery tools and information.
Recognizing our mental health as being just as essential and important as or physical health is a human right. We deserve help, we deserve good lives! We need to take care of ourselves always! Get over there and scour through that site!
VivirLatino Editor la Mala Speaking in Boston Tonite on Mami’Hood
2:22 pm By Maegan La Mala · Events| Family| VivirLatino| Women · Comments Off
13 Nov 2008
VivirLatino’s own Maegan la Mala is at it again, opening her big Puerto Rican mouth to speak truth and no doubt make someone angry. Tonight I will be in Boston, in an event sponsored by the Center for New Words, speaking about Radical Mami’hood.
Amy Richards & Maegan “Mamita Mala” Ortiz
Radical Mommyhood: A Coversation with Amy Richards and Maegan “Mamita Mala” Ortiz
Thursday, November 13 @ 7:00PM
Arlington St. Church, 351 Boylston St. Entrance, (Corner of Boylston and Arlington), Boston
Join Amy Richards and Maegan “Mamita Mala” Ortiz for a frank conversation on radical mommyhood—how making the decision to have a child impacts who we are and who we want to be (as women, feminists, anti-racists, and artists). We’ll chat about the intersections of feminism and motherhood and how race and class in particular, play an important role in how motherhood is encountered, seen, and experienced.
Amy Richards is the author of Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself, and the co-author of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future and Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism (both with Jennifer Baumgardner). She is co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation and the feminist speakers bureau Soapbox. She lives in New York City with her family.
Maegan “Mamita Mala” Ortiz is a radical Nuyorican mami, blogger, poeta, and freelance writer. La Mala is currently co-Editor of one of the top U.S. Latino blogs, VivirLatino. She is also a contributor on Anti-Racist Parent. Her words , blogging, and opinions have been featured at the Washington Post, The Huffington Post, NPR, and Latina Magazine. Check her out at: http://mamitamala.com/.
It should get interesting….
This Year In the Dominican Republic, At Least 102 Mujeres Have been Killed by Partners
12:22 pm By Maegan La Mala · Dominican Republic| Dominicans| Women · Comments Off
13 Nov 2008The year is not quite over yet statistics coming out of the Dominican Republic show that so far this year (through to September), 102 women have been killed by their partners. 154 women in all have been recorded as being murdered in the Caribbean nation. The sad thing that is never recorded in statistics is the number of incidents of violence against mujeres that are never recorded, that are covered up yet reverberate through communities in silence.
In response, the state has set up 14 centers throughout the country to deal with familial violence. Yet the state also is taking an almost threatening approach to community movements inside DR who have taken their struggle to the streets in search of justice and a fundamental change in how women’s lives are valued.
R
adamés Jiménez, Procurador General…advirtió que todo aquel que altere el orden público será sometido a la justicia.
In other words, we’ll take care of the problem just don’t disturb public order, as if violence against women and the threat that hangs too often over the lives of women isn’t a disturbance enough.
Via / Panorama Diario, Remolacha
NYC Represents Against Prop. 8
10:22 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism| GLBT| New York City · 1 Comment
13 Nov 2008I was on my way to visit my titi in the hospital last night with my hijas, when I stumbled into a beautiful diverse display of righteous anger and strong love.
In spite of the death wishes of many a Cuban exile and speculation that he has been dead for some time now, new images and words keep coming from Cuban leader Fidel Castro. The latest picture is dated October 20th and features Fidel being visited by the second in power of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kiril Gundajaev. Castro hasn’t appeared in public since July 2006. His words, however have never stopped.
Hola!
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