Archive for March 4th, 2009
Miercoles Musica: Amigos Invisibles Mentiras
1:00 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Music · 2 Comments
4 Mar 2009It really wasn’t me as my mami ass doesn’t get out as often as I would like, pero this slightly dizzying vid from Venezolano’s Los Amigos Invisibles sure make me want to go out. Where the hell are my babysitting offers?
Help Richie Perez Way become a Reality
12:49 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism|New York City · Comments Off
4 Mar 2009 
If it weren’t for Richie Perez there would be no Maegan la Mala. Not only did he actually give me the name , he was the driving force behind my political and activist awakening when I was just a teenager.
My Dear Friends,
Several months ago Councilwoman Rosie Mendez, a close personal friend and a beloved mentee of Richie’s called to say that she wanted to secure a street named for him during her tenure. As many of you know Richie spent the last 23 years of his life working as Director of Community Development for the Community Service Society of New York. That office became the political home from which most of our movement stemmed over the years and in fact still houses the Richie Perez Community Office for Social Justice and headquarters for the Justice Committee. To that end we have decided to request that Park Avenue South at 22nd Street be co named Richie Perez Way
The street is in Rosie Mendez’s district and she will submit the proposal to Community Board 5 at a public meeting on March 5th. Although we don’t expect much opposition to this we do know that this Community Board has been resistant to street renaming in the past and that we need to prepare for it by arming Rosie with letters of support, petitions and a strong presence at the meeting.
Only you know how much this means to our community. To have the ability to look up and have someone ask, “Who was that guy” and to be able to say, “let me tell you about Richie, let me tell you about us”. It is certainly a fitting tribute but I know Richie would rather we call it a testament to our history.
Richie, was a longtime activist and leader in the struggle for global human rights, Richie Pérez was a leading exponent for social justice and political participation. A former Young Lord and National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights co-founder, Richie brought his unique mix of integrity, zeal and unity to the diverse ethnic and racial communities of New York City and beyond.
Please help make Richie Perez Way a reality by signing the petition via the url below. Share with all.
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/rpw32704/petition.html
Why Obama Proves A.G. Eric Holder’s Point of Cowardice in the Face of Racism
11:02 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Politics|race · 3 Comments
4 Mar 2009Post-racial my Rican culo. It’s disturbing enough that the only time we have heard the Obama administration speak of immigration reform it has been in the Spanish language media, where it is perceived that English speaking eyes aren’t watching or in reaction to an ICE raid. Then the Obama administration announces that it is boycotting the second World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.
The Administration will boycott the conference to protest what it deems the unfair equation of Zionism with racism in the outcome documents of the first conference held in Durban, South Africa, and now the second conference, also known as “Durban II, as well .” Other concerns cited by Administration officials, some of whom recently attended preparatory meetings in Geneva,in their justification of the boycott include a proposal to place restrictions on the defamation of religions and any language calling for reparations for slavery.
Looking at it from the perspective of a Latina whose community has seen an increase of hate crimes, I want to ask Obama, where is the change? As more and more communities of color live in dire economic conditions, not just because of the current economic crisis but because of pre-existing conditions of inequality built into the economic system, where the hell is the change? While the Department of Homeland Security is all too willing to send more militarized police to the U.S. Mexico border to help fight a drug war that the U.S. helped to create and whose enforcement is racist (not to mention imperialist) the U.S. is not going to talk about race?
Rather than join the rest of the world in Durban and in condemning the killing and discrimination on the part of the Israeli and other governments-including our own-, Obama’s boycott reflects his choice to pursue the more dangerous path to dealing with race, racism and discrimination: symbolism at the expense of real changes to very devastating policies. Such are the perils of our increasingly post-racial presidency in a racially-troubled world.
Political choices like the Durban decision or the blind eye turned to the indiscriminate killing of and discrimination against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank make one wonder if the Obama Administration has also chosen to become the black face of empire.
Check please and keep the change.
Teen Girl Attacked by Police Speaks Out
9:25 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Justice|New York City|race|Women|youth · 1 Comment
4 Mar 2009One comment here was curious to hear what the teen at the center of this horrific example of police brutality had to say. While there is no sound for the painful to watch, more painful to have lived, video, Malika Calhoun spoke to CBS the other day. The video of the attack is violent so feel free to listen and not watch.
Amiga BFP makes the important point that women of color are often not thought of as victims of police brutality and yet we are not just beaten but also suffer sexual assaults at the hands of those allegedly here to protect us.
Two police officers have been assigned to desk
duty while prosecutors and the police investigate
a complaint that at least one of them raped an
intoxicated woman after they escorted her into
her apartment in the East Village three months ago, the police said on Sunday.
Then when I write on how difficult it is for me to teach my 11 year old about interactions with the police, there is little listening and much attacking.
Police can be a danger to our lives.
Thousands Protest Racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona
8:00 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism|arizona|Immigration · 2 Comments
4 Mar 2009
No evil deed goes unnoticed by a community united against hate and on Saturday in Phoenix, thousands united against Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
The crowd gathered at Steele Indian School Park in the morning to hear several speakers, musicians, religious and tribal leaders offer their thoughts and prayers before setting out south down Central Avenue towards downtown. The crowd steadily grew as the march advanced in the near-90 degree heat of the Arizona desert.
This latest exercise of 1st Amendment rights to assembly was in response to the escalation of anti-immigrant and anti-latino actions by Sheriff Arpaio since winning reelection in November 2008. The racial profiling has increased under his leadership and families continue to be separated by gestapo-like workplace & home raids that Arpaio claims are part of his oath to uphold state law. He also believes that it’s his duty as sheriff to segregate and humiliate migrant workers, treating them like animals by electrifying the perimeter fence around their tent city detainment facility.
The actions of Arpaio have attracted the attention of activist celebs like Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine, who was at the march.
“By parading human beings shackled in chain gang stripes,” said De la Rocha, “in a misguided effort to collectively humiliate and to terrorize an entire population, he reopened the wounds from which we all still suffer, by invoking the painful memories of slavery and segregation…by doing so, he has not only brought shame upon the state of Arizona, but is bringing shame upon the entire nation.”
De la Rocha also came down on the country’s new Secretary of Homeland Security, who was governor of Arizona before her current post.
“If Janet Napolitano seeks to perform her mission as head of the so-called Homeland Security Department,” admonished De la Rocha, “she must realize the dangerous threshold that the 287(g) agreements have crossed. She must deal directly and quickly with the real threat to peace and security here in Arizona, by terminating the 287(g) agreement with Sheriff Arpaio’s office and joining the courageous members of congress who have begun an investigation into his criminal behavior.”
Via / The Sanctuary and Latino Politico
We Realize This is Getting Annoying
7:43 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · VivirLatino · Comments Off
4 Mar 2009
moar funny pictures
VL has been stuck on dead in terms of posts for the past 2 days due to a problem with our new server. You guys have been able to access the site, but not read any new content, and for this we apologize. Thanks for hanging in there with us as we work out these annoying kinks…we know how disappointing it is to not find fresh posts, but we are here working behind the scenes to make things better for you.
Muchas gracias!
JLo and Marc Suing Stroller Company
7:01 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|children|Chismes|Entertainment|Justice · Comments Off
4 Mar 2009
They might not be hurting for money, but JLo and husband Marc Anthony are going after some dough — 5 million big ones — in a suit against Silver Cross, Ltd., the makers of a baby stroller who they claim used their names and images without permission. Check out the video and get the whole story after the jump.
Hola!
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