Archive for December 8th, 2008
The President of Uruguay, Tabare Vazquez, officially broke with the Socialist Party over a move that attempts to legalize some abortions in the country.
Last month, Vazquez vetoed legislation that would have legalized abortion in the first trimester due to hardship on the basis of economics, family, age, health, or risk to the mother’s life. A three-fifths majority vote to override the veto was attempted but failed.
Current law in Uruguay criminalizes all abortion except in cases of rape or endangerment of the mother’s life. A public opinion poll found that 57% of Uruguayans support legalized abortion, according to Agence France Presse.
Vazquez could always join the U.S. Republican Party, after all they are looking for Latinos.
Via / Feminist Majority
Accountability versus Begging.
8 Dec 2008As somebody who lives in the middle of union world, it disgusts me that blue collar workers have to run all over hell and back begging for their jobs, all the while white collar workers get whatever they want, even if it means kicking blue collar workers out of jobs. How many bank officials did we see on t.v. begging and pleading and promising to ‘make sacrifices’ to get what they needed?
Prop 8 Musical
8 Dec 2008I know we’re kinda late on this…but that’s ok. If you’re like me, you refuse to hope on the bandwagon until the bandwagon has pulled out of the station and is thirty miles down the road.
BTW: video is remarkably subversive for a Hollywood deal. Anti-capitalistic interrogation of anti-gay measures? Haven’t seen this sorta subversiveness since the Red Scare.
Mexico and Latinidad : I Wanna Sex You Up
11:41 am By Maegan La Mala · Media|race|Women · 2 Comments
8 Dec 2008
Countries, especially third world Latin American countries and the people inside them have often been sold to tourists and colonizers as exotic. It’s what makes us and our people less human, othered. It’s what allows our men to be murdered and our women to be raped. Our nations are metaphors for our cuerpos and vice versa.
From a disgusting piece in the Times Online published yesterday:
Mexico is a great big beautiful country. But not near the border with California. Here, it’s a dirty, tawdry stinkpot, infested with partying Americans and unscrupulous Mexicans who will provide anything for them. It’s a place where morals don’t seem to count and anything goes. At least, that’s what I hoped as I headed across the border on a bus, in the first days of my long student holiday.
At dusk, I reached Ensenada, a town about 75 miles south of the border, threw my bags in a friendly hotel and walked across the dirt road to the nearest bar.
There was a woman standing just inside the door, so I said hello politely. She lifted her top, showed me her breasts and asked how much I was prepared to pay for a good time. This was a bit more than I had expected. I was only saying hello.
The Politics and Poder of the Takeover : Laid Off Chicago Workers Occupy Factory
8:50 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism|chicago|Labor · Comments Off
8 Dec 2008
About 250 laid off workers of the Republic Windows and Doors glass factory have taken over their place of work after they were given three days notice. Workers are taking eight hour shifts and are saying they will not give up their occupation until certain demands are met, including severance and vacation pay.
“We decided to do it because this is money that belongs to us,” said Maria
Roman, who’s worked at the plant for eight years. “These are our rights.”
When I first heard about this story, my first thought was, “It’s about damn time,” and not just because I am a fan of takeovers and occupations but because of a wider global history of labor and other activists successfully using this tactic proving that there is power in organized numbers.
The overwhelming majority of the workers of the factory set to be closed, are using a strategy that hasn’t been seen in the U.S. since the 1930′s, pero in Latin America, this tactic is commonplace, used by workers of all types including university professors and even high school students and with success.
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