Archive for January 30th, 2009
Friday: Music for Going Out
30 Jan 2009A song to get you ready for tonight’s party!
Annette Garcia: Rest in Peace
30 Jan 2009
On January 23rd, Annette Garcia, a mother of three, was shot to death by Riverside Sheriffs after they received calls that she was suicidal and under duress due to a marriage dispute. Reports by the family and witnesses state that she “posed no harm to the officers involved, yet she was shot at six times until a bullet hit her in the back as she tried to run for cover.” It took over an hour to get medical attention and Annette Garcia died in the arms of her children.
More Hate Crimes Against Latinos : New Jersey Colombian beaten to Near Death
12:23 pm By Maegan La Mala · crime|Immigration|Justice|race · Comments Off
30 Jan 2009
While the Feds investigate patterns and practices of hate crimes and their cover ups in Suffolk County, while the alleged (trying to be all legal and proper)killers of Marcelo Lucero get more indictments against them for other attacks that preceded his death, more Latinos are being assaulted for being Latino.
The latest known attack comes out of New Jersey, where last week Colombian Wilter Sánchez was beaten to the point of requiring reconstructive surgery. There shouldn’t be any doubt as to the intentions of those that attacked Sanchez.
(Sánchez’ cousin Fernando) Quinchia claimed that after Sánchez was beat up the men returned to their car and tried to run him over.
Schools Can Legally Expel Lesbian Students
10:04 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|GLBT|Justice|society · 1 Comment
30 Jan 2009
Fresh off the heels of the Prop 8 victory, my beloved California is faced with another case of discrimination on the basis of orientation. The California 4th District Court of Appeal has ruled that a Lutheran school was within its right to expel two lesbian students based on their gender preference in partners:
After a Lutheran school expelled two 16-year-old girls for having “a bond of intimacy” that was “characteristic of a lesbian relationship,” the girls sued, contending the school had violated a state anti-discrimination law.In response to that suit, an appeals court decided this week that the private religious school was not a business and therefore did not have to comply with a state law that prohibits businesses from discriminating. A lawyer for the girls said Tuesday that he would ask the California Supreme Court to overturn the unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal.
The appeals court called its decision “narrow,” but lawyers on both sides of the case said it would protect private religious schools across California from such discrimination suits.
Senate Passes Health Care Bill for Children, Including Immigrant Children
8:50 am By Maegan La Mala · children|Health|Immigration · 2 Comments
30 Jan 2009
The Senate passed the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which helps countless numbers of uninsured children (including my own) access health care. It now moves to the House to be voted on.
One of the more controversial parts of this latest incarnation of the health care bill, is changing the current law that bars legal immigrant children and pregnant women from accessing Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program for five years after they enter the United States.
What is unclear to me is how legislators can talk up the importance of legal immigration and yet have no problem blocking access to basic health care to those who have legal status? Would they rather have people become sick and access medical care through emergency rooms, costing more money?
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