Archive for November 25th, 2008
Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Winning Libro to be a Movie Directed by Motorcyle Diaries Director
8:22 pm By Maegan La Mala · Books| Dominicans| Movies · Comments Off
25 Nov 2008
Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, will be adapted into a film and directed by Brazilian director of Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries, Walter Salles.
I liked both Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries, so hopefully the film adaptation of Oscar Wao will be as good as the actual book.
Via / Remolacha
Virginia tries to Change It’s Tune In Terms of Immigrant Policy
6:20 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration| Virginia · Comments Off
25 Nov 2008For over a year, we’ve been covering the various anti-immigrant measures in Virginia and the Latino community’s struggle against the hate.
The Washington Post is reporting that the state is attempting a different approach, with the aim of assimilating, not isolating, the undocumented…
Recommendations include shortening the Medicaid residency requirements for certain qualified immigrants, offering in-state tuition to immigrants who meet specific criteria and creating an immigration assistance office.
In the coming weeks, the Virginia Commission on Immigration will send Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) two dozen recommendations, most of which would help immigrants instead of penalizing them…
The commission proposed increasing the number of English classes and creating a plan to address the needs of foreign-born residents. It also urged the federal government to compile more complete immigration statistics, increase the number of visas for foreign workers and pass comprehensive immigration legislation.
I’m Looking for Some New Digs : JLo and Marc’s Place is a Little Out of My Range
1:25 pm By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities · Comments Off
25 Nov 2008
I need to find a new apartment and damn if apartments are expensive, especially here in the NYC area. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony just put a mansion they purchased a few years back on the market, pero it’s a little out of my budget.
La mansion was purchased by the pareja back in 2005 and its asking price is $8.5 million dolares. Let’s see, 4 bedrooms, at that price, so each bedroom come to about $4 million dollars each.
Via / Hissip
Will the Real Young Lords Please Stand Up?
11:25 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Music| Puerto Rico| history| race · 6 Comments
25 Nov 2008
Jack is on a roll this morning.
Apparently there is a dirty looking hipster music group that thought that The Young Lords was a great name for their band. Jack breaks it down:
The Young Lords are some white guys who decided to form an indie rock band in NYC a few years ago and apparently couldn’t be bothered to find out whether they were ripping off the name of an entire political movement that most certainly does not belong to them. One might argue that words are words and no one can claim to own the name “Young Lords,” but how would it look if some white dudes decided to name their band the Black Panthers? That would probably be less likely to happen since more people know about the Black Panthers, but come on, people – we live in the age of Google (which, sadly, now has the MySpace page for this stupid band ranked above pages about the actual Young Lords in search results.) It is tremendously easy to look things up. I can’t help but think that they probably did look it up before they took up the name themselves and just didn’t give a fuck, but even if they could claim the innocence of ignorance then, I’m sure that one of them has Googled their band name since. For a band whose bio claims that their “sound pays homage to the past,” they’re displaying a remarkable amount of ahistoricity, ignorance and disrespect.
Tagging The Sexual Activities of Indonesia’s HIV/AIDS Population
9:06 am By Maegan La Mala · Health| Indonesia| Politics| Tech| sex · Comments Off
25 Nov 2008
I say it was only a matter of time before a class of those monitored because of their “dangerousness” happen. Not surprisingly this dangerousness has been linked to sex.
Indonesia’s Papua province is set to pass a bylaw that requires some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips in a bid to prevent them infecting others, a lawmaker said on Saturday.
Under the bylaw, which has caused uproar among human rights activists, patients who had shown “actively sexual behavior” could be implanted with a microchip to monitor their activity, lawmaker John Manangsang said…If a patient with HIV/AIDS was found to have infected a healthy person, there would be a penalty, he said without elaborating.
Who does this really protect?
You know that when President Bush wears something it is most definitively a fashion don’t. So I declare ponchos worn by lame duck Republican presidents to be not in style.
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