Archive for March 16th, 2009
Pobres Perros: Selena Gomez Hosts Documentary on Dogs in Puerto Rico
12:24 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · animals|Celebrities|Puerto Rico · Comments Off
16 Mar 2009Slightly random: Disney actress Selena Gomez wants you to know about the stray dog situation in Puerto Rico:
And that “it’s pretty neat to be Mexican”. Take that, Jessica Alba.
Via / YouTube
Las Manas Tres
16 Mar 2009I’ve spent some time surfing around the myspace page of Las Manas Tres a Latina group based out in California. They describe themselves as follows:
Las Manas Tres (Maya, Milta and Cruz) are hybrid poetas bringing the fuerte flava, heating the heart and melting the mind from the Bay to L.A. Their stilo is characterized by a mixture of theater, spoken word and movement, centered around themes of social justice, sexuality, motherhood and the relationship between first and third world women.
Born from the Las Manas Sisterhood Circle, individually these women are accomplished in their own right. As a trio they take their creativity to new heights using sisterhood and storytelling to inspire collaborative pieces that delve into pain, injustice, love, family, community, and identity, which conjure a potent potion to fend off the plague of self sabotage. Their newest work pokes fun and peels back the layers of community building and relationships, speaking from the in between spaces as hi-tech aztecs, cyber mamas and spiritual beings. They’re always ready to bring the hotness. Yaddamean?
They also have ask this provocative question:
As somebody who has struggled to answer this same question, I think the answer is yes. Art builds things, and what is revolution that *means* anything that doesn’t build instead of destroy?
What do you think?
Junk VFA now!
12:08 pm By la Macha · military interventions · 1 Comment
16 Mar 2009Seeing as there’s so many smaller South American nations that this could happen to and then Mexico is going to get increase military aid to fight drug cartels (why is it never increased money to fight drug addiction?) I think that the following is important to post.
Dear Friends:
Please visit : http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/JunkVFAnow/
In this new era of the Obama administration, I would like to direct your
attention to the deployment of US troops in the Philippines, under the
auspices of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), a joint military agreement
between the US and Philippine governments signed in 1998. The Bush
administration abused the VFA in 2001 after launching the Global War on
Terror after the 9/11 attacks to justify the so-called anti-terrorism
exercises between US and Philippine troops known as the Balikatan (in
Filipino “shoulder-to-shoulder”) exercises. The Bush administration also
tagged the Philippines as the so-called “Second Front” to the War on Terror. Read more…
Ingrid Betancourt is Filing for Divorce
9:54 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Chismes|Colombia|Latin America · 1 Comment
16 Mar 2009
The unenthusiatic greeting former FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt gave her husband upon being released from captivity last year after 6 years was the subject of a lot of whispering about what might become of her marriage. It appears those speculations were warranted, as Sunday the Colombian magazine Semana announced that Betancourt has filed for divorce from husband Juan Carlos Lecompte:
Betancourt wants a divorce from publicist Juan Carlos Lecompte and reportedly argued that they had been ‘bodily separated’ for more than six years, well beyond the two years that are required by Colombian law as sufficient cause for divorce.
Semana noted that Lecompte’s lawyers rejected the demand and argued that such a separation was not voluntary, but was forced by the kidnapping of the former presidential candidate – who has both Colombian and French citizenship – by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
According to Monsters and Critics, Lecompte himself is planning to file for divorce, citing that Betancourt was unfaithful to him during her captivity, maintaining a relationship with fellow hostage Luis Eladio Perez.
Many saw this coming, as Betancourt has been spotted in the company of another man, who some say is her new boyfriend. Other media outlets say that Betancourt isn’t with a new boyfriend, but with Luis Eladio Perez, with whom she is “rebuilding her life”. In any case, it looks like it didn’t take her too long to adapt to regular life after 6 years of captivity.
Via / Monsters and Critics
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